Airliners vs GA vs Vintage

[andy190]

For me it's Vintage all the way. I can't stand flying Tubes for more than an hour.

[Scatterbrain Kid]

[quote]scatterbrain kid
You have a nice hanger! Really good variety and you know what they say about variety right?
Best way to make the wife jealous

[richardd43]

As a kid my first helicopter flight was in a Hughes 300, my first airplane ride was in an old Aronca.

My first (only) solo flight was in a restored Stearman.

I grew up with the old airplanes and they will always have a place in my heart.

[jimclarke]

I'm surprised more didn't choose airliners as it seems most aircraft addons seem to be airliners.  I chose other, however I probably should have said vintage.  I have the Golden Wings 3 version of FS9 and really enjoy it.  I like the low, slow and usually short flights.  A close second behind vintage is GA.  Once in awhile a fast mover or modern airliner but I keep the flights short, usually less than 200 mi. 

[Strategic Retreat]

I am a vintage planes lover.

Though must admit my joining the ranks has a perhaps curious reason.

Back in... I think it was 2007? Can't remember precisely... the fire that kept me interested in flight simulation began to wane. By the following year I was in full crisis mode and considering abandoning this hobby I was interested in ever since 1992...

I felt my heart breaking, but really could not get myself to rise up to bring those big, kerosene smelling tubes of metal high in the skies... it was just too...

Boring.

That was it. It was boring. And the boring part had begun with the arrival on the scene of airplanes that had all the bells and whistles of the Real Thing. I was having the same kind of fun staying behind the AP someone else in a factory may have by punching the buttons of a numerical control machine. I had became a process controller and it was getting even duller than looking at paint drying.

Then by absolute chance I passed on the Calclassics website and decided to give a try to one of their old and low fliers...

MY. God. In. Heaven.

I had a backfire the size of a full power Tzar Bomba. Those old but engaging glories of the aviation ante-1958 managed to give me back the interest that had been waning.

All the old prop planes began attracting my interest above the now grounded kerosene stoves, from the very Wright Flier to the end of the era of prop planes, from low and low single engined contraptions to the Lockheed Starliner.

Cannot really say what really gets under my skin about that old kind of flying... maybe it was the adventurous environment... the awareness they had of being special in a particular way, to be able to make those machines fly... the struggle they underwent to find their way in absolute VFR dead reckoning and crappy weather... the having to make the navigational point using the bubble sextant and calculate your longitude keeping in mind speed and winds, knowing that the fuel was not endless...

I agree. Those people at the time were not having the time of their lives doing what I wrote, but rather sweated bullets in worry and even fear... that's why they were and still are worthy of admiration... and while modern pilots are surely themselves worthy of admiration, especially when things get tough (as they still can nowadays)... it's just not the same thing anymore.

Maybe I am attracted to that... maybe it's that old style mythical aura that bewitches me... not even I can say for sure.

[Felix/FFDS]

For the past two years I've been in an FS coma.  I'm slowly coming back.

I've always found myself attracted to the "vintage" aircraft. (Note, for me "vintage"  is generally pre-1945;  anything with a nose wheel is "modern")

From a modelling point of view, the vintage aircraft are "easier"  to model -

a: no flaps to worry about
b: the gears stay put.
c: little to no worrying about glass transparency. .. (open cockpits, you know).
d: no worrying about fancy "glass gauges" gee-pee-esses"  or other funny sounding "displays"

[VBonanza]

It was a toss-up between Vintage and GA. I love flying GA, mainly because that is what I will be flying in real life, but the Vintage aircraft are so cool, DC-3s, P-51, almost all of them are great. I like flying military as well, but not as much as I do the Carenado Baron and Bonanza. At first I was really into commercial jet flying, but that got old.

[wifesaysno]

It was a toss-up between Vintage and GA. I love flying GA, mainly because that is what I will be flying in real life, but the Vintage aircraft are so cool, DC-3s, P-51, almost all of them are great. I like flying military as well, but not as much as I do the Carenado Baron and Bonanza. At first I was really into commercial jet flying, but that got old.

Commercial flying got old for me with in 30seconds of takeoff 
By the way, give crop-dusting a try in the sim, wonderful fun and very challenging to do it right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFZ8k0WfIB4

[Felix/FFDS]

[quote]

Commercial flying got old for me with in 30seconds of takeoff

[JBaymore]

Try putting a fully loaded 747 into Kai Tak on full realism!

[wifesaysno]

[quote]Try putting a fully loaded 747 into Kai Tak on full realism!

[Fozzer]

I must say that I am quite surprised at the Poll result!
Half as many GA as Commercial Air-Liners, where GA would have been the more practical choice for every-day Aviators!

...and quite surprising, the number of Vintage enthusiasts!

Paul... 8-)..!

[wifesaysno]

I must say that I am quite surprised at the Poll result!
Half as many GA as Commercial Air-Liners, where GA would have been the more practical choice for every-day Aviators!

...and quite surprising, the number of Vintage enthusiasts!

Paul... 8-)..!

GA voters might be going for vintage instead.

[Strategic Retreat]

[quote]Try putting a fully loaded 747 into Kai Tak on full realism!

[Fozzer]

The terrifying thought of ..."Hours of Boredom", on an Inter-Continental flight cruise in a Jumbo Passenger Jet, always gets me firmly welded to small(ish) GA Aircraft, excitedly hopping from one local Airfield/Airport to another, with a big "thumbs-up", and a grin, from any passengers... ...!
Not enough time to get Bored!

Paul...FS 2004... [smiley=thumbsup.gif]...!