Okay you over age 50 AH Pilots...

[Shifty]

If you're lucky, you get to be old.

regards, T. E. Shaw

Very true and some people still don't realize how lucky they are.

Thank you for the tips gentlemen.
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[etoile]

I must agree, age is not kind to playing this sim. I attribute my poor showing to lack of reflexes and having a hard time with the views. It seems like the cockpit framework has gotten much larger over time. As a side note, I'll vouch for 715. He was hot in AW way back when...

[SKJohn]

I've noticed the past couple of years my flying is only good for about and hour. It's getting worse.
After about an hour I can't see or hit squat. It's like my eyes get tired and just refuse to focus.
If I stay on any longer the best that I can hope for is to annoy the enemy or nick him and slow him down so some youngster can come blow him away. When I started this mess in 1994 with Air Warrior I had a small 15" monitor and we played with crummy graphics. Now I'm on a 22" monitor with nice graphics and I need reading glasses just to see my cockpit instruments, much less the enemy.

Any of you older guys got any tips for eye fatigue? It's looking like somebody needs to invent Viagra for video games.

I turned 50 this year, and my eyes had actually improved some when I went in for my check-up last month.  The doc says sometimes they do that at around 50, just like at around 40 most guys start to need reading glasses.

[Shifty]

I turned 50 this year, and my eyes had actually improved some when I went in for my check-up last month.  The doc says sometimes they do that at around 50, just like at around 40 most guys start to need reading glasses.

Hmm just how around 50 do you have to be??? 

Glad to hear that's happened for you. I never needed glasses of any kind until I started needing readers at 44.

[Sloehand]

1 or 2 really good fights burns me out. Decision making process slows, reflex's slow, concentration lags.

Some nights a half hour in a wirble is a nice way to cap off the experience with. Lets me with a bit of luck get a few more kills and its easier on this ol fart. Normally I don't have to think as much, work as hard to get a wirble kill. There is time to wind down, relax and take a few pot shots at anyone silly enough to get close.

Might give it a try. Otherwise its pretty much going to be fly for an hour, and walk away for a couple.

Ghosth -

We're talking 'old' here, not ancient and senile.   

[Softail]

The solution is easy..... get a 50" monitor