What attracts you to combat flight sims

[Helrza]

Originally Posted by Hunden

Having never played any sims let alone a flight sim I found just getting the aircraft started was a thrill and when I got her in the air, I was just amazed. I don't mp because I'm not good enough but I don't think I'll ever stop playing il2 (cod).

Dont matter if your not good enough mate, that all comes with experience


Me, i love everything about ww2 fighter combat. The tactics, the dogfighting, the SA skills needed. Since i only play MP, there is nothing better than knowing the guy in the other plane is human as well, so the fight will be almost unpredictable. Plus, they are the only games that keep my brain running fast, especially when i deliberatly try to put myself in a 2+ vs 1 situation, and dont run

[ElAurens]

Well, it's for a couple of reasons.

My father was in the Army Air Corps in WW2 (not flight crew, and never left the US), and my uncle was a top gunner on a B 17. He was shot down on his second to last mission. KIA.

So I grew up with WW2 airplane stories, one of my first toys that I remember was a cast metal P 40. I still have my Dad's uniform jacket and bivouac cap.

Couple that with my love of anything that can fly and there you have it.

That's what got me started in the first place.

What keeps me doing it are the friends I've made along the way, and the fun of flying against one another.

Can't wait to have a P40 modeled in this game engine.

[SEE]

As a young kid I made Airfix 1/72nd models of all the great WW2 ac. Once finished, I hung them from the ceiling and imagined what it would have been like to fly them.

Back in those days, TVs and Radios had valves and the Transistor had yet to make its way into electronic products (yep I am an old 'git'). If someone told me back then that one day I would have a box and a screen and be able to do what I do now I would have thought they were mad or spinning me some science fiction story.

I abslolutely love flightsims, a boyhood dream come true for me!