[The B737 Classic Project]

I will immediately inform my technical pilot that each and every 737-300 and -500 I fly has all the switches reversed!  How could that have happened? Maybe someone at our maintenance department held the plans upside down? Or maybe Boeing just sold us a bad batch at a cheaper price?

Jan

Hi Jan,

Would love to hear more detail on this.  Looking at 737-300 cockpit photos online on pneumatics panel I see OFF in the UP position, and ON in the DOWN position.  For example, here: http://www.b737.org.uk/images/paneloverhead.jpg

It's a little hard to see through the sarcasm, but I think that you are saying that this not the case in *all* 737-300 and -500 planes?  Particularly the ones that you fly?

Would love to hear more!

Kind Regards.

[Sneak Peak of the default 747 inside X-Plane 10]

Stunning work for one of the default aircraft.  Blows the FSX default 747 out of the water, at least visually.  As much grief as we give the default FMS, at least there is the semblance of one in X-Plane 9.  Already we're a step ahead of the defunct competition  8)

[X-Plane Chat With Simon B]

I liked your review format, Simon.  Blog is easy to read as well, text is not too small.

[de Havilland Comet 4C]

I've had your Comet dev website saved in my bookmarks for quite some time.  I'm excited to see it coming along!

[Work in Progress Renders]

Thank you for taking the time to give such a detailed explanation.

Find some more and get him to post more pictures!

[St Barts]

Is it St Bart ?

I doubt it...

I guess if you wanted to get technical you could call it Saint-Barthélemy, or Aérodrome de St Jean, or Gustaf III Airport.

[Stars under username]

must.  collect.  all. the. STAAARRRRRSSSSSSSSSSS    8)

[Question for upcoming aircraft developers]

Jack wrote;

I have added a note on the Q400s product page that serves to inform our customers of the nag screen before purchase. This hopefully will minimize incidents like this one.

Perhaps setting up a, "what is Gizmo", page on my site will help as well.

This course of action would satisfy me as a customer.

[China Southern Asia Games Livery Help]

Fantastic looking repaint there!  Great job.

[Shameful conduct & censorship]

Please, all who have grievances, speak now or forever hold your peace.

I for one seem to have trouble using the contact us support from at X-A.  Resorted to e-mail.  Those got lost in transit (nothing sent to spam box).  Time from first filing to finally activating MU-2: March 22 to April 2nd.

There could be any number of reasons for this, I'm not sure what happened.  Cameron was professional in his responses.  My MU-2 was activated.  I'm a satisfied customer.

But I do feel a certain bit of sympathy when people post saying their requests for support via the X-A contact us forms were not answered.  And then everybody says, "No, X-A customer service is the best.  This is not possible."  It just might actually be that they in fact did use the appropriate contact form.  Hostile responses escalate the situation.

Grievance aired.  World still turns.  Where did I put my big boy pants again?

[What do you think of STMA?]

As each takes roughly 40 hours or so to pull together ...

One thing I've always liked about a lot of AVSIM reviews is that they clearly state the amount of time the reviewer has spent flying the aircraft.  I've seen 20 and 40+ hours spent flying before a review is written.  I know that the reviewer has taken the time to get the full experience, and the review (for me at least) has a lot more weight to it.

Also, clearly stated hardware/system specs from the reviewer is a welcome bit of information I've always appreciated from AVSIM reviews.

Looking forward to your next batch of reviews, nice to see them for X-Plane!

[MU-2 progress towards update]

Happy to hear the work is coming along so well!  Thanks for the updates, can't wait for this one to get out the door.  Been flying around central Japan, possibly planning a world tour in the Mu.

[What do you think of STMA?]

Well, what is needed is a better system of reviews. More thorough reviews, and independent. Where the reviewer can highlight the strengths of the model where they're not obvious from the screenshots. A bit like what the xplane10 blog does.

This work?

http://www.avsim.com/pages/0411/ShadeTree/PC12.html

[Concorde]

The concorde is one of the greatest planes of all time and gary hunters plane wasnt hard core enough for me i thinks these guys should do it. Whos With Me!

I think you might need some more more words than "these guys" to help us know who exactly you are talking about ...

[FSX AND PMDG versus the best of Xplane]

A lot more than you're privvy to is going on behind the scenes thanks to a joint effort between several entities.

That's what I like to hear!

[What did you fly today?]

That T-28 cockpit looks gorgeous!

[XP 10 B747]

If you start saving now I'm sure you'll have enough for XP10 when it comes out.  It's amazing how much not buying a few special drinks a week adds up to (coffees and soda and whatnot).

[Hughes H500D Helicopter - Freeware]

It's one of the better used craft in my hangar--and first on the list for when I only have a short period of time for a flight.  Lots of fun.

[Work in Progress Renders]

[yet another excited user request]

How much extra work would it be to include the rare but oh so cool viewmaster windows a la ?

[/yet another excited user request]

[Work in Progress Renders]

Been looking forward to a good model of this plane for a long, long time!  Glad you are undertaking it.

[Gizmo 11.5.18 Update]

Still sound scrambled/CTD with EADT's GPS utilizing SASL.  Same testing method as before.  GPS works fine without gizmo installed, sound goes crazy with eventual crash with gizmo installed.

Thanks, Mac or Windows?

Windows.  Sorry for the slow reply, was gone away on a trip.

[Gizmo 11.5.18 Update]

Still sound scrambled/CTD with EADT's GPS utilizing SASL.  Same testing method as before.  GPS works fine without gizmo installed, sound goes crazy with eventual crash with gizmo installed.

[“Godmother” not everyone is deaf (Artymowicz Aviation CRJ-200 Engine Sounds)]

Haven't had the chance to check them out, at work, but kudos for following through with your critique and putting something out there you feel fixes it for you.

[Gizmo 11.5.12]

• Modified OpenAL code, hopefully resolves plugin clash. Not tested, but the code change was "OpenAL context sharing" related.
  

Thanks for the update Ben.  Not sure if this is the same plugin clash you are referring to here, but if so I'll report that I still get sound scramble coupled with X-Plane crash when using EADTs KLN-90B GPS (uses SASL) with 11.5.12 installed.  Testing process: run GPS without gizmo installed, no crash.  Install gizmo, run GPS, crash.

[What did you fly today?]

I was going to make a snide remark on your choice of camera angle there, then I read the caption ... "This is known in the trade as the ‘flight attendant position’"