How many here are "long-timers".

[aztec]

In Fighter Ops/WBs then here since uhhhh    uhhhhhh

[2Dizzy]

Started in 2002, before that took a sniff at Air Warrior. 8 years x 2,5 hours a day.......................... ........

Dizz

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Since Beta ... whatever my "member since" states is probably close enought. 

[38ruk]

There are alot of old geezers around here .   I started AH when AW started having connection issues ...Had to be mid 2000 or so .  I didn't realize there was a forum until 6 months later ....then lurked for awhile before joining .

[321BAR]

My dad used to fly AWI all the way till AHII but i started up in 2002-2003 sometime... too young to remember and dont have tags for back then cuz we uninstalled AH last year till i brought it back this last fall...

[MrAxe]

I flew aw3 back on gamestorm. Flew till ea shut it down. Took up aces high when I found it. Been on and off due to interest and work and school. I was a squeaker in aw3. I'm only 24 now. Heh

[Boxboy]

You bunch of noobs are making me feel way too old. I was Rave ::IAF:: cpid 3353 late 93 on GEnie and paying the big bucks. I remember Vortex and especially (ready for a flashback bud?) his CO Athos and the rest of the Musketeers, as well as vaguely remembering Nobaddy, Grits and Lone Wolf.

Started with the old Microprose like some of the other "old timers" and did h2h on Falcon 3.0 quite a bit back then. Here's a short list for the Nostalgic... (Vortex actually took this Camp off so the rest of us could get some kills, and to thank him, I left his rank that camp off)

Nobaddy...were you cpid 5553? Lone Wolf...cpid 220?

Been off for a long while, but thinking to get going again...

FINAL SCORES - AIR WARRIOR

CAMPAIGN 102 - December 10, 1993 - January 7, 1994


Arena 1 Individual Scores:

Fighter Scores as of Fri Jan  7 14:35:55 1994
Rank   Score  Country  Ship  Handle                   Mail
   1   601745    B     4233 Greycap      JG 54          R.STATHAM
   2   578797    A     6540 ^ZYfly^ -AW-                R.FULTON2
   3   489117    A     3988 Splash ::IAF::                M.MCGOWEN
   4   478008    B     3488 Phantom      JG 54         G.SMITH14
   5   402224    C      565 Tarkus SL/FL-I **BS**   M.SPENCER3
   6   359863    A     4717 TOMCAT ::IAF::              T.BIFULCO
   7   359835    A     3822 +-}--Hell-----*XO*         S.SARKISIAN1
   8   350662    B     3422 Doom         JG 54           M.HOBUSS
   9   305829    A      937 IconoClast                      S.FORBEN
  10   272530    C     4989 ToMMnatr>FUBAR XO< T.CHRISTIE1
  11   227445    B     5769 Shark        JG 54           L.RABURN
  12   214049    C     4419 Rasta CO Black Sheep  C.MENDOZA
  13   207039    A     3353 Rave       ::IAF::            R.DURHAM
  14   203708    B     4276 COLORADO     JG 54      D.WILLIAMS4
  15   201549    A     4219 Hidalgo ::IAF::              R.CAVOLA
  16   185342    B     3683 Proteous     JG 54         D.VANDERWAL1
  17   179743    B     5826 Joker -UFO- BL              J.SAMACICIA
  18   173010    B     4243 BADER                          M.FALLON1
  19   168083    B     6422 maque                         G.MACDONALD7
  20   161005    A     2268 RamDog   *XO* JG26   P.HARGETT
  21   155554    B     6064 Rip          JG 54             T.BURMEISTER
  22   153263    C     6008 PropWash L/FL-B **BS**   R.SIMPSON11
  23   137309    B     5017 Gator        JG 54           J.KIMMERLY1
  24   137022    B     2819 Der Bubba    JG 54       J.KENNEDY15
  25   130264    A     5842 +-}--PRIMATE-------      M.MCMANUS1
  26   125880    C     5545 Buzzard                       F.GOSS
  27   124198    B     6687 Submission -UFO- A     G.SIEVERS
  28   123544    C     4781 BigJim LtCol FL-C**BS**  J.HARRISON32
  29   119921    A     6609 +-}--ATHOS------         VALHALLA
  30   113805    C     3843 Sabre                         R.TIMBLIN1

             6913    A     6533 -)-Vortex---            

Arena 1 - Team Scores:

Country   Missions    Kills   Fighter/Bomber Pnts   Planes Lost
   A       13206      6882    5379288/4594171         9322
   B       11893      6925    5727542/2612135         7917
   C       13085      6407    3927892/1322323         9839

Fighter Squadrons as of Fri Jan  7 14:35:55 1994
    Score       Squad       Name
 3021686  5910  JG 54 "The Green Hearts"
 1735641  4374  Imperial Air Force ::IAF::
  850554   4419  Black Sheep <<VMF-214>>
  771716   6609  +-}--MUSKETEERS-----
  699230   5191  UFO
  555809   565   <<VMF-565>>
  405776   1443  BLACK SHEEP <<VMF-314>>
  405203   4937  JG26 (Abbeville Boys)
  345854   5894  FUBARS   13   207039    A     3353 Rave       ::IAF::            R.DURHAM

ahh hell I was only 28th that camp

[maddafinga]

I started on AW when it first came to AOL and was pay per hour.  Stuck with it through its demise, then I came here and was in Fighterace briefly, it helped that our co was running FA at the time, while it was on the Zone.  After that, life got in the way and I was off for about 9-10 years.  Been back here a year and a few months now. 

There are guys in my squad that were in AW long before me, and still play AH also.  There are old timers out there, lots of them just don't make a lot of noise. 

[thorsim]

MAC-AW 1997 (159th BK / <?>), WB when it went flat rate in what 1999 (=<LR>= / JG-51 / JG-27)

here since last summer ...

1/5 long timers is my guess ...

offline ...

errr played hornet or jet on dos on dads computer during high school in the early 80s (i think) keyboard only no joystick pre visual interface days (pretty sure i still have the big floppy someplace) ...

and i remember a game i got to play a couple of times on a network of universities (we were in the vet school at UF) which was "online" i guess, that was also early 80s with my brother, i remember you had to hit return to refresh the screen i remember how very cool it was at the time playing against guys across the country (i have no idea what the name of hat game was) ...

[Zoney]

AW from pay per hour days (had a 600.00 bill one month), then WB's now here.  15 years or so I guess.  Been here 3 months now. Love it, and we got WW1 yesterday, love it even more.

Always been Zoney, was in the Pigstompers in AW, JG27 in WB and in AW II/JG-27.  Our entire squad migrated here from WB.

[38ruk]

I Flew AWII back in 97 IIRC . Then I remember buying AW3 boxed version  and flew from 97 ish to 2000.  I tried AH in 2000 and thought it was way too hard to shoot anyone down ....that and the flight model was simulator like compared to AW lol.  I went back to AW for another 6 months till EA really porked it ....then came back here and joined up . I still have my AW3 disk somewhere lol, along with some gamestorm versions .

[Smothers]

First flight sim?    Combat on Atari 2600 in 1980   

AH since 2001 I think.  I remember you could play in certain multiplayer arenas (at least one) for free at the time.

[jollyFE]

had to be late 01 early 02 for me.

[Brooke]

FINAL SCORES - AIR WARRIOR

CAMPAIGN 102 - December 10, 1993 - January 7, 1994

Bah.  Campaign 102 from 1993.  Those are some newbs!  

Campaign 2
Aces as of 13:04EST  03/03/88
Rank   Kills  Country  Ship    Handle
[Many people who were approximately infinitely better than I was, then:]
527        8    A      850 BROOKE

Ah, yes.  Ranked 527th out of 596 pilots with a total score of 8 kills.  

I remember taking up a P-51 with full fuel and doing the hardest continuous turn I could on the deck right after takeoff (no flaps either of course) and marvelling at how a vulching Spitfire could keep shooting me down again and again!

[sluggish]

First flight sim was called Mail Run (I think) for the Apple  IIGS around 1987.  Got MSFS around 97 and joined AH the week before it became AHII.  I have played pretty steadily until the last year or so.  The new additions (mainly WW1) have rekindled my interest.