Feels great to be back.
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:54 pmWow! Things have changed a lot since I last posted here. The forum has changed, the website has changed, except for one thing. The people here.
I still remember a few of you guys. Fozzer, Arlot, Ozzy, Hagar, just to name a few. Oh, and our beloved admin Pete is here. Nice to see you all around here.
I guess this is the part where I have to explain my absence. I'll try to be as short as possible.
I have been through a lot of changes that involved everything from changing jobs to changing careers and from letting my hair grow to even changing my religion. I have seen and experienced a lot in the seven years since I left the USAF. Currently, I work at Mectron USA which is a US-based procurement branch of our manufacturing headquarters in Brazil. They make missiles and guidance systems for the Brazilian government. It's a great job and it has helped me stay on my feet.
In fact, because of my job, I started studying this January at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Miami Campus) towards the AS-Professional Aeronautics degree at the moment. I'm aiming for the Bachelors Degree which will take four years. For once in my life, I'm studying to be a career pilot. As it turned out, studying medicine didn't work out for me.
Anyways, besides real life, I haven't been using FS in a long time as I got pretty occupied playing Eve Online. After a long time, I recently decided to check back on Simviation and see what's new for the FS series since I have a renewed interest in flight simulation because of my studies. Oh my god, I couldn't believe my eyes when I read the news about what MS did recently to the FS series. But I'll save my rant for another time. As for FSGV, my old website, that has become nothing more than a memory to me. I got tired of being frustrated over trying to figure out issues with export modeling, animations not coming out right, FSX SDK not very clear on the instructions, *.cfg files coming out all wrong, etc. I didn't want to deal with that anymore. I think that's how I got my first strand of white hair (3 strands as of now). But still, my love for FS is still strong.
To conclude this post, I just like to say, it feels great to be back. Now I have to catch up with what else I missed.
I still remember a few of you guys. Fozzer, Arlot, Ozzy, Hagar, just to name a few. Oh, and our beloved admin Pete is here. Nice to see you all around here.
I guess this is the part where I have to explain my absence. I'll try to be as short as possible.
I have been through a lot of changes that involved everything from changing jobs to changing careers and from letting my hair grow to even changing my religion. I have seen and experienced a lot in the seven years since I left the USAF. Currently, I work at Mectron USA which is a US-based procurement branch of our manufacturing headquarters in Brazil. They make missiles and guidance systems for the Brazilian government. It's a great job and it has helped me stay on my feet.
In fact, because of my job, I started studying this January at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Miami Campus) towards the AS-Professional Aeronautics degree at the moment. I'm aiming for the Bachelors Degree which will take four years. For once in my life, I'm studying to be a career pilot. As it turned out, studying medicine didn't work out for me.
Anyways, besides real life, I haven't been using FS in a long time as I got pretty occupied playing Eve Online. After a long time, I recently decided to check back on Simviation and see what's new for the FS series since I have a renewed interest in flight simulation because of my studies. Oh my god, I couldn't believe my eyes when I read the news about what MS did recently to the FS series. But I'll save my rant for another time. As for FSGV, my old website, that has become nothing more than a memory to me. I got tired of being frustrated over trying to figure out issues with export modeling, animations not coming out right, FSX SDK not very clear on the instructions, *.cfg files coming out all wrong, etc. I didn't want to deal with that anymore. I think that's how I got my first strand of white hair (3 strands as of now). But still, my love for FS is still strong.
To conclude this post, I just like to say, it feels great to be back. Now I have to catch up with what else I missed.
