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Title: How has online WWII Flight Sims enriched your life?
Post by: Ozark on May 09, 2003, 04:14:08 PM
If not for flying online I would have missed the opportunities to meet some great folks. I’ll never forget camping with Daddog, Ghosth, Dhog and his wife at the airshow in Oshkosh, WI. I had to attend the AH Con 2002, to meet and spend time with about a dozen members of the 332nd Flying Mongrels. Hey, they’re my Broos!! I meet so many good people at the AH Con. :)

I also remember Fluffy before Sally of the FDB’s got hold of her. :(          :p    

It’s also the phone calls. I remember calling Mongrels early on Saturday mornings and saying: “Listen to this!” Then holding up my cell phone as 3 B-25’s make a low-level pass. It’s also about getting home from work and getting a call from your squadmate.

Flying WWII flight sims isn’t about score or the game we play, it’s about the folks you meet.
Title: How has online WWII Flight Sims enriched your life?
Post by: Furious on May 09, 2003, 04:37:13 PM
If those damn FDB started calling me, I'd get a frikin restraining order.
Title: How has online WWII Flight Sims enriched your life?
Post by: Ghosth on May 10, 2003, 07:36:41 AM
Amen Ozark!

Thanks HTC without you my life would be vastly different.

Dogs!
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Post by: lazs2 on May 10, 2003, 08:08:17 AM
yep, met a lot of folks I wouldn't normally meet.
lazs
Title: How has online WWII Flight Sims enriched your life?
Post by: sax on May 10, 2003, 09:07:07 AM
Toad came to Canada for a visit last year , I'd hafta say I made a life long friend thru AH:)
Title: Re: How has online WWII Flight Sims enriched your life?
Post by: Flossy on May 10, 2003, 10:55:07 AM
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Originally posted by Ozark
If not for flying online I would have missed the opportunities to meet some great folks.
Most definitely.  Since first starting AW in 1998, it and now AH became part of my life.  Since going to my first UK AW "Summer Meet" in 1998, I have not missed one of these annual events since, which have expanded during that time to full-blown Conventions, even if not quite as big as the US versions.  :)  I have made new friends at each one and can honestly say the online flying is so much better after meeting those flying with or against in person.  Some day I would also like to go to a US Con as there are so many people there I would like to meet in person;  people I have known for the last 5 years, in some cases, and others who I have come across more recently, but come to respect in many ways.  My life feels much richer for the experience of virtually flying with people from all corners of the world.  :)
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Post by: firbal on May 10, 2003, 11:12:31 AM
Huuua? Enriched? Not sure of that.   :D
Title: How has online WWII Flight Sims enriched your life?
Post by: RightF00T on May 10, 2003, 02:39:07 PM
I can certainly type faster with accuracy without looking because of flight sims such as AW and AH.
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Post by: Swag Abroad on May 12, 2003, 02:25:44 AM
I haven't meet too many people from the AH community but have talked with them on voice.  Truely amazing individuals!  

I did get to meet Harry Neimi (Harppa) from Finland!  What an incredible person he is!  

I introduced Sour to WB and AH and now he flies circles around me.

I was hoping a bunch of Mongrels would go to the 2003 AH con but looks like no such luck.  I missed out on the 2002 con.

I enjoy squad night when the Dogs start signing on. You should hear our squad voice channel all the greetings.  One of the Dogs, TeeRex, really cracks me up when he gets on voice.  Everybody is Brother.  I cant wait to get back on-line!

You are right Ozark, because for me, it has alot to do with the people you interface with while on-line.  I can get killed every sortie with nothing to show for it, but if I am with my squaddies I know I am having fun.

Have a nice Day

:)
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Post by: Saintaw on May 12, 2003, 04:47:48 AM
My cussing vocabulary has improved in multiple languages.
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Post by: mipoikel on May 12, 2003, 04:56:57 AM
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Originally posted by Saintaw
My cussing vocabulary has improved in multiple languages.


I disagree!!!!!! :D

LOL
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Post by: Saintaw on May 12, 2003, 05:08:45 AM
Hiirvi molko! (sp?)

See? :D
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Post by: Grendel on May 12, 2003, 05:23:47 AM
Meeting great people.

Getting to know the Finnish WW2 Pilots, inviting them to our meetings, getting friends with a lot of them.

Not possible without online flight sims. Thanks AW, WB, AH, WW2OL.
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Post by: Shiva on May 12, 2003, 08:23:34 AM
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Originally posted by mipoikel
I disagree!!!!!! :D



Tebya ne ebut, ti ne podmakhivay, prikhot.

:D
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Post by: Nifty on May 12, 2003, 09:30:15 AM
*wipes a tear*

Ghosth is da man.  He convinced me to get a home brewing kit.  :D

Heh, in a few days I'll post a pic of the latest batch of nut brown ale I just bottled.  I used a couple of empty Newcastle bottles I had lying around to see any similarities between my batch and the real thing.   You almost can't tell the difference (it's a little cloudy right now as the sediment is still settling. ;))
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Post by: GA on May 12, 2003, 12:23:38 PM
PUNT! Ozark;)

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Our fundamental principle when we fly is to have fun and make friends and enjoy our common interest in aviation. We don't mind competitive spirits as long as a certain goal does not become the focus of why you are flying, such as attaining a certain number of kills in one sortie. We look for members that are willing to give up a kill to go save a squad mate in trouble, and are wiling to fly together as a Squadron.


I think this is eather DD or Ghost words;) that I also have on our website for the Vikings;).

SALUTE Mongrels;)
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Post by: OIO on May 12, 2003, 01:48:13 PM
It has provided me with throughful knowledge of completely irrelevant information.

-The GF dont care about P-38s. For her thats some fancy brand of lipstick color.
-Friends cannot fathom what I mean by "sciscoring" or "hammerheading" an opponent. Heck some of them think im into some kind of weird kinky gay sex.
-parents worry about my extensive collection of P-38 and P-61 kit models. "Shouldn't he have nudy mags at that age?"
-The city's bishop has found references to "Kelly" in some obscure Vatican secret archive, he the name to be a nemesis of some really bad devil called 'Kurt'. Your local priest believes you to be channeling the 'Kelly' angel.
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Post by: Torque on May 12, 2003, 02:40:39 PM
Alot more lingerie and nasty sex, just what the doctor ordered.

I've gone through a few female partners whilst flying in WB and in AH and their resulting behaviour from my many hours online was always the same. Once a woman realizes that her man can derive as much pleasure from a plastic joystick as he does from his god given one out comes all that skimpy lingerie and roll play'n.

Your mileage may vary.

This does not apply to Fatty for he is the queen of all the fairies, this is a true fact because i read it somewhere on the internet.

L8tr...