age?

I mean how old, not how are are. sorry

We have many members your age that fly. Start at the beginning, take the lessons, you'll be surprised how fast you'll catch on.
Good luck.

I was 11 when I got FS2002. It took me about 18 months before I really figured it out.
Now I'm almost 15 and already a better pilot than my dad. ( He flew for Pan Am, ?-1991)

I was 10 or 11 when I started, I'm 13 now and I have mastered the sim. You can too. Just start out by taking the lessons and read the material, if you practice alot you will get better. Don't just hop in a 747 and expect to be able to fly it. Start out in the Cessna 172 and work your way up.
Good Luck.

I was 12 when i started and i didn't take lessons

I started on Flight Simulator when I was around 12 or 13 years old. Like the previous posters said, try starting out with Rod Machado's lessons, as they are really simple and easy to follow even at your age.

If you are finding Flight Simulator complicated because of the large amount of unfamilar instuments, try take an in-cockpit screenshot while up in the air during a lesson. Print it out, then study the instruments and eventually you should be able to figure out what they do and how they help the pilot. If you have trouble with this, 'hover' you mouse over the instrument and the name of it will be displayed. You can either find out about the particular intrument by looking in the PDF flight manuals written by Rod Machado, or posting a question here in the forums, anyone of us would be glad to help you.

Basic flying techniques can also be resonably hard to master, such as straight and level flight, and basic climbing/descending and turning. I can't stress enough that really the only way to conquer this difficulty is to practice, practice, practice. Take short flights in a Cessna 172 such as 10-15 minutes, possibly shorter if you like. Forget the more advanced techniques, all you really need to know about is throttle, using the yoke/joystick, trim, and basic instruments. You don't even really need to know about using flaps during your initial Flight Sim training.

Oh, one piece of advice - start off in a 172 and not a 747. 😉

Hope this helps a little (and not too 'hard to understand' for you).

cool. thank you for the tips

hms_endeavour wrote:

I was 12 when i started and i didn't take lessons

Way to go 'hms_endeavour' 👏

actually i started when i was 10 but i was quite crashily(!new word!)
Now i'm very good

Need Practice...little by little
you can do it!

I'm 22, and Ive been using FS9 for a few months now.

I did fly FS2000 when I was in HS for a class project thing. it was on the schools computer, and it had a yoke and everything 😀

i just started not long ago and im 16

nickey wrote:

How are are you people that play flight simulator.
I had a go microsoft flight simulator 2002 once and it was way too complicated for me and I am just 13 years old.

I started back in 2000 when I was 27, when i was 13 I was a wizard at flying the AH64 Longbow Apache on the ZX Spectrum game "Tommohawk", thank god graphics have improved since then (1986) 😂

I guess im what you might call "an old fart" now , but after playing flight sims for 20 years I'll probobly take my joystick to the old folks home with me! 😂

i bought fs2002 with my allowance money when i was 9. at first i would start at the runway and rotate to 20 degrees pitch. ive learned now that thats not right and now im 11 and im learning how to do an full ils approach. alot of people at fyaway have helped me and i want to thank them. 😀

I was too old when I started with FS 1.0 and I'm even more too old now. 😳

You're at a good age to start with FS. Use the lessons and start with the easy stuff. When you are comfortable, go on to the more advanced things. Do it at your own pace. You'll have fun that way.

thanx for the advice. i didnt even know there was a flight sim until i went to a freinds house. at first i tried it and i chose the honk kong to s.f. flight cuz it wuz and still is my favorite trip i have taken(i went to h.k. for a week when i was 7 and im going again over spring break this year). anyway it included i think a full ils landing and it wuz at night. i just turned around at the gate and full throttled it. the flight lasted 12 hours and i was only there at my friends for 30 minutes after school.

there is 1 thing i have to say for my self i love fs9!

Hi Nickey,
Sonicninja recons hes over the top at 32 but i only started simin last year and im 58.Take the advice that the other guys have offered you and im sure you wont go far wrong.
Stick with it Nickey and remember the future is in the hands of youngens like you 👏

ive seen flight simulators improve quite dramatically over the lat 20 years, it makes me wonder what flight simulations will be like 20 years from now....the mind boggles 😳

Well I've been simming seriously for at least 3 months, ever since I had a real Flying Lesson as a present from our sons. And when I'm simming, I'm about 25, when I'm not, I'm 3 times that.

You're as young as you feel, and simming helps to keep me feeling young. And as I enjoyed my first lesson, a little bird tells me I will probably have another one as a Christmas pressie, how lucky can I get?

Incidentally, my avatar is of the Tiger Moth panel, the reflection, just visible, is myself, this was on my first real flying lesson, and within 1 minute after take off, I was in control, up to the landing, which requires a lot of agility, basically trying to see out both sides of the cockpit at the same time.

The TM I have for simming, is a very good simulation of the real item.

i had flight sim 98...so i'd be 11. but then we got rid of that. i got fs2004 in august...and now im 18.