I have been putting off doing this for far too long. I’m not great on introductions, but I will try.
Been flight simming for nearly sixteen years now. Most all of my flying has been solo. I did join DC3 Airways back in 2006 and have logged just over2000 hours with them. Some multiplayer, but most flying around the world countless times.
I am a real pilot, although not current. I did my solo in 1986 at PAJN, long before GPS. My brother (who is an A+P) and I bought an old Stinson 108 Voyager and rebuilt it. We sold it after a few years and bought a little Cessna. 24J ended up doing cartwheels down the Hoonah runway by a student pilot, so I’m told. I traded my airplanes for a family a few decades ago. I lived under PAJN’s runway 26 approach for nearly thirty years. I live in SW Florida now.
I’m getting ready to fully retire in the next year or so and hope to have more time to be a contributing member of a flight sim community. I have been lurking here for quite some time and thought I would take the plunge.
I must admit to having some concerns about loading up my scenery folders, an area I’m not as proficient with as others, but it looks like the instructions are pretty well laid out. I own all ORBX global and NA. I do not own Tongass Fjords, image that, having lived and flown there for years. I use P3D v4.4 and have eight GoFlight modules set up with my multi monitor system. Yup, down the rabbit hole full throttle! I still fly a great deal of GA, mostly lately in the A2A Bonanza V Tail and am just opening the Vertex DA62.
I do own the Milviz Beaver but don’t have many hours in it. I must admit to not being a big fan of GPS, but it’s starting to grow on me. I know, I know… it saves lives. But I want to fly, not push buttons!
Anyway…. I’ll go buy Tongass Fjords and start reading the directions in earnest. I’ll register on the forum and the flying club and we will see what happens. Thanks for the opportunity to join the community. I look forward to making friends, learning, and probably virtually flying more nooks and crannies in SE AK than I ever really knew existed.
Cheers,
Bob Tonkin