2004 Realism

Today I was at my local airport (KDYB) with my wife and grandson. We were
sitting at one of the picnic tables they have along side of the office
watching the planes. I commented to my wife how impressed I am with this new
software I bought, FS 2004. I told her that what amazed me is how accurately
things were located in it. I had my Garmin 12 GPS with me and I told her, I
bet the location on this GPS will match the location in the software. So I
wrote it down to see. From our sitting point directly across the airport
there was this white house on the edge of the airport facing us. She ask me
who lives there? I told I that I had no idea but they sure have a great view
of the airport. Then we seen this yellow plane taking off and my wife said,
"There something wrong that plane is going so slow it's going to fall
(stall) or something." I said no, "that is and old J3 cub". It takes off at
60 mph and is it heading into the wind, that is why it looks like it is
going so slow, it's not going to stall.

When we got home I went to the computer and checked the location of KDYB.
The parking area on FS 2004 was the exact reading I got on my hand held GPS.
I called my wife into the room and said look at this, "except for no parked
planes this is actually what we seen today for real". I said "see the signs
by the taxi way pointing which way to go and the painted markings on taxi
ways". The layout was flawless. Scanning around, there it was, "the white
house". I know that it was a pure coincidence that the house would be there
but I could not help teasing my wife. I said see how accurate this thing is
they even have the house where it belongs. She said, "How did they know
that?" I said, "I don't know but they are pretty smart." Then I asked
her, "Do you want to fly a J3 cub just like the one you seen today". I said
"You can even take off from the same runway (6)." So when I put the cub on
the runway she said " WOW, it's even the same color, yellow". I think she
was impressed too.

Seriously. I don't seen how Microsoft (or anyone else) could write a piece
of software like this and only sell it for $50.00. I am running it on a Dell
2.5 Gig P4, 1 gig Ram, 128 video card and a 21" monitor. I runs good with
this system.

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 James wrote:

[...]

Seriously. I don't seen how Microsoft (or anyone else) could write a piece
of software like this and only sell it for $50.00.

Nice post. Just one question: where can *I* find a woman who's impressed
by flight sims?

--
Kev
__________________________________________________ ________________________
"Stiff opposition expected to casketless funeral plan."
Newspaper headline

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:03:17 +0000, Kevin Reilly
wrote:


Nice post. Just one question: where can *I* find a woman who's impressed
by flight sims?

Where can I find one that is impressed by a real plane?

I have to admit that I have one too! She even snuck to the airport the day
I happened to solo hoping that I would. She's even at the point that she'll
walk around and look at airplanes in the parking area. She thinks Mooney's
look pretty and look fast too. Until I told her how much they are! She
won't listen when I tell her to go look at the C172's and Grumman for sale
though!

Chris
--
I'm learning to fly! See what's going on.
www.home.bellsouth.net/p/pwp-cehlbeck

"ArtP" wrote in message
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On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:03:17 +0000, Kevin Reilly
wrote:


Nice post. Just one question: where can *I* find a woman who's impressed
by flight sims?

Where can I find one that is impressed by a real plane?

I'm learning to fly with my husband ...
I bought Flight Sim 2004 for him for Xmas and set up the computer ...
And I think it's very cool!

I think there are a number of us around ...

Leslie



"ArtP" wrote in message
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On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:03:17 +0000, Kevin Reilly
wrote:


Nice post. Just one question: where can *I* find a woman who's impressed
by flight sims?

Where can I find one that is impressed by a real plane?

Leslie, if you ever decide to divorce your husband, I'm here for ya!

JK

"Leslie" wrote in message
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I'm learning to fly with my husband ...
I bought Flight Sim 2004 for him for Xmas and set up the computer ...
And I think it's very cool!

I think there are a number of us around ...

Leslie



"ArtP" wrote in message
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On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:03:17 +0000, Kevin Reilly
wrote:


Nice post. Just one question: where can *I* find a woman who's
impressed
by flight sims?

Where can I find one that is impressed by a real plane?

Same question???? ;-))))

"Kevin Reilly" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 James wrote:

[...]

Seriously. I don't seen how Microsoft (or anyone else) could write a
piece
of software like this and only sell it for $50.00.

Nice post. Just one question: where can *I* find a woman who's impressed
by flight sims?

--
Kev
__________________________________________________ ________________________
"Stiff opposition expected to casketless funeral
plan."
Newspaper
headline

What's funny is that you'll be surprised how many women love airplanes. I've
actually run into a couple women who just love planes. Also, if you take
some airplane courses at your local college you may run into some women that
enjoy planes.

"hesse" wrote in message
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Same question???? ;-))))

"Kevin Reilly" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 James wrote:

[...]

Seriously. I don't seen how Microsoft (or anyone else) could write a
piece
of software like this and only sell it for $50.00.

Nice post. Just one question: where can *I* find a woman who's impressed
by flight sims?

--
Kev

__________________________________________________ ________________________
"Stiff opposition expected to casketless funeral
plan."
Newspaper
headline

Great story!
FS2004 is a huge improvement over the earlier versions for the small
airports! Our field here in Harrison AR KHOR recently extended the south
end of the runway, and the big berm they had to build was still fresh dirt,
so you can imagine my amazement when I got FS2004, opened up KHOR and the
texture they just happened to use at the south end looked like a large mound
of freshly turned dirt! Wow, talk about as real as it gets!! Plus the
town, highways, etc., are much closeer to RL, not photo real by any stretch,
but before it was a generic blob. The addition of FSGenesis really was the
frosting on the cake for making the landscape look like "home"... You're
right - how they do this for ~$50 is amazing............
Cheers'n Beers.. [_])
Don

Contrary to all the stick it gets, FS9 isn't actually all that bad. Sure,
it's a Microsoft product, but hey, it's fine and ppl enjoy it!

Angus

"Don Parker" wrote in message
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Great story!
FS2004 is a huge improvement over the earlier versions for the small
airports! Our field here in Harrison AR KHOR recently extended the south
end of the runway, and the big berm they had to build was still fresh
dirt,
so you can imagine my amazement when I got FS2004, opened up KHOR and the
texture they just happened to use at the south end looked like a large
mound
of freshly turned dirt! Wow, talk about as real as it gets!! Plus the
town, highways, etc., are much closeer to RL, not photo real by any
stretch,
but before it was a generic blob. The addition of FSGenesis really was
the
frosting on the cake for making the landscape look like "home"... You're
right - how they do this for ~$50 is amazing............
Cheers'n Beers.. [_])
Don