Intercept the flight simulation magazine was the 1992 brainchild of Eric "Reckless" Pearson. By 1995, his magazine had 2,500 subscribers who paid USD20 a year. The mean reader age then was 37 with 34% serving in the military.
Pearson worked 60 hours a week at his real job, as a quality-assurance engineer for a plastics company. His wife, Elaine (Amazon) Zacharczenko, was a pharmacist. Together, they published six Intercept issues a year from their Kingston, N.Y., home. To write an in-depth review, Pearson would put in a minimum of 50 hours of late-night playing time in his home cockpit, fashioned from a Subaru sports car seat.
I occasionally get into a flight suit when Im having trouble with motivation, Pearson said.
His wife, Zacharczenko, made a name for herself as a sort of amateur psychologist. Her column, Words of Wizzo-dom, won a sizeable following among sim widows. In one, she identified the warning signs that a maiden was dating a serious hobbyist: "He owns a flight jacket, flight gloves, aviator sunglasses and a pair of silk boxers with jet fighters on them. She herself was alerted by her husbands license plate frame: 'Too close for missiles. Switch to guns!'".
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