Joining the 'first sim played' trend. Thanks dad, i miss you

[u/Space_Carmelo]

[u/astroju]

Hell yeah. 10 year old me never got this one to Mach 2.

[u/Cornholioh]

My dad got me FS9 and a Logitech attack when I was like 12. I still sim to this day. Miss him lots <3 Sorry for your loss.

[u/Space_Carmelo → u/Cornholioh]

Some of my first memories were sitting on my dad legs with my mother's circlet in my small hands, emuating a yoke while he was playing mfs2000. Me and my brother grew with a great passion for airplanes like... everybody here!

[u/King_Air_Kaptian1989]

I wonder if my grandkids will make a post like this. Ive converted and gave away 5 PCs this year so my grandkids + 1 friend of theirs who Join me on flights when I go on break from flying. Best return on a 10k investment I have ever made. Now I talk to them several times a week on discord/zoom when we fly versus just once or twice a month in a 5 min call. Hell they even pack the computers up and come here and we line all the PCs up in a row, fly, google interesting airports, watch approaches on YouTube and fly to them in sim. It's a experience I will not trade for anything

If you think your Internet sucks, try 7 PCs streaming data on 2024 at the same time. Even 2020 had its moments with the photogrammetry.

[u/Space_Carmelo → u/King_Air_Kaptian1989]

Thats quite a story, congratulation!

[u/severniae]

Is that Concorde for FS2000? (Or 98? I don't recall) - my Dad bought me that for my first flight sim add-on too! I think we got it to M2 precisely once before declaring it too hard. I think he still has the box in his study somewhere, reminded me to go take a look next time I visit.

[u/knarly_vaalie → u/severniae]

2000... I had 98 as my first flight simulator and it was awesome!

[u/ywgflyer → u/severniae]

98 didn't have Concorde, 2000 did and it was that sim's flagship new plane.

[u/Space_Carmelo → u/severniae]

2000, and it came in a nice lovely cd rom case with 2 discs!

[u/ivytea]

My first sim was Aerowinx Precision simulator on DOS. As I couldn't figure out where the flight controls were in it I learned how to fly 747 with trim, flaps and differential thrust only, and this question has puzzled me to this day

[u/Impressive_Yam5149]

My first SIM was MSFS 5.0 and the actual reason why I got a PC. Started out on an Atari ST and had this classmate who had a 486 machine with FS on it... Nagged my dad for weeks until he and I went to a computer store and got me a Pentium 60 (thanks to a very good salesperson who managed to smoothly talk my dad from a 486-DX2 66 with a 14' CRT to a Pentium 60 with a 15' Monitor, a Super VGA graphics card, a sound card and an inkjet printer, almost doubling the price in the process).

[u/vaasxo]

My uncle bought me FSX 10 years ago as a gift when I was visiting him in the UK. Then joined IVAO, started getting into proper simming and the rest is history

[u/netozeppelin]

A-10 Cuba was my first flight-sim. Played a lot with my father (RIP). Certainly this is part of the best moments I had with him.

[u/External-Ad8955 → u/netozeppelin]

I remember spending hours playing this game with my cousin. I remember we had a state of the art yoke, in which you velcroed the mouse to the yoke so the mouse ball would ride along the shaft to give input...so much fun.

[u/Tyraid]

I miss the simplicity here, they really are more difficult to enjoy now

[u/morebikesthanbrains → u/Tyraid]

There's a part of me that understands your comment, but another that looks at that screen and thinks "simplicity?"

[u/Odd_Item5286]

Right after getting bitched out by Rod Machado

[u/Gilmere]

Yep, nice one. And one with good memories for you. This made my day. TY.

[u/morebikesthanbrains]

Let's give it up for the older family members - fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters - who snuck us into the flight sim party way too young.