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Community Experience in Perspective [Part 3]
Almost fifteen years ago,
after purchasing X-plane for the second time, the learning curve quickly asserted itself and it soon became obvious help would be the order of the day. So, rather than contact Laminar (which might have been easier) I took to the internet and starting looking for a resource with a decent Xp forum – and soon ran across the Flight Simulator Network. Back in those days that was a happenin’ place, with all kinds of forums (and sub-forums, even…) and you could spend hours on end chatting in real time with like-minded x-planers about anything under the sun.
Simon and I met there and over the course of a half-year-or-so we talked a lot about starting a blog dedicated to X-plane – and only X-plane – then we got down to putting it together. Thing is, I was spending most of the time on my sailboat on the US east coast, and Simon was located Down Under…
SENERY UPDATES
Community Experience in Perspective [Part 3]
Almost fifteen years ago,
after purchasing X-plane for the second time, the learning curve quickly asserted itself and it soon became obvious help would be the order of the day. So, rather than contact Laminar (which might have been easier) I took to the internet and starting looking for a resource with a decent Xp forum – and soon ran across the Flight Simulator Network. Back in those days that was a happenin’ place, with all kinds of forums (and sub-forums, even…) and you could spend hours on end chatting in real time with like-minded x-planers about anything under the sun.
Simon and I met there and over the course of a half-year-or-so we talked a lot about starting a blog dedicated to X-plane – and only X-plane – then we got down to putting it together. Thing is, I was spending most of the time on my sailboat on the US east coast, and Simon was located Down Under…