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It's a nice bird. Saw the "Connie" at Avalon today

Over the Pacific...

Perhaps these may answer the question Still a WIP. - CK.

It is a freeware scenery package for X-Plane Version 9.7 or 10. It is a support package to fly the Iditarod Sled Dog race in Alaska like the RW Iditarod Volunteer AirForce. It will have scenarios and missions derived from real-time callouts from the mushers and their teams. (Tomorrow) It has a Challenge Contest where you can win either a Carenado C-185 or an STMA SuperCub, both with custom Iditarod and EPOCH Alaska Air VA liveries. It is a way to have fun whilst flying in your simpit. How'd I do?

Okay, after some playing around and experimentation, here's what I have discovered: Without SASL, NONE of the Aspen works. Neither the graphics, nor the logic, nor the pop-up window, nor its interaction with the autopilot, nor the knobs, nor the click zones, etc. It appears the way it's programmed, it makes use of some pixel graphics, some fonts, and some vector graphics. Functionality seems to be all programmed from scratch, tapping into some X-Plane datarefs, but most of the datarefs are custom. There's NOTHING "X-Plane default" about this Aspen. Not the graphics (ALL graphics are high-quality, high-resolution custom graphics), not the logic, not the pop-up functionality. Only some datarefs used to display stuff like artificial horizon are X-Plane's and even these datarefs are subject to custom plugin commands to reflect the real EFD1000's functionality. Even the database used to show the moving map is custom-compiled and calling in this database is done with SASL. Drawing the stuff on the map is done with SASL as well. X-Plane's datarefs are used also to interact with the Aspen, so that things like Moving Map de-cluttering and zoom functionality or barometer settings or speed, altitude, and heading bugs are in sync with X-Plane's commands. The source files are not locked. It's all there: the graphics, the code, even SASL as a plugin is open-source, so you can feel free to look under the hood all you want. I'm attaching some screenies of the EFD1000 popup showing the menu pages.EFD1000_screenies.zip

I prefer the ones that are not black... Mostly because you said they look strange from a distance. But that's just my opinion...

Wow !!!!! This will surely be amongst the best scenery available for XP for a long time O.o

Regarding X-Plane standard instruments, the first step should be to make them more readable. The GNS430 works okay, albeit lacking important features, but it looks plain ugly when used in a 3D cockpit in 1920x1080 resolution. When used in planes like the Carenado planes which have very realistic looking cockpits, the standard GNS spoils everything. I wonder why Laminar does not do something about this.

Approaching the small agricultural community of Maxwell, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of Sacramento. The agricultural lands of California's Central Valley offer some of the most spectacular flying in the state, with the constant variation of colors and patterns of the fields. Looking to the west, in the distance, are the mountains of the Mendocino National Forest. Interstate 5, the main roadway from Canada to Mexico, can be seen, along with the interchange, to the east of Maxwell, just above the nose of the Cessna.

Picked up Carenados new A36 today off their page today love it. On my way to Port Hardy from Sandspit.

Thanks to all for your compliments! Haha, it's one of those moments where you start to appreciate what's there when it's not. Definitely bundles of excitement through and through! Most welcome! We gave out progressive notices through other media as we could. There was definitely some heart sinking going on, even with the knowledge of the snapshot backup. It's one of those moments where you know you've been as safe as you can, but don't know the final outcome until things are in place. Sleep never felt so good. I agree, Keith, it is ironic. RAID setups are supposed to be a signal of security, but when they burn, they burn bad. Definitely thankful for the offsite backups as well. Cheers, all!

Version 1.2 is available now. Not sure why the files are not available at x-pilot. This is a question to the forum moderators. You can also download the latest version here: http://igorland.com/vdispatch.html Thank you all for using it!

And you can always ask for particular airports from the community. Someone just asked for KGSP last week and greggerm threw one together. Someone asked for C99 poplar grove -I tossed it together in an hour for them. Luckily the xplane universe is full if helpful idiots like us (no offence Greg). EDIT, easIert way to search is byICAO code. Scenery developers generally post the ICAO code as part of the naming by convention. i.e. searching for "Ernest Rutherford/Lower Wakari Kakaori international Airport xplane" may not work, but "xplane NZDN" does immediately. I just had a look at the google search you tried. I would never do it like that (and expect it to actually work). Heh. Know your ICAO codes.! These are where planes fly to. Humans are just ballast and/or cargo.

The beautiful hills north of the city of Chico. Just departed the Chico (KCIC) airport heading north toward Lassen National Forest.

Flying in the South Bay, north of San Jose, over the large and colorful salt evaporators. A beautiful sun glint appears in the distance off the San Francisco Bay in the late afternoon. Moffett Federal Airfield (KNUQ) is in the background to the left in the image.

It was a joke about that boeing. Certainly I didn't want to be rude. BTW: I didn't write a word about their decision to postpone the project. Lack of personal contact and foreign language sometimes cause missunderstandings and I indeed apologize for it.