I was flyin around in a Flight sim I own (MS Flight Simulator 2004), and got to wondering if anyone else here flys (either real word or simulator).

Oh, Before I forget here is a screen shot I took while flying a Cessna Caravan Amphibian. Check out what the tail number reads.

 

I fly a Cessna 172 and hold a VFR rating only but I like to fly instrument approaches on the simulator for a just incase condition . My plane is rated IFR and can do a ILS approach and I have about 20 hours towards a instrument ticket and have passed the written but I like the good weather flying . Maybe down the road after my written runs out I will finish it .

 

I have the pre-911 MS flight sim.

'nuff said

 

I own a Vans RV-9A. It is an experimental 2 seater, 220 HP single engine. I've got about 1,700 hours flying, about an hour in a simulator. I've flow Rans ultralights, TL Sting (light sport), Sonic (light sport), 172 Cessna, T-38 (war bird), I'm only rated for VFR, but fly some weather (alone). I hear great things about Microsoft Sims for training, but I'm too busy flying. lol

I am actually in the beginning planning stages to join the Earth Rounders Club. http://www.earthrounders.com/ I'm not getting any younger.

"Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you long to return."

 

Are there any good, realistic whirly-bird sims? I'd like to pick one up but don't know of any.

 

I used to fly flight sim all the time...my computer wont take it anymore though without exploding...I have a single engine VFR rating and 70 hrs in a helicopter...havent even flown the real thing in awhile...i need to get back to the stick! As for helicopter sims, Microsoft is pretty real, but you have to download a different helicopter than the one that it came with...get a bigger one..its more real with a bigger one...Only difference is, you cant do autorotations, and you cant get into settling-with-power, or rotor strike. (things that will kill you in real life in other words) which kinda takes the fun out of if..because lemme tell ya, making a helicopter fall out of the sky like a sack of rocks and then stopping the fall 10 ft above the ground is fun stuff!!!!

 

I fly both Microsoft's Flightsim, and Aces High, and I have been flight simming since the release of Falcon 4 in DOS. MSFS's helicopter is pretty fun and fairly realistic as flight physics go for a chopper (not a real helicopter pilot, but I play one on my computer.) The thing that really helped with the realism for me, in both fixed, and rotorwing aircraft was adding a seperate throttle and rudder pedals.

Cam

 

I guess I'm more gamer oriented. I had Aces of the Pacific and loved it. I wasted hundreds of hours flying the whole war. haha. I finished up flying Tigercats and saved the Pacific. Got to be commander haha
I even went over to the other side when I done all the missions. Got to fly the Zeke and Ki 84. Beat up on the dumb Americans haha nearly won the war single handed for Japan. They didn't shoot down Yammamoto this time around. I think I got about 6-7 P-38 kills that night.

Had aces over europe but it wasn't as much fun.

We has some of the jet sims too but somehow shooting off missiles isn't as much fun as stick and ruder flying.

There is a new aces of the pacific by EA that is supposed to be pretty goood it has outstanding graphics and flight models.

My son has all of the microsoft stuff. It's fun to fly the big airliners around. It's amazing that the a-rabs were able to hit the towers. It's pretty tough on the sims. Especially if you just sit down and do a one time shot.

I also have nascar 2004 and 2005. They are really fun but you can really waste time with these. I sat up playing for 18 hours straight one time. nuts or smething. I also got into the program and removed the restrictor plates and wwhhoo does that make Telladega fun. I usually get 230 onthe back straight and 210 through the tri oval. If you can get the draft you can go even faster. Turn the speed limit off in the pits too. gotta be carefull then.haha You really have to have the car set up right or the tire will go quickly and you will lose it in the turns.

Just got a good model airplane fligh sim. G3 It's pretty good. You can change the model flight characteristics to what ever you want. There is even a turbine jet powered f-86. You can get about 160 mph straight and level with it. But I have fixed the big p-51 with a bigger motor and prop and get about 180 mph straight and level. It's tough to land and sometimes just explodes while flying. cool.

 

I plan on getting a pilots liscence in the future. And our own plane too. Right now in the sim i mainly fly the single engine Cessnas (172, 182, and turbo prop Caravan) and the turboprop multi engine (Beechcraft Kingair 350). I also fly helos too with my current favorite being the Agusta A109 (The Coast Guard uses it as the MH-68). Its a small helo but has very powerful engines on it.

Begle1, Microsoft Flight simulator 2002 and 2004 do a good job with the helos. And you can find all sorts of downloads for new ones on the net too.

 

I use to work part time (evenings and weekends) as a Flight Instructer for a little extra money. I havn't flown for over twenty years. Still miss it though, it was something I really enjoyed in my younger days.

 

I used to be a big flight sim junky. I used to be on flightsim.com like I am on this site now. I wanted to fly really bad up until I turned 16 and then diesel was in my blood and stiffled the growing of my wings.

 

Count me in on both counts. Started Flight training in FEB of senior year of HS and finished that August. Almost got my insturment rating (one cross country away four years ago). Then my Dad wouldn't let me have all the fun a started. We got an ARROW II in 98 and took it to OSHKOSH. Ran a little fun weather coming out of K.C.

Randy

 

I fly UH-60's for the Army. Have 160hrs total. 20hrs of which are using NVG. I get to use the full motion sim on post. If I had a computer that could run a flight sim, I'd use MSFS. I also have a commercial pilots license.