How many hours do you play SH3?

[downunder]

I was sitting here thinking how popular SH3 is and started wondering how many hours people play SH3 a week. I guess im about 10 to 15 hours a week. How many hours do you play????

Cheers

Downunder

[GoDeep]

Originally Posted by downunder

I was sitting here thinking how popular SH3 is and started wondering how many hours people play SH3 a week. I guess im about 10 to 15 hours a week. How many hours do you play????

Since installing GWX 2.1? Not enough!

Seriously though, I am about the same as you, 10 - 15 hours per week...whenever the wife lets me :hmm:

[Frank0001]

I spend 10-15 hours a week loading!

[GoldenRivet]

too damned many thats for sure.

I have been removed from my work schedule (with pay) this entire month so another person could get some training.

so needless to say i have been spending quite a bit of time with SH3. its a sickness

[GoDeep]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

I have been removed from my work schedule (with pay) this entire month so another person could get some training.

Do they need any more staff where you work? IT people? :hmm:

[GoldenRivet]

Regional Airline Pilots... at the moment we are in bad need. depedning on what oil does that could all change.

Major airlines on the other hand are pretty stagnant.

every month i fly with a differnet captain, sometimes the captain just happens to be a "check airman".

when a new airline pilot is hired and completes a few months of training at headquarters in the simulators and training aircraft he has to go out on real trips with passengers on board for X amount of hours riding with a check airman. when he gets those hours he is signed off and goes to work like the rest of us.

the company can kick me out of my seat to let one of these new guys fly with my captain if he is a check airman.

by the contract they can re-assign me, but whatever trip they reassign me to has to pretty much match my original schedule in number of hours on duty.

if they cant find a trip to give me, they have to release me to the house... with pay.

this is the fourth week in a row this has happened to me, and last year i managed to get nearly 4 full months off because of it.

[GoDeep]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

this is the fourth week in a row this has happened to me, and last year i managed to get nearly 4 full months off because of it.

That much free time to play SHIII (enters dreaming mode...)

Sounds like a good deal, if you can get it. Think they'll accept someone who has only flown prop-driven fighters? (read: IL-2)

[GoldenRivet]

man... i hate to admit it but they will take guys right now who barely meet minimum flight experience for commercial pilots license!

when i first went to the airlines you had to have like 1500 hours of flight time and about 500 hours in multi engine aircraft.

I taught flying lessons for 4 1/2 years to get to that point.

so yes... IL2 pretty much qualifies you at this point. :rotfl:

[GoDeep]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

man... i hate to admit it but they will take guys right now who barely meet minimum flight experience for commercial pilots license!

when i first went to the airlines you had to have like 1500 hours of flight time and about 500 hours in multi engine aircraft.

I taught flying lessons for 4 1/2 years to get to that point.

so yes... IL2 pretty much qualifies you at this point. :rotfl:

Which airline was that again? :rotfl:
Not Bernard-Air, right?

[GoldenRivet]

they are all bernard air these days

[Sailor Steve]

How times change. When my dad first went to work for United, in 1952, he had a pilot's license. That's it. He had gotten that because he and one of his brothers wanted to start a trucking company from Dallas to Mexico City, and they wanted to fly down there to meet the trucks

My dad said his brother was the better natural pilot, but never got his license because he was afraid to go up solo. Their plans didn't pan out, and my dad was left with the license and nothing else. Then my grandmother showed him an ad in a Dallas newspaper which basically said "If you can fly and can make your way to Denver we'll give you all the tests and pay your way home." My dad did that, and they hired him. After training his first gig was flying DC-3s from Los Angeles to San Francisco, with several stops in between.

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

"If you can fly and can make your way to Denver we'll give you all the tests and pay your way home."

not to steer this poor thread in the wrong direction.

but on a regional level its quickly coming to that point.

The time off affords me the ability to persue hobbies.

SH3 is just oen of the things i have spent a lot of time with the past few weeks, also i have organized a crawfish boil which i will be hosting in a couple of days, and i'll be attending an air show this weekend. lots of fun, but it seems no matter what im doing i feel the need to take my sub out in the atlantic and face the challenges out there

[GoDeep]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

they are all bernard air these days

[cancels coming holiday trip to Sicily]

You're scaring me, GoldenRivet... I know that nowadays, quality and customer service isn't what it used to be...but piloting skills are pretty much essential if you're going to pilot something, I thought.

But maybe I'm old-fashioned. Let's end this line of talk. It's not exactly on topic, anyway...

[predavolk]

Maybe 2-4; including load times, 3-5. Enough for a patrol every couple of weeks or so. Man, 10-15 hours a week must be pretty sweet! Too much real life for me to do that!

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by GoDeep

[cancels coming holiday trip to Sicily]

You're scaring me, GoldenRivet... I know that nowadays, quality and customer service isn't what it used to be...but piloting skills are pretty much essential if you're going to pilot something, I thought.

But maybe I'm old-fashioned. Let's end this line of talk. It's not exactly on topic, anyway...

hahaha dont worry there are plenty of professional, experienced guys out there yet

i thought about doing a 1x patrol, but i fear it will be to dull