Some of the most enjoyable scenery creations have had the pleasure of making are the WWII and WWI sceneries, even getting to the point where I was in fairly regular contact with the RAF Museum requesting airfield plans ….they were always very helpful BTW.  I can’t really put into words what it feels like building these sceneries from the ground up then seeing them come alive with AI aircraft. I often would try to put my self in the shoes of the those who went before and tried to imagine what it must have felt like to climb aboard one of these amazing machines knowing it could be your last.

There is something quite special about all of this so really happy to see this club. Might just have to go back and revisit some of this again now XP12 is the future..All the best..

Looking forward to learning more from everyone in the club

These sims had the brilliant feature that you could go in a dialogue window, and type in your aircraft registration.

I made sure it worked well to write 'POLICE' on the aircraft's tail through this method. I then travelled metropolitan areas and came up with missions to pursue. (Even Siblings seemed to like the idea for a while!!)

So there you have it - The origins of my claim that an operational tagline on the plane makes you a pretnd operational Pilot.

In the extension of this rego-freedom, we have the complete re-texturing. And what a 'scope for the imagination', if I shall use an old literature jargon.

Thanks for all contributions, guys. Would love to hear others' early experience with Livery creation.

Just wanted to join in and say hello and say a few words about what brought me here. My X-Plane journey started way back in the mid-2000s when I got XP8 and then XP9 on a iMac I had back then. Prior to that, it seems flight sims have been a part of my life forever as I seem to remember having 'Flight Simulator' on the ZX Spectrum in the mid-80s! Then it was Microsoft Flight Simulator 5 which seemed incredible at the time - the textures! - then FS98; but by then I'd moved into flying in the real world where I became a flying instructor and gained a couple of thousand hours in various single and multi-engine GA types.

As I mentioned above, I discovered XP8 via a demo around 2006 and never went back to Microsoft. I stopped flying in the real world and drifted away from sims around 2009, but then rediscovered X-Plane with XP11 nearly three years ago and I'm here to stay (haven't yet got the hardware for XP12 though).

What draws me to this group is that over time I've unintentionally gravitated towards a military post-WWII/early Cold War theme with my activities as I find it so much more interesting - not just the flying but the historical research, studying mission profiles etc., so I'm here to contribute any way I can.

But with Xplane 11, the idea of being able to make my own aircraft, and still have combat was what appealed.

Now, I know it is the easiest flight sim to mod and have fun with.

Al

I started with XPL9, helping one of many Airforce museums creating former military scenerys in Sweden.

Some of them are just ordinary roads, so the Viggen can land.

I have also spent many many hours, helping DWS with their AJSF 37 Viggen translations.

Thats my main plane for the moment. Easy to fly, when learned its functions.

Today, I'm a newbie in using forum and communicating with others. (English is not my mother tongue, please be patient with me.)

The experience of using XP would have been much much less without the generous contributors who shared freely their creations; whether they are sceneries, airplanes, plugins, resources, textures, libraries and so on; which totalize thousands and thousands of hours!!!! That's incredible!

I like flying SAR version of military airplanes.

I've been working on a scenery for 6 years now and I'm about to publish it this falls if everything goes well. That will be my contribution to honour all those many ones who joined the creation venture before me to share their talents, abilities and work with others who like flying.

Rejean

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Interests: Photography, X-Plane, RV Camping, Biking, Hiking, Piano, Apps designer, Blender User, multimedia and video producer.

Live with a lovely wife and retired.

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OS: Mac Latest version

Computer: Apple Studio 4Max 128GB unified memory, 49" curved screen.

X_Plane user since V5 or earlier... I don't remember😉

When it comes to military flights there can in some cases be confidentiality concerns, but i dont see this as an obstacle to the general sharing.(of course these things are to everybody's discretion)

I have had 4 helicopter flights in my life so far

The types have been S-76C+, Super Puma, Sea King and BO105.. the highlight when it comes to military flight is here a RAF Sea King flight occuring in 2002 in northern Norway while I was funcioning as a shooting range technician. 30 minute flight cross navigating the shooting range in winter conditions.Absolutely beautiful

Within fixed wing I don't have military flights to my record, but I'll still mention that I have been on a Tupolev airliner on a flight to moscow for a conference attendance as a Student. This occured in spring 2007.

In terms of GA I have been in a cessna 172 (nothing more rare), once in a glider plane towed by a Dromader, I have also been slightly airborne in hot air balloon and Through connlections I have once been offered a flight in a Saab Safir, though I rejected it due to various factors including poor tolerance to high G's (health).

Maybe I will see YOUR real world aviation story here..a highlight or multiple??

I thought of this as a new thread just to complement the exiting "what before you came to X-Plane"

I thought I would introduce my self. I am currently working on Xplane 11 working on a flight simulator for the Mosquito (a WW2 aircraft) I don't have much experience with flight sims before and learning more and more on the job and on the forums and open to more ideas on developing it more.

After finding the org I believe I found this club and joined it because @alpeggio had some amazing mil aircraft and I saw he was the club founder. Anyways I am a big fighter jet fan and love all the freeware creators that make planes for free for x plane. Sadly I didn't find many of the instructional stuff in this club on how to do combat flying so I had to figure most of it out myself. This took a loooooong time to figure out and a few months after figuring it out I found the instructions on how to do what I had learned. I did figure out a few things from this but they would have been a great time saver. Anyways this is a great club with a good community with lots of great people. 

Thanks everyone in this club for being so great and I hope to spend much more time in this club. 

I have been floating around the flight sim area for some years now although I'm not sure where I fit. I have interest in early aircraft, between the wars, WW2 and early post war jets although not exclusively military. I have tended to be a bit of a barnstormer though but seldom get into anything aerobatic or weapons as I like so may aircraft I get little time to fully learn each.

Years ago I did modify a MEe62 from FS98 to include the correct guns / damage boxes for CFS but have tended to avoid aircraft mods in XPlane as I could get too heavily sidetracked and have lots of other things on the go. From my background (engineering) I have constructed my own additional controls (sliders / buttons) to add to my current joystick and rudder pedals though.

I do a lot of reading into all aspects of military matters and equipment.

My name is Witold
on the forum it exists as vi66 and this 66 is part of the date of birth
So I'm quite old now 
I live in Poland

When it comes to military aviation, I have been gluing plastic and paper airplanes since I was a child.
These were mainly planes from the period of the Eastern Bloc and World War II, because these were the times when Poland was in the Warsaw Pact and other models were not available.

Then there was the army and I served in the Air Force
The main task was to disrupt the navigation sights of NATO bomber aircraft

At that time, our army had MiG, Il, An, Jak, Tu planes and Mi and SM helicopters.
(today most of them are in the museum)

And after the political changes, Poland is in NATO
and now our planes are F-16 F35 etc

But these geopolitical divisions do not exist in simulators, which is why I am interested in all planes from different eras.
especially military ones of various types

Regards
vi66

Great to be in the club.  Started flying simulators on a regular basis back in the FS98 days.  Switched to XP11 and then XP12.  Grew up near a Strategic Air Command base (US) and have always been interested in Military aviation.

I now have a new problem - can't keep up with all the new Military aircraft to fly!

A good problem to have!

Coming to xp11.10 was an eye opener and i wiped my fsx partition in 2018. Have learned some about normals in repainting here, and a looooooong way to go. 

Terrible sim pilot, never flew in rl, medical issue. But like many of us, i grew up loving piston engine planes, and big motor noise relaxes me - still.

Tho right now 3d modeling aint in the cards, im fascinated to learn how we can bring the past back to life in XP12.

Now retired from the US to Funchal, Madeira. LPMA, wot a landing zone!

One of my fondness memories that I will always cherish, along with seeing the Avro Arrow, was while at an Industrial Trade Show at the Hamilton Airport (home of WPHF) I was given an opportunity of climbing through the Avro Lancaster that they had completely restored. This was all a result of talking to one of their mechanics who was servicing the plane at the time and telling him that I remembered climbing through this very aircraft years before it's restoration, when it was still on a pedestal at an old WWII Bomber Training Base up in Goderich, Ontario.

Yea! you can say I'm an aircraft nut.

P.S. If I can sit in the mall while she is shopping, she can once in awhile come with me as an example when we visited the Naval Museum at Pensacola. Hee! Hee! In fairness, we really had a good time though.