View Poll Results: What best describes your interest in building and flying? I am a
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Builder who happens to have built a flight sim
3 4.62% -
Builder with an interest in aviation and flying
4 6.15% -
Builder very interested in flying and aviation
22 33.85% -
Flyer but who has developed a strong interest in building
16 24.62% -
Flyer seeing building as a way of bolstering my flying interest
10 15.38% -
Flyer who builds but does not like building too much
7 10.77% -
Flyer who does not build, gets others to build or buys off the shelf
3 4.62% -
None of these
0 0%
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Thread: Building - Flying balance
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06-16-2008, 05:06 PM #21
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That summarizes it so well. There's few careers where it's so in the blood as yours/ours. Sim building for me supplements my 'obsession' with flying. But it also supports it. My last Instrument Rating renewal, I hadn't flown a real plane for a few months, and then only a couple of hours a year or so. Despite this, I absolutely walked the renewal, and was able to run rings around another much more highly experience pilot who was only a month or two out of practice. I feel my flying skill has never been so sharp. That's a really good feeling and somewhat justifies insomniac like sleeping behaviour and alarming credit card bills
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Jet fighter / single pilot sim, plus thinking of a 777 as a secondary sim.
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06-27-2008, 03:21 PM #22
Didn't see this post/poll till now, so too late to vote. There are probably as many stories as there are simmers, but I may be one of the few(?) who came into this hobby slightly backwards
7 years ago I wouldn't have known a Cessna from a Boeing xxx. Then I met my husband, who was a real world pilot. Since he's not flying for real anymore, I got him FS for Christmas. Now, he's an ace pilot, but not much of a builder or computer guy, so I had to set everything up, meaning I had to actually start flying the sim, and then it bit me. I also wanted to build him a real nice sim (I love building things), but of course that takes a lot of research and planning, so again I had to do quite a lot of flying and studying, and the more planes I saw (real and otherwise), the more crazy about them I got. I'm no ace, but I love flying the little Cessna in FS, and I've been flying a real one too. I don't know if I'll ever get a PPL, but I know for sure I will fly again (for real).
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