Hello from Germany ...

[TriCityManiac]

Hi everyone,

i'm Tom from Germany (Bavaria, the best part of it ) and i tried Orbiter years ago ... now i came back to play this one seriously, 'cause my 8 year old son is very interested in Flight-, Driving- & Space-sims. I love hockey (fan of the Tri-City Americans), PC-Gaming, dark SciFi-Movies, Cars & Music (Grindcore, Hardcore, Mathcore ... sometimes a like it more quiet and then listen to dark and moddy Ambient Music like Scorn, some Movie Soundtracks from John Carpenter or the Scores from Movies like Supernova, Sunshine, Event Horizon ...).

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Tom

 

[Linguofreak]

Hallo, und Wilkommen!

 

[the.punk]

to the forum.

 

[ar81]

In 2005 I had an Orbiter workshop for kids at a school.
The trick is not to overwhelm them with information.
The goal is to make them feel they are playing, and sometimes it involves letting them not to pilot "correctly" but to give them freedom to experiment. There will be a time when they want to go somewhere and they might need to learn about piloting.

I made a guide for parents or teachers at www.orbithangar.com which can be downloaded. It has the first lesson of my workshop.

Also, I posted a video of one 8 year student who was on the news for bringing a Deltaglider to circular orbit.

A 9 year old student of mine landed softly on the Moon using a DGIV, some months later. Make it fun and your kid will love it.

 

[V8Li]

Welcome!

If you get your son to understand (even if it takes him 3 years) how things work in Orbitersim he might show some interest in math and physics later on. If you're on the Moon and know the maximum deceleration that the ship can give you and the distance to base you can figure out how far away you should start the engines... never learned that formula back in school.

PS: any chance you work for BMW?

 

[n122vu]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[ar81]

Once your kid knows how to fly, you may like to learn about how to make addons, so you can teach your kid. I have made plenty of tutorials you may find them at orbithangar. If your kid learns to make addons, concepts like vectors and 3D coordinates. My experience with kids is that as an average, kids younger than 9 may have problems to understand 3D space, but yours could be different.

The motivation to learn about making addons could be to build his own stuff (surface bases mostly) for Orbiter universe.