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 group
> >  > seems to take this all very seriously ...  ;-)
> >  > http://www.aua.at/virtual/
> >
> > 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 withdrawn their permission for representation of logos, etc., between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 bit of
> competition".

That crossed my mind :-)  But is this fact or is this assumption based on the
observation that all the aircraft were renamed?  Is it just those two
involved? Can't remember if Hawker is owned by Cessna now or not. 
Hmmm...maybe they should have called it Pigeon instead of Peregrine.

Best,

Jim

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