Kind of personal, kind of not

[MFarhadi]

Hey y'all, including Hardy,

 I hope everyone is great.

 This one's kind of a personal note to myself that is also directed to Hardy, and the rest of this lovely community. I wanted to thank myself for buying Aerowinx PSX back in the Fall of 2023.

 During that time, I was left in a state of vulnerability; on the brinks of leaving my previous flying job, and just before starting my new life in a different country. Moving out of the place I used to live my whole life was challenging enough, which quitting my full-time airline job made it really worse. I was gambling with my life and my career, and I needed a way to soothe myself and my passion for flying.

 By that time, it had been a few years since I started flying professionally. I was feeling "at home" in my job flying the "bus" across Europe and Asia. My decision to quit it did not come easy, and my fear of missing it made it even more painful. In the meantime, I started flying PC simulators again, but they were just adding salt to the injury, with unrealistic systems simulations and unexpected flying behavior. I was looking for something on par with a Level-D sim, when I found Aerowinx PSX.

 I will not go into detail, but PSX saved my burning desire for flying from getting quenched into the ibis. It was, and still is, as good and as complicated as a real plane. I enjoyed learning the Boeing 747-400 through PSX in every step, both for normal airline operations, and non-normal "when crap hits the fan" stuff. It kept me feel like being a pilot. It kept me from "unbecoming" one.

 Apart from the skills I could lose while I was away from flying, I am very grateful for its existance. Now that the tough times are, at least partly, over and I am back at flying (this time Captain on a regional) I look back at those times, and see PSX be the light I kept coming back to.

 I am thankful that Aerowinx PSX, thanks to Hardy, and many others, was there when I needed it the most.

 Thank you Hardy! Thank you for PSX.

Warmly,
Mo

[Hardy Heinlin]

Hi Mo,

glad to read you're a happy man again :-)

Congratulations!

And ... thank you for the kind lines.


Best wishes,

|-|ardy

[Kurt]

Hey y'all, including Hardy,

 I hope everyone is great.

 This one's kind of a personal note to myself that is also directed to Hardy, and the rest of this lovely community. I wanted to thank myself for buying Aerowinx PSX back in the Fall of 2023.

 During that time, I was left in a state of vulnerability; on the brinks of leaving my previous flying job, and just before starting my new life in a different country. Moving out of the place I used to live my whole life was challenging enough, which quitting my full-time airline job made it really worse. I was gambling with my life and my career, and I needed a way to soothe myself and my passion for flying.

 By that time, it had been a few years since I started flying professionally. I was feeling "at home" in my job flying the "bus" across Europe and Asia. My decision to quit it did not come easy, and my fear of missing it made it even more painful. In the meantime, I started flying PC simulators again, but they were just adding salt to the injury, with unrealistic systems simulations and unexpected flying behavior. I was looking for something on par with a Level-D sim, when I found Aerowinx PSX.

 I will not go into detail, but PSX saved my burning desire for flying from getting quenched into the ibis. It was, and still is, as good and as complicated as a real plane. I enjoyed learning the Boeing 747-400 through PSX in every step, both for normal airline operations, and non-normal "when crap hits the fan" stuff. It kept me feel like being a pilot. It kept me from "unbecoming" one.

 Apart from the skills I could lose while I was away from flying, I am very grateful for its existance. Now that the tough times are, at least partly, over and I am back at flying (this time Captain on a regional) I look back at those times, and see PSX be the light I kept coming back to.

 I am thankful that Aerowinx PSX, thanks to Hardy, and many others, was there when I needed it the most.

 Thank you Hardy! Thank you for PSX.

Warmly,
Mo

All the best Mo - thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Cheers

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

All the best, Mo!

It's striking that my own story has parallels. I got PS1.2 somewhere 1996 I think, by accident. I am an ATC fan and was looking to buy an ATC sim, but it turned out to be only available for Windows95 which my 486/66 could not pull. Next on the online list was this 747-400 thing that also promised to have built-in ATC, while running on DOS. And with my love for flight engineership this seemed like a good option. Rather quickly I started to build stuff for it, a mixture of on-PC and on-line, and got better at avionics thinking.

The next 15 years this latent desire simmered as my professional career slowly spiraled down due to a few choices I made that positioned me at the wrong side of various options. Just when I called MAYDAY, with only two engines and heading towards the mountains, I got an offer to completely change my (well, our) life and moved from The Netherlands to, of all places, Miami. It was tough, abandoning families and nearly everything else, but over time we managed to restart all engines, do an inflight refueling, and went up again. I still am hugely thankful for this break I got at the right moment.

In the 12 years in Miami I rebuilt my career from scratch, finally doing what I really wanted to do since I was about 12. As a family we had to make some sacrifices but overall we came out mostly OK. So when the opportunity arose to move back to the old continent, this time to Lisbon, we were able to pull it off -- again.

I am sure it would NOT have happened were it not for Hardy and PS. That MCDU I programmed in 2001 was the second accident I needed. I would never have done it without PS.

Of course Matt is the real problem here, but that holds for more people on this Forum  :-)


Hoppie