You've been playing too much flightsim when...

KevinTsai wrote:

1. You start talking about airplanes to your friends and your friends don't care about it.

2. You try to persuade your friend to play flightsim.

3. You start to do badly in school.

4. You keep thinking that you want to be a pilot when you grow up.

5. When you pass by your nearest international airport in your car and you see planes takeing off and landing-You say "ooh ahhh ooh ahhh" or you say "beautiful" with tears coming out of your eyes.

6. When your teacher mentioned the word airplane and you immediately shout "Did someone mentioned airplanes? I love airplanes!!!".

7. When you start working for a virtual airline or starting your own (probably VATSIM).

8. Saying that you could fly a jumbo jet without real-world training only because you have a lot of experience flying a jumbo jet in your simulator.

lets see how i realte to this post...too much...

i relate to number 1: in the movie happy feet...if anyone has seen it you will know that the humans, kown as "aliens" to the penguins, come to antartica in a chinnok helicopter fitted with skis...my friends could care less...

i can relate to number 2: i persuaded my friends to fly in the simulator for my science project....and my project made it to the California state science fair...

i can also relate to nomber 3....i wont go there...but not f's though....i still get straight A's but it is harder and harder.

i can relate to number 4: i already have 3 or 4 good colleges picked out that have good aviation pregrams.

i can realt to number 5: just not with tears to my eyes.....but a holler to my dad "get off at the next exit!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!"

i can relate to number 6: but mostly with friends not teachers...

i can't relate to number 7....a VA is a lot of work...as if i dont spend enough time on the computer as it is...

i can relate to number 8: but not a jet....but i have handflown a aircoupe, kept it at 1000 ft msl and made a 180 degree turn with no training at all...

so lets just say im addicted...

KevinTsai wrote:

1. You start talking about airplanes to your friends and your friends don't care about it.

2. You try to persuade your friend to play flightsim.

3. You start to do badly in school.

4. You keep thinking that you want to be a pilot when you grow up.

5. When you pass by your nearest international airport in your car and you see planes takeing off and landing-You say "ooh ahhh ooh ahhh" or you say "beautiful" with tears coming out of your eyes.

6. When your teacher mentioned the word airplane and you immediately shout "Did someone mentioned airplanes? I love airplanes!!!".

7. When you start working for a virtual airline or starting your own (probably VATSIM).

8. Saying that you could fly a jumbo jet without real-world training only because you have a lot of experience flying a jumbo jet in your simulator.

pilatflyr wrote:

YOU KNOW YOU'VE BEEN PLAYING TOO MUCH FLIGHTSIM WHEN:

1. you bribe FA's for a ride in the jumpseat.

2. you see a mic and a computer and you think, VATSIM!

3. You tweak you settings to go from 30 fps to 31.1 fps

4. you dedicate an entire hard drive to the game itself

5. you start writing articles about it in your school newspaper

6. your homework turns from filing papers to filing pireps

7. you trade your allowance for addons

8. You put PMDG on your christmas list

9. You consider time with VATSIM as "spending time with friends."

10. You have an entire CD case fillied with artists such as Level-D, PMDG, and Mega Scenery

can you relate?

7dream8liner7 wrote:

16. When you are playing soccer and can't keep your eyes off the planes that are lowering their landing gear on approach.
Actually happened.

17. Your parents call you a backseat-driver. You call yourself the co-pilot or First Officer.

Hey Kevin, I live near you. My High School played yours in football.

I can relate to almost all of those in this thread, but espicially this one

KevinTsai wrote:

9. When you try to look for a girlfriend that likes flightsim as much as you do.

7dream8liner7 wrote:

Hey Kevin, I live near you. My High School played yours in football.

KevinTsai wrote:

7dream8liner7 wrote:

Hey Kevin, I live near you. My High School played yours in football.

Do you go to my school? Where do you live?

CRJCapt wrote:

You get on a commercial airliner and ask the crew what type of joysticks do they use.

You buy airline tickets for a transcontinental flight and expect to be home by bedtime.

You ask an airline whether it uses FS 2004 or X-Plane.

You go to the emergency room to have the joystick removed from your fingers.

You use a GPS device to find your way around Chicago O'Hare's passenger terminal.

You tell a certified flight instructor that you could fly his airplane if it had a keyboard.

You hand the Captain a FS Passenger report you wrote during the flight, as you deplane.

You ask an airline if you could select the model of aircraft for your flight.

You expect to see a pink dashed line on the ground as you taxi to parking.

You ask a flight attendant how to change the views out your window.

You tell the airline to increase their tailwind setting when they're behind schedule.

LOL!

Love the Airbus A380. It's huge!

CRJCapt wrote:

You get on a commercial airliner and ask the crew what type of joysticks do they use.

You buy airline tickets for a transcontinental flight and expect to be home by bedtime.

You ask an airline whether it uses FS 2004 or X-Plane.

You go to the emergency room to have the joystick removed from your fingers.

You use a GPS device to find your way around Chicago O'Hare's passenger terminal.

You tell a certified flight instructor that you could fly his airplane if it had a keyboard.

You hand the Captain a FS Passenger report you wrote during the flight, as you deplane.

You ask an airline if you could select the model of aircraft for your flight.

You expect to see a pink dashed line on the ground as you taxi to parking.

You ask a flight attendant how to change the views out your window.

You tell the airline to increase their tailwind setting when they're behind schedule.

good ones!

You use a GPS device to find your way around Chicago O'Hare's passenger terminal.

really guilty