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I'm on the official forum and wiki under the signature ''Johan G'', and tend to have a weakness for Petar Jedvajs's [[Pilatus PC-9M]]. | I'm on the official forum and wiki under the signature ''Johan G'', and tend to have a weakness for Petar Jedvajs's [[Pilatus PC-9M]]. | ||
== What I intend to do on the Wiki == | == What I intend to do on the Wiki == |
Revision as of 08:19, 15 April 2012
Location | Sweden |
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Interest(s) | FlightGear, Aircraft, Surveying, Photography |
MP callsign(s) | SE-JG |
Favourite aircraft | De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter |
I'm on the official forum and wiki under the signature Johan G, and tend to have a weakness for Petar Jedvajs's Pilatus PC-9M.
What I intend to do on the Wiki
Well, sometimes it's just a good thing to be able to contribute.
I'll see if I can also get away from my Wikipedia is not a manual attitude when writing. ;-)
About me
I have a long interest in aircraft and flight and for a few years in the 1990's I used Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1 (the first MSFS on CD) together with a CH Products FlightStick Pro.
FlightGear, the simulator
As for FlightGear I have had a few looks on FlightGear through the years from as early as 1997 or 1998. Unfortunately, if I recall correctly, no computer I privately had access to could handle OpenGL, so I couldn't run it.
In april 2010 I had a look at it again and realised my latest laptop, and probably the one before that, could handle FlightGear. Wednesday Apr 21, 2010 I downloaded and installed FlightGear 2.0.0 and a few aircraft from the official download page. Only one of them was flyable with keyboard and mice, but at the other hand it flew really well.
I got really hooked really fast. As I had not touched a flight simulator for many years, the first thing on the agenda was repeatedly flying the good old traffic pattern, many times enough that my room mate thought I wasn't mentally well (at the other hand he spend a lot of his spare time to sleep, even in broad daylight...). Many things came back, like primary and secondary effects of throttle and rudder, to not hunt the altimeter and airspeed needles etc.
FlightGear, the community
The nice thing with open source is the "tinkerability" of everything. It's a really good route to learning new stuff, specially for someone with my curiosity. After just a short time I started to look at the forum and Friday Aug 06, 2010 I went on to join the official forum.
Even though there can be some brawls, almost trolling, the forum is very rewarding to follow. There is a lot of progress, in so many different areas.
Interesting enough I often tend to spend twice the time on the Forum every day compared to the time I spend in FlightGear during the entire week.
Real flight experience, or rather lack of it
As for real life flying, actually being in an airborne aircraft, I have only five memories three during my teens and two remaining even from before that. In other words: I'm no pilot.
Essays
In the pipeline
- Wiki improvement (Subpage)
- Adding XML part of Howto: Edit a livery
- Introduction to Low level VFR navigation (Work in progress)
- Flight computer (Work in progress) I just can not believe there wasn't an article on this yet.
- Spacecraft (WIP)
Done
- Pilotage and dead reckoning
- Replaced the text in Howto: Edit a livery (original text) with my own draft (Final draft).
Fun things to do in FlightGear
- "Canyoning" in multiplayer.
- Loose formation in multiplayer.
- Closed circuits, flown as planned, to the second (or at least almost).