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February 13, 2005
Somebody playing too much simulator
You know, even computer games have their heroes. Take Kirill Lofichenko. He has played “Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004” for way too long and even achieved reasonable success in it. You would expect this, given how much time he dumps into it. However, experience doesn’t always lead to mastery. Take a look at my favourite chess player - he played over 325,000 games and he still sucks (average rating is approximately 1600). The “retired oldie” as he calls himself has wasted the last 10 years of his life.
But Kirill, plays all too seriously. For him, flying is more than a game. When Kirill takes the controls, he is just cruisin’ at 32-thousand feet. He flies up and down and zooms ahead at up to x128 speeds. Sometimes he crashes, but thats okay, its a virtual plane. Kirill’s efforts have not gone unrecognized. Today Kirill became an official pilot of American Airlines Virtual). Take a moment, and congratulate Kirill.
Posted by Oleg Ivrii at February 13, 2005 08:54 PM
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Flying virtual planes for virtual cash? With your talent, Kirill, soon you will be virtually rich.
Posted by: VLA at February 13, 2005 10:50 PM
Hey, cool! I'm a big MS Flight Simulator 2002 fan. I used to play a lot, but then got bored because my computer kept crashing on me during long-haul flights (my computer, not my plane!). Yes, I'm too into it to turn time acceleration on - I just get it to cruising altitude, turn on autopilot and do my homework!
Posted by: Tout at February 14, 2005 01:08 AM
Oleg lied. :D I do not accelerate at all. Because I fly online, and if I accelerate then ATC will disconnect me and I will be banned from the network forever. And then, I do not want to crash which is what time-acceleration does.
To VLA: Try to get new planes, u probably flight default ones. Can send u some cool stuff. And lots of manuals, real manuals like 2000 pages to the plane. Believe me u wont be bored at all :D
Posted by: Ki-ll at February 16, 2005 05:50 PM
Interesting, Oleg, you are spreading propaganda, this time at poor Kirill's expense. Pilots are too honest, they just don't know when the exaggeration is in their favour. Keep on cruising.
Posted by: Kostya T at February 17, 2005 07:57 PM