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[Ian Warren]

[Splitpin]

Great review IW.

[Charl]

Great trip down memory lane...
FS5 it was that gave the Sears Tower windows for the first time, looked just like your second shot, Ian!

In the Extra you could take off from Meigs, flat out at the Tower; pulling 9g fly up the side, and *just* have enough steam left to push over at the step before the final floors without CRASHING.
The sim would take ever so long to restart if you got it wrong.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Charl @ Aug 14 2013,9:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Great trip down memory lane...

It is brilliant to see how far forward it has come and with extra work with addon's world wide really give that true meaning " As real as you can get"

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Aug 15 2013,7:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It is brilliant to see how far forward it has come and with extra work with addon's world wide really give that true meaning " As real as you can get"

How many take off's have i made from there ?..... thousands i think. And your right about the "friday" place , not sure about you , but mine starts midair whats that about.
Those were exciting days ... the move to fs2000 , no more square clouds (which i thought were great at the time) then 2002 , and onto FS9 .
It took me a long time to come to terms with FSX , mainly because of lack of PC grunt . But now , i live with both (9 & fsx) and love it.
jeez time moves fast , i recall the first (m/s) flightsim i had was on 3.5's and addons were about 200KB ! each , now i dont even think about a 1 or 2MB download ..... just think what they will be doing in 20 years .... lucky buggers.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Aug 15 2013,8:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

... just think what they will be doing in 20 years .... lucky buggers.

We'd both be sitting in our "Man Condo's" on a tropical island doing the same damn thing .. flying back to dirty old New Zealand .

Next Words be .. right ya bums .. pic it up I want Screen shot ... arrr tech o ology .. or one off those fancy words designed , and a Doug looking at all of us You, me , Charl , Rob and the Deans and the Pauls waving our sticks at em