My fascination with airplanes has been with me since childhood. Back then, I lived about 500 meters from a glider airfield where small airplanes also took off and landed. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity to live out this passion as a pilot. Over time, my fascination specialized in fighter planes.
I have always found the Fairchild-Republic A-10 jet particularly fascinating. Having grown up in East Germany, there is a historical connection to this aircraft. The A-10 was developed in the 1970s to destroy Soviet tanks on the plains of Northern Europe. If the Cold War had heated up back then, I would have found myself in the middle of a war zone - a terrible thought.
Thanks to modern software solutions such as the Digital Combat Simulator (DCS), it is now possible to simulate an aircraft and its use very realistically. DCS is not a simple computer game like ACE Combat 7, for example, where you can activate various flight aids. In order to fly an aircraft in DCS, you actually have to learn how to control it - like a real pilot.
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