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I love flightsims, and so I've created this site to share my passion. Here you'll find reviews of new games, where to find
files for current sims, news about upcoming sims: just about
everything flightsim-related that you can think of.
My Love of flying comes from 1939. I would sit at the window of my room and watch
the lights of Airforce training flights taking off from the Bowden Airport in Alberta Canada.
By day many times they would fly by our house on the hill, wag their wings and wave to us kids, It made our day whenever one
came that close. One day a low wing monoplane flew by so low you could almost see into the cockpit, The pilot in the second
seat kept waving to us for some time as they passed.
It hooked me on flying and I have been
modeling Aircraft ever since. I have modeled every thing from gliders to a 9ft Dornior 27 , with a 6HP Powersaw engine.
In 1948 I joined the Royal Canadian Navy as an Aircraft Controlman. I then spent the better part of the next ten years on
board the HMCS Magnificent. We steamed all over the Atlantic from Halifax, N.S. to England, Gibralter, Italy, France and Malta.
We spent three weeks in the Mediterranean, then steamed back to Halifax via the North Atlantic in the winter.
They say salt water won't freeze.(Nobody told the North Atlantic this) Well I'm here to tell you the spray sure will, The
second it hits the ship it freezes and rapidly builds up on everything in sight. We chipped ice for the better part of a week
till we steamed into warmer waters.
Aircraft operations in that weather with the ice on the deck were
very dangerous..
The pictures to the right are from a cruise through the Panama Canal to the west coast
and up to Vancouver Canada. A very uneventful trip for the first part, stopping in Bermuda, Trinidad and Barbados, then through
the Panama Canal. (Just six inches clearance Port and Starboard in the locks.
I was very surprised
on our trip through the Canal. I had not thought that the trip would be as long or that it was through such a large lake.
(Gatun) The temperature was very high and with the humidity it was not as pleasant as it might have been. There was very pretty
scenery most of the way through.
The trip back was to be altogether different. We passed through
the Canal and steamed towards Bermuda. There was a storm warning out as we entered the Bermuda triangle, and what a storm
it turned out to be. Hurricane Hazel ran over us in the triangle.
The waves were
up to sixty feet high and tore all life boats and rafts off the Carrier and our escort. The water hammered the Armour plating
on the ship in for sixty feet back from the bow. It was one of the wildest nights and day's I've ever experienced. I would
not have missed it for anything, but would not like to go through it again.
(Note the Carrier was sold for scrap on
our return to Halifax as the cost of refit would have been far to great.)
HMCS Magnificent
was replaced by the HMCS Bonaventure. I worked the Flight Deck of HMCS Magnificent as a Flight Deck Director. I worked the
tower at Shearwater Nova Scotia as a "B" Stand operator also some time on the approch control consel.
Leaving the Navy in 1958 I returned to British Columbia.
I bought my first computer in 1983 and started to fly the sims with flightsim 4 and I have been upgrading ever since. I now
fly FS2004, and CFS2 now CFS3. I'm running a Pentium 4 2.8 gig with 1 gig of Ram. with a 21in NEC monitor, ATI 64
mg.7500 Video Card, Creative Audigey for sound, Saitek X45 stick and throttle. It all works great. 1 80 gig HD, 1 40 gig HD
and two 13 gig drives. One 13 is Downloads, One is test files, The 40 is the operating system an related files. The 80
is the flight sim Drive.
Its hard to think you could fill it up but I'm geting there.
Gordon.
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