Hello all! I'm Ryan and I just wanted to introduce myself a little and ask some questions for the A10C community. I live in Southern California and have been loving planes ever since I saw the Blue Angels when I was like 6 years old at the old Marine El Toro Air Base. Now I reside in Riverside next to the March ARB. I consider myself lucky to wake up hearing and watching F-16's, sometimes F-18's, C130's, KC135's, and just recently the V-22 Osprey going by (:
Anyways, I am quite eager to buy A-10C because from all the videos I stumble upon on Youtube, it looks AMAZING. I finally have built a computer that can handle these new crazy games which will now let me join in the sim communities. Yesterday my best friend's uncle decided that he had no use for this mock-up cockpit he made out of wood since he travels a lot. He even gave me ALL his peripherals (which although look quite aged) from pedals, to throttles, and etc. I'm quite eager to buy another monitor to dedicate and permanently attach to this thing which will sit in my garage.
I do have a few questions though. This game looks mighty complicated. I've read countless of times that the learning curve is very steep. But by watching training videos on Youtube, it looks that just watching these 100 times and making notes would be the course to go.
Would it be fine for a new sim pilot to dive into this?
Do I need a really good stick to fly well?
I have a Saitek Cyborg X and have been looking at the Saitek X52 to upgrade if the X isn't good enough.
Lastly, thank you all for being such an informative and friendly community from all the secret ninja lurking I have been doing here.
