Hello my name is Kevin Egan and i am the west of Ireland in the town of Athenry

It all started for me around 5 years ago when I got a copy of FS2004 and installed it and played with it and then. I was looking for an Aer Lingus livery to add to the default FS B737 and soon found my way to the PC Pilots Ireland website, where I saw that some people were flying online with ATC. I got all the software I needed to go online and soon found myself at gate 34 at Dublin, listening to what was going on. I was stunned to hear how serious people were taking this - I was instantly hooked. The next night I wanted to try this online flying, so I got my Cessna ready, tuned into the ATC, it was Greg Coyle at that time who was controlling Dublin. It was all very new to me, so much so, that I did not know what a callsign was, so Greg gave me one, you guessed it, 'Shamrock 117' (EIN117) and from that day on it has stayed with me.