Flying Frenzy

Folks, I've been off-line for a bit due to health problems. The old migraines again. But back again now and with some good news for our flightsim community. Contacts with our aircraft builders were re-established (they had some internal problems.... don't we all!?) about the delays in building. They assured me the troubles are over and we should have a working model ready this week. Crossing fingers !!

Whereas we could only show a mesh model a few months ago, and after some unexpected delays, there is progress in the building of our Lysander, FSAddon's FIRST aircraft. As you can see texturing is now almost completed (this is a copy of the aircraft as it is flying out of Old Warden's Shuttleworth collection!). Next it will go into the workshop to get a proper (FSX) flight model, made by none other than Rob Young.

My plan is still to have the model ready for sale on the Key Publishing 'World of Aviation' event in Old Warden, end of April. More on that soon !

An interesting thread evolved on simFlight (see here) about the pros and cons of trying to stem the illegal distribution of (FS) software. Although I have my own rather skeptical view on the effectiveness of any such actions, I am willing to give any new initiative the benefit of the doubt.

Personally I'd rather just get on with my work, not having ANY time left, nor money to spend, and just make sure we deliver stellar products and stellar support. In my view that is what it takes to get and KEEP customers who are actually willing to pay for our products/services.

I think the pirated FS add-ons are usually there just because they happen to be on the market, NOT because the pirates (or many of the prating 'customers') are really interested in it. That's the ADVANTAGE of being in a niche market (one of the few, I might add ;-)).

We'll see what comes of it, if anything...... no try no win I suppose.

Installed the new Windows Live writer...... after I found that I had this (additional) MS Blog here on Live Spaces.

Too much to keep track of it all, really, but since some of my friends are using MS stuff, I'd better provide for some contact.

Lets see what Live Writer does... providing I can get it to work (being re-known for fumbling with anything PC-wise).