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Thank you for all the reviews here. They are informative and top notch! They save me money for sure. Helps to ensure I don't buy duds.I really enjoyed the recent Tongass X review.Please keep em comming and Merry Christmas!Charles.

It seems that the 'What I like' and 'What I dislike' sections of this review were mixed up with another.I don't think that the writer likes the DC9 for it's: [*]Regular high Aerosoft quality[*]Represents a calm, friendly town and regional-size airport without any exaggeration[*]Alive town, moving traffic[*]AES compatibility[*]I would love visual approach for runway 08 even if the scenery didn

Hello everyone,It is a pleasure to be writing at the avsim forums.I represent Virtual PIA (www.vpia.org). One of our latest projects is an e-magazine, within which I wish to include some review. Avsim.com has undoubtedly the largest review base. Rest assured, all credits will be provided to the original authors.Our organization has been assisted by a lot of well known names, including POSKY master repaint specialist, Ed Cox, and various aviation photographers from airliners.net, including Konstantin Von Wedelstaedt and Irfan Caliskan AirTeamImages.Thankyou for taking the time to read this.VirtualPIA

I wished to thank David Wilson Okamura for a job well done on the review of the P38

This is what makes waking up to Avsim in the morning a lot of fun!The Captain Sim 767:A well written, entertaining, and informative review.Thanks!! :(

Nice review on the Thrustmaster MFD review but I did not see in your review if you tried to program the MFD via FSUIPC? I am wondering if the buttons can be configured this way? Also curious what the dimensions of the cardboard inserts (inside dimesions of the MFD) are because if the MFD's are programable via FSUIPC and you could find a digital picture frame or mini-monitor that you could undock a view and drag to it I would be much more interested in it. Robert

Really enjoyed the extremely detailed review of Berlin Tegel.Please more like this.And a request..Any chance of getting some "real world" pilots to review new FSX aircraft? Pretty aeroplanes are nice but flight dynamics rule for me!Thanks againAdamTrafficPilot

I have to confess that I've not read the full review yet, although I've now logged several dozen hours in it so I know it's the usual PMDG excellence. But...I'm going to be one of those annoying geeky people and point out that neither British Airways nor British Midland now fly this aircraft. British Airways did fly either the JS41 or 31, but I'm not aware that British Midland ever did.

Hi,I was just reading the review of Cusco and I agree with the reviewer on nearly all points.I live in Peru and visit Cusco frequently. I have many friends that are pilots for Lan Peru.MS seems to have excluded any detail from most of Latin America and Peru in particular. It is welcome relief to have some commercial airport software (finally)! As the reviewer stated, I would love to see Aerosoft quality scenery for Peru but I am sure economics dictate this is unlikely to happen. Developers??? !!! ??? "please?"Airport operation during the PM. Wind is a very major factor. During mid afternoon it changes direction so my pilot friends tell me sometimes they sit at the end of …

Hello Avsim, I've just come back to simming after a bit of a gap, but with X-Plane rather than MSFS this time. As far as I can tell you've only reviewed one X-Plane addon so far, the MU-2, but hopefully there'll be more of the same quality coming soon for X-Plane. I like it that reviews from all the sims appear in the same list when you click the 'reviews' link - it means that we learn about other platform's addons, which wouldn't happen if the reviews were segregated into their own lists, but it makes it hard to look through the old reviews and find, say, X-Plane reviews. Would it be possible to state 'for FS9', 'for FS9/X', 'for X-Plane 9' etc in the review titles in fu…

Thanks for the review. I must point out that the USN had the Pioneer UAV system that fielded in 1986 as well and also was picked up by the USMC.scott s..

Liked the review but felt I had to comment on a few items.#1 : there is another Dash 8 package,built by Majestic Software/Oleksiy Frolov,and it is really good,blows all the others out of the water,as far as I'm concerned.(I know it's my opinion only,but well,get it,and fly it,you'll understand why I love it with passion)#2 :The reason they do not have an autothrottle is most likely because they don't have one in real life.The Dash 8 doesn't,the IAS button on the glareshield only serves to adjust pitch to holda certain airspeed when climbing,it does not hold the speed in other flight regimes,as far as I know.Being similar in size,I'd expect that to be true for the Saab 340…

Do you need to be a real world flier? certain age? and do you pay for the product you are reviewing?(not being cheap i really just have no idea)

Bert,you wrote about the "Violent pitch responses to changes in the Prop control" - and I totally agree with you - this is somethintg that reduces the fun I have with this aircraft immensively.Could you or someone else tell me how to fix this behaviour in the aircraft.cfg? I don't know my way around there - so I need advice.Regarding the rest of your review: I couldn't agree more. I, too, own both the Duke and the Seneca, and they are so different. While the Duke is incredibly "smooth", the Seneca feels amazingly "rusty", and both are a joy to fly.Best,Bernhard

A mistake in the Rise Of Flight Review:I missed that 777 Studios is the North American distributor for ROF. Along with Aerosoft and neoqb, you can get a copy of the game through 777. Fearless Editor Robert Whitwell has kindly included the link to 777 Studios at the top of the Review. Jeff ShylukSenior Staff ReviewerAVSIM

The exterior model looked nice. The developer took too many liberties with panel. Obviously he had never seen the panel of an old fastback. I owned one of those things. When Cessna built those things they used miltary surplus stuff. The gyrocampass was an old horizontal moving card device. My gyro horizon was built by C G Conn ltd of Elkhart Indiand under license from the sperry gyroscope company. Mine was ser no.81085B. I know that because I still have it. I had an old Narco "coffee grinder" radio and a "newer" 360 channel navcom. Also the yokes are not vintage. In short, I would not purchase that product unless the panel was a true 1958 arrangement. Sorry about that. …

Kudos to you! that was a very comprehensive and fair review that was intelligently thought out and executed. You nailed the strong points of the sim, and then openly and without bias explained the negatives. As I posted this on the RoF forum, I decided it was better suited here... so here.

Nice Job ! Really enjoyed Mark Kolo's review of Real Air Simulations' Beechcraft 60 Duke, as it is a model I was thinking of buying and have always been courious about. The real early B60's had expensive (jet like) NiCad batteries way back when they were designed and the airplanes tended to eat those $2,300 + batteries often due to cooling problems and voltage regulator issues. When I asked around why these airplanes had these (unnecessarily complex and expensive) systems I was told that it was because they were originally intended to have Pratt PT-6 turbine engines installed and the battery was there to provide the energy needed to start a PT-6. Later Beech sold the B…

I don't usually comment on my own reviews, but following on a few emails I got, I would like to say that appearently, the red paint on the inside of the F-111 is just how it should be. This therefor is no error of lack of imagination or something, it's the way it is supposed to be.

When I read my own review, I thought to myself, "that IS short... where are all the useful examples of the programs and procedures and charts?" Of course, I already knew the answer. It seemed unfair to the author to give away his product, which would have been all too easy in a long, detailed review. So that's why there are no links to various sites, or a walk-through of planning. Those are precisely what the product consists of. So the challenge was to explain what this small publication would do for you without obviating the necessity of buying it, should it interest you. I can tell you that well after the review was done, I still refer to it on every transatlanti…

Just sent the draft of the L39C review to Robert Whitwell. Frankly, I hope that justice was done to the product. The standard of Flight Simulation products is getting so good that .jpg images on web pages do not adequately capture all the fine detail that designers and artists have put into their work. As is, the smallest I could cut my submission to was a ~25MB download!I ended culling the L39's history section, since anyone can wiki an airplane these days and I did not have any "war stories" to add on my own. One interesting fact was the Chief Designer of the L39 was quoted as having been inspired by the Northrop F5 and Douglas A4. If you look at the fuselage, it d…

I would hope that Version 3 will be designed to blend with the VFR Scotland photographic scenery from Horizon Simulation Ltd, and that the airports and airfields are of the same degree of quality exhibited by the UK2000 VFR Airfields series by Gary Summons.

First of all, a very ncie review! I hav e been a fan os AES myself for a long time, and I was eager to read how AES performs in FSX. While I found the review informative, there is one thing I wanted some more clarification about: namely, how does this interact with the stock FSX airport vehicles? Does AES completely replace them, so that AI aircraft won't be getting them anymore, or are the stock FSX airprot vehicles simply not instructed to move towards your plane? I'm confused, how does this work?

Hi,Thanks for a very good review. Maybe too much ;-)The facts about the Test System don't include info about CPU. Any information about CPU and if the CPU was overclocked would be nice.

......also, even though I read the review twice, I still can't find any comment on whether this is just FSX compatible, or in fact a true FSX version i.e. dds textures, bumpmapping and the like.If in fact it isn't mentioned (and if it is, I can't see it), this is a real issue. Buyers thinking they're getting a FSX release find that it's not (just a ported over FS2004 release), or even worse, it might be a true FSX release and buyers stay shy of buying because the review fails to confirm this!