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  2. Freeware 787-8 project

    in Aircraft Development

    Posted · Edited by Oliver

    It's absolutely hilarious listening to you and Michael tell people to shut the F up all from the safety of your computers. I'm quite adamant you're only doing this because I don't know where you live, and I don't attend your school. You two arrogant, pretentious, self-righteous douche bags can keep throwing verbal barbs all from the safety of your computers. It's no wonder you two do so well in X-Plane Aviators. You two are pompous asses. 

     

    I live in Sarasota, Florida. I'd be more than happy to buy you a coffee so we could discuss how bothersome it is when a child constantly asks for updates on a project that is obviously still in development.

    Before I continue, keep in mind that Michael, Peter, and myself share no relationship other than simply being members of the same forum. Michael has made the generous decision to actually release a well developed plane free of cost to the X-Plane community. It would be one thing if Luca had asked a single question and Michael had gone after him, the reality is that Luca asked multiple times a rhetorical and quite obviously silly question that had been answered time and time again. 

    If you'd like to do some research, you can go see that Luca has been doing this very same thing on multiple forums. He demands something from a developer and becomes petulant when his demands aren't met. It's sad because I really wish everyone could live in harmony as we share our passion for X-Plane. You have to look at it from Michael's perspective, if you were a developer creating a free product for the community and you had a child constantly bother you about what you were working on, wouldn't that cause a disruption and therefore prevent you from dedicating your full attention to your project? 

    I don't like pretentiousness just as much as the next guy, but Michael was well within his right to speak his mind to Luca. I held back because I deal with enough stress in the real world to create more of it from an online forum, but I speak for myself and I'm sure for multiple other users when I say that a lot of us would have gladly told Luca the very same thing that Michael told him. 

     

    Don't be so quick to judge based on Michael's only reply... do some research on the people involved and see that this is a recurring pattern and not an event that has only happened once. 

    O.

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  3. Sabb340 Hardly moves

    in Saab 340A

    Posted · Edited by Oliver

    Hi,

     

    I can hardly get my Saab340 to move.

     

    I have used the quick engine start, set the condition levers to max and have to set the power to max to get it to move at all.

     

    The screen shot shows 75% power but I'm not moving.

     

    Yes, Brakes are off.

     

    Same thing happens if I go through the whole checklist manually.

     

    What am I doing wrong?

     

    Cheers

     

    LJM

    attachicon.gifSaab340a stuck.jpg

     

    I don't have the Saab 340 yet, but have you double checked that the parking break was off? In certain planes (IE Peter's A380) you need to manually turn off the parking break and you need to check that the keyboard command for the break ( B ) is also off. 

  4. iPhone 6 / 6+

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Upgraded my friends phone for her. Process was buggy and problematic.

    iOS8 is about the same, niggly little bugs with stupid things like the lock screen not giving access to the camera occasionally until you unlock and relock the phone....

     

    New hardware is "ok". 240fps camera is kinda fun.

     

    Overall: meh. I'll stick with my half dead 4S, it does pretty much exactly the same things.

    To be honest I don't see a HUGE difference with my iPhone 5 apart from the aforementioned camera tweaks. The reason I upgraded is because I was stuck with the worst US carrier (Sprint) and as of a week ago, my phone stopped receiving service. Despite being on the phone with Sprint's technical advisers & managers for hours, they told me that the service could be gone for up to 96 hours and that it was perfectly normal. 

    Since my contract was due to end in 2 months, I just paid them the $75 termination fee and walked away to get the iPhone 6 with AT&T. I couldn't deal with the awful Sprint service and customer service I had been receiving for the past 22 months. Since my business is heavily reliant on clients contacting me, I needed a phone and a carrier that simply wouldn't just quit on me for days at a time. 

  5. iPhone 6 / 6+

    in General Discussion

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    With the newly released Apple gadgets, I thought I'd make a thread to see what people think of the new phones. I picked up my new iPhone 6 64gb yesterday morning at a Best Buy Mobile store in my local mall.

     

    All in all, I think the iPhone 6 is perfectly sized and isn't too big nor too little. I also held the 6+ and I thought it was way too big and inconvenient and was too close in size to an iPad Mini.

    So who picked up their i devices yesterday and what are your thoughts on them? 

     



    Here's my beat up iPhone 5 that was traded in for my fresh iPhone 6. I was shocked that they managed to give me $225 for it!

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  8. Freeware 787-8 project

    in Aircraft Development

    Posted

    An open market is a beautiful thing...

     

    A developer, any developer, can "pass off" anything he pleases as no one is being forced at gunpoint to buy it.  Once there is competition for the item, potential buyers are offered another choice.  If the first developer wishes to survive, he will need to improve his product.  If not, the better product will prevail.  And it's not all about price either.  More often than not, though, you get what you pay for.

     

    However, if one developer chooses to give away his work for free, that does not imply or suggest that other(s) need(s) to do the same.

     

    The final choice is left to those who choose to buy it (for free or a price).

    I'm not disagreeing with you by any means as I'm well aware of the way an open market works. I do believe though that it's important that we're allowed to voice our opinion and scrutinize a product if the developer has decided to place it for sale. Again, it's quite obvious that Heinz will need some drastic improvements to stay up to mar with the current X-Plane market, I'm simply stating that there is a moral limit when what you sell to people is quite utterly poor work.

    This isn't the place to have an argument on Heinz's marketing and sales techniques, but as aforementioned, the fact that one developer (well within his right) decidedes to release an unfinished plane for $25 seems a bit ridiculous. Once again, I understand that he has the ability to choose the price at which to sell his airplane, I'm just giving my 2 cents from a consumer's perspective. 

  16. Help needed with loading.

    in Help!?!

    Posted

    Have managed to uninstall it and re-install it with updates, just about to try loading it up again. Fingers crossed it works this time. Where would I find ou if the spec of my PC is able to run it?

    Windows button at the bottom left of your taskbar -> Control Panel -> System 

  17. Help needed with loading.

    in Help!?!

    Posted

    Based on your specs, I'd say your computer isn't powerful enough to run X-Plane. From the looks of it, your system doesn't meet the minimum requirements to run X-Plane 10.

     

     

    Minimum X-Plane 10 Requirements via X-Plane.com

     

    • Dual Core, 2.5 GHz or faster
    • 2 GB of RAM
    • A video card with at least 500 MB of VRAM.

     

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