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Offline NOD2000

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« on: January 29, 2003, 09:47:41 PM »
I was just wondering if you guys remember the first time you got off the ground in a flight simulator?

i remember the first time i pulled a plane off the ground in a virtual world. It was a C-hog and i pulled up got swerved to the left (by torque), (right towards the tower) did a half roll and smaked the tower blowing up. I remember thinking "this is pathetic I get off the ground finally, and the tower acts like a freaking magnet" i think i hit various things at my next twenty attempts. Then i finally got the hang of it and thinking "wow, every time i shoot someone my plane breaks in half, WHERE IN THE F* AM I GETTING SHOT FROM" it ended up being ks:rolleyes:

Tell stories of your first flights on flight sims if you remember them.
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Offline Tarmac

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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2003, 09:54:29 PM »
Ground?  X-wings come out of hyperspace, not the ground silly.
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Offline VOR

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« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2003, 10:08:54 PM »
A Commodore 64 computer and Microsoft's first edition of flight simulator. It was even *worse* back then. It even had this WWI scenario which was equally horrible. :D

A few years later Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe made it's way into my hands, and WW2 aviation has been a passion since.
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Offline Miska

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« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2003, 10:09:38 PM »
Dambuster on colecovision, about the early 80s if I remember.  That was a sweet sim.
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Offline Octavius

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« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2003, 10:14:35 PM »
Air Warrior AOL with a mouse.  I don't remember exactly what plane it was and I don't remember if I actually made it off the ground :)  I *do* remember grabbing a B17 later on, signing on a few gunners, and actually rtb'ing.  It was so simple back in the day... it was a hoot!
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« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2003, 02:13:39 AM »
Same as Vor, C64 and MS flight simulator, and I agree, really bad WWI simulator.

The game that made me going was Aces of the pacific, that was awesome, I think that one was on my Commodore Amiga 500, but am not shure.(this is a looong time ago)

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« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2003, 02:22:51 AM »
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I was just wondering if you guys remember the first time you got off the ground in a flight simulator?


Sure, 1969 in a F86 flight simulator.  There wasn't a transistor in the beast - all servo mechanisms and tubes (triodes & etc.)

We don't have a flight simulator in AH - we have a game. :)

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Offline J_A_B

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« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2003, 02:29:23 AM »
AirWarrior.

First online flight--took off from A-81 in a Spit 9 (yes even I started life as a spit dweeb :)  ), shot down a JU-88 and a P-51, then landed.  I remember that sortie better than ones last week.


Ahh, my first ever online kill was a P-51 while I was in a Spit 9....my last online kill in AW was a Spit 9 while I was in a P-51.....guess I came full circle  :)

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Offline fffreeze220

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« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2003, 02:59:22 AM »
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Originally posted by Octavius
Air Warrior AOL with a mouse.  I don't remember exactly what plane it was and I don't remember if I actually made it off the ground :)  I *do* remember grabbing a B17 later on, signing on a few gunners, and actually rtb'ing.  It was so simple back in the day... it was a hoot!


lol Oct it was AW at EA for me and also with a mouse :(
Knew it from back in the "their finest hour" flight (SIM)
Flew 1 week before i figured out man u maybe should try a joystick :)
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Offline lord dolf vader

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« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2003, 03:17:31 AM »
1980 on a ibm machine with a tiny jstick. not shure what the name of it was but it was all green vector graphics. was lost that day.
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« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2003, 06:24:33 AM »
I had been playing AW some time before I tried flying myself.  Until then, I had only ever gunned bombers or driven vehicles, thinking I would never be able to fly - it was too complicated!  :eek:  I only started playing anyway because my husband (Zeb) did and I thought it looked fun.  :)

Then one Squad Night, they were all upping in fighters and I was left on the ground hoping that soon someone would take a bomber I could gun.  Then someone asked why I didn't try to take one myself.  Zeb agreed and helped me choose the plane - an F6 I think - set the fuel load and take off..... I remember getting into the air easy enough and thinking "this isn't too bad after all".... of course, landing was another matter!  It was sometime later I started flying the B17 and decided to specialise in bombing....  :)
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Offline mjolnir

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« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2003, 07:07:04 AM »
By Curly's definition, it was the T4 simulator at the zoo in 1998.  But for what NOD was going for, it was AH (yup, my one and only) in '99, flying in the TA on mouse and keyboard under a different handle.  Don't know what I was trying to fly, but I do remember Mav13 helping me out and teaching me a little bit of the basics.   Mav, if you're still out there!
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« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2003, 07:53:14 AM »
Air Warrior in 1989-90 era was the first store bought flight sim..I had one of those little itsy bitsy joysticks with no buttons, it was more like a 2" metal rod with a while plastic cap on the end.  Soon after I bought SWOTL, still the best flight sim I've personally ever enjoyed, probably because all of it was so amazing!
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« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2003, 07:57:04 AM »
Chuck Yeagers Air racing on an Apple II.  I was so excited to fly this thing until I realized I was only getting about 2 fps on it.  It was total unflyable.  Course at the time I was about 10 year old and didn't know beans about computers.

My first online kill was in AW2 in the training arena.  I flew for about a week in the TA getting completely smoked.  I finally managed to saddle up on some poor bastage.  As I shot him down, I wondered why he made no attempt to evade.

Then I got the message on the text buffer...

"Way to shoot down my glider dweeb"

heheheh, he had no engine  I didn't care, my first kill, I was hooked.  I then proceeded to rack up about $400 dollars on my ISP the next month....
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Offline maxtor

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« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2003, 08:39:15 AM »
LHX , the tilt-rotor (osprey?) was fun to fly.  It was a pretty advanced game in it's day, you needed a 286 and a CGA video card.   Front windshield would even show a bullet hole and a crack if you got a pilot wound.  Your pilot woulkd go in and out of conciousness and eventually plane would control funny then you would die and crash.  This is way back in the 1980's guys :)

You know somewhere I think I still have that game on a floppy disk somewhere.
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