What sparked your passion for flying?

[Fozzer]

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I've lived in Kenya my entire life and have never heard of eating horse meat

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I've lived in Kenya my entire life and have never heard of eating horse meat

[Fozzer]

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I've lived in Kenya my entire life and have never heard of eating horse meat

[littlebenny]

My story begins with the one from my dad before I was born, he had his PPL, later he stopped flying, one day he gave me fs 2004, I liked it but I didn't fly seriously. I did become a fan later. When FSX came I got it for Christmas. by now I have almost 500 h on it.
2 years ago Because of my good grades for math I went up in the sky with a Robin 200 I loved it so much that I wanted to fly in real life so I looked for options to fly, soaring it was. Now I am 15 and an Enthousiastic sim and real-world glider pilot normally going solo this summer. I also hope to be selected for the Belgian Air cadets, this year I wasn't

[BFMF]

I don't ever remember not having a passion for aviation. According to my mom, I was fascinated by airplanes when I was just an infant. She says that one of my favorite toys was a little toy airplane. I would also get excited anytime I heard or saw an airplane. I also loved looking at aviation pictures, and would look at picture books until I fell asleep during nap times.

[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 ####.

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

[Chris Cosgrove]

When I was 10 or 11, we lived in a house in the Scottish Highlands which was on a bluff about 40 feet high overlooking the loch and the river outlet. One day I watched two Hawker Hunters come down the loch and then the river, and I was looking down on them. That's low flying !

Ten years later, I got involved with a model aircraft club for a while - control line and R/C, and about twenty years later took some lessons in a Microlight. Unhappily, I never got to the stage of taking my licence because when I had the time, I didn't have the money, and vice-versa. That was entertaining because it was in uncontrolled airspace. The first thing you did, unless you were on circuits and bumps, was climb out to 1000' for safety. The fast movers came through at about 500', so you had a safety margin. Interesting, doing 50 knots or so at 1000' and watching a Tornado go past directly below you probably doing about 450 knots.

Sometime in the early '90s, I found a 'lite' version flight sim on a magazine cover, and have been an off and on user ever since. Favourites ? CFS 2 and FS X, with a sneaking regard for CFS 1.

Regards,

Chris Cosgrove

[ArcticFox]

I don't think there's anything special that did it for me. Just seeing airplanes in general drew me in since I was a kid.

Now flight simming... there I have two things. One was this vector graphic flight sim on amiga, not sure what it was called. It really caught my attention as you could see outside the aircraft and do maneuvers and it was just so awesome for the time.
And then of course... MS FS. I think the first one I saw was either 2.0 or 3.0 and the first one I personally owned was 5.0. Then came the golden era of gaming of the second half of the 90s with improved computers and epic stuff like janes longbow and other similar games. Since then I'm hooked... glad I was a teenager during that wonderful decade.

[BlackAce]

For me, it was when I was 5, and we were flying on a NWA 727-200 from MSP-YYZ.  We were the last ones off and the pilot took me into the cockpit, so I go to sit in my 2ed favorite plane ever. Also when Steve Appleton let me sit in his Hawer Hunter.

[Romulus111VADT]

I think it was probably riding in an Eastern Airline DC-4 (?-can't remember for sure; I remember the plane had 4 props) with my parents on our trips to Florida back in the very late 50's to early 60's.


My father had a inordinate fear of heights and I'd sit there looking out the window describing everything WAY down there on the ground. He'd be turning green and end up using the barf bag.

God, I was such a miserable little brat growing up.... [smiley=evil.gif]

No wonder my mom use to say that Dennis the Menace had nothing on me....

[richardd43]

I was kind of born into it. A couple of my older brothers flew during WW2 and continued flying after the war.

Very few weekends went by that I did not get to fly somewhere.

Once I was old enough one of them taught me how to fly. After I had enough hours he taught me to fly his helicopter.

I flew for a couple of years but my back was bad and I flunked my flight physical so that ended my flying.

I continued flying with my brothers as a passenger and never tired of it.

We flew in everything from Stearmans to Bell Jet Rangers.

I still do some RC flying and fly FSX on a regular basis.