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Greetings All,

My name is Nick Lindegaard and I live in Juneau, Alaska with my 3 legged cat (long story that one). I work as an analyst/programmer for state government during the day to help support my flight sim habit. I'm 33 years old as of today and have been hooked on FS since first being exposed to FS4 on a mac many years ago. The first version of FS I ever had was version 5 and rather recently I re-located the disks and manual for it (as I was rummaging about for old lucas arts tie fighter disks actually).

Never really joined a VA before (somewhat too much structure) although I poked my nose into a couple Alaskan ones once or twice... but as Pete has mentioned previously, they're mostly concerned about flying 'up north.' I simmed pretty heavily with FS9, but took a bit of time off after the release of FSX. After tweaking I seemed to manage to get FSX running nice and had a hard time going back to FS9, however the lack of addons for FSX left only the default environment (yech). Been steadily getting back into it over the last few months and while the landscape is still not great for south east yet, the screenies of TongassX do look not only promising, but I think that one is going to be a real treat!

I picked up X-plane 9 last week to give it a try. The default terrain for the Juneau area seems better than default FSX, but good lord they were right about that sim being twitchy. The little 172 acted like an aerobatics plane. I like the water, however... and the prospect of volumetric fog looks nice, so I'll no doubt be spending more time dinking about in it in the coming months.

I've been using FSEconomy (freeware) for enhancing my sim experience. Used it a bit in FS9 and picking it back up again. The Piper Cherokee I 'own' in it is still a bit back east, but I'm slowly picking up jobs and moving it home to PAJN. I'm operating there under Serenity Air. I use Carenado's Cherokee 180 for FSX for that aircraft and have a set of gauges from RealityXP that I've been working (slowly) into the panel. I'd like to get around to making my own livery for the plane, but haven't got that far yet.

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