pvtkramer Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 (edited) Quote The Flare Path: A Typical Atypical Simmer #2 The man currently sipping a Koskenkorva and consulting his cue cards in the U/S Williams X-Jet The Flare Path uses as a dais is Ilja ‘Zipuli’ Varha. Our second ‘atypical simmer‘, Ilja has very kindly agreed to talk about his journey from juvenile M1 Tank Platoon fan to 33-year-old brigade simulator officer in the Finnish Defence Forces. Whether your polygonal battle wagon of preference is a Steel Beasts Leo, a Steel Fury T-34 or a World of Tanks Tiger, the following paragraphs should prove interesting. https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/12/09/the-flare-path-a-typical-atypical-simmer-2/#more-417935 Edited December 9, 2016 by pvtkramer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 (edited) The first of a series I suspect. Based on a request here: Edited December 9, 2016 by Gibsonm 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assassin 7 Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 31 minutes ago, pvtkramer said: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/12/09/the-flare-path-a-typical-atypical-simmer-2/#more-417935 Thanks for the post pvtkramer, I really enjoyed reading the article and thanks for your service zipuli. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpow66m Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Zipulli is only 33?lol.I thought he was an ''old guy''. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer_Leader Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Great interview and it's nice to see pics of Ilja after being soundly thrashed by him playing Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm in play by email (PBEM) head-to-head a few times! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpow66m Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 in one of his sce. the TC had a hard time getting in the hatch due to a boner,lol. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipuli Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 (edited) 7 hours ago, mpow66m said: in one of his sce. the TC had a hard time getting in the hatch due to a boner,lol. Happens rarely. But when it does, it's not the small hatch that's the problem ;-) Edited December 10, 2016 by Zipuli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maj.Hans Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 “I went on to play a lot of other flight simulators like Spectrum HoloByte’s Falcon 3.0, Jane’s US Navy Fighters, Aces over Europe and more recently IL-2 Sturmovik..." Falcon 3.0 was great. Heck, I have the Gold Collection of all three addons (F/A-18, MiG-29, and OFT) and still fire it up now and then... IL-2 Sturmovik, huh Zipuli? We may have bumped into each other a few times online lol. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipuli Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 3 hours ago, Maj.Hans said: IL-2 Sturmovik, huh Zipuli? We may have bumped into each other a few times online lol. Maybe if you remember being shot down by very accurate MG fire from a bomber ;-) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 4 hours ago, Maj.Hans said: “I went on to play a lot of other flight simulators like Spectrum HoloByte’s Falcon 3.0, Jane’s US Navy Fighters, Aces over Europe and more recently IL-2 Sturmovik..." Falcon 3.0 was great. Heck, I have the Gold Collection of all three addons (F/A-18, MiG-29, and OFT) and still fire it up now and then... IL-2 Sturmovik, huh Zipuli? We may have bumped into each other a few times online lol. That was a great time for flight sims when the shelves used to be full of them. I was able to squeeze out 624k of conventional memory for Falcon 3. Expanded memory and a really small mouse driver were the keys. They need to remake Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailout Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 On 13/12/2016 at 6:38 PM, Homer said: That was a great time for flight sims when the shelves used to be full of them. I was able to squeeze out 624k of conventional memory for Falcon 3. Expanded memory and a really small mouse driver were the keys. They need to remake Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. I have to disagree. Yes, there were tons of simulators and altough many of them were great for its time, I will rather have one DCS module (preferably Ka-50 or Mig-21:-) than all the older sims ever made. Do not get me wrong, I spent countless hours with Hind from DI, Chuck Yeager´s Air Combat Simulator, US Navy Fighters...Retaliator...and many others and loved them all but even though we have much thinner choice these days, the quality is somewhere else. Watching boot sequence of Ka-50´s nav computer will never start to bore me :-) Oh, and the main reason I got here, thanks to pvtkramer from a long time lurker, first time poster for the link, Zipuli for the interview, very fine read, and his service. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt DeFault Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 3 hours ago, Bailout said: first time poster Welcome to the forums. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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