NZFF

What are your interests outside of flight simulator?

Here's mine ---> Ballroom dancing, along the lines of daning with the stars . Photography when time a permits, mainly aviation related stuff. Cooking.

umm - since I have 3 young kids none...but the summer is time for camping, swimming, fishing etc.

Speedway.

Street Roaming, Photography

Watching car racing (Usually at the Friday night drags in Auckland), having a few brewsky's with the boys and playing BF1942 on LAN at my mates house seem to fill up the majority of my time not spent on NZFF or flight-simming these days

At the moment (Summer holidays have just started) either working at the airport, driving with mates throwing (harmless) projectiles out of vehicle windows or drinking. None of them together though

Oh, and nobody can forget sleeping.

Motorsport !

For Pukekohe (or Hamilton) I'll either be one of the senior safety people in the pits or waving flags from the start/finish line, on gravel rallies I'll either be Service Park management or in charge of a timing crew starting stages, at speedway odds are I'll be on the infield with a camera, for Targa I'll be lurking somewhere unexpected with a speed gun (there's talk of a breathalyser next time mwahahahaha) ...........


Gary

My photo gallery - an odd mix of motorsport and flight sim

Hunting/Shooting. Pretty much anything on the noxious pest list. Rabbits, Hares, Goats, Wallabies, Deer, Magpies. Happiness is a warm gun. Just this morning I dropped a big goat with my .243 at 320yds, neck shot. Been watching him for a week and had to get up at 4:30AM to catch him at dawn. I've got not a bad arsenal .243, .17 HMR, Shotgun and by the end of the week hopefully a 5.56 semi.

hmm well: Real world flying (although I havent been doing as much as I should), Motor-racing/Track days in my car, Running, hanging out with mates and playing the drums.....

Oh and whipping out my camera to take pictures of Buildings/rooves/trees/Cars etc for Flight Sim textures

But in reality most of my spare time is spent on the computer as well! (Flight sim modelling mostly)

I would have to say cycling and watching Tv

Real world flying, photography, non-FS video games.

victor_alpha_charlie wrote:

QUOTE (victor_alpha_charlie @ Dec 5 2008, 12:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

At the moment (Summer holidays have just started) either working at the airport, driving with mates throwing (harmless) projectiles out of vehicle windows or drinking. None of them together though

Oh, and nobody can forget sleeping.

Dito.
Ummm rc planes,prank calls (hotels an older people what?....),fishing,ps3 gt5!!!!!,phonejacker,mini's (1275 gt) .
Yeah loads more but christmas in in like 3 weeks and we don't want to miss that right?

beaufighterguy wrote:

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Dito.
Ummm rc planes,prank calls (hotels an older people what?....),fishing,ps3 gt5!!!!!,phonejacker,mini's (1275 gt) .
Yeah loads more but christmas in in like 3 weeks and we don't want to miss that right?

Is the full version of GT5 out now? My god I need a PS3

victor_alpha_charlie wrote:

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Is the full version of GT5 out now? My god I need a PS3

Don't think so your another gt fanatic? AWESOME!

beaufighterguy wrote:

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Don't think so your another gt fanatic? AWESOME!

Oh yeah

From Wikipedia :

In an April 2008 interview, Kazunori Yamauchi revealed that 150 people had worked on Gran Turismo 5 for four years, with all of Polyphony Digital's 120 employees working on GT5, and the game costing 50 times more to develop than the original Gran Turismo.[1] He also confessed that GT5 might not be released until after 2009.[1] In a July 2008 interview with IGN, Yamauchi mentioned that at the moment, Polyphony Digital is focused on updates for Gran Turismo 5 Prologue and that Gran Turismo 5 may not be released until 2010.



I guess I should hook the ps3 up to the network and check for updates to GT5P then !
Gary

another GT fan here too! Favourite track: Nurburgring in the standard NSX-X or M5 (traction control off, of course)

Timmo wrote:

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another GT fan here too! Favourite track: Nurburgring in the standard NSX-X or M5 (traction control off, of course)

I still love putting economy tyres on my 330i or Blitz R34 and having a wee drift around Midfield Raceway on GT4!

No suprises there are few GT fans about, another Sim just a different dimension aye.
I love it too, you can't got far wrong with "the Ring" in pretty much anything, but I'm usually seen in a tricked out Beamer or Merc.

I have 3 boys 9,6 and 3 so i'm kept pretty busy. Playing the guitar, going to the beach to surf with my wife who loves it.

I have a real interest in war history so i like to chill out and read endless books on anything from medieval to present but am particularly interested in World War 2. At the moment i'm reading a great book called 'Bloody Shambles' which is all about the defence of Sumatra and the fall of Burma. Word for word accounts from our boys about their battles in the Buffalos, Hurricanes and Blenheim's.

Since i am a Bar Tutor (hence the name kiwibarguy) i also dabble in a bit of flairing (bottle spinning). and because i teach wine also, i appreciate sampling and matching quite a few wines with the lovely dishes my chef mates cook up.