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Title: I am sorta new
Post by: Wildcatdad on October 31, 2013, 03:05:09 PM
Hello guys! I just wanted to say hi and that I look forward to playing/talking with you guys! :salute
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Lusche on October 31, 2013, 03:09:59 PM
Hi  :banana:
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: ozrocker on October 31, 2013, 03:11:48 PM
 :salute Welcome :airplane:

I wanted to add that if you need any help, many of the people here are always
ready to point you in the right direction. You will find an occasion jerk as well.
Don't get discouraged if you find something have trouble with. We all do.
Learning curve can be tough at times, but stick to it, it'll come.
Avoid the Ho.



                                                                                                                                                  :cheers: Oz
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: wpeters on October 31, 2013, 03:12:19 PM
Howdy there. :rofl        

If you are flying with the Rooks tune to Vox 158 and you are welcome to fly with us :salute

LtCondor
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: whiteman on October 31, 2013, 03:30:53 PM
welcome to your new family, over the following weeks, months and years you will be able to tune out those other people in your house.
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Sunka on October 31, 2013, 04:04:44 PM
Hey  :D
Im sorta new also.  :joystick:
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: eeyore on October 31, 2013, 04:12:53 PM
welcome to your new family, over the following weeks, months and years you will be able to tune out those other people in your house.

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.  :joystick:

Welcome to the Aces High BBS. With a name like Wildcatman, I assume you are either a fan of the F4F or of the University of Kentucky (because there is no other worthy College team with a Wildcat mascot).  :cool: :banana:
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: jeffdn on October 31, 2013, 04:17:35 PM
Just a note: ALT + F4 does not grant you nukes, and hitting ENTER three times does not reload your guns. Nefarious fellow pilots with an over-inflated sense of their own comedic talents may misdirect you to try those key combinations. The former will exit the game, the latter may rather quickly put to an end a long and arduous flight.
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: GhostCDB on October 31, 2013, 04:22:15 PM
Welcome to your new addiction .  :cheers:
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: ROC on October 31, 2013, 04:22:49 PM
Helpful Hints.
If you need an answer to something, and ask it online, you will get 300 different versions of an answer, mostly unhelpful.
If you want the Real Answer, state something incorrectly and you will get 300 people telling you how wrong you are by offering up the correct answer.
It's all about the presentation  :huh

Welcome.  Try the Training Arena for flight tips, ignore the people who will invariably try and twist you up, let the drama roll off your back, and never play the game to please anyone else.  Play it to enjoy it, you will get out of the game exactly what you put into it.  Put fun in.  Give a yell if you need anything.
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Lusche on October 31, 2013, 04:25:28 PM
If you need an answer to something, and ask it online, you will get 300 different versions of an answer, mostly unhelpful.
If you want the Real Answer, state something incorrectly and you will get 300 people telling you how wrong you are by offering up the correct answer.
It's all about the presentation  :huh


ROC is the dean of the AH Psychological Institute  :old:
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: MrGeezer on October 31, 2013, 04:28:01 PM
Welcome to the world's coolest sandbox!   :joystick:
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Molsman on October 31, 2013, 04:31:36 PM
Welcome this game is more addicting then Drugs!!!
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Max on October 31, 2013, 04:32:07 PM
Welcome.

Have fun, don't take head-on shots and disregard 99.9% of everything put forth on ch 200

Save your money for a quality CH Products joystick/throttle/rudder pedals. You'll only have to buy it once.  :devil
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Wildcatdad on October 31, 2013, 04:46:12 PM
Thanks everyone. And no, I am not a major fan of the F4! My user name actually refers to the Buick Wildcat, Which my dad has 2 of, and is one  of my favorite cars.
 :salute
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: waystin2 on October 31, 2013, 04:49:10 PM
Welcome to the community Wildcat!

Helpful Hints.
If you need an answer to something, and ask it online, you will get 300 different versions of an answer, mostly unhelpful.
If you want the Real Answer, state something incorrectly and you will get 300 people telling you how wrong you are by offering up the correct answer.
It's all about the presentation  :huh

Welcome.  Try the Training Arena for flight tips, ignore the people who will invariably try and twist you up, let the drama roll off your back, and never play the game to please anyone else.  Play it to enjoy it, you will get out of the game exactly what you put into it.  Put fun in.  Give a yell if you need anything.
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Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: morfiend on October 31, 2013, 05:04:45 PM
Thanks everyone. And no, I am not a major fan of the F4! My user name actually refers to the Buick Wildcat, Which my dad has 2 of, and is one  of my favorite cars.
 :salute


  Welcome to AH,as someone said check out the training arena,I'm usually in there week night between 9 pm and 11 pm eastern.

   BTW,my Dad had a 68 2door wildcat,430 rocket about 2 tons of tire smoking buick!

    Oh and by default the left blinker was on!


    :salute
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: lunatic1 on October 31, 2013, 05:31:09 PM
i had a 65-electra 225  and a 66 riviera
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Wildcatdad on October 31, 2013, 07:56:35 PM
ERMERGERD! People with Buicks! :O
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Changeup on October 31, 2013, 07:56:39 PM
Well....we own every single model of 1934 Ford.  All of them..restored to original, driving condition.  No showroom stuff here.  Dip-painted and on the road most weekends.

Welcome Wildcat...contrary to popular belief, the most important stat you should follow about yourself is HIT%.  You're going to need to kill fast in here.

AH is like golf.  Its not a game that gives you a lot of positive feedback when you start playing but after you learn the game, its over...you'll be buying memberships all over town.
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Oldman731 on October 31, 2013, 08:40:55 PM
i had a 65-electra 225  and a 66 riviera


And I had a 1968 deuce-and-a-quarter, 430 cc.  What a monster.

- oldman
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: BaldEagl on October 31, 2013, 09:08:35 PM

And I had a 1968 deuce-and-a-quarter, 430 cc.  What a monster.

- oldman

cc?  Was that a two stroke or what?  

Pretty sure you meant cid.  430cc is small even for a motorcycle unless it's a dirt bike.
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: GhostCDB on October 31, 2013, 09:44:08 PM
Welcome to your new addiction. The first step in rehab is admitting you have a problem.

 :cheers:
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Oldman731 on October 31, 2013, 10:46:04 PM
cc?  Was that a two stroke or what?  

Pretty sure you meant cid.  430cc is small even for a motorcycle unless it's a dirt bike.


Excellent point, sorry for the typo.  Think this car, in dark green:

(http://i1234.photobucket.com/albums/ff406/Oldman731/68Electra-1.jpg) (http://s1234.photobucket.com/user/Oldman731/media/68Electra-1.jpg.html)

- oldman
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Bobcat81 on November 01, 2013, 02:17:18 AM
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.  :joystick:

Welcome to the Aces High BBS. With a name like Wildcatman, I assume you are either a fan of the F4F or of the University of Kentucky (because there is no other worthy College team with a Wildcat mascot).  :cool: :banana:

U of A !!!!
Kentuckys cool too I guess  :rolleyes:
I live in Tucson so you probably understand my bias.

Welcome Wilddadcat!
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: matt on November 01, 2013, 09:00:06 AM
 :salute
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Slate on November 01, 2013, 09:18:44 AM
   Welcome.  :salute


   I had a 69 Buick Electra 225 with a 430 engine also.
  :rock  Was as big as a whale and set sail with the Factory Quadraphonic 8-track system.  :rock
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Dichotomy on November 02, 2013, 06:58:47 PM
Welcome this game is more addicting then Drugs!!!

Mols should know  :neener:
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: ozrocker on November 02, 2013, 07:47:47 PM
I had a 70 LeSabre. I called it my boat.
It was a huge car :aok





                                                                                                                            :cheers: Oz
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Molsman on November 02, 2013, 10:19:02 PM
Mols should know  :neener:

I get them from you  :neener:
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: BaldEagl on November 02, 2013, 11:33:13 PM
I had a 70 LeSabre. I called it my boat.
It was a huge car :aok





                                                                                                                            :cheers: Oz

I once had a '70 Olds Cutlass with a 350 that literally floated at over 120 mph and, with a nice but nothing special '69 Malibu in between, before that had a '68 Chevy Impala station wagon with a 350 HP 327 (one of the upper tier (but not the top) engine options used in Corvette's that year) in it.

They were both boats but they were both fast.  The '64 Belaire and the '69 Plymouth Fury III before and after were just boats.

^
BaldEagl; the early driving years  :rofl
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: GhostCDB on November 03, 2013, 08:15:09 AM
How do you manage to derail a welcome thread. . .  :old:
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Max on November 03, 2013, 08:17:56 AM
hmmmmm....derail. let's talk trains now  :aok
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: LLv34_Dictonius on November 03, 2013, 12:22:10 PM
Welcome!

If you see pictures of naked men in this forum, don't feel threatened - in finland we give warm welcomes in the form of sauna! :cheers:

Btw. put that in your to do list: to go Finland and take part of Virrat AH meeting, drink too much beer, jump in the frozen lake and then head back to sauna (to consume more beer again). Thats how you make real knives to a knife fight - iron needs to be quenched :lol
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Wildcatdad on November 03, 2013, 04:43:24 PM
Welcome!

If you see pictures of naked men in this forum, don't feel threatened - in finland we give warm welcomes in the form of sauna! :cheers:

Btw. put that in your to do list: to go Finland and take part of Virrat AH meeting, drink too much beer, jump in the frozen lake and then head back to sauna (to consume more beer again). Thats how you make real knives to a knife fight - iron needs to be quenched :lol

Ummmmm? :headscratch: Thanks?
I'm just gonna back away slowly and.... :bolt:
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Changeup on November 03, 2013, 06:46:11 PM
Welcome!

If you see pictures of naked men in this forum, don't feel threatened - in finland we give warm welcomes in the form of sauna! :cheers:

Btw. put that in your to do list: to go Finland and take part of Virrat AH meeting, drink too much beer, jump in the frozen lake and then head back to sauna (to consume more beer again). Thats how you make real knives to a knife fight - iron needs to be quenched :lol


I just cancelled all future trips to Finland.  In fact, Finland just began to glow.
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: JimmyC on November 03, 2013, 07:40:24 PM
hay,

they just wanna quench your iron...

jatsh shexy
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: ROC on November 03, 2013, 07:49:59 PM
If you have never experienced the full on assault of the Finns, in a scenario, flying drunk off their collective arses, while naked in the sauna, you simply haven't lived.
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Changeup on November 03, 2013, 11:44:53 PM
If you have never experienced the full on assault of the Finns, in a scenario, flying drunk off their collective arses, while naked in the sauna, you simply haven't lived.

I would rather rub crap in my hair so, no, thanks I'm good.
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: gyrene81 on November 03, 2013, 11:57:00 PM
I would rather rub crap in my hair so, no, thanks I'm good.
you did that already...didn't think you enjoyed it so much.  :lol
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Yankee67 on November 04, 2013, 12:43:00 AM
Welcome.   :rock

I was new, back in May.  A few things:

1. You will become addicted.
2. You will still need to shower, and still try to eat at normal times.  And sleep.  Remember these things.
3. If you have teenage kids, they will smirk at your headset at first, then they will stand over your shoulder saying things like "go get that one, no over there, hey I wanna try, hey I want an account."
4. Eventually, you will quietly listen to the boss/wife/cop that pulled you over as they harass you, while your inner voice says "dude, you'd be so dead if I caught you on the deck with no E."
5. You will learn that thinking about how to maintain a perch above a furball while driving a real vehicle down the highway is not a good combination.
6. You will spend hours of your life learning that the mil tick marks in a tank reticule actually have meaning.  And you will become proficient at using them.
7. If your addiction gets really bad, and you travel for business, you will bring your headset and joystick with you on the road, and the 24 year old TSA agent at the Xray machine will look you intently for a moment, and quietly nod his head approvingly.
8. You will find yourself watching a war movie with your non-AH pals, and blurt out "NO WAY a Mark VI turrets from one round!... Err, anyone want a beer?"
9. You will begin to think you can fly commercial aircraft, if you really had to.
10. Your wife will say things like "your office now looks like a crack den", and you will respond "no, Tank Town is the crack den."  And she will not be amused.
 
 
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Kingpin on November 04, 2013, 01:54:08 PM
Welcome.   :rock

I was new, back in May.  A few things:

1. You will become addicted.
2. You will still need to shower, and still try to eat at normal times.  And sleep.  Remember these things.
3. If you have teenage kids, they will smirk at your headset at first, then they will stand over your shoulder saying things like "go get that one, no over there, hey I wanna try, hey I want an account."
4. Eventually, you will quietly listen to the boss/wife/cop that pulled you over as they harass you, while your inner voice says "dude, you'd be so dead if I caught you on the deck with no E."
5. You will learn that thinking about how to maintain a perch above a furball while driving a real vehicle down the highway is not a good combination.
6. You will spend hours of your life learning that the mil tick marks in a tank reticule actually have meaning.  And you will become proficient at using them.
7. If your addiction gets really bad, and you travel for business, you will bring your headset and joystick with you on the road, and the 24 year old TSA agent at the Xray machine will look you intently for a moment, and quietly nod his head approvingly.
8. You will find yourself watching a war movie with your non-AH pals, and blurt out "NO WAY a Mark VI turrets from one round!... Err, anyone want a beer?"
9. You will begin to think you can fly commercial aircraft, if you really had to.
10. Your wife will say things like "your office now looks like a crack den", and you will respond "no, Tank Town is the crack den."  And she will not be amused.
 

This has to be one of the best welcome posts ever.  Hilariously accurate, too. 

Well done, Yankee.

 :salute
Ryno
Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: bbosen on November 04, 2013, 04:27:29 PM
Welcome. This thread has become very entertaining....

....and a lot of good advice can be found in SOME of the posts. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. Here are some links to video clips for absolute beginners. They start very, Very, VERY simple, and progress to some fairly advanced stuff. I created these video clips to train a Boy Scout troop about 3 years ago. I hope it helps! There are about 29 separate video clips, averaging about 5 minutes each. Here's the link:

http://askmisterwizard.com/FlightSimMovies/AcesHigh/Training/AcesHighTrainingByPeabodyPage01Full.htm
 :salute


Title: Re: I am sorta new
Post by: Wildcatdad on November 05, 2013, 03:24:39 PM
Welcome.   :rock

I was new, back in May.  A few things:

1. You will become addicted.
2. You will still need to shower, and still try to eat at normal times.  And sleep.  Remember these things.
3. If you have teenage kids, they will smirk at your headset at first, then they will stand over your shoulder saying things like "go get that one, no over there, hey I wanna try, hey I want an account."
4. Eventually, you will quietly listen to the boss/wife/cop that pulled you over as they harass you, while your inner voice says "dude, you'd be so dead if I caught you on the deck with no E."
5. You will learn that thinking about how to maintain a perch above a furball while driving a real vehicle down the highway is not a good combination.
6. You will spend hours of your life learning that the mil tick marks in a tank reticule actually have meaning.  And you will become proficient at using them.
7. If your addiction gets really bad, and you travel for business, you will bring your headset and joystick with you on the road, and the 24 year old TSA agent at the Xray machine will look you intently for a moment, and quietly nod his head approvingly.
8. You will find yourself watching a war movie with your non-AH pals, and blurt out "NO WAY a Mark VI turrets from one round!... Err, anyone want a beer?"
9. You will begin to think you can fly commercial aircraft, if you really had to.
10. Your wife will say things like "your office now looks like a crack den", and you will respond "no, Tank Town is the crack den."  And she will not be amused.
 
 

BEST ANSWER EVER!  :rock :salute