Early in my career, I worked as an in-house consultant for the Milwaukee Road Railroad. My boss at the time was Steve Lupe, who has since passed away. One day I brought him what I thought was an “unsolvable” problem. He smiled and said, “I’m not the one you should be asking.” Then he gave me sage advice: "Go find people who have already been successful in the field. If you play your cards right, they’ll usually be more than willing to share their knowledge, judgment, and experience."
He was right!
With that in mind, I thought I’d try a little experiment.
Over on the right-hand side of this blog page, you’ll see links to several YouTube influencers I follow. I go to them looking for exactly what Steve talked about: knowledge, judgment, and experience. But that got me wondering - who do they follow? Who inspires them? Who are they willing to invest their time with?
So let’s take this one example and see where that trail leads.
- VR Flight Sim Guy
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- Huddison
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- SimFlightPro
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- Russ Barlow
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- Into the Blue Simulations
- No additional links.
I don’t offer this exercise as a roadmap, or even a recommendation - just an observation. Once you start paying attention to who people in the flight-simulation community learn from, you begin to see patterns, influences, and quiet lines of mentorship.
Flight simulation has a deep bench of experience behind it. If you’re curious enough to follow the trail, there’s a lot to be picked up along the way.
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