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Where
Do You Fly?
Does your flightsimming experience still teach you things? Of course it does, you've just spent several-dozens of dollars updating your hardware to purchase FS2004/ACOF and you are still learning the
intricacies of a new sim. But I'm talking to the REST of you, those you haven't or won't be upgrading. Are you still having fun, finding a challenge in simming? Sure, it's fun, why else would we be doing it right? Do you fly for a VA? Surveys indicate that 26.4% of FS Flight Club Members do fly for a VA. Do you use VATSIM or Roger Wilco on most of your flights? That can pose quite the challenge in itself, and rarely a dull moment. But what is it about those things that adds to your experience? Is it, maybe, the human factor...dealing with other people from far-flung countries or regions?
But here is my question: Where do you fly? How many times have you flown into your "home" airport? What happens when someone from another country flies into your home base?
When was the last time you learned something about the areas you were flying in/to? Example: I did not recall that during the Berlin Airlift (After WW II) there were no Missed Approaches. You miss, you go back home. Well, having missed that thing once, I will never forget that again!
Did you know that you could fly to Alaska dozens of times and still miss the great bush flying there is in Canada, or even France for that matter?
Did you know that there are no night operations into Queenstown, NZ? Well of course you knew that one!
Here's my point folks. You can fly for great VA's, you can fly online, you can fly yourself around the world but the experience still lacks a little SOMETHING, a little interaction, until you do it with a group of friends. (Fly that is). So I'm proposing that if you were to join some type of a Flying club, or something like that, you wouldn't be restricted to a geographic area (Like Alaska Bush Charters) or a VA's schedule of flights (Like all the one's that do NOT fly to Kavanayen, Venezuela)!
So, if you feel like you need to spice up your simming experience a bit...if you feel like you'd like to learn something about the world or it's peoples...if you lack real or virtual friends, drop me an e-mail and I'll tell you how you too can become part of a bigger, better simming adventure. Where each month brings you something new to fly, somewhere new to fly or if nothing else, someone new to fly with.
"Just once a month...more often if we can get it"
Ron
Blehm
cubflounder@toomuchfs.com
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