Welcome
to my website:
Updated
18 May 2010
Hello to all, and welcome to my new
updated website. I hope you like the new look, I thought it needed a spruce up
for 2010 as this is the first time it has been updated this year. Having come
back from a lengthy sabbatical from Military AI production I am now full pelt
into a series of new models and AI packages which will be released soon by Military AI Works.
For details of my new projects please visit the PROJECTS
page.
ABOUT
ME
My name is Nick Black. I am 29 at the moment,
born in North Yorkshire, UK. I am currently a Police Firearms Officer and
previously served in the Royal Air Force as a Movements Controller after 6 and
½ years. I left the military in 2008 in order to be able to be with my
family more often.
I first got involved in Flight Simulator
while in the Air Cadets at the age of 18. I got FS98 and started to look at it
towards developing a scheme to teach the younger cadets how to fly. I stumbled
across flightsim.com and discovered that the FS world was not limited to what
came in the box. I started to venture into Scenery design programs and
Repainting textures to make what was then a limited market of add-on aircraft
available for use with what I had planned. This led me to tinkering with FS
Scenery Creator, trying to make my own base to fly from. From this I went on to
develop my first release which was a highly detailed scenery of my home base at
the time, RAF Brize Norton for then FS2002. This file was extremely popular and
I was featured in an online FS magazine that is now no longer publishing, and
the file was included as a free download in PCPilot Magazine twice over the
years, in both FS2002 and FS2004 formats. The Brize Scenery was updated many
times, and included in its last version very detailed and accurate AI
flightplans, AFCADs etc. I had expanded my interests to AI but I was not very
happy with the lack of Military AI aircraft and plans available.
When I moved to RAF Coningsby, I had discovered the work of Rysiek
Winawer and his AI A-10 through the FSGateway forums. His indepth and superb
walkthrough of the development of this model led me to fancy a go at it myself.
And so I bought FSDS by Abacus and set about creating an AI model of the
Eurofighter Typhoon, the aircraft at my current base. It was met with great
interest and alot of help from various sources and in August 2006 I was invited
to become a part of a new group setting itself up to make Military AI. Hence I
became a part of Military AI Works.
I have a wonderful fiancé (Charlie)
and a beautiful baby girl (Rose) who is 2½. I drive a Skoda Octavia VRS
1.8T. My other interests include football (soccer) I am a huge Manchester
United fan and have been since birth virtually. I also follow American Football
and have had the pleasure of being able to play Gridiron for Oxford Saints in
the 2006 UK Season. I am a New York Jets fan for my sins.
Another strange passion I enjoy is a love of
Sharks. I took my first dip with these beautiful animals in the Blue Planet
Aquarium in Cheshire, UK in October 2008, which was amazing. My lifelong
ambition is to swim with Great Whites one day.