+Brainless 1 Posted January 15, 2008 Having just made 'captain' (see my post in FS Flight simulator) I got to wondering just how many hours I've spent ( my misses says wasted ) sim flying. Well I calculated it like this. I started simming around about 2002. I spend approx. 15hours a week flying on average so doing the math that's 15 x 52 x 5yrs = 3,900hrs. Golly is it that much. Question is, is this time well spent. Hmmm.. haven't really got an answer to that one. How about you guys ? What's your approx total? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Caesar 305 Posted January 15, 2008 Started back in '95 with Fleet Defender, but simming per week is up and down, some weeks 0, some weeks...a lot Figure a good average of 20 hrs/week overall average across those 12 years as an estimate. 20x52x12 = 12480hrs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viggen 644 Posted January 15, 2008 Started in '05 with FS9. Got 559 hours from the Cessna 172. From there (when I found SimV) I got the SEPECAT Jaguar and got about 1674 hours of that bird. Other assorted planes have given me about 2997 hours. And don't get me started on WOE/SFG/WOV Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tank03 1 Posted January 15, 2008 I can't remember when I started in on flight sims, but it had to be 10-15 years ago. PLay has been sporadic with periods of up to a year or more between "flight" time so I can't even begin to guess how much time I've spent on them. What I've noticed lately is that I spend more time modding and tweaking the games than I do actually flying; in fact I can't remeber the last "flight" I took, but I 've been fiddling with the TW series nearly daily for months. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Jimbib 746 Posted January 16, 2008 I don't spend that much time actually flying the sim, mainly any free time goes on modding. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
firehawkordy 34 Posted January 16, 2008 I spend enough for my kids to complain that I dont get out enough, usually 8 to 12 hours a day on the weekend and days off, 4+ any other day. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rambler 1-1 9 Posted January 16, 2008 well, I started simming when i was 5 with Janes ATF (running on my dad's state-of-the-art Windows 95 clunker), and I figure I clocked about 90 hours on that... then FS '98, which I clocked seven hours a week for 2 years.. that's 728 hours... the FS9, which I clocked about 9 hours a week for 4 or so years (up untill last year when I had to make room for more SFP1), and that's 1872 hours... then SFP1, which i spend about 1.5 hours on per day (average), and I've had it since '02, but there was about a year I didn't play it, so I'll say 4 years, and that's 2184 hours. total time=4874 hours (holy cr@p!) however, only about 2000 hours of that was real flying, with taking off and landing and that stuff. The rest was just fooling around. But still.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Dave 2,322 Posted January 16, 2008 Well I have been simming since F-15 Strike Eagle in 1984 on a C64.....I will let you all take a guess because I cant. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TX3RN0BILL 3 Posted January 16, 2008 (edited) Heh, I also started on F-15E Strike Eagle 2, don't even remember when it was but must have been around late eighties... then came F-19 Strike Fighter, Sierra's A-10, followed by Aces of the Pacific and Aces over Europe... OMG... I remember getting up like at 5 AM on a Sunday morning to play those two on my dad's PC for extra time because on sundays I knew my parents always slept more... After that came Jane's Fighters Anthology and now finally WoE... never tried out MSFS although my dad has the 1.0 around still somewhere, unopened I guess... I have NO IDEA how many hours I've spent flight simming so far... Edited January 16, 2008 by TX3RN0BILL Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Florian 394 Posted January 16, 2008 Well I have been simming since F-15 Strike Eagle in 1984 on a C64.....I will let you all take a guess because I cant. Also my first flight sim (although 3-4 years later). Pixel big as elephants, but it was terrific in these days!!! Still got my Amiga 500 somewhere in the basement, "Fighter Bomber" and "F/A-18 Interceptor", sadly the floppy disks are corrupted. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Brainless 1 Posted January 16, 2008 Well I have been simming since F-15 Strike Eagle in 1984 on a C64.....I will let you all take a guess because I cant. Well gosh..you're all amazing. I'm just a'newbie' compared to you guys! Least I can tell my misses I've only really just started Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JediMaster 451 Posted January 16, 2008 I started on my Atari 400 with B-1 Nuclear Bomber...circa 1983?? Then we got the Atari 800 and I got FS2 with its WWI combat side game. First PC sim was Gunship in 1988, first jet was F-19 Stealth Fighter in 1989. I've been flying at varying rates (a lot more in the 90s than recently) for 25 years now on my PCs. I average maybe 20 hrs/week on my PC, but not always flying. In fact some weeks I don't fly at all, but race or FPS or RTS or whatever instead. So, make up a number and maybe it's correct. Just as good as any I'd make! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
snakeman 1 Posted January 16, 2008 I think my answer is not enough ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+ST0RM 145 Posted January 17, 2008 (edited) Falcon 2.0 was my first back in the mid 80's, IIRC. Moved on steadily from there. Oh and I cant forget SWOTL! Too many hours to count, or even attempt. Back when Air Warrior was free on AOL, I'd take a week of leave and play morning to late night. That was addicting. Storm Edited January 17, 2008 by ST0RM Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Longestpants 1 Posted January 17, 2008 For me, It all started with my brother's copy of "X-Wing Collector Series Edition" when I was six. Me and my brother played the hell out of that game until the disc was unusable four years later. I never got around to replacing it. So far, with a rough average of around five hours a day (two hours a day for the first two years, then eight hours a day the last year) for four years, approximately 7,000 hours, if my calculations are correct. Rogue Squadron for the Nintendo 64 became an interest shortly after my introduction to X-Wing, and I still play it today. Because I never spent very much time on it, I have a total of 750 hours on that, thus a total of 7,750 hours. For a period after that, the only flight sim I played was X-Wing Alliance, but never to the scale of X-Wing. 1,500 hours, total 9,250 hours. I acquired First Eagles in March 2007, and WOV in November 2007. Total from both games: approximately 4,500 hours. My total flight sim hours are: 13,750 hours well spent, over the course of ten years. I hope to have a total of at least 100,000 hours by 2018. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HrntFixr 4 Posted January 18, 2008 I started on Falcon and F-19 ..... toooooooo many years ago! Not even going to try and calculate the hours! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The_Nephilim 0 Posted January 18, 2008 I have been simming since 89. I have Countless hours in Flight Simulation!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+drdoyo 2 Posted January 18, 2008 Count me as one of the 'not even a close guess' crew. I started in 1988 with the original 'Falcon' and 'Jet' on an IBM 8086 and had all the best since. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FastCargo 412 Posted January 18, 2008 Amateurs! My first flight sim was Flight Simulator...for the Timex Sinclair ZX81 in 1982. Written in BASIC...loaded with a cassette tape. And just about every one since then I've at least tried...at least until there started being reviews and I started being picky.... FastCargo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Baltika 85 Posted January 21, 2008 OK Fastcargo, I can't match yours. . . But I remember running home from primary school at lunchtime to play "Flight Simulator" for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (colour graphics over your ZX81, woo-hoo!) and that must have been the very early 80s. Then, DI Apache for ZX Spectrum (Green Ground, Blue Sky, wireframe tanks and choppers, campaign map like a chessboard with a player-influenced frontline, and re-arming in-mission at FARPs - they could do it back then on 48K - yes K - memory, why not now? Saddle up with more Hellfires, off to conquer another square) Falcon for the Atari "Home computer" that stole the Spectrum's crown, then the Gunship port for the same machine. Then, the PC, and the revelation that was "Jane's" - every sim they released, first time around, or on ebay (got myself Fighters Anthology last year - fires up every time on XP, no fiddling required, what a blast). And the proud owner of about every major PC sim ever going since then - built myself a Voodoo 1 machine from old bits off ebay - just to fly Hind in 3dfx Red Baron 3d, Flanker 2.0, then 2.5, then LOMAC, MCFS 1,2,3, OFF, MAW, IL2, BoB1, BoB2, MA, Dawn Patrol, Team Apache, Team Alligator, Gunship! Light relief, in the form of Ace Combat whatever for PS1, Crimson Skies, SWON, Heroes of the Pacific, and even that crappy Top Gun series And now. . . Thirdwire in all its variants - more time modding than flying, but plenty of both. . . Man, I've got to get out more Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Jug 99 Posted January 22, 2008 OK Fastcargo, I can't match yours. . . But I remember running home from primary school at lunchtime to play "Flight Simulator" for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (colour graphics over your ZX81, woo-hoo!) and that must have been the very early 80s. Then, DI Apache for ZX Spectrum (Green Ground, Blue Sky, wireframe tanks and choppers, campaign map like a chessboard with a player-influenced frontline, and re-arming in-mission at FARPs - they could do it back then on 48K - yes K - memory, why not now? Saddle up with more Hellfires, off to conquer another square) Falcon for the Atari "Home computer" that stole the Spectrum's crown, then the Gunship port for the same machine. Then, the PC, and the revelation that was "Jane's" - every sim they released, first time around, or on ebay (got myself Fighters Anthology last year - fires up every time on XP, no fiddling required, what a blast). And the proud owner of about every major PC sim ever going since then - built myself a Voodoo 1 machine from old bits off ebay - just to fly Hind in 3dfx Red Baron 3d, Flanker 2.0, then 2.5, then LOMAC, MCFS 1,2,3, OFF, MAW, IL2, BoB1, BoB2, MA, Dawn Patrol, Team Apache, Team Alligator, Gunship! Light relief, in the form of Ace Combat whatever for PS1, Crimson Skies, SWON, Heroes of the Pacific, and even that crappy Top Gun series And now. . . Thirdwire in all its variants - more time modding than flying, but plenty of both. . . Man, I've got to get out more Anybody remember the Microprose company? F-15 Strike Eagle? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Badfrank 5 Posted January 22, 2008 Anybody remember the Microprose company? F-15 Strike Eagle? Yes, that was "my" start in the flightsim world: F-14 Fleet Defender F-15 Strike Eagle (2+3) F-19 Stealth Fighter F-117A Nighthawk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Dave 2,322 Posted January 22, 2008 Anybody remember the Microprose company? F-15 Strike Eagle? That was my first sim in on the C64. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+ordway 23 Posted January 22, 2008 Ouch...I started in about 1973 at the U. of Maryland with a Starship Enterprize simulation on a mainframe. Then in 1982, I graduated to an Apple 2 flight sim (you had to program in each move)... then in 1991 full bore with LucasArts Their Finest Hour on a laptop...and been pretty continous since then. So that is about 14 hours-21 hours per week since then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JediMaster 451 Posted January 22, 2008 Ah yes, F-15 SE 1. Your carrier (?) was a blue triangle. Enemy targets were brown triangles. The water was blue, the land was tan. Enemy planes were a few triangles stuck together. When you shot them, these weird triangle-shaped streaks came out of them... Gunship wasn't much better. F-19 was the ground-breaking one for graphics. You could tell what was what by SIGHT. An F-5, F-4, MiG-21, all could be id'd on SIGHT. It was amazing! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
