Flight Sims

Ever since I was a little fella I've wanted to fly planes. We had an Apple Mac way back when and I used to love playing one of if not the original Microsoft Flight Simulator on that. About 10 years ago I got back into flight sims, this time playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 10 (FSX). I used to play it all the time and then a few years ago I stopped. I've just started playing it again and I'm enjoying flying a little plane around Australia. I've chosen a plane that I could theoretically buy and fly if I had the money, it's a Cessna single engine and doesn't have all the glass panels that newer planes have.
I like just looking at the map and getting the frequencies of the different beacons and navigating to different locations all by myself. I write the frequencies down and then I put the map away.
I don't know if I've mentioned this before or not but I'm colour blind. Not completely colour blind, like seeing in black and white or anything, I have a deuteranomaly which means I'm what is more commonly refereed to as red/green colour blindness. This means that I could never be a commercial pilot or fly for the airforce. When I found that out I was pretty upset as that's what I wanted to do as a boy. For my birthday earlier in the year my family got me a gift certificate for a 30 minute flight in a professional flight simulator, I'm still to use it but I am now looking forward to it since I'm getting back into FSX.
I'd still love to get a pilots licence and a plane of my own but there is no way that I could afford to do either of them unless I won lotto or something, but it's nice to dream. 

Bomber
..life could be a dream..