What gives you the "Flight Sim high"?

"Dallas" <Cybnorm RemoveThis @spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
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> Sometimes I'll make a flight and it's no big deal. Other times I'll have
> an
> experience so profound that I'll remember it all week. I can remember
> some
> flights for months.
>
> Mine:
>
> Mine usually involve weather. If I can start off with a nice VFR single
> engine aircraft flight that progressively turns into a nightmare that I
> eventually overcome, I'll get my FS fix.
>
> It's best if the weather wasn't expected and I'm suddenly faced with a
> unique set of problems like scud running through the mountains or running
> low on fuel and daylight. At any given moment, I could list about 5
> profound flights like this that I won't forget for a long time.
>
> So, what gets you high?
>
>
> Dallas

Start off in a Dark Cold PMDG 747, really bad weather, with a cloudbase of
100' or less, 29kt wind straigh across the runway and then to come out of
cloud right on the numbers.

Clive
>
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Dallas wrote:

> So, what gets you high?
>
> Dallas

For most of my life, I never left my home town, tied down to familial
obligations.
In the last 10 years, I have done some travelling and of all the places
I have been to, the Pacific Northwest has been my favourite.

FS9 takes me back there. British Columbia, Yukon, Alaska, Washington
State, and Oregon through the summer months, with light cirrus cloud
cover wisping by the window and the green majestic peaks so close to my
aircraft, absolutely enthrall me.

I'm not much of a technician when it comes to flying...I just like to
get the default 737 up there, listen to the sound of the slipstream,
wonder at the scenery, and manage to grease her down at my destination.
I'm not young and have literally spent hundreds of my valuable hours
doing this.

The question is an excellent one.

SnakeEyes
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Dallas wrote:
>
> So, what gets you high?

VOR and dead-reckoning navigation over water in the Carribean, eagerly
hoping that land would appear on the horizon before the fuel runs out.

Si
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"Dallas" <Cybnorm RemoveThis @spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
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> Sometimes I'll make a flight and it's no big deal. Other times I'll have
> an
> experience so profound that I'll remember it all week. I can remember
> some
> flights for months.
>
> Mine:
>
> Mine usually involve weather. If I can start off with a nice VFR single
> engine aircraft flight that progressively turns into a nightmare that I
> eventually overcome, I'll get my FS fix.
>
> It's best if the weather wasn't expected and I'm suddenly faced with a
> unique set of problems like scud running through the mountains or running
> low on fuel and daylight. At any given moment, I could list about 5
> profound flights like this that I won't forget for a long time.
>
> So, what gets you high?
>
>
> Dallas
>
Flying the 727 vistaliner with the whisper jet sounds quiet as a mouse and
my room is pretty cold, low lights, and starting my descent into any airport
through some rain clouds in the late afternoon...a real thrill with
activesky6 of course!
Bill
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For me, it is the thrill of actually getting an insight into planes I will
never fly in real life. It allows you to step back in time on some of these
older planes and feel and see, to some extent, what pilots of that era
experienced.

Mad Mike

"Dallas" <Cybnorm.DeleteThis@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
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> Sometimes I'll make a flight and it's no big deal. Other times I'll have
> an
> experience so profound that I'll remember it all week. I can remember
> some
> flights for months.
>
> Mine:
>
> Mine usually involve weather. If I can start off with a nice VFR single
> engine aircraft flight that progressively turns into a nightmare that I
> eventually overcome, I'll get my FS fix.
>
> It's best if the weather wasn't expected and I'm suddenly faced with a
> unique set of problems like scud running through the mountains or running
> low on fuel and daylight. At any given moment, I could list about 5
> profound flights like this that I won't forget for a long time.
>
> So, what gets you high?
>
>
> Dallas
>
>
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Theres this nudist park a few miles north of here....errr nm
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When I was teen I used to sell ice cream from an ice cream truck at a nudist
beach. Believe me,, you are better off seeing these things from a distance.
I'm scarred for life )

Jim Mac Millan

"PPS" <jgardner.DeleteThis@nitroREMOVETHISgraphix.Kom> wrote in message
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> Theres this nudist park a few miles north of here....errr nm
>
>
>
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"Dallas" <Cybnorm RemoveThis @spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
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> Sometimes I'll make a flight and it's no big deal. Other times I'll have
an
> experience so profound that I'll remember it all week. I can remember
some
> flights for months.
>
> Mine:
>
> Mine usually involve weather. If I can start off with a nice VFR single
> engine aircraft flight that progressively turns into a nightmare that I
> eventually overcome, I'll get my FS fix.

I'll have to agree with some others here. I like the scenery and
such...BUT... to me the very essence of flying is to take off and into the
"soup" immediately then fly IFR to an unfamiliar airport and execute one of
the published procedures (I prefer a precision ILS) in near-minimum weather
conditions. Coming out of the clouds and seeing the approach lights a mile
away is a real thrill.

Dave P.
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Getting the blessed engines started on the Project Tupeov Tu-154 was a major
high for me. Flying the darned thing was another matter though.
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"SnakeEyes"
> I'm not young and have literally spent hundreds of my valuable hours
> doing this.

Interesting point...

Many of us have passed the midlife point where we can no longer double our
age.

You would think with the sands in the hourglass running out we should be out
there franticly grabbing all that life has to give.

Instead, we sit inside in our dark little rooms with the windows closed
staring at our computer screens. Yet some how it seems to be the best use
of our time.

:-/

Dallas
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Hi capt,

For me, it's still the challenge of trying to fly my Spitfire or Mustang
under the Grey Street bridge, and then getting inverted in time to try and
fly under the William Jolley bridge - both are virtually right in the CBD
here in Brisbane.

Haven't even come close, yet, but, luckily, I don't have to pay for the
cleaning up! )

Regards,
John Ward
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> gettin drunk while at the F/S. LMAO. Course you don't want to do that in a
> real plane.
>
>
> --
> Lose not thy airspeed, lest the ground rise up and smite thee.
> "Dallas" <Cybnorm.RemoveThis@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
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>> Sometimes I'll make a flight and it's no big deal. Other times I'll have
>> an
>> experience so profound that I'll remember it all week. I can remember
>> some
>> flights for months.
>>
>> Mine:
>>
>> Mine usually involve weather. If I can start off with a nice VFR single
>> engine aircraft flight that progressively turns into a nightmare that I
>> eventually overcome, I'll get my FS fix.
>>
>> It's best if the weather wasn't expected and I'm suddenly faced with a
>> unique set of problems like scud running through the mountains or running
>> low on fuel and daylight. At any given moment, I could list about 5
>> profound flights like this that I won't forget for a long time.
>>
>> So, what gets you high?
>>
>>
>> Dallas
>>
>>
>
>
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"Dallas" <Cybnorm RemoveThis @spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
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>
> "SnakeEyes"
>> I'm not young and have literally spent hundreds of my valuable hours
>> doing this.
>
> Interesting point...
>
> Many of us have passed the midlife point where we can no longer double our
> age.
>
> You would think with the sands in the hourglass running out we should be
> out
> there franticly grabbing all that life has to give.
>
> Instead, we sit inside in our dark little rooms with the windows closed
> staring at our computer screens. Yet some how it seems to be the best use
> of our time.
>
> :-/
>
> Dallas

Exactly why I decided the time had come to get off the office chair and go
fly for real.

Just wish I'd done it 25+ years ago.

Jay B
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On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:39:12 -0700, "Jim Mac Millan"
<fly_boy_jim.RemoveThis@yahoo.moc> wrote:

>When I was teen I used to sell ice cream from an ice cream truck at a nudist
>beach. Believe me,, you are better off seeing these things from a distance.
>I'm scarred for life )

I remember a line from some comedian:

Now that I've turned 40, I've found the best method of birth control
on earth. It's called "nudity"...

take care,
Scott
Yup...
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