Author Topic: What Got You Here ??? (Read 1398 times)

Black Sheep · « **on:** December 25, 2004, 03:07:12 AM »

For starters, my love for all things aviation, past and present, but primarily for the aircraft and events that changed the world during the Second World War. I was introduced to flying through my grandparents, who both served in the American army during the war. My other set of grandparents lived in Germany, and that grandfather worked as an architect/engineer designing armor plating for everything from aircraft to naval vessels. I grew up around civil aviation and flew whenever, wherever, with whoever I could. I first started virtual flying with Disney's Stunt Island

(1992?), then messed around with A-10 Cuba for a while. Never found a decent WW2 sim until I happened upon Warbirds(Mac) back in 1998. Didn't get to AH until 2000 (Tour 6 or 7?) and have been here for the most part ever since. I've also stayed with the same squad since then and have enjoyed almost

every minute of it. I have learned a limitless amount of aviation knowledge through these boards, and have made countless friends along the way in the MA. (Hey, that rhymed)

I thought I'd share my thoughts as I finish stuffing the stockings and wrapping the presents. It's Christmas morning after all, and I'm frickin tired. So, a big and Merry Christmas goes out to HTC for a great, highly addictive sim and to the AH community, well for being a community.

Feel free to wax poetic about how you got where you are (in here)

Vudak · « **Reply #1 on:** December 25, 2004, 03:40:00 AM »

The commercial.

Furball · « **Reply #2 on:** December 25, 2004, 04:58:10 AM »

downloads section at http://www.downloads.com

Kweassa · « **Reply #3 on:** December 25, 2004, 05:16:22 AM »

While my country has no history of Aviation until 1948, something always intrigued me about specifically WW2 planes.

So I started playing from Fighter Ace1, 1.5, 2, 2.5.. and then someone recommended Aces High.

Been hooked ever since.

Flyboy · « **Reply #4 on:** December 25, 2004, 05:24:05 AM »

hey my country has no history of aviation untill 1948 too, er actually, it dont have any history at all untill 1948

how did i got in too that, i allweys loved planes and Aviation, and when i found out about this game... didnt took long

jetb123 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 25, 2004, 06:04:18 AM »

Commercial and me always liking avation.

oboe · « **Reply #6 on:** December 25, 2004, 07:47:53 AM »

A woman friend of mine met Wild Bill on cruise on the summer of 1998. Apparently he had recently? purchased Warbirds and he was giving away WarBird CDs to everyone he met. She hung onto it and gave it to me when she got back, where it sat in a desk drawer until December, when I was home from work for a week with pneumonia. I dug it out and decided to install it and give it a try. I couldn't believe how cool it was to fly against other people online, and I also remember staying up all night long playing, even though I had pnuemonia. And one trip home from the doctor's office I swung by CompUSA after visiting a pharmacy and ran into Thrustmaster's flight control gift pack - Top Gun joystick, Attack throttle, and Elite rudder pedals. I still use those same rudder pedals, though I've had them apart several times for repairs. Anyway I was just in time for the WarBirds 2.6 fiasco, forced move to North Carolina and subsequent meltdown. After AH got established I tried it and decided the flat rate was worth leaving Warbirds for. Been in and out of AH a few times since June 2000, but pretty much consider myself here for the long haul.

Aubrey · « **Reply #7 on:** December 25, 2004, 08:42:14 AM »

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

My first flight sim was F-16 fighting falcon I bought that in like 1987. Played it on a 8088 machine pumping along at 4.47mhz,

Then I played battlefield something or other by lucasarts a WW2 sim

Red Baron, Aces of the Pacific, Battle of Britain, hehehe , A buddy of mine used to get so pissed when I would tell him waht you could do in a bf110, he would scream you can't do that in a 110, anyway

b-2 bomber (micrprose), tornado, Falcon 3.0

I Think I saw warbirds r something like it (t was a long time ago0
Online time was soooo huge back then I did not look at it long
heh I knew folks that were Maxing 2 credit cards to play games on line

SO all that flight time and I still suck heheh Well Practice makes perfect.

So I am looking at the computer for a game one day and I see a link to a game called Jumpgate. A space game. Istarted flying around there ran into some guys we formed a squad. played together for 3 years, they told me about this I tried it out. Now my wife is looking up the adress for the offices of Hi tech so she can go there with a stick to beat them for addicting me!!!

bozon · « **Reply #8 on:** December 25, 2004, 09:00:05 AM »

review at simHQ and the two weeks free trial.

Bozon

WilldCrd · « **Reply #9 on:** December 25, 2004, 09:08:40 AM »

Was surfing porn and accidently got to this site:cool:

Blooz · « **Reply #10 on:** December 25, 2004, 09:27:20 AM »

I started with B-17 Bomber on Intellivision.

I got a Commadore 64 in 1985 and played F-15 Strike Eagle and Mig Alley Ace until I got a real PC.

B-17 Flying Fortress came next in 1992 or so.

First online air combat was Red Baron 3D. Anybody remember a SPAD VII pilot named Poulet LeGrande? Yup, that was me.

Not finding any WW1 air sims to replace Red Baron I stumbled onto AH. WW2 wasn't my greatest interest but it's better than nothing. It's a great game with plenty of support and will be around for many years to come.

Flossy · « **Reply #11 on:** December 25, 2004, 10:39:42 AM »

I never had any interest in flight sims whatsoever.... but my husband (Zeb) has always loved them and was always looking out for new ones. He discovered Air Warrior and played for quite a few years off and on.... it was expensive to play online, though, and I was always worrying about how much it was costing!

Eventually he started playing through Gamestorm and I got interested when he told me he was possibly joining a squad - I realised then there was more to AW than I had originally thought, and I watched him that night. He explained everything to me as he logged online and entered the Officers Club and went from there to HQ and on to a field. Sure enough he was invited to the Krait Squadron and I was absolutely hooked! I watched him most nights for the next 6 months before we decided it might be a good idea for me to start my own account.

I wasn't sure at first, as I could barely drive a car in RL and never thought I could fly a plane. However, I decided to give it a try even it was just a case of driving vehicles or gunning bombers. This was OK for a while, but I soon found that spending long periods on the ground during squad nights waiting for someone to take a bomber up was not much fun. It was then I started flying for the first time.....

I started flying fighters but of course never lasted very long.... it was then I decided to give bombers a try....

Unfortunately, AW got the chop by EA.com, but by then my squad had moved to Aces High anyway and I've been here ever since.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #12 on:** December 25, 2004, 10:52:54 AM »

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Originally posted by Flyboy
hey my country has no history of aviation untill 1948 too, er actually, it dont have any history at all untill 1948

Yea it did. It just took a 2,000 year vacation LMAO

DieAz · « **Reply #13 on:** December 25, 2004, 11:45:56 AM »

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Originally posted by Flyboy
actually, it dont have any history at all untill 1948

very strange, that you would write that.

actually, your country (as a Nation) has one of the longest, oldest written history, of all, in the world. it is even older than the Chinese written history.

Flyboy · « **Reply #14 on:** December 25, 2004, 12:09:37 PM »

A. its a joke (a lousy one i guess)
B. technicly israel didnt exist untill 1948 (not talking on biblical times)