History of Flight Sim & Our Club

Timeline on Flight Simulator

• • 1 SubLOGIC flight simulators

    • 1.1 First generation

      • • October 1979 for Apple II^[2]

        • January 1980 for TRS-80

    • 1.2 Second generation (Apple II, Commodore 64, and Atari 800)

    • 1.3 Third generation (Amiga, Atari ST, and Macintosh)

  • 2 Microsoft Flight Simulator

    • 2.1 Flight Simulator 1.0

    • 2.2 Flight Simulator 2.0

    • 2.3 Flight Simulator 3.0

    • 2.4 Flight Simulator 4.0

    • 2.5 Flight Simulator 5.0

    • 2.6 Flight Simulator 5.1

    • 2.7 Flight Simulator for Windows 95

    • 2.8 Flight Simulator 98

    • 2.9 Flight Simulator 2000

    • 2.10 Flight Simulator 2002

    • 2.11 Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight Our Basic Program 29 July 2003

    • 2.12 Flight Simulator X

    • 2.13 Flight Simulator X: Acceleration Advanced Program 10 October 2007

    • 2.14 Microsoft Flight

    • 2.15 Lockheed Martin Prepar3D

    • 2.16 Dovetail Game

Formation of PC FLIGHT SIM GROUP

• • Sun City West PC Fight Sim Group

    • Organized by Bob Meyers, with early members, Bill Eckenberg, Bill Berry, and More........

    • Bob had soloed in the late 1960's at Sally;s Flying School located at Palwaukee Airport in Wheeling, Illinois.

    • He continued and completed his Pilot Certificate for "Single engine/land". Bob had around 450 total hours.

    • In 1999, Bob and a few fellow SCW flight simmers started visiting the Sun City Flight Sim Group headed by Howard Mayhew.

    • After many invites, Howard and his group helped with the starting of SCW Flight Sim Group (2003/2004).

    • Although members were using FS1998 and FS2002, our club made it's first purchase of flight sim hardware and new FS2004 software

    • We were growing and on our way!

  • The First 15 Years 2001-2016

    • Bob Meyers was our chief pilot and instructor. (2001-2008)

    • We are very much in debt to Bob Meyers for his MANY hours of research and

    • development of our "Book" of "How To Fly FS2004 & FSX".

    • An illness caused him to pass the leadership to original member Bill Berry.

    • Ed Archambault took the reins when Bill Berry and his wife Marianne, returned

    • to the mid-west. After noticing the low temperatures plus that it snowed in the winter, it was time to return to the Valley of the Sun.

    • The baton was past back to Bill for a few years then Sam Henderson.

    • When Sam took the Computers West Chair post, Ed became the PC Flight Sim Group Chair once again.

    • In 2012, Computer Flight Sims were added for One-on-One Instruction.

    • Mike Funk was instrumental in building 3 complete flight sims. Flight Sim #2 (The Big Box) has swing out storage doors with software and hardware.

This History is being updated and corrected.

If you have any additional information regarding the HISTORY of SCW, please email Ed Archambault: SCWFlightsim85375@gmail.com