How many of us dont acually fly bms that much?
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@dawgboy what is your squadron? Link to web page?
Cheers
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When I’m home, I fly two or three times a week. Kids have moved away and being recently retired I have a fair bit of disposable time to put towards my various hobbies.
Yes there is light at the end of the tunnel guys…
Thanks that’s good to hear!
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When I’m home, I fly two or three times a week. Kids have moved away and being recently retired I have a fair bit of disposable time to put towards my various hobbies.
Yes there is light at the end of the tunnel guys…
I’m turning 30 in Feb and have zero plans to get married or have kids. I’m holding off from that tunnel for as long as possible…
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I’m turning 30 in Feb and have zero plans to get married or have kids. I’m holding off from that tunnel for as long as possible…
…NOW you’ve jinx’d it.
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I’m holding off from that tunnel for as long as possible…
Yep, like Stevie said….YOU’RE DONE!! Hold on…the train is coming down the tunnel nearest you!!!
And yes, England has LOTS of trains!!!
HAHA
C9
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Re OP, I think it’s a common phenomenon. I have 6 year old twin boys, and I’m disabled due to a chronic condition. Although I can’t work right now I can’t sit at my PC without pain, so I only fly when having a ‘good day’. Pain follows but that 1\2 to an hour per week is still worth it!
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yes I love getting up to the pc after a day running after my 2 girls, usually around half 8 I get an hour in on bms or subnautica. Takes me away from the day to day grind
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@Cloud:
Yep, like Stevie said….YOU’RE DONE!! Hold on…the train is coming down the tunnel nearest you!!!
And yes, England has LOTS of trains!!!
HAHA
C9
Indeed we do, but they’re never on time
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It Sucks sometimes.:( But real life first. Flying in nighttime is the only chance for me. Thank god i don´t Need much sleep. :dhorse:Just a thought… since i have a young family and work full time, I never seem to get the time fly at all in bms, i’m always tinkering with my setup in some way, an hour here, hour there. I think since I have joined this forum and started learning bms, I have about 8 hours logged in close to 2 years, not including training flights and stuff though. But I keep coming back to this stuff. Recently got an old pc from work that im trying to setup to run yame extractor on a second screen, i tried using the tm mfd’s without a screen and its just not the same. I never seem to be happy with things, and cant seem to just sit down and play a campaign and be happy with it.
How many folks out there are like me?
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Haven’t flown much this year. Server stability and failing interest from others.
Maybe next year, all things in their season.
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Could you share that?
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Yeah…let me give it a once-over, and I’ll post to another thread for comments. I’ll post the link here when I do so.
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Thanks! Looking forward to it.
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I must be a peculiar specimen among the Falconeers… I don’t fly on-line, I don’t fly in a campaign (at least I haven’t since the release of 4.33 U1), I don’t have a TrackIR and I don’t have a HOTAS system, my joystick is a humble Thrustmaster 16000M with 16 buttons an a built-in throttle. All of which notwithstanding, I fly quite a lot, almost every day and enjoy it enormously… I fly simple TE’s in the currently available theatres and in different aircraft, and concentrate chiefly on gaining proficiency in the A-G attacks using the host of the ordnance available. What keeps me going on is the perspective of upgrading my machine so that one it can handle multiplayer and campaign maintaining decent FPS. But even with what I have now I feel there’s so much to learn and there’s quite a depth in this simulator that can be explored using fairly slim resources. And the knowledge acquired is simply priceless…
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I’ve built a new computer, with a huge ultra wide monitor. And I also bought the Warthag last year…
On the new Computer I didn’t play, it was simply starting the game and checking whether it works or not. nothing else.
And since I have my Warthog, I was configuring the whole thing for several ±40 hours (BMS Updates and testing included) and was purely playing for perhaps… 20 hours?This makes me so angry, buying and configuring things but not playing with it… but I also have to say that I’m not comfortable playing with it.
My desk is too high for the HOTAS. And because it is rounded (I’m surrounded by the desk) I can’t even attach it in front of the desk (but lower)because that would mean I’d have to sit ~2m away. a 32" UW screen is not big enough at that distance.
And my headset with the IR Led mount is simply to heavy to play for longer time…I must construct some kind of cockpit where at least the throttle/Joystick/Seat/Display relation becomes acceptable… dargh…
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Well involved in the developing at a specific sector (air navigation), for many years I don’t have the normal free time to enjoy online flights or a virtual squadron.
The last year I made around 5-6 online flights with some good friends! Wow, it is just great…
Into the time, the only quick flights (offline) for me are when I must create/check the procedures.
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Re: OP - I too have a young family. If I fly once a week for an hour or so I consider it a good week. I tend to fly single player so I can use accelerated time for transit, but occasionally fly MP w/ a friend. I too hit the tanker for practice regularly, to keep skills up.
I hope to join a squad sometime when I can fly with some regularity. Eventually…
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When 4.33 came out, I was excited about trying to get back into Falcon, participating in the online MP servers with others. Then this MP instability thing hit the BMS world, and half the community has gone back to 4.32, which in my mind is in NO ONE’s best long-term interest. It just splinters the community, and that’s never a good thing. BMS really needs to put their priority into fixing the MP situation so everyone wants to use the most current version of BMS instead of users splitting up into factions.
I think I’d like to just hook up maybe once a week with one or two other old farts like me, who has a campaign they need some wingmen help from to run. But I can’t even find that. It’s frustrating, because I miss flying with others in MP.
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I haven’t really flown BMS in almost 3 years, due to deployments and having my computer in the bedroom. But we moved to a new house and I have my own room, I’m looking to get back into flying soon.
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At the moment flying probably on average 1x a week in Campaign. I have never flown MP, but one day I will (my formation flying sucks). I fly Dogfight if I don’t have long. I tend not to fly TE. For me the Campaign is where it is at as I think it gives the best possible simulation of being a fighter pilot - something the other simulators miss. I spend the rest of the time reading all possible documentation/research when I am not eating/working sleeping.