[simpits-tech] Hello

[Sean Galbraith]

At 11:40 PM 10/22/02 +0000, you wrote:
>We can all agree on motorcycles? Since when? LOL

Agree?  Here? Yeah right!
If it's not Blue and White and rhymes with OOZUKI then it's not worth the 
effort...
I had a bike with "uz..ki" on the fairing lowers once... scraped right 
through the *very* expensive graphics in qualifying :(

>Here's a contest for the list: Who has been working on cockpits the 
>longest? :) Geez, lets see if I can even remember... my first real project 
>was with Flanker (the ORIGINAL, NOT 2.0!), I was just going to build a 
>small box with gear controls and whatnot to put on my desk. That was, lets 
>see... Geez I cant even remember. Early high-school at least, so at least 
>4 years ago. Probably more. And no, I've never finished a project! LOL

Hokay... Like Chris I did the cardboard box thing in the 70's, then 
graduated to hardboard when Dad built a motorhome (I got all the scrap and 
built all kinds of things!)

First attempt at a "Sim" proper was when I got FS2 for my birthday in 
1985.  What a day, the graphics! The sound! The realism!  I built a desk 
with mounts for joystick and keyboard and I was in heaven!

Next cockpit was <please_don't_smack_me_with_that_trout_Gene!> an F-16, at 
about the time that the RNZAF was looking for an A-4 
replacement....  Flying mostly F-15 Strike Eagle III (which I think is one 
of the best combat sims ever written!) and Falcon 3.0

Current cockpits are the A-4k Skyhawk, which has to be presentable by Jan 
25 for an airshow YIKES, and a Beech Queenair/U-8f Seminole, which will 
become a Kingair/C-12f next year.

The future?  Probably an Apollo LM using Eaglelander 3d and 
Orbiter....  But another real possibility is a V8 Supercar sim.  Aussie "V8 
Supercars" is the coolest *coolest* class of racing bar none.  Forget poxy 
2 litre super tourers, or formula one, V8's for me!  (Imagine a 2 Litre 
super tourer, with a 600Hp fuel injected V8....thrashing around a 4 mile 
road track for 7 hours......Oh yeah!)
http://www.v8supercars.com.au/

So, I've been doing this for about 17 years on and off.... even still have 
the F-16a front panel I made back in the 80's...

Sean