My Favorite Aircraft - The A340

Hi, this part of our web-page is dedicated to Flightsimmers and particularly to those who are like me: no manual skills, absolutely left-handed, no knowledge of electronics (switches - huh ?) - soldering - amhghh (in German we say: "loeten" and the other meaning of the word is to have a number of drinks, and that I know how to do)

What I do have is an affliction to flightsimming and the wish to have a - more or less realistic - A340 cockpit at my home.

If you are patient and interested, I will tell you just a little bit about myself - otherwise you can go straight to the  Cockpit parts in the menu on the left.

In July 2008, I turned 58, I am German and have been living in Asia for nearly 15 years, first in Hong Kong, now in Thailand with my dearly beloved wife Pranom.

What I do in Asia is of no importance here, just that my job involves a lot of traveling around Asia, so I spend a lot of time in airplanes and around airports.

When I still lived in Europe, my hobby used to be flying - real life flying - gliders and single engine - I have had a pilots license for 28 years and have flown approximately 3000 hours in more than 6000 flights. You can have a look at my flying experiences here. Alas, the exigencies of my job did not allow me to keep up my license and in 2001 it finally expired.

So flightsimming became more important to me as before. I joined SATCO, then VATSIM and finally ended up with IVAO for on-line flying., but I have given up on on-line flying for quite some time now. 

I had been flying sims on and off forever, since the days when the flightsim was still running on my APPLE II, but it was never really serious. But serious it became: Out of 1 computer soon became a networked 2 and then it started to grow.... Now I am running 6 computers just for the flightsim and Project Magneta (thanks, Enrico for a wonderful software) see here for the configuration.

The cockpit - thing started like many others  - surfing the web and looking at all the nice pics of all those cockpits in the making - and mostly out of annoyance of having to operate 6 sets of keyboards and mice. I decided: Must have too -  I want to operate my cockpit by switches and displays like in the real thing.... The choice of aircraft was made quickly (too quickly I realize now) for the A340 - my favorite. And so the saga begins....

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Last updated on 28-11-2009