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Feeling nostalgic, now that Flight Simulator will be no more. This is something from my past...I was 13 years old when I made this.

This is a screenshot, from Microsoft Flight Simulator 1998, of an Aloha Airlines 737-300 in flight over Aitutaki Atoll, in the Cook Islands (south pacific). This was taken at dawn.

At the time, this scenery was cutting edge and breakthrough, it was newly released, and I was testing it out. I decided i needed to make a catalog of the navigational aids across the South Pacific, as my interest in that region was growing by leaps and bounds, and I wanted to explore.

This screenshot served as the cover for the booklet i created, detailing all of the navaids and airports in the South Pacific, most of which weren't even available in the game! But using the data I compiled, i was able to find the un-developed islands where cities and airports and villages, in the real world, would have been.

The love of the South Pacific never left me, and the time of my life in which this cover was made, still shapes me to this day. Were it not for Flight Simulator, I never would have explored these places that I'd seen only in books, nor would I have fallen as deeply in love. I might not be wearing Hawaiian shirts every day even in the dead of winter, I might not have gained such strong interest in the geology and cultures of these places, there might not have been leis on my walls. And they might not have been the passion for these distant reefs, spits and islands that still live in my heart.

If not for flight simulator.
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*sharkplane77 Feb 5, 2009
cool! =D reminds me a little of those old PS1 landscape graphics! :XD: i was in 1st grade back in 98! :XD:
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~Aron-361 Jan 28, 2009  Hobbyist Filmographer
I tried one of those things once. I crashed it on purpose! >D
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*Experiment720 Jan 28, 2009
We all do sometimes. My favorite thing to do was turn crash detection off, and then roll the plane down the side of Mauna Kea, get fast enough to glide, and then try to make it to Maui.

10% success rate. :)
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~00AngelicDevil00 Jan 27, 2009
ohh I had FS '98 too ...how nice to see a shot from back then :XD:
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~thedrawliner Jan 27, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I still have it :)
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*Experiment720 Jan 27, 2009
I do too.
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~thedrawliner Jan 27, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
^_^
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