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How often do you fly as a developer?

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I'm just wondering how often do you guys use the simulator to actually fly and enjoy the sim?:confused: It's been almost 4 months that I've never had the chance to do a proper flight with FSX. Just designing sceneries and aircraft. I used to fly at least once a day before starting scenery design but now I've 5 payware aircraft that I almost never use! Addons developers do really sacrifice their fun with the actual software! I don't think many directly became developers. I believe we have all started by using the sim then progressively became involved into making addons.
 
Hi,

Only 4 months :D. I think it is even longer ago that I did a real flight in FSX (excluding the slewing around to test). Sometimes I make a small flight, but in general I enjoy making tools and scenery more.

Quite quickly after I started using FS5 I became bored with the flying, so I started to make addons. I don't really miss the flying, although sometimes it is fun to dust off the joystick and make a nice VFR flight :).
 
Fly? Is that what FSX et al are for? We learn something new every day... :scratchch
 
The only time I'm flying is when I'm enjoying other peoples great scenery. Maybe more like trying to figure out how they did this or that:D
 
I fly first. I pick a country, list all the airports, then starting alphabetically go from one to the next. On landing and taxiing in I'll notice, that's a mess, time to fire up ADE. Then it's add, delete, change, slew, more add, delete, change until I'm happy then it's time to fly to the next airport.
With over 24,000 airports, I'll be doing this for the rest of my life :)
 
LOL Great queztion mein herr

I am assuming you mean to fly not as a part of testing and .air file configuration or checking that you have put enough gasoline in your configuration or making dure that your AI in combat sim is equal to the player and what not.

That would be an estimate of percentage for me. I would say 90% building/testing 10% enjoyment. It would be 80/20 if i was not addicted to X3:Terran Conflict. And i do this just as a hobby.
 
I rarely just "fly for fun" in FS9 or FSX. In fact, I haven't even loaded FS9 for the past year! I do keep FSX loaded 24/7 on my main flightsim test rig, but that's usually to perform "stress testing" on my models and gauge/systems programming. ;)

I have had Flight installed since the beta testing period, and that's what I use for "fun flying" these days. Oddly enough, it's precisely because I can't make any mods for Flight that I can simply relax and have fun! :rotfl:
 
I fly quite a bit. Currently, I have over 1,000 hours logged for my VA (that's just commercial flights. Doesn't include GA or heli time). It's been a while, but I'll be up in the air again soon to test out some new additions (GSX and VRS Superbug).
 
I use Prepar3D daily, booting it up perhaps 50 to 100 times a day to check things.

I might do a photo shoot in a quick flight where I might slew up to altitude, or use an ORBX airport or some other airport as a backdrop. (If you want advertising by the way, send me your airports and I'll try to use them).

But.... I almost quit flying for fun. Since buying Prepar3D, I have once again fallen into love with flying and try to fly a couple of times on Sundays (my days off), and every now and then, I'll go up late at night and have some quick fun, maybe shoot touch and goes and do 4 laps around an airfield, etc.

I couldnt fly fun in FSX, only in FS9. P3 is stable and runs smoothly on my rig and that has brought me back. Nothing like exploring area's of wilderness in P3, like the back country of California, etc.
 
Well I don't fly but I "Slew" a lot! Maybe I should take one day off per week to actually enjoy the sim.
 
You've all sparked my interest; with so little or none at all flying done by you guys, what got you developing for FS in the first place?
 
Personally it's because I didn't like the default airports in FSX. Also as I was learning 3D modeling FSX was a good test ground!
 
I see Fsx as a great platform to develop designing skill, and funny, but I am observing that it's not so funny, I had to choose learning fly airplanes or modelling if not my brain would dye
 
n4gix said:
I have had Flight installed since the beta testing period, and that's what I use for "fun flying" these days. Oddly enough, it's precisely because I can't make any mods for Flight that I can simply relax and have fun! :rotfl:
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Bill that's exactly how I felt using Flight. In fact, I would play it with a gamepad rather than a joystick - just sit back prop up my feet and do donuts in the sky!

For the OP, I fly after completing an airport scenery since that is a new destination I have made for myself to travel to - so that's a nice reward to have at the end of a long few weeks or months of work. I also fly when I do product reviews. So, not as much as I used to definitely but still regularly enough that I don't forget too many procedures :P

Although just yesterday I was up for a flight and wanted to pass an airport I was traveling to on the right side to set up for pattern entry so I let my CDI needle drift right of center and looked out my left window as I hit the DME mark.... ROFL I was to the left of the airport should had the CDI needle swung to the opposite side I had it backwards in my head. Stupid crap like this makes me realize why the FAA mandates proficiency check rides...
 
FS9/FSX/P3D never. I may go into the sim to check if my software is working or it a user reports a problem. Otherwise I also confess to being a Flight user. As Bill and Drew say - it happens to be easy to use and I can't change anything so I just enjoy. Even that is not often though.
 
Never, slew around alot, but I havent done a flight for a very long time, in fact I dont have a controller since upgrading my PC last year, my old joystick became reduntant and I've not found any need to replace it yet.

I bought FSX only to build airfields, and I dont think I've done one flight in it.

FS2000, FS2002, FS2004 got more use flight wise before I took up buiding airfields with things such as VA's, downloading AI aircraft and flightplans and every addon that came out, but I've not done any of that since about 2004.

;)
 
cscboulder11 said:
what got you developing for FS in the first place?
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Seeing beautiful models built by amateurs for CFS3 and wishing I could do that too, then becoming obsessed by a magnificent aircraft that hadn't been modelled for it so far. Some years down the line I find the whole process fascinating.
 
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