- When you go to an airport in real life and you are completely impressed by airline lounges
- When you start advertising near the local grocery store for your virtual airline
- When you immediately think about AirwaySim after you ordered your iPhone 4G and got told it has a big order backlog of a few months
- When you are wondering where all of the Fokker 50 aircraft and Saab aircraft are on LHR
- When you laugh at airlines flying CRJ-100/-200 aircraft
- IFE? What is that?
- When you ask the supermarket manager what his CI is
I'm not that good at this, but maybe you guys can come up with better ones ;D
- you make tons of AWS Demotivators
- you write a newb guide
- you keep coming up with oft stupid features
- you spend the time looking for grammar errors
- you know what the Magic Carpet rule is
- When you get a new phone to be able to play AWS everywhere ::) ;)
- when your first question to the doctor upon emergency delivery to hospital is whether they have wlan access (I did it for real!)
- when you start using PC and Mac in order to ensure access to aws in case of computer breakdowns
- when accessing aws becomes the first morning priority before coffee and bathroom
- when you start lecturing innocent co-workers about having a bias towards smaller planes on short-hauls
- when you attempt to convince friends and relatives that flying Tupolevs and Yaks is absolutely risk free as you are familiar with the numbers
- when you start thinking about the ICAO code of those city's major airport and your routes to there during evening news and weather reports
I just did it today ;)
- When you have a brilliant Mac at home and use a college computer with Internet Explorer 8.
- When you start looking for an actual Tristar or DC10 at Heathrow.
- When, in History lessons, you start thinking about which aircraft Napoleon used.
- When you're in 3 or more game worlds
- When it takes an hour to schedule your daily quota of new aircraft.
- When you watch the news and think "It's easy to keep cabin crew happy Willie!"
- When you start to think: "I could do this for real...."
When you know you should worry:
- "I could do this for real with all those Antonovs & Ilyushins at Heathrow..."
-when you have a pile of melted candles in front of a picture of Sami
- When you are in the public transport bus and you calculate the LF
Quote from: swiftus27 on October 18, 2010, 07:25:59 PM
-when you have a pile of melted candles in front of a picture of Sami
In fact, we will need to craft a shrine!
;D
- When your at the airport and your plane is delayed and the first thing you do is check your own airlines delay percentage.
- When your at the airport and look at airline route map and then look on AWS to see if the airports are on the game.
- Buy a wifi pass on your flight just to check on your airline.
- Get up a hour early in the mornings before work just to make sure your airline is ok.
- Clock turn around times at the airport and then wonder why you cant turn planes that fast.
- Look at a airplane and wonder when its last A check or B check was.
- Your family ask how your company is doing when you visit them.
Quote from: Boiler Dweller on October 18, 2010, 08:38:51 PM
- Get up a hour early in the mornings before work just to make sure your airline is ok.
:-[
- When you had nuf of it... promised yourself to stop playing for a few months... only to find out that you couldn't resist opening a new airline in a new game world that just opened a few weeks later...
- When the history teacher asks you how the ancient egyptians travelled and you say "EgyptAir"
Quote from: Filippo on October 19, 2010, 03:02:33 PM
- When the history teacher asks you how the ancient egyptians travelled and you say "EgyptAir"
+1 :-[
-When you look on British Airways onboard magazine's fleet page and say; "LOL! I got 200 B747's more than they do!"
-When you look on Lufthansa's onboard magazine's route page and say; "ROFLMAO! You can't see the map on my routemap because of all my routes!"
Quote from: MRFREAK on October 19, 2010, 04:17:40 PM
-When you look on Lufthansa's onboard magazine's route page and say; "ROFLMAO! You can't see the map on my routemap because of all my routes!"
hahahahah :laugh:
-When you borrow a strangers internet phone to go on AWS.
-When you'd be willing to set up a get-togethor with people you met on AWS. (Happened)
-When, for the fun of it, you just look over every viable route from your hub.
-When you write one of these.
-When your dad, who's a pilot, gets tired of hearing about you talk about airlines. :-[
- When you are the most hated player on the site. ;)
Quote from: T8KE0FF on October 20, 2010, 04:07:35 PM
- When you are the most hated player on the site. ;)
Self-knowledge is a good habit.
Quote from: Ilyushin on October 19, 2010, 04:51:33 AM
- Get up a hour early in the mornings before work just to make sure your airline is ok.
:-[
+1 :-[
How about when you excuse your self from your anniversary dinner with your wife to go to the restroom and check your airline on your phone..... :-[
Quote from: jetwestinc on October 22, 2010, 04:26:12 AM
How about when you excuse your self from your anniversary dinner with your wife to go to the restroom and check your airline on your phone.....
If I was the wife, and knew what you were doing, I'd leave you, since you don't pick the right priorities
when you choose an easy computing subject at school just for the extra daily hour of non-stop airwaysim...
When your girlfriend walks into the room with hot lingerie, asking: "What is your most important dream?", and your answer is: "Receiving all my ordered aircraft on AirwaySim right now!" :laugh:
When you've talked to your girlfriend about your airline so much she starts to ask how your airline is whenever you are near a PC. ;D
You guys have girlfriends? .... clearly not playing enough AirwaySim....
Quote from: minerva on October 24, 2010, 09:26:50 PM
You guys have girlfriends? .... clearly not playing enough AirwaySim....
LOL TO THE MAX!!! :laugh:
Not sure I can top that, but just today.....
if you check the used aircraft page at a red light and get so excited to find 2 717's there that you end up getting pulled over by the cop behind you when you fail to move when the light turns green. When he asked what seemed to be the problem, it may have been easier to just say I was drinking.....
Quote from: jetwestinc on October 26, 2010, 12:37:15 AM
Not sure I can top that, but just today.....
if you check the used aircraft page at a red light and get so excited to find 2 717's there that you end up getting pulled over by the cop behind you when you fail to move when the light turns green. When he asked what seemed to be the problem, it may have been easier to just say I was drinking.....
Should have said your a airline CEO and was trying to order some new planes.
Quote from: jetwestinc on October 26, 2010, 12:37:15 AM
Not sure I can top that, but just today.....
if you check the used aircraft page at a red light and get so excited to find 2 717's there that you end up getting pulled over by the cop behind you when you fail to move when the light turns green. When he asked what seemed to be the problem, it may have been easier to just say I was drinking.....
Similar thing happened to me tho I was pulled over for using a "handheld device" while driving... I just had to make sure my new planes had routes and I didn't even notice he was driving next to me and staring at me for the last 5 mins....
Quote from: jetwestinc on October 26, 2010, 12:37:15 AM
Not sure I can top that, but just today.....
if you check the used aircraft page at a red light and get so excited to find 2 717's there that you end up getting pulled over by the cop behind you when you fail to move when the light turns green. When he asked what seemed to be the problem, it may have been easier to just say I was drinking.....
:laugh:
I've gotten honked at for not seeing the light turn green, but I've never sat there long enough to get pulled over. Did you get ticketed?
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Similar thing happened to me tho I was pulled over for using a "handheld device" while driving... I just had to make sure my new planes had routes and I didn't even notice he was driving next to me and staring at me for the last 5 mins....
I shudder to think how large that ticket wound up being...
- When you start posting your airline's progress on Facebook or Twitter
-You begin your work day at 10. But you get in the office at 7:30! ???
Quote from: ucfknightryan on October 26, 2010, 12:55:36 PM
:laugh:
I've gotten honked at for not seeing the light turn green, but I've never sat there long enough to get pulled over. Did you get ticketed?
I shudder to think how large that ticket wound up being...
No, thankfully. Made me walk the line and touch my nose, decided I was sober and let me off with a warning!
You waste several hours renumbering hundreds of routes in a more systematic fashion. This doesn't get your airline any money; it just looks nicer on the list of destinations and airlines page.
When you work night time security patrol and instead of pulling into a clients property and patroling it, you use the patrol car computer to write this........
Quote from: LOT767 on November 04, 2010, 04:47:40 AM
When you work night time security patrol and instead of pulling into a clients property and patroling it, you use the patrol car computer to write this........
is that what you upto now? LOL
Quote from: V.Castelino on November 04, 2010, 05:18:49 AM
is that what you upto now? LOL
Yep, workin' the mean streets of Portland, OR. It's my Friday! So next 2 days I'm a free man!!!!
Quote from: LOT767 on November 04, 2010, 05:36:45 AM
Yep, workin' the mean streets of Portland, OR. It's my Friday! So next 2 days I'm a free man!!!!
I have one more night too, then off for the weekend, cannot wait ;D so good to have a weekend off at last :)
Aint it great? Sometimes I forget what a weekend off is working here ;)
....when u start to speak with the first officer about fleet communality......
then u defenitly know, you are too much online here......
Quote from: Dave4468 on October 24, 2010, 07:37:22 PM
When you've talked to your girlfriend about your airline so much she starts to ask how your airline is whenever you are near a PC. ;D
Happens every night :)
Quote from: alexgv1 on November 03, 2010, 05:48:07 PM
You waste several hours renumbering hundreds of routes in a more systematic fashion. This doesn't get your airline any money; it just looks nicer on the list of destinations and airlines page.
It was worth it. It looks so much better (and so much more realistic) now!
:)
This is how:
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Total Time Spent Online: 32 days, 17 hours and 42 minutes
:o
I registered 3 months ago, and I have almost 10 days online-time already...
I think that IS bad :)
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Total Time Spent Online: 67 days, 11 hours and 0 minutes.
That is mine...
well, I am registered since July '09 now :P
Where are you getting these times?
Click 'Profile' on the top left of this forum (just above the message tree) and then from the bottom of the new page 'Show general statistics of this user'.
31 days, 17 hours and 6 minutes and I've been here since beta.
I'm really astonished that even though I joined a day after these websites were opened and participated in all the betas, I have 'only' 18 days, 1 hours and 25 minutes.
Though, I haven't participated in any post-beta game worlds except MT3 due to busy last year...
Just coming up on 1 year since I discovered this place, and total time spent online is 60 days 49 minutes. :-[ Though in my defense I do tend to leave the webpage open whenever I'm sitting at a computer, and I work in front of one most days.
35 Days 5 hours and I joined in April of this year.....
87 days, 2 hours and 47 minutes since January 5th 2009 :-[
I often think what I could have done in that amount of time... :laugh:
EDIT: That's currently 90 minutes more than Sami!
127 days, 9 hours and 3 minutes since April 25, 2009 :o
I think maybe I really play too much ;)
17 days, 16 hours and 47 minutes :)
Quote from: Daveos on November 05, 2010, 10:00:17 PM
87 days, 2 hours and 47 minutes since January 5th 2009 :-[
I often think what I could have done in that amount of time... :laugh:
EDIT: That's currently 90 minutes more than Sami!
Scheduled a lot of non-existant digital airplanes that subsequently made billions of non-existand digital money to purchase more non-existant digital airplanes so you can schedule more non-existant digital airplanes......
The cycle of Airwaysim Addiction explained ;D
When you try to book a a real world ticket between 2 cities and can't find a direct flight and yell BS because you can name 2 airlines in AWS that run that route non-stop!
Quote from: LOT767 on November 18, 2010, 03:06:47 AM
When you try to book a a real world ticket between 2 cities and can't find a direct flight and yell BS because you can name 2 airlines in AWS that run that route non-stop!
LOL +5
+1. You are correct, sir!
Quote from: LOT767 on November 18, 2010, 03:06:47 AM
When you try to book a a real world ticket between 2 cities and can't find a direct flight and yell BS because you can name 2 airlines in AWS that run that route non-stop!
Like London - Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane/Adelaide/Perth I fly the ALL (usually, just that I am not far enough in DotM yet :P ) I fly them all NONSTOP in a B772LR, why don't BA or Qantas fly it?!
well the reason why routes like that aren't flown non-stop is because a) the passengers would get rather roudy after being crammed in a metal tube for that long and b) both airlines have made Singapore a hub of sorts (mostly Qantas) and stop there to pick up and drop off connecting passengers.
I fly quite often between Melbourne and Singapore on Qantas 744's (8 hours) and then switch to a Turkish Airlines (usually A343) for (12 hours) to Istanbul followed by a flight from Istanbul to Izmir on a B738 or A321 (1 hour). Let me say from experience that the stops in Singapore and Istanbul are most welcome. 4 hours hanging around Singapore Intl feels amazing, the ability to move freely wherever you want.
You have played too much AirwaySim when:
You sit in history class and ask your teacher why so many american presidents were named after big airports.
Quote from: lilius on November 22, 2010, 04:03:42 PM
You have played too much AirwaySim when:
You sit in history class and ask your teacher why so many american presidents were named after big airports.
;D
+1
Quote from: lilius on November 22, 2010, 04:03:42 PM
You have played too much AirwaySim when:
You sit in history class and ask your teacher why so many american presidents were named after big airports.
LOL ;D
I got a new one:
When you begin to pray in the evening: "Dear Sami in Helsinki, let this night be a good night for my airline and make all passengers fly with my airline...."
LOL
(not to insult any religious people)
Jona L.
I shout at all of the Dash 8s in the skies over KCLE.... all because Continental is an obvious commonality w***.
Quote from: swiftus27 on January 09, 2011, 11:09:55 PM
I shout at all of the Dash 8s in the skies over KCLE.... all because Continental is an obvious commonality w***.
It's not Continental anymore... It's United LOL :laugh: :'(
I call them Continited personally.
LOL
Quote from: Jps on October 18, 2010, 06:10:11 PM
- When you get a new phone to be able to play AWS everywhere ::) ;)
That's just freakin" sick, man!!!! Get help! ;) ;D
Quote from: lunchbox on January 11, 2011, 12:38:09 AM
It's not Continental anymore... It's United LOL :laugh: :'(
I hate that United became the surviving carrier. I hope they retain Continentals corporate culture. :P
Quote from: swiftus27 on January 11, 2011, 02:28:21 AM
I call them Continited personally.
Continited is good, I have heard Unitinental as well. When they tick me off (happens from time to time), I just call them "The Big Hairy Cont"......always gives me a chuckle :laugh:
Don
When you hear Mexicana went bankrupt you think: 'They ran out of credits I believe.'
Quote from: Ilyushin on January 17, 2011, 04:11:32 PMWhen you hear Mexicana went bankrupt you think: 'They ran out of credits I believe.'
I think I know this from somewhere ::)
Quote from: TK1244 on January 17, 2011, 05:57:18 PM
I think I know this from somewhere ::)
No you don't ;D
Ouch!
47 days, 15 hours and 54 minutes
and i had a break for a month :-\
When you hate Tuesdays more than Mondays 8)
+1 ;D
-When..........................wait I have to play.
I quit my job and dumped my girlfriend, too big of distractions........Now, I collect unemployment so I'm almost a real airline CEO in a way I do get paid to sit at home and run my airline now.
Quote from: LOT767 on February 03, 2011, 07:44:51 AM
I quit my job and dumped my girlfriend, too big of distractions........Now, I collect unemployment so I'm almost a real airline CEO in a way I do get paid to sit at home and run my airline now.
Are you serious?
HA, I wish I could afford to sit at home all day. Was only kidding.
I thought so. But, some people are crazy. ;D
That is a true statement!
... You still patrol the forums all day even when you haven't been in a game for months.
Quote from: swiftus27 on February 04, 2011, 01:19:47 PM
... You still patrol the forums all day even when you haven't been in a game for months.
Its hard to stay off this thing when you have a laptop in the patrol car, a computer at the office, a computer at home and a blackberry.......
Quote from: LOT767 on February 04, 2011, 06:39:19 PM
Its hard to stay off this thing when you have a laptop in the patrol car
. . . VROOM . . . Radar Gun reads 80 MPH . . . D-Check is on manual and expired . . . 15 unscheduled aircraft . . . what to do, what to do . . . ;D ;D
Quote from: RushmoreAir on February 04, 2011, 06:54:02 PM
. . . VROOM . . . Radar Gun reads 80 MPH . . . D-Check is on manual and expired . . . 15 unscheduled aircraft . . . what to do, what to do . . . ;D ;D
Lol, I wish. I'm only as the youth would call it, a "Rent-A-Cop" I do Alarm Response for a security company, so its more like. I get a callout to a break in alarm, I'm the only one in the district but. . .D-Check is on manual and expired . . . 15 unscheduled aircraft . . . what to do, what to do . . .
I should add, its a real pain in the a-- driving through rush hour traffic hitting F5 all the time....... ;D
When, while buying yourself a used car, you ask the dealer with a completely straight face when the vehicle was last C-checked ::)
And when having realised your mistake and got the MOT details, you negotiate buying the vehicle on the basis that the cambelt is changed, and still think to yourself "great - that's my D-check pushed back 6 years!" 8)
Q: When do you know you have played too much AirwaySim?
A: When at booting your PC it goes streight to AWS.com
Quote from: swiftus27 on February 04, 2011, 01:19:47 PM
... You still patrol the forums all day even when you haven't been in a game for months.
Hey, that's me lol 8)
Last night I dreamt about my nephew loginning into my account and leasing 6 or 7 of those small airplanes; antonovs, Baes, cessnnas etc. all different types with 3 year leases. I had two pay like 150 mil to get rid of all of them. I didnt have that much money in my account, because I just ordered 10 X 777-300ers, I was also cursing as there were no planes on the used market, and that Dan Dantes was going to take up all slots and bankrupt me.
The funniest thing was, I saw that I was losing money, but not in the usual daily basis, but it was working as a countdown timer, I was losing like 10000 USd per second, oh my god, I woke up in tears.
That's how I know I'm playing too much AWS. Damn it Sami, I was addicted to diet coke, and now this...
- When you complain to your deputy prinicipal about blocking AirwaySim because it isn't Facebook or an ordinary flash game site, when they allow "Maths Online" when it consists of no maths and fun games such as popping balloons using monkeys. ... (Don't ask! :laugh:)
- When you book marked AirwaySim on your school laptop even though you can't connect to it.
- When you tell your family how much fuel planes use per hour, rounding it to the nearest 10 kg/h.
- When you considered getting a job so you could have some money... to play AirwaySim.
- When the time for a game to open is something reasonable in Europe and something RIDICULOUS in Australia and you either stay up or set your alarm so you're awake to set up your Home Base and get the best used aircraft. <-- happened numerous of times :laugh:
Try encrypting the connection, it usually works on my school computers.
Today I caught myself counting the load factor of local commuter bus... :-[ The yield didn't look too good because most of the passengers were either elderly or young enough to buy half priced ticket.
When you reveal to totally random people what you give up in your personal life to play Airwaysim.
Quote from: type45 on October 18, 2010, 07:01:34 PM
- when you start thinking about the ICAO code of those city's major airport and your routes to there during evening news and weather reports
I just did it today ;)
Nope. It's regarding real pilots. ;)
When everyone at work asks you how the used aircraft market treated you today, and they can normally tell by your mood...
When you work for an airline, are surrounded by fellow airline nerds, and you are still the "geek who plays that airline game all the time"....
Quote from: jetwestinc on March 19, 2011, 10:06:13 PM
When you work for an airline, are surrounded by fellow airline nerds, and you are still the "geek who plays that airline game all the time"....
This one is good :laugh:
When you get up in the morning and the first thing you do is...go check your airline...leave work at lunchtime (beacuse the sy systems on the work PC's wont let AWS load) to....go check your airline....when you point blank refuse to stay late in work and tell your boss its...because you need go check your airline...I think I need help ;D