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[[File:AvatarIUDDM.png|thumb|My Avatar]] | [[File:AvatarIUDDM.png|thumb|My Avatar]] | ||
=== About me & why I am here === | === About me & why I am here === | ||
When I was 3yo I flew for the first time in a ULM (what we call "VDS - Veicolo da Diporto Sportivo" here in Italy). That was the trigger point... where everything | When I was 3yo I flew for the first time in a ULM (what we call "VDS - Veicolo da Diporto Sportivo" here in Italy). That was the trigger point... where everything begins. I love everything that's about flying, I still find a bit of magic when I see a plane taking-off and that's what pushes me forward to understand everything behind that. I studied in an aeronautical technical institute (aeronautical maintenance & logistic problems behind airplane transport was the main subject). Then I started my college adventure in Aerospace Engineering (now I'm in my third year). | ||
Then I started my college adventure in Aerospace Engineering (now I'm in my third year). | |||
=== My experience in flight simulation === | === My experience in flight simulation === | ||
My flight simulator experience started more or less ten years ago, with Microsoft Flight Simulator 98. It was | My flight simulator experience started more or less ten years ago, with Microsoft Flight Simulator 98. It was an old one (even for that time), but I did not have a performing computer, and use an old simulator was my only choice. | ||
When I started | When I started High School I bought a new PC and with them a complete Saitek Pro Flight Sistem (yoke and levers, plus rudders). Also, the system was upgraded.. I used both Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 (FS9) and FSX for a really long time. | ||
After many years I abandoned the Microsoft Flight Simulator family, moving on to the Laminar Research ones. I used X-Plane 9 for a while during the transition from FS9 to FSX but I found it not at the same level | After many years I abandoned the Microsoft Flight Simulator family, moving on to the Laminar Research ones. I used X-Plane 9 for a while during the transition from FS9 to FSX but I found it not at the same level as the Microsoft Simulators... | ||
X-Plane 11 was different | X-Plane 11 was different from my eyes and well... I still use it sometimes. | ||
As PC now I have an assembled one, that gives me more freedom about what a Flight Sim needs. | As PC now I have an assembled one, that gives me more freedom about what a Flight Sim needs. | ||