pilot2017 saying greetings!!
Thanks!
I am glad to be here. I have been a flight simmer since 2008 in FS2004 and still faithful to the sim. I live in Oklahoma City and a former forklift driver 45yrs old male.
I don't yet have CFS2 and I saw the site kind of supports FS2004 which caught my attention. Very nice warbird collection for FS2004.
About my FS2004 Add-Ons:
Payware from FSPilotshop and PMDG
PMDG 737
Skydecks 737NG v3.15 panel
Zinertek Ultimate Airport and World Environment 2012
FsPassengers (from fspassengers.com)
Captain Sim Legendary 727
Overland Boeing
TweakFPS for FS2004
PSS Boeing 777 Professional (from blackbox website on sale)
FSceneX North/South America
FSGenesis World buffer Mesh and FSGenesis 153m North America Mesh
Carenado 182RGII and Carenado 152 w/Skis (my favorite props)
Freeware: too many to name.
Flight simulation is not the only thing I enjoy. I have a radio hobby. It involves software defined radio, SDR for short. SDR has a very unique ability most conventional radios cannot do because of their very limited IF bandpass and that is ADS-B mode S viewing. ADS-B is a addition to the transponder on aircraft that can transmit plane LAT/LON, heading, airspeed, altitude, callsign, and aircraft ICAO. Also monitoring voice vhf/uhf air traffic. Delta Airlines terminal operates a UHF 460mhz repeater at KOKC I can hear. MY SDR is the low cost RTL-
SDR. So my hobby goes hand in hand with my flight sim hobby. It even helped me have a better gist of how flightaware gets a large chunk of it's air traffic on a map.
My RTL-SDR devices in use are:
NooElec NESDR Smart
Flightaware Pro Stick (orange).
Software:
RTL1090 for ADS-B
HDSDR for terrestrial radio and data monitoring.
Unitrunker for monitoring local police using both dongles.
I like to make friends in the sim hobby. Looks to me like this is a very polite and kind community with plenty of knowledge to share and I want to reciprocate. I am very happy to be here.
Other things I enjoy is watching some live streams on Twitch.tv. I am all over the place watching a variety of streamers. I also play other games like Clash Royale and Zen Pinball 6 Star Wars tables on mobile. :wavey:
Thanks
pilot2017
aka simplio on twitch.tv (not a streamer so you know in case we meet there)
Hello dear virtual pilots mates !!
Hello Sim-Outhouse community !
My name is John "Kalon" HAIST and I'm new to the forums so let me introduce myself !
I'm 37 years old and I live in South West of France, I may say I'm a simmer till I was 8 as my very first sim was F-16 Combat Pilot on Atari ST :biggrin-new:. I can remember the 200+ pages manual and the complexity of the sim compared to the other fighters "sims" I had at the same time (I mean Fighter Bomber :very_drunk:).
Nowadays I'm soooo glad computers are so fast that they can offer us really great sims.
I mostly fly on falcon BMS where I have about 800+ flight hours. But I admit I couldn't resist when DCS Black Shark KA-50 and DCS A-10C went out so I bought'em and now I'm hesitating between DCS F-18 and the Mirage 2000 (yeah I'm french and IMO Mirage 2000 is really a great plane :sentimental:).
And finally I fly sometimes on P3D with the nice freeware planes Dino Cattaneo offered to the virtual pilots we are :mixed-smiley-010:. I owned VRS TP and F-18 but my licenses expired and I don't know if I'll renew it now, I'm way too busy with DCS and BMS :playful:. But I must admit that with all the new planes that are TP compatible and FSX@War finally out, things are beginning to be really interesting on P3D and FSX side !!
Have a nice day everyone !!
Best Regards from France :wavey:
New to forum but not to FS
Hello everyone! Joined up yesterday and want to introduce myself. Names Brian 34 years old. Live on the east coast of the US. Spend most of my time flying in Europe. I have been playing FS since FS95. I have flown with various VA's over the many years. I fly everything from fixed to rotorary wing aircraft. I have over 1500 flight hours confirmed and god knows how many unconfirmed flight hours. Of course like most, I have many of favorites that I always seem to go back to. I'm a huge WWII buff and enjoy just about anything WWII related.
I am currently looking to join a VA/club that centers there VA around WWII era. If you have any suggestions they are much appreciated.
Cheers,
Brian