I’m going to plug the website of a good friend of mine, Mike Ray. He was a STUF pilot back in the 60s who went on to a glorious career in the airlines, but his real passion is computer flight simulation, specifically the FS-series sims and he wrote a ton of manuals for various aircraft in the game.
Mike is a hysterically funny guy and the only one I know who landed an airliner in Beirut while the airport was being shelled. A side note on how well his manuals are written, he was interviewed by the FBI after 9/11 to determine if using FS9 and his manuals could’ve helped the hijackers know the airplane systems (turns out it wasn’t a factor).
I got off easy this sale. Around $75… There were a couple other things I was hovering my BUY button on, but they just didn’t make their way into my cart. I was hoping the A320 Ultimate would be on sale. The Hawker 4000 I bought because it sounds like it is going to get a significant upgrade in the coming months as well.
St. Helena might be on the short list of possible Challenging Airports articles for the magazine, and the Molokai/Kalaupapa scenery was just too pretty to pass up. The Challenger 300 I had long ago and am just curious how the upgrade to XP11 went…so I went for that too.
I should probably go ahead and purchase the Rotate MD80 Pro too…I think I only have the XP10 version if I’m not mistaken…but I need to research that.
Also on the fence about the Grand Arctic Scenery and Amazon packages…gonna have to have a think on those…
As well, for some reason the Salt Lake City airport looks appealing…
I had to buy it outright. My old Challenger copy was a press copy from several years back. Sometimes, those are copies that are just sent to me directly from the developer, so they generally don’t have any support (updates). So since there was no invoice for it, I can’t go the upgrade route…which is all good…I like supporting developers that seem to be doing good things.
Yeah…I like having all my purchase invoices in one spot…they seem really good about keeping their download links active and updated. The .ORG has really been a nice place to shop over the years.
