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Post subject: Non-flying member from Italy Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 07:34 |
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Joined: 11/10/21 Posts: 11 Post Likes: +13 Location: Italy
Aircraft: Jodel
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Yes, you read that right, non-flying. Unfortunately. Never even have sat in a real Beechcraft. And I don't have a PPL.
So what the heck am I doing here, you will ask ?
I'll explain. I am a 69 year old Dutchy, now retired and living in rural Italy. The Netherlands just became too crowded and too expensive for a guy with a poorly pension. The link to aviation? I got a small metal aeroplane model from an uncle at the age of 5..... now 64 years ago.... and ever since I have been an aviation enthusiast. Started with building model kits, then RC models, and when the very first flight simulator program was released I moved over to the IT department of the newspaper where I worked, just to get my hands on computers. Have owned every flight simulator published ever since.
In 1985 I got my first stick time in a real aircraft (well, an Ultrlight called Mistral, but hey), totally amazing my 60 year old instructor by handling it as if I'd never done anything else. Told him about my 1000's of hours in flight simulators, but he had never heard of those. Hilarious.
I tried to get into flying to get my PPL, but in Europe at the time that was prohibitively expensive :( So I made do with the occasional flight with a good friend of mine, in his Cessna 177 RG in the UK. Later I became member of a little flying club in France, where lessons were ' only' 140 Euros an hour, and I learned to fly the Jodel, off a 5500 feet high mountain airstrip. Flew on skis as well. Then I lost my corporate job and money was scarce.
Started my own FS publishing company and spent the last 12 years of my working life helping others to publish products and to enjoy the hobby of flightsimming. My company was FSAddon Publishing, and well-known in FS circles.
Now I am 69, retired on a small pension in rural Italy, and real world flying is off the radar. But over time I collected quite a bit of hardware to build a home cockpit from, and so I decided to take up that bit of the hobby I had never time for. I have the mock-up of a Baron panel, lots of bits and pieces, like rudder pedals, nav and com radioes, a steering yoke.... and lots to learn too, like the electronics to connect switches to the PC simulator.
Looking around for more info on the specs, and specifically measurements of the Baron 58, I found this forum. And so here I am...... not really an asset, just a curious FS old-timer hoping to learn something from your collected expertise.
Francois
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Post subject: Re: Non-flying member from Italy Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 17:49 |
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Joined: 05/17/10 Posts: 4434 Post Likes: +1739 Location: canuck
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Username Protected wrote: Yes, you read that right, non-flying. Unfortunately. Never even have sat in a real Beechcraft. And I don't have a PPL.
So what the heck am I doing here, you will ask ?
I'll explain. I am a 69 year old Dutchy, now retired and living in rural Italy. The Netherlands just became too crowded and too expensive for a guy with a poorly pension. The link to aviation? I got a small metal aeroplane model from an uncle at the age of 5..... now 64 years ago.... and ever since I have been an aviation enthusiast. Started with building model kits, then RC models, and when the very first flight simulator program was released I moved over to the IT department of the newspaper where I worked, just to get my hands on computers. Have owned every flight simulator published ever since.
In 1985 I got my first stick time in a real aircraft (well, an Ultrlight called Mistral, but hey), totally amazing my 60 year old instructor by handling it as if I'd never done anything else. Told him about my 1000's of hours in flight simulators, but he had never heard of those. Hilarious.
I tried to get into flying to get my PPL, but in Europe at the time that was prohibitively expensive :( So I made do with the occasional flight with a good friend of mine, in his Cessna 177 RG in the UK. Later I became member of a little flying club in France, where lessons were ' only' 140 Euros an hour, and I learned to fly the Jodel, off a 5500 feet high mountain airstrip. Flew on skis as well. Then I lost my corporate job and money was scarce.
Started my own FS publishing company and spent the last 12 years of my working life helping others to publish products and to enjoy the hobby of flightsimming. My company was FSAddon Publishing, and well-known in FS circles.
Now I am 69, retired on a small pension in rural Italy, and real world flying is off the radar. [youtube]https://youtu.be/L1Z8YT6w7Rc[/youtube]
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Post subject: Re: Non-flying member from Italy Posted: 12 Nov 2021, 20:49 |
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Joined: 12/10/07 Posts: 30734 Post Likes: +10743 Location: Minneapolis, MN (KFCM)
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Username Protected wrote: [youtube]https://youtu.be/L1Z8YT6w7Rc[/youtube] Looks chilly.
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Post subject: Re: Non-flying member from Italy Posted: 14 Nov 2021, 03:51 |
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Joined: 11/10/21 Posts: 11 Post Likes: +13 Location: Italy
Aircraft: Jodel
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Username Protected wrote: Benvenuto! Grazieee!
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Post subject: Re: Non-flying member from Italy Posted: 15 Nov 2021, 09:56 |
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Joined: 09/03/13 Posts: 1725 Post Likes: +1683 Company: airline has-been Location: NashvilleClarksville , TN (6TN1)
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If you start a new thread, let us know here. I am pretty low tech myself, but I have had luck dissecting a 12 button joystick. I moved the rheostat for rudder controls down to make-shift rudders below, but you can buy rudders. The thing I was really after was all the buttons, in theory 12, which can be relocated to gear handle, flap switch, brakes, etc. I did this twenty years ago, and again recently on a newer project. Despite all the hullabaloo about how amazing the latest programs are, I find them to be less flexible with regard to assigning joystick buttons.
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