P-12C Pilot

The one i always remember is when i had installed ActiveSky. I was amazed about the weather and all of the sim, i just sad behind my computer and watched the screen.

The other funpart i remember is when on of my friends came over and i showed him FS2004, with UT USA installed.
He was amazed when he flied over places he been a week before.

  I like your post about memorable moments.
I first started flying in Flight Simulator in the FS98 version, which was incredible at the time. Now, with FS9, I am wanting more and more out of the game, but when I look back at the older versions I realise how far the game has come. It's cool to hear some opinions from an important person in the FS world as you are the leading designer. One thing I would like to emphasise on the new FS X, please show some visual damage, such as wheels breaking off.
Also, this is just a bit pushing the limits, could there be a way to have someone virtually ride along with you in the airplane while playing online?

By the screenshots so far, your FS design team has come a long ways, great work!

Well, one of mine would be my first flights in the Learjet 45 on FS 5.1... I remember this flight, I was departing Chicago Midway at sunrise, with the big manual on my laps, and it felt so real, I could picture me at the controls departing in a cold morning ...

One other is not related to FS, but to Flight Unlimited II, when I was discovering the Bay Area, Flying a Cessna 172 in amazing ground details... That feeling I never had it again, until I installed MegaScenery Northern California for FS2004!
These warm colors, the detailled textures, it was all back... This brought back some memories ;-)

I have many more like this :)
Matt

What I still find the most amazing about FS is the ability to add your own creations - planes, gauges, utilities, scenery... And every time I have created something new (and possibly original) and see it working for the first time is a memorable moment...
Looking back the best moment must have been the release of the first SDK (FS98?) so I could add metric gauges to the sailplane - was I proud to be able to do just that... :-))

The first time I flew with ATC and real weather was a wow moment for me. I went from Edinburgh, Scotland to London Heathrow in a 767, a journey I had done probably 100 times as a passenger in the real world. Having the actual weather and full ATC control just made the whole thing come alive for me in a way that flying a commercial jet in FS hadn't in the past. My other big metal moment was when I was making a night descent into Paris and my sister-in-law walked into the room and then stood there transfixed on the screen for the next 10 minutes as I flew the approach and landing.

The other time that immediately springs to mind was when I was learning to fly gliders in the real world. Because there is a lot of manual effort involved getting a glider into the sky they are largely flown by a club whose members all help each other out. Most clubs also have instructors who teach new members how to fly. The standard teaching setup in my club was to organize groups of students and instructors that got together at the same each week. Each instructor got a two-seater glider (an ASK-21 http://www.alexander-schleicher.de/englisch/produkte/ask21/e_ask21_main.htm) and took students in accordance with their arrival time at the launch point. Each student got three launches (on a calm evening a launch only gives 7 or 8 minutes flying time, half of which is spent in the circuit) and then went to the back of line. With such short spells of flying time and no consistency of instructor it wasn't the most efficient of learning environments. I came back home after one particularly frustrating evening and fired up FS2000. I flew the Cessna for a couple of hours just enjoying the simple pleasure of making as many free takeoffs and landings as I wanted.

Thanks for all your hard work on FS, I'm excited to see what all of you come up with next!

I started simming with FS98 - the first piece of computer software I ever bought. I purchased it when I ordered my computer and spent the next 2 days reading the manual in great anticipation of getting the computer just so I could try it out.

The first most memorable moment for me was flying from the Toronto City Centre airport, I think it was one of the 12 airports in Canada in FS98 lol. I thought it was fantastic to see the CN tower, Lake Ontario, etc. I did a lot of flying there and up to Buttonville airport, there were even hills to the north!

With FS2004 my most memorable trip was way back when I first got it, and was running the sim on a P3 800mhz computer (Yet I still whine about the performance on my AMD64 3200 with 2 gigs of ram and a Geforce 6800 lol). My first memorable trip in FS2004 was taking the DC-3 from my home airport in southern Ontario, Canada up to Iqaluit, Nunavut. I was amazed by the new detail of coastlines, roads etc. in FS2004. After that would have been during testing of one of the early betas of Ultimate Terrain Canada seeing the mind blowing detail Allen K managed to pull out of the sim.

Since a lot of my sim flying is VFR FS2004 was really a "coming of age" of the sim for me, and FSX looks even better for those of us who fly IFR in the I Follow Roads sense.