Andrey Solomykin is here at Quest taking time off from his
demanding job to get ready for the upcoming competition season. He will be
flying in the 2018 Green Swamp Sport Klassic and the 2018 Quest Air National
Series. I asked Andrey to give us a little of his background. He writes:

I'm 45 years old. I live in Moscow, at north-west part of the
city, close to Moscow River and Silver Forest park.

I finished the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) in 1996 as a flight-dynamics
engineer. Today I'm a lead programmer-engineer in a game development company,
and I have been working on video games like flight simulators for personal
computers for more than 18 years. I develop realistic flight models (FMs), and
do all the stuff about airplane physics, flight dynamics, aerodynamics, engines,
props, airplane systems and equipment, instruments, weapon, damage models,
atmosphere and weather conditions, and whatever about "how does it fly."

The project I work on when in Moscow on is "IL-2 Sturmovik: The Great Battles"
which is the second series of the very popular and legendary game in 20XX "Il-2
Sturmovik." This is a very realistic virtual reconstruction of WWII airplanes.
You can see the link: https://il2sturmovik.com/about

Also, I'm a creator of the flight model for the project "Rise of Flight" which
is about WWI: https://riseofflight.com.

Moreover I developed the new advanced flight model for the 1st series of "Lock
On: Modern Air Combat" more than ten years ago. Now that company has already
released the 3rd series of this product:
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/planes/flaming_cliffs.

Also I had been working on some flight models for add-ons for Microsoft Flight
Simulator in early 20XX.

I have been a hang glider pilot since 1990. I have a FAA private pilot's license
for airplanes and also I fly trikes. I like to do an aerobatics, to fly in close
formation and do other fun stuff like a sky-diving, scuba-diving, go-cart, or
ride mountain skies.

Here at Quest I enjoy the nice weather conditions for hang gliding, and also fly
a lot on the Dragonfly for a pleasure, and of course enjoy to have many cool and
nice people around here.