Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? - sh.itjust.works

Lemmy

Snatched Flight Simulator 2020 in sale. Last time I played FS it was 2000. Back then, I always hopped into a big Airliner, cranked up realism, flicked random switches and could not get the plane to even move. If I started airborne, I just horribly crashed immediately.

So I thought: let’s do this shit again. Cranked up realism to max, but hopped into a Cessna instead. Turns out: it is not that hard in a small plane 😅 (or maybe I’m just not a stupid kid anymore). Granted, I’ve only been flying in good weather and low wind (and with a little bit of sidewind landing starts to get tricky immediately), but I’m satisfied. Only caveat: if you’re flying seriously, you’re looking so much for the instruments all the time, that there’s no time to enjoy the scenery.

After two days I looked how much a pilot’s license costs. Turns out: way to expensive 😅. It’s funny how a license for a boat is like 500€, but flying is 15k ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

In the US you can fly an ultralight aircraft without a licence IIRC

You can even build your own in the US. I know, because I checked some 15 years ago, because I wanted to build one with my flatmates 😅

But ain’t nobody going to the US these days.