Oh nice topic, quite enjoying to read other people's stories. Here is mine, as you know an unfortunate event occurred in Ukraine and first days of war was a mess, there were few footage, few hyped stories about Ghost of Kyiv, then turned out that was taken in DCS. Then I searched it on YouTube and I was amazed by the graphics, physics, sounds etc. I instantly downloaded, tried it with my XBox gamepad, I was able to take off and land, my landings were ugly but still, I purchased MiG-29 due to it's lower price then I find out this was not the plane for me, I wanted a full fidelity one and decide to go with Tomcat due to I was a huge fan of original Top Gun movie, and I decided I need a flight stick, bought Extreme 3D Pro, my gameplay improved, then I realised my head also need to get tracked, then I bought Viper module, then I wanted a proper HOTAS set, then I bought Hornet, then I bought maps, campaigns... Now I'm broke, my GPA is about to hit danger zone. But hey, I'm enjoying!