Thanks Nils, once I get the upgrade installed and get some training missions accomplished, I shall give that serious consideration.

Great article! I felt like reading my own biography.
I also simming very little. Everyday work and family left you exhausted to have the patience to setup everything for simming once all went to sleep you are "free", and more since easily you know you will expend between one to two houres to setup everything and fly only one single mission. And going to bed very late and knowing the next day you will not have the strengh to get up from bed.
I don't know you guys, but since i get married and kids enter the equation, my simming time has been dropping more and more each year.

SIMMING TIME = (24 - Sleep time)/(Job time + Family time) - 1. Or something like that!

Okay so really looking forward to this Obutto review. Talked to HotSeat and was totally not impressed with them. First, the basic package was $1600 whether I got the speakers and sub woofer or not. Huh? That must be some high quality speakers you have there. In addition, she really didn't sound like she wanted to deal with me. I was given the impression as soon as she found out that I was a "flight sim guy" and not a military unit or flight school that the prospect of dealing with me wasn't palatable. Felt like High Rev Simulators all over again. So, this will not be a direction I will be heading in.

I'm hoping to clear out the room cave that it will be going into by end of next week, then probably a week after that. So...



Look for a "guod's gigantic garage giveaway and grab" posting in the Buy/Sell forum soon.

OOPS!



Oh yeah, this thread was about 20mm's article. Sorry 20.

NP, you know what a huge fan of alliteration I am. If only I could find a way to work that into a casual colloquial conversation, carumba!

Man this one sure did hit the nail on the head. Time to jump back in and use something instead of paying for something I am not using.

Tom,

Excellent article! That sounds like my story too.

I used to fly Falcon 4 religiously every night. One mission per night, filled out the lineup card, studied the target, the approach avenue, ingress and egress routes (I love bombing runways and bridges). It generally took about 1.5 to 2 hours every night.

Now work and family commitment take priority. I bought Black Shark and Lock On 2 but did not have a chance to start on either of them. I guess I just need to focus on 1 sim and finish the IL-2 Operation Barbarossa Campaign first. I am about 90 missions in, 200+ more to go. To make matters worse, my wife just bought me Rise of Flight for our 10th anniversary.

Decisions, decisions! So many sims, so little time

Never thought about talking to my doctor.

Now I know -
Its the hardware. Ive had feelings of inadequacy for *three* years now but the cure is near.

There are these two big spaces on both sides on my keyboard where an old Couger used to sit. But in the last two years I've found rFactor racing and the G27 - I'm re-invogoriated. Now to fill those empty spaces with a Warthog. (Thanks for all of the Thrustmaster reviews Dr. SimHQ)

Edited --
We flew F15 Strike Eagle III, Falcon 3 & 4, Lock On and most everything in between that offered multiplayer. In 2005 LOFC came out with the Star Force protection and some of my buddies wouldn't install it. Then about 2008 my Cougar profiles were erased by the commies and the old hardware just wasn't compelling enough to reprogram Foxy - and the unit would fail to show up lots of times - and I'd tried shimming the axles but didn't want to invest in Hall sensors because of the wobble (I never thought my old Cougar could hold a formation like the the Virtual Blue Angels do).

I used to think the same about the old wheels in the F15-III days, so I lost the will to sim.


But then I got onto the Motorsports Page here at SimHQ and found my way back. If you lost it, too, try a little racing - driving is really e-a-s-y and F-U-N.
SimHQ Motorsports


The reviews of the new Warthog got to me. I'll screw those puppies to my gaming desk and look forward to some new A-10 flying fun. And multiplayer co-ops.

Thanks SimHQ.

Wrecking Crew
Smooth Operators Squadron
We fly so that others may die!

20110121
From the looks of my desktop I declare myself cured. It took the Thrustmaster Warthog to get me back to flying, and the racing crew here at SimHQ are fun challenging folks to race with.





WC