What sparked your passion for flying?

[Bud Greene]

Every summer in my youth my I got to fly KORD to KSLC and back to visit with my Grandparents.  I also had the pleasure of some long-haul flights (all Pacific flights) as my family moved overseas a couple of times.  When my dad bought our first 128k Macintosh I got hooked on flight sims.  Sadly I've not flown since 1997 (KATL to KMDW).  Having become a cigarette smoker in the early 90's and with all the security hassles stemming from 9-11, a short flight would be all I care to tolerate these days if I had anywhere worth going to.  I love simaviation!  Absolutely NO smoking regulations!

[patchz]

My Dad worked for an airline for over thirty years, so I grew up around airports and airplanes. Then there were the models, control line, RC, and the movies. I never had a chance.

[REDCIAA]

What first sparked my interest in flying was a Blue Angels airshow my uncle took me to. I was 7 years old and when I heard them and then saw the stunts they were doing... It was love at first site.

[Flying Trucker]

Goodly morning all...

Well I came from a very large family that was steeped in military tradition.

[EricFSX92]

Well some of it started when i watched Black Sheep Squadron on TV. My dad has worked at Pratt & Whitney for 39 years, and my brother began flying in 2005 and recently upgraded to captain. I just transferred to another College for Aviation science, and i got a flying lesson today. Also i have played FS since 2004.

[Club508]

Oh boy...  Where on Earth did I start?
I have to wonder if it was that first flight I did with my grandfather and dad at somewhere around 3 years old or below.  I remember Grandfather in the pilot's seat and my dad in the left seat, both with those headsets on.  I don't really remember takeoff or landing (you know how memories are from when you're 3 with no reminders), but I do remember finding the big rear seat kind of uncomfertable and way to large, and I actually ended up trying to take a ap on the nice carpeted floorboard after a few looks out the window at the moving dots below.


May have been the time when he gave me his good ol' FS when I was probably about 7.  I remember I had some good fun with it for a while, but eventually got bored for a few years.
Then one day at about maybe 10 or 11, bored, I picked it up again.  I was hooked.  I don't remember how my first flight ended up, all I remember was a C172 2D panel, and Seattle-Tacoma International on a fair day.  Next thing I knew, I was soaring around in the air.  I was hooked.  Again.

Thanks again, Granddaddy.

[flt eng]

I was in real aviation for a long time before using Flt Sims. As a teen ager I had a passion to fix airplanes.

[adkleaddog]

It started when I was a kid flying back and forth from Pensacola FL to upstate NY, in all kinds of aircraft through many different airports. It took over EIGHT hours and up to three to four different aircraft to do so! We spent a lot of time watching aircraft.

Growing up in Pensacola, we had many friends in the Navy and also in the Air Force (due to the fact that Eglin AFB was just down the road). Pensacola is the home of the Blue Angels, and with it's ancillary fields around, planes were always in the air performing training flights. I remember when the F-111 first made it's appearance....All of this was in the 60's and I still wonder how many went to fly in SE Asia....and never returned.

[c130lover]

It all started when I went online and saw Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 was coming out soon, so I bought it. And now I'm flying 172s with the goal of flying in the USAF.

[FoxThree]

I was 6-years-old on a United 747-400 going from ORD to LAX, when the flight landed and we where debarking, my Dad asked the stewardess to ask to pilot if I could go into the cockpit, he said yes.

[machineman9]

I'm surprised by the lack of 'Top Gun' references (or 'Hell's Angels', or even Pterosaurs, depending on age

[Fozzer]

I have loads of Computer games:

Game....(When I grow up).

Need for speed. (I don't want for be a racing car driver!).
Grand Theft Auto. (I don't want to be a fearsome Gangster with a big gun!).
Quake. (I don't want to shoot ugly Monsters!)
Men of War. (I don't want to join the Army and get shot!).
18 Wheels of Steel. (I don't want to drive very big trucks!).
Lunar Lander. (I don't want to be a floating Astronaut!).
Rail Simulator. (I don't want to drive Choo-choo trains!).
Microsoft Flight Simulator. (I don't want to fall out of the sky!).
Tractor Driver. (I don't want to be a Farmer!).
My little Pony. (I don't want a bloody Horse!).
...etc...etc...

I just want to sit at my Computer/Games Console and pretend to do things!... ...!

Paul.... ... ...!

(I wonder how many Train Simulator Enthusiasts actually become Train Drivers?....and how many of us have purchased a Horse?)... ...!

[H]

I'm not entirely sure of the very start, although one of my Dad's friends had worked around B-24s. My first plastic model was a 1/72-scale WW1 Nieuport but, after assembling a chromed 1/32-scale P51, I was assembling 1/48-scale WW2 planes from 6th grade on. Visiting airports and reading The Hurricane Story in 7th grade certainly didn't ebb my interest, either. I believe I was in 6th grade when I made up a song (well, something of a discordal tune, anyway) titled Go P-40.

...and how many of us have purchased a Horse?

In contrast to those who actually eat one?

8-)

[jetprop]

I'm not entirely sure of the very start, although one of my Dad's friends had worked around B-24s. My first plastic model was a 1/72-scale WW1 Nieuport but, after assembling a chromed 1/32-scale P51, I was assembling 1/48-scale WW2 planes from 6th grade on. Visiting airports and reading The Hurricane Story in 7th grade certainly didn't ebb my interest, either. I believe I was in 6th grade when I made up a song (well, something of a discordal tune, anyway) titled Go P-40.

...and how many of us have purchased a Horse?

In contrast to those who actually eat one?

8-)

actualy,i once ate a small (well tiny) piece of dried horsemeat,a treat in kenia(i have a friend who moved there),but it tasted like ####.

[hyperpep111]

I'm not entirely sure of the very start, although one of my Dad's friends had worked around B-24s. My first plastic model was a 1/72-scale WW1 Nieuport but, after assembling a chromed 1/32-scale P51, I was assembling 1/48-scale WW2 planes from 6th grade on. Visiting airports and reading The Hurricane Story in 7th grade certainly didn't ebb my interest, either. I believe I was in 6th grade when I made up a song (well, something of a discordal tune, anyway) titled Go P-40.

...and how many of us have purchased a Horse?

In contrast to those who actually eat one?

8-)

actualy,i once ate a small (well tiny) piece of dried horsemeat,a treat in kenia(i have a friend who moved there),but it tasted like ####.

I think you mean Kenya
I've lived in Kenya my entire life and have never heard of eating horse meat  . At least I've never.