Microsoft FSX Real-Life Weather

On Oct 23, 1:01 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:
This past year I've put in over 720 hours of simulation. If I wanted to do
that in real life, even on a very tiny airplane, it would cost me $253,800 in
rental fees (not counting $56,000 to get the pilot's license and IR).

$352 per hour to rent a plane? What're you comparing this to,
renting a Caravan?

And where I live, you can get the Private *and* Instrument ratings for
around $10K.

I find it incredible that you have spent the equivalent of 4.3 MONTHS
sitting in front of Microsoft Flight Simulator this *year*??? I
can't decide whether that's awesome, sick, or both...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder 56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

thats 2 hours a day, everyday.

I spend about that much time watching TV or being on the internet in a
typical day.

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:40:02 -0000, buttman wrote:

thats 2 hours a day, everyday.

Yeah Jay... what's up with that?...
I think you're using fuzz math.

Mx says: 720 hours in 11 months.
720/24 = 30 days... not 4.3 months

So Mx only spends 1/11th of his time on earth Flight Simulating.

I'd be willing to bet he spends much more time than that on Usenet.

--
Dallas

Dallas writes:

I'd be willing to bet he spends much more time than that on Usenet.

You'd lose. I spend a lot more time on simulation.

Yeah Jay... what's up with that?...
I think you're using fuzz math.

Mx says: 720 hours in 11 months.
720/24 = 30 days... not 4.3 months

So Mx only spends 1/11th of his time on earth Flight Simulating.

Sorry, I was figuring this based on a standard 8-hour work day.
720 hours is 90 work days. Figure working 5 days per week, that's
actually 18 weeks, or 4.3 months.

However you slice it, it's a lot of time spent sitting in front of a
sim.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
Yeah Jay... what's up with that?...
I think you're using fuzz math.

Mx says: 720 hours in 11 months.
720/24 = 30 days... not 4.3 months

So Mx only spends 1/11th of his time on earth Flight Simulating.

Sorry, I was figuring this based on a standard 8-hour work day.
720 hours is 90 work days. Figure working 5 days per week, that's
actually 18 weeks, or 4.3 months.

However you slice it, it's a lot of time spent sitting in front of a
sim.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"


If you were to factor a little bit for exaggeration, sectors 'simmed' in
autopilot while doing something else, etc it's not too peculiar.

MX likes simming. Some people like doing other things. Such is life...

ahl writes:

If you were to factor a little bit for exaggeration, sectors 'simmed' in
autopilot while doing something else, etc it's not too peculiar.

VATSIM keeps track of the exact number of hours spent simming online. I have
just over 735 hours of that in exactly one year. Hours spent offline are not
counted.

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

ahl writes:

If you were to factor a little bit for exaggeration, sectors 'simmed'
in autopilot while doing something else, etc it's not too peculiar.

VATSIM keeps track of the exact number of hours spent simming online.
I have just over 735 hours of that in exactly one year. Hours spent
offline are not counted.



Fjukkwit


Bertie

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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ahl writes:

If you were to factor a little bit for exaggeration, sectors 'simmed' in
autopilot while doing something else, etc it's not too peculiar.

VATSIM keeps track of the exact number of hours spent simming online. I
have
just over 735 hours of that in exactly one year. Hours spent offline are
not
counted.

So you sit there in front of the PC the whole time and don't wander off to
other things during the boring bits?

Sh#t you're keen....

ahl writes:

So you sit there in front of the PC the whole time and don't wander off to
other things during the boring bits?

Yes. Most flights are 2 hours or less, so there are no boring bits.

buttman writes:

thats 2 hours a day, everyday.

Yes. Actually it's more like many hours on a weekend, and far less during the
week, but it works out to about 2 hours a day. A typical flight is an hour in
the air or so, plus planning time.

I spend about that much time watching TV or being on the internet in a
typical day.

I do use the Internet, but I don't have a TV. Some form of activity on the
computer represents 100% of my leisure time, and flight simulation is a major
part of that.