I’m 71. Thanks, everyone, for making me feel young 
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What a wonderful post. I to started in 1982 using the first flight sim program written on a Sinclair ZX-81 computer, then later moved to the Sub Logic Flight Simulator. Its been a wonderful ride, every year chasing the new stuff which always seemed just out of reach… Purchased EVERY release of Microsoft flight sim and loved every one. Still going strong, chasing the dream but now we are really cooking with gas. All the best guys… from Australia.
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It’s great to see folks getting up there in years still engaging in this hobby and the “newfangled” modern tech required to make it all work.
While not a youngster by any means, I have a few decades before I’m in the same position. Assuming I don’t hit my expiry date before then, I hope that I’ll be just as passionate about this wonderful hobby and still able to engage it in as you are.
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75 here and still going strong, can’t wait for a decent 757.
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@ArrantSpring97
Wish you good health and a lot more years of great flight simming!
While being around 40 years younger than you, I have also been simming for 28 years so not that young either 
As a young kid I loved aviation and was planespotting, but Flight Sim got me really engaged, I got my EASA PPL license in 2000 and since then I have accumulated almost 600 hours. Somewhere along the way in 2008 I got my instrument rating, sadly due to covid restrictions I lost my IR currency but will reinstate it in spring next year.
See you in the virtual skies 
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Although not as old as some here, I too am getting up there in age. I’m 67 and I have always been a flight enthusiast. I have owned every version of Flight Simulator since the first SubLogic version.
Hopefully I too will make it to my 90s and I expect to still be flying and building my own PCs.
Flight Simulator, Home Automation/Technology and my Home Theater are my hobbies in retirement.
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You are probably about my age. I was born the year of the ‘Crash’. I may have been the cause. I also wrote ‘Autocoder’ for a 1401, I believe it was a 4K. Saw my first PC while visiting IBM at Binghamton. We 360 programmers thought it was cute, but didn’t see much future in it. Your monitor setup is similar, I also have 3 32" curved. Been flight simming off and on since the early days. In the early 90’s I was using expired charts given to me by my neighbor, a commercial airline pilot. Wish I still had them.
Always get a smile when I hear how surprised youngsters are that we can understand and use computers. It was our generation that developed the computers for them.
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Not even near, almost 51.
You guys rock it. Respect to you. You guys are my Idols when I have the chance to get to my retirement age. 
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Incredible and thank you for sharing that gem of a photo!
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I thought I was old. You have me beat. I salute you sir.
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In the meantime there is a free DC3 addon:
DC3 for old fashioned flying without GPS » Microsoft Flight Simulator
70yrs old. Former RAF Aircrew (22years)
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For me, VR
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Wow! Respect 
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You’ve pretty much got the setup I want ot build - with 3 monitors. Do you mind me asking: What is your total Field of View, is it 180 degrees? How much are the monitors angled from each other (physically) 45 or 60 degrees? Do you find any distortion becaue of the curve - such as when a straight line traverses 2 monitors?
Any issues driving 3x 4K? what is your CPU and GPU?
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I had the same question. That might be pushing around more than VR (I haven’t done the math).
** Edit **
Just did, For VR I’m rendering 3868x3784=14,636,512 but the native resolution I think is 9,331,200 pixels
For the 3 wide screens it’s 7680x1440=11,059,200
Plain old 4k is 8,294,400 pixels
VR Resolution has always confused me though.
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I’ll be 52 in December and i thought I was the oldest one here. Love this thread. Much respect to OP.
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@ArrantSpring97,
Thank you for starting this thread. You have warmed my heart. 
@OldM20KPlt,
Thank you for sharing. I salute you.
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About to turn 51, had pc from 2000, first sim experience was century of flight and combat flight simulator for The yanking and banking. No longer a pc’er. I’m one of those sometimes lovingly referred to GAMER people. I won’t apologise for that. Xbox gives me access to MSFS and also let’s me indulge in the therapeutic pastime of shooting m’fer’s in the face. I’m afraid I like to turn and burn in fast jets mostly but I do quite often go realistic and fly props lke the caravan or JU52 and I’m not averse to doing a sensible commercial route now and then. Have loved reading some of the earlier stories in this thread and hope that I’m still feeling the need to fly in 30 odd years time. Respectfully Neil 
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Autocoder? I remember it well.
I was with IBM when the 360 was announced and the first OS programmer hired by American Airlines.
On Friday I turn 85 years old.
Cheers.
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GimbalAxis:
After reverting to NVidia Surround I started with very shallow angles between monitors, like 5 to 10 degrees but I’ve ended up with 30. My eyepoint is 915 mm from the centre screen and total FOV is 139 deg. At 0 deg (i.e. monitors on a smooth curve, no angling) the FOV would be about 120 deg from the same eyepoint. Moving the eyepoint any closer is not possible with 32" screens because of all the stuff on the desk. A bigger desk and larger screens would help but I would need a new house.
My monitors have 1500 mm radius (MSI MAG321CURV) and I am driving them at 1440 vertical pixels 60Hz so I guess that is 2K. The NVidia Surround system creates a single virtual display of something like 7780 x 1440 pixels with bezel correction, and with my geometry the side distortion is tolerable. Please remember I’m a TrackIR fan and I like to be able to glance left or right along the wings with as much realism as possible, and I’ve had to play with the TrackIR profile settings to give me a virtual angle of 90 deg left or right when I am actually only turning my head about 60 deg. The curved monitors are wonderful when doing this.
I use an i9 11900 cpu and RTX 3070 ti, most settings at ultra, DX12,no overclocking. On the ground in an international airport I see about 50 fps and 60+ in the air. To get the best out of NVidia surround don’t forget to enter the pixel dimensions for the virtual display in the MSFS graphics options, otherwise you’ll only see 25 - 35 fps.
Good luck!
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