a new member lands in his brand new RWD

[Rola]

Hi folks!
I'm a new member of The Old Hangar forum, so I thought I should write few words about myself. Some of you may already know me from other forums, but others (like Bill & Lynn or Tom) maybe not.

My name is Rafael "Rola" Skibicki and I'm from the middle of that darned Europe My interest in aviation was quite recently renewed by flight simulators. My expierience with FS is very little when compared to most of you, guys, so please have patience for a newbie. I had my first contact with FS series about 10 years ago, but I preferred combat flight sims. That's because I was always focused on warbirds - especially WW2 ones, however as I got back to studying the subject about 3 years ago, I found that civilian birds can be fun, too. Especially those from the golden era of aviation - the 1930s!

I found to my discontent that airplanes from my country are poorly represented in FS series - all freeware, made by amateurs, mostly modern, only few warbirds from 1930s (if we count CFS too) - and that's it! I thought it will stay this way if nobody takes action - so here I am, in the big FS world

I have started out a project called "Races'n'Records" (catchy name, eh? ) dedicated to vintage airplanes. You can find more info about it on my website, I will also start a separate thread, to fill you with some interesting details.

I'm sorry it took me so long to start writing on the forum, but I had problems with my website's host in September, I was away on "business" trip in October and... my PC broke in November
_{(yeah, my buddy once joked somebody is sabotaging me!)}

Too bad I was forced to wait for so long, now that Bill & Lynn have taken a break... I hope they will be back soon.

I'd like to thank the whole Golden Wings Gang for taking care of my favorite period in the history of aviation in MS Flight Simulator - thanks to you it's much easier to recreate "that feeling" from this pioneer years. Great job, guys!

[Roger]

Hi Rola,
Good to see you here! ;D
Looking forward to that RWD 9S!!

Regards,

Roger

[Admin]

Welcome to The Old Hangar Rola. Good to see you here.

[Kofi]

"Cheers" R.....

[kimber]

[Slide]

Hi Rola, me from d*** europe, too ;-)
This is a nice indroduction to yourself and your work. I find this is very polite and it makes me feel a little ashamed, ´cause I just stumbled into the old hangar a few weeks ago with some stupid question without saying a word about my background .... (Well, there is in fact not much backgound for my simming anyway) :-D

Just looked at your website and I find it very nice. Will try that PZL asap.
I am looking forward to all the stuff coming from your side, rock on!

[phantomx1]

Hi Rola, thanks for posting about your site. It is a really great site you have there. I downloaded the PZL P.24G fighter - Greek Air Force (2 variants), and let me say, that is one fine piece of work. Handles beautifully!

[rdaniell]

Rola,

I'd like to add my welcome. This is a bunch of great people.

Looking forward to flying your RWD 9S.

Thanks for sharing your talents with the simming community.

Randy

[Rola]

Thanks for the warm welcome, guys! Now I feel as if I was a member of this forum for years ;D I know that I'm at home here, being with fellow old airplane fans.

phantomx1 said:

I downloaded the PZL P.24G fighter - Greek Air Force (2 variants), and let me say, that is one fine piece of work. Handles beautifully!

All kudos to Elias, that's his great work. I wish I knew him back then, maybe I could help him a bit with references.
But I may get another chance to work with Elias on P.24 - I'd like to make its second prototype for FS9. It's even more suitable for this civilian sim (I'm not a big fan of making warbirds for FS, where they can't fight), as it flew only during air shows, under bold promotional name "Super P-24" ;D (after all, for a moment in history we had the fastest & most heavily armed single engine monoplane fighter in the world)