Hi all.
I have been constantly searching for new "leads" for the GREAT FreeFD software that Don Lafontaine has created ever since his website was discontinued... and apprently along with the development of this project as well.
In case you don't know about it, the FreeFD suite is a
freeware stand alone gauge package that gives you "Boeing Glass" for your simpit. It is intended to run OUTSIDE the sim, on networked machines that are running FSUIPC and WideFS. It includes the PFD, the ND, the EICAS, and a rudimentary synoptic (not really completed). The ND display will display the famous "magenta" course line if you install a flight plan into it in the OLD Squawkbox format. All in all it is VERY nice...and rivals Project Magenta in many ways.
Unfortunatley....it is apparently an abandoned project and it still has some small bugs and minor missing stuff. But I have been using it in my pit for YEARS quite happily.
I keep HOPING that Don will resume work on it....... he had such a GREAT start going.......and suddernly it will pop back onto the flight deck building scene like a ton of dynamite. But so far.... no such luck.
His last FreeFD website was created in 2003 after his original site was the victim of hackers. It is LONG gone.
The News!BUT... I just discovered that the Web Wayback Machine archive site HAS a portion of the FreeFD website located on it. OK...so you can see a few of the last postings....great. But the
BEST news is that the hot links on the right top side of the following page
STILL lead to the intact download files of the last and latest versions of the FreeFD software, including the last patch to the ND display and the ND Navigation database.
Download and ENJOY!!
http://web.archive.org/web/200410110021 ... om/freefd/
Yahoo!!!!
best,
......john