Hey guys!
My name is Robert. 29 Years old, from the Netherlands. I've discovered DCS only two months ago, but it turns out it's the game I've been looking for the past couple of years. Guess I haven't looked hard enough. At the moment I'm totally addicted to it.
Ofcourse that's the reason why I'm looking for an online community to fly with. While it's fun to join an open server sometimes, most of 'm are freeflight, or populated with non-English speaking people... I want a serious realistic game with serious people. That sounds like a lot of fun to me.
Because I'm so addicted, I've got a lot of time to spend on the game, much to the aggrevation of my girlfriend lol. Nah, it's not too bad. I saw the minimum is 4 hours of playing a month. I'll easily make that many hours a week. I've already found a group that I regularly fly with, but it's a very small group and not very organized. I came across 476th and I'm impressed with the website and the number of members, many of which seem to be Dutch as well! So that's the reason why I signed up for the forum. Unfortunatly when looking for the application form I noticed that it's impossible to apply right now. That sucks because I'm really motivated to get started ASAP. When will the application open again? And how long does the IQT and MQT take? Can't wait to become combat mission ready.
Anyway, a little bit more about myself. I've always been fascinated by aviation. Ever since I was an 8 year old I wanted to fly. Especially since seeing Top Gun heheh. So I've been playing flightsims as well ofcourse. Started with MS Flightsim 3 I think, all the way up to FSX. Ofcourse also X-Plane, IL-2 and Take on Helicopters. But there's no flightsim that I like as much as DCS. I've got the A10C, P51D, KA-50 (BS2) and UH-1H. I only play A10C and the UH-1H. Haven't really tried the other modules yet.
Other hobbies are making music (singing & playing guitar), video editting and fitness (to make benefit of glorious muscles). My PC is kinda up to speed, but I'm saving money to get a HD7970 video card and to buy three monitors in the near future. Also I'll buy TrackIR next month. I've had a Saitek X52 for ages which I still use, and I use my Logitech G27 racing pedals as a rudder/yaw
So yeah, looking forward to apply. Please let me know when this'll be possible and how long it takes to become CMR.