Hi from Sunny Ausi land...
Hi Everyone,
My name is Darren . I live on the Gold coast of sunny Australia. I am new to this build it yourself thingy and quite enthusiastic. I am studying for my CPL IR and as a kid played on apache gunship and other basic flight sims on C64, amiga and early PC's. I got my PPL through the RAF at 18 and have flown about 120 hours in total. I am sick of my job, and want to fly for a living. I really enjoy flying both real and sim's but had been out of the sim thingy sine about 1989 when i last played my amiga. I recently saw FSX on a good home PC and suddenly realised that a simple "game" could actually save me thousands of dollars in real life training . I had no idea how good and realistic it was. I jumped on and ordered my mate to turn all the difficulty levels to max and was supprised at just HOW ACCURATE it was. basically the exact same thing as flying a real AC. With a yoke and pedals it was awesome. I am now going to be building my home cockpit over the next few months and will be asking lots of questions if I cant find them already answered here. Another user called Micheal E. referred me from another forum. Thanks Micheal, this forum seems to be what I have been looking for for months!
OK i'm off to start the harassment ..... bloody video cards are so difficult to understand!!!
See ya
Darren:D
