re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed question?

2003-07-31 Thread Innis Cunningham
Gene Buckle writes I was a beta tester for Fly! II. Negotiations with Cessna, etc. were suddenly terminated and all of a sudden Microsoft starts touting Cessna and Piper connections. It started quite the anti-ms rant on the tester forum. Fly! II wasn't much affected by this - the real pain is

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread David Megginson
Melchior FRANZ writes: ACK! I do even think that airlines =want= to be represented in serious flight simulators. After all, that's free advertisement. The Austrian Airlines, for example, even host the homepage of a flight sim group that duplicates the real AUA in the virtual sim domain

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Gene Buckle
serious flight simulators. After all, that's free advertisement. The Austrian Airlines, for example, even host the homepage of a flight sim group that duplicates the real AUA in the virtual sim domain (the virtual Austrian Airlines group). The group seems to take this all very

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Jim Wilson
Gene Buckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: serious flight simulators. After all, that's free advertisement. The Austrian Airlines, for example, even host the homepage of a flight sim group that duplicates the real AUA in the virtual sim domain (the virtual Austrian Airlines group). The

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Gene Buckle
On the manufacturing side, however, Cessna and Piper seem to have withdrawn their permission for representation of logos, etc., between FLY and FLY II. That's because Microsoft overbid on the licensing contract to deny it to Terminal Reality. See 2 bit company that can't stand 1

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Jim Wilson
Gene Buckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I was a beta tester for Fly! II. Negotiations with Cessna, etc. were suddenly terminated and all of a sudden Microsoft starts touting Cessna and Piper connections. It started quite the anti-ms rant on the tester forum. Sigh...Godfather Gates. Maybe we