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Enjoy! And its freeware.

While vacationing in Hawaii, I thought I would pay tribute to some of our great brave Hero's of Pearl Harbor.

Cassis87, I am sorry you have these feelings, and regret that the delay has put you in a position to no longer consider a purchase from X-Aviation. As I'm sure you know, we are not thieves, unlike your assertion of such in another thread. 64-bit is a big change for all vendors, not just X-Aviation. There are many who have yet to fully make the transition, and each has their own good reason for it. As an end user I can understand the frustration you feel, however, please know that we work each and every day to get closer to releasing 64-bit updates for our products. These updates take a lot of resources, time, and money to create, and in the end are provided to you 100% free. We thank you for your patience, and once you receive your update we hope you re-consider your stance. We definitely appreciate your business! I'm going to lock this thread now to be sure we end this on as positive a note as we can. Please don't hesitate to contact us via e-mail and we'll be very happy to assist or answer any concerns you may have.

Thanks Eport Aviation

Been flying this one a bit and she's a beauty! If you've been waiting for another complex GA aircraft, this one will get you going! The cockpit lighting is a beautiful thing to behold.

For in xplane, or real life (yeah!). Or just dreamin...... No idea how much, but it's definitely got too many zeros in it for me.

Keep in mind that there is an issue with 64bit SASL that will be fixed in 10.30, purhaps this is why JRollon is holding it back

Looks awesome Carlos

Death Valley, one of the hottest and driest places on earth. This flight is crossing over Furnace Creek (L06) with Badwater Basin, the lowest elevation in the United States, in the distance to the south.

You're absolutely right. I can attest to the fact that there is a fair amount of testing, but there are so many things to be checked that some of those little things (and some not so little things) get overlooked. But I don't think there's been a payware product from ANY developer released over the past two years that hasn't had glitches upon release that required some sort of patch or work around. Even this forum is full of threads seeking help with issues with various payware. That doesn't relieve Carenado, or any other developer, from the responsibility to try to put out a perfect product. That is the goal and some day it will be achieved. Short answer, no. There is a lot of work and testing done with each of Carenado's aircraft. That being said, Carenado's timeline for bringing their planes to X-Plane is an unprecedented feat. Nobody has ever attempted to bring so many aircraft to X-Plane in such a short time. It's a lot of work to get done with very short deadlines. There's bound to be things that get missed. The good thing, as you've mentioned, is that Carenado is quick to recognize the issues and resolve them. I agree, but until V10 is FINAL FINAL, there are bound to be things pop up without warning to developers. From one iteration to the next, X-Plane can break what the developers' thought was fixed. It's a little unfair to put all the blame on the developer when a lot of the issue is created by Laminar and the whole beta and release candidate process. Isn't this the eternal question we ask about X-Plane itself? I think if we take a look at just about any product in the world today, there are thousands of examples of issues the manufacturer missed that were later discovered by consumers. Automobiles, computers, cameras, baby strollers, etc, etc. I'm grateful for all the work done by all X-Plane developers. Over the past couple of years I have become more aware of the inner workings of X-Plane and the X-Plane community and I have been given some insight into all the work that goes into these products. I think we have a tendency to hold these guys to fairly high standards and when a product comes out with a wart or two we are not very kind or patient about it. Not only do we want "it" NOW, we want "it" PERFECT! As long as developers continue to provide good customer service and are responsive to the issues, I think we should be a little more forgiving of a few oversights, while encouraging them to be more diligent in their quality control.

Wasn't intended to. I'm not referring to the blank PFD. About that, though, it sounds to me like Carenado released a product that, when you use the platform they chose and claimed compatibility with, results in problems. Regardless of the technical source of the problem, If they're going to claim that the plane works on that version of X-Plane and on that platform, perhaps that should have been verified prior to shipping it. If there were good quality control measures in place, perhaps that incompatibility would have been discovered and it could have been disclosed to potential buyers. I don't know that much about the blank PFD problem though, I haven't looked into it much. That's not what I was referring to, though. What I'm referring to is the myriad of problems that the Carenado planes have when they're released. All of them things that would have been caught if there was decent quality control. Just off the top of my head: the Cessna 208 missing a hand on the altimeter, the transponder light not working, the engine response being a large departure from reality. Some other recent plane having a compass that rolled over at something other than 360, turn coordinator broken, transponder dial not functional. These are all things that were present upon release. These were all things that could have been found by a little bit of flight testing. If they're missing such obvious things, it really makes me wonder how much effort is put into the behind he scenes stuff. Are they just bringing the model and textures over, making the gauges work, slapping together a flight model, and shipping it? Their support is great. They seem to get issues fixed pretty quickly once a customer points them out. But why are customers the ones to discover all of these really obvious screw ups?

Final flight test of my Avanti II before v1.1 release

really? because hiroshi just told me that he told you guys to stop because what you were doing was illegal