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Today marks Remembrance Day in Canada. I took the bus downtown to the ceremonies and watched as thousands of people stood in silence with their hats off in the freezing air to honour those Canadians who fell for our country. This was followed by a flyover by three CT155's from Cold Lake. I hope all of you Canadians stopped at 1100 this morning and gave two minutes of silence to the fallen of our nation, and I hope that those in other countries around the world will stop on their day of remembrance and think about who was sacrificed for you to be where you are now. Rest in peace infantry, sailors and airmen alike who lost their lives in our wars which have been far too many. Lest We Forget.

Entirely and totally different league with a little bit different "budget" ... I could only find things like this ... 100 million spent on marketing ONLY for BF3 : http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/711624/ea-to-spend-more-than-100-million-on-battlefield-3-marketing-campaign/ Or see the 265 million spent on GTA5 .... http://www.cinemablend.com/games/GTA-5-Cost-265-Million-Develop-Market-58922.html BUT ... it doesn't mean that the X-Plane engine is not capable of creating some nice visuals too ... quite a lot of what you see is about content (not just engine). Examples: http://asn-xp.aerosoft.com/?page_id=4554

Well ... here's my slightly more measured perpsective as an ex soldier and I come from a line of 'em. My father was a solder, my grandfather (who died as a POW in Sandakan), and two great uncles were soldiers who died in Gallipoli and in France respectively both at the age of 18. On Rememberance Day and on ANZAC day we grieve for family we've lost in these wars as ALL families do, and we grieve for the pain and suffering these wars inflict on entire societies ... but we are well aware that war is the game of empire, and those who die on all sides of conflict have been pawns of empire driven by power and greed. I think it's important to commemorate these days, but not for the reasons most people think. In my mind their 'country' forsake their true memory ... and only keep up appearances as a marketing exercise. The common idea of patriotism that's normally trotted out, with all the parades, platitudes, movies and television ... it's mostly marketing inspired rhetoric. A dead soldier is indeed a victim, but he or she may also have been heroic in their struggle through life and in their final moments. I regard the people I know who died in conflict as heroes ... every one of them, because when fate found them where they were, they dealt with it the best way they could one way or another ... and their humanity lives on. Things are not always so black and white, and many heroes die outside of wars as well. To cap off this little story, I'd like to share that I have a great affinity with the stories about my grandfather who died in the Sandakan death marches. He was a tailor in civvy life and was probably too old to go to war .. but he did because he thought he was doing the right thing and I honour him for that. But the thing that moves me most about my grandfather, is that while he was a POW, he used to sew dungarees out of canvas duffle bags for the other POW's. He used the best skill he had (tailoring garments) to help his mates and make life a little more bearable for all of them ... and you won't see that type of heroism in any dang movie. He was known by his mates as "Tailor Bill". Cheers!

Not only canada, our school stopped for the one minute silence on the 11th hour as well. Hooah to all soldiers

Hey guys, I have a virtual airline called BlueHawk Virtual Airways. We have virtually no limits to what we fly and where we fly. We have Airline, Cargo, Air Taxi and Military Divisions. We fly Long Haul all the way to Bush flying (My favorite!) We fly C172 to A380. It's a great little VA. Needs Staff too . I'd like some X-Planers like myself to join. Most use FSX ( ) so there are a lot of fly-ins that we can't do due to lack of scenery for both sims. Check out our site sometime and see what's happening! Info: BlueHawk Virtual Airways. Flies C172 to A380. Based at KBNA with 11 other hubs. Bush Flying, Long Hauls, Air Taxi, Helis and more! bluehawkvirtual.weebly.com Thanks for your support, Toby

Our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Blue-Hawk-Virtual-Airways/174385442751212?ref=hl

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Hallo ssanchez, the livery looks very nice! Can you us tell, where the livery is released (place of download)? Best thanks and greetings, Dirk

A dead soldier is a victim, not a hero. We should change our thinking and stop politicians let die human beings for their personal interests.

yeah, but I think that it's a bit exagerate winglex of this 757 model, (same occurs with 777), because I was at minimun speed and I think was quite soft landing, but I'll try to do better in future. Thanks for feedback

Its not dead! Just dormant. Real work and family responsibilities consumed my Archer and 152 time for now! Trust me these two planes are nagging at my sanity! Hopefully we will have some news soon! Hang in there!

The Chilean 787 has arrived!

Oh and we could use a repainter too FYI..... Anybody interested? I have a guy making crude (But nice!) designs now and he is doing a good job but I want another in case he needs help or one of his needs a finishing touch. Repainters ARE NOT REQUIRED to fly for the VA. They just have to paint.

Yes, I understand. Personally, I'm a windows only guy.... We may get a newer PIREP system and all OS can use it! Keep checking up on us! Our current ACARS may go to Mac sometime....

The VA sounds interesting... BUT... Nothing on this earth, in my humble opinion, is worth a trip back to Windows world. Happy to check it out if you guys find a path to Mac OSX support

Is this dead? Long time, no updates...

I'm sorry, but you have to be able to run windows! It's a pest, I know, But our flight tracking software does not support Mac or Linux. A bootcamp is a program to make windows run on Mac and Linux. Search on google for "How to run Windows on Mac". Cheers

I couldn't join I don't have windows and I don't know anything about bootcamp

You can do this in whole DSF tiles only, and not in small areas. It's not necessarily an easy task either, and would require you to re-generate the entire mesh from the ground up with your own data. The tool in question is provided by Laminar as MeshTool. You'll likely need to also do some smoothing work in some form of GIS software to ensure the correct areas are smooth around any airports, as MeshTool is a "best guess" tool when it comes to points and where to use them within a particular DSF file.

What an interesting thread. Hi Goran - the 3 devs I contacted I suspect missed the emails because I sent from frooglesim, instead of from my normal email address. Goran you were one of them - you'll recall that the PC Pilot award badge you proudly display on your DC3 in the store was awarded by me (Peter Wright) in my review of your product some time ago. I've been trying to get updated download links for the 64 bit version as well as your new aircraft. No biggie, part of the idea of the video was to get you guys (the collective "you guys" in the X-Plane dev world to sit up) and I am resending emails and broadening their reach. Ben can sit there saying "Froogle who" all day long, but here we are in a two page thread carrying my name, so I guess it worked. Now to address the bulk of the issues in this thread, and the inference from Ben that my ethics are questionable and reviews are for sale. Almost every single review on the frooglesim channel, and many I write for PC Pilot are made with software I buy. I do that to support the community, and to give me the freedom to say what I want about a product without feeling an obligation or tie. Most of the reviews in the magazine are made with software explicitly provided by the developer for the purposes of review, a practice not uncommon in any industry you care to name. From the developer standpoint it's called marketing - sending new products to influential voices in the hope they will review the product. From the journalism standpoint it's just business as usual, writing about the products we see and reviewing them where appropriate as long as the free product does not interfere with the opinion stated in the piece and the relationship between reviewer and producer is clear and disclosed. In my case, products i receive for review do absolutely not bias my opinion - look at some of my recent reviews in the magazine, some of which got me in very hot water for expressing a highly negative opinion. With regard to my involvement with X-Plane, I have been writing about it for years in the magazine. Many years ago for example I helped kicked off X-Planes exposure with an in-depth look at the product itself, plus a multi-page interview with Austin. Since then I've reviewed a few products of interest in X-Plane but the simple fact of the matter, the unfortunate fact, is that the vast majority of the audience are X-Plane shy and want FSX . That's also where the bulk of new products launch, so naturally it's where the bulk of content in a magazine or indeed on my YouTube channel is focussed. From the comments I see on the channel, many are interested in X-Plane but trot out the same old excuses as to why they are not using it (and why they are not your potential customers). The UI is poor. The colors seem off. Their add-ons don't work. FSX looks better. FSX has more choice etc etc. That's what I want to address. Today if I throw up a video on a product it's actually rarely just that one product. A2A's Cessna for example was covered in video with sky textures from REX, weather from Active Sky, scenery from Orbx, control input filtering from FSUIPC, post effects from Shade. It makes the videos visually appealling and it shows FSX as a platform in the best light, enabling the rest of the video to then focus on the content at hand. In contrast I did a number of videos of the Worldliner 77 and the comments quickly turned to focus in on what X-Plane stock looks and feels like since behind the aircraft that's all your seeing. I want to start a series looking at X-Plane itself but in the best possible light and that's what the VLOG was calling for. I want to show people that X-Plane can look better than FSX, that there is a thriving marketplace out there that people can tap into to extend and enhance it, and that switching to a better flight model does not mean sacrificing the aesthetics people have grown to love in FSX. However, I don't have all that stuff and so reached out to ask you, developers and publishers, what would I need to make X-Plane awesome? What are your best of breed add-ons and enhancements that you believe I really should include in the videos to really shine a light on X-Plane in the best possible way. This isn't biasing a review, in the same way that A2A's Cessna didn't get a great review because the clouds looked nice, or there were animated people on the ground at the airport. Yes, Ben, the vast majority of the audience on Frooglesim are currently invested in FSX. Asking you guys to undertake what is effectively a marketing exercise to sway them did not, and does not, to me seem unrealistic. I'm giving you a platform to market your products to a captive audience in one of the fastest growing simulation YouTube channels in the world (almost 15,000 subs and growing at 12% per month) and in a channel that is almost viral in nature (again, here we are in a separate place on the Internet discussing my videos - see how that worked out?). Given that I also want to focus in on X-Plane and get a fairly steady stream of content up I also went the magazine route and reached out asking you to supply content to review under typical review terms (that being that the review is not in any way biased just because you provided the product for free). Please also bear in mind that 'reviews' probably represent less than 50% of the channel. The bulk of content on the channel is demonstration/tutorial in nature. I released a series of videos on the NGX some 12 to 18 months after the NGX released showing how to fly with it and those videos collectively went on to gain 1/4 of a million views and become one of the most popular NGX series on YouTube - they almost certainly drove traffic to PMDG as well. If some of you wish to sit back indignant and do nothing then so be it - ultimately increased exposure for X-Plane benefits you anyway - but it does sadden me to see Ben's attitude towards any form of journalism. *Edited to clarify the channel's growth*

LOL Chris! Now that the modeling is just about complete. I'm now on to checking fit and finish!