William Ortis's Learfan 2100

[Gary R.]

I would love to have the new Learfan model by William Ortis / Lionheart Creations.  Unfortunatley he saw fit to upload it exclusively to flightsim.com.  I don't have a premium membership there and I'm on dial-up and its a big file.  If anyone is able to upload that file temporarily to a private url that I can download without getting bumped I would be extremely grateful.  Personally, I can't see what would motivate a designer to upload exclusively to a pay for best download site like that when there are good free libraries like here and avsim.com.  Thanks to anyone who can hook me up here.

[Gnome]

William has a very good reason for sticking to this one site but it's not something to be discussed in open forum.

You do not need a premium account to get the file and even if you had one it would take just as long to download.

Keep trying, you'll get in and his work just gets better and better.


Kev

[Gary R.]

Yeah, I know if I keep trying I will get it.  Eventually, I will go to download it and my local network won't disconnect me and I'll get it.  It doesn't matter that I have DAP or star download either.  Obviously, flightsim.coms library urls move around because I can never resume a download even if I log in.  I personally don't see any reason to favor a pay for premium library at all especially when there are two reputable totally free libraries here and at avsim.  It not the download time, its just that my star download and dap won't resume if my connection is broken. Obviously fs.com's library url's move in order to defeat resumable downloaders and preserve their precious bandwidth for their premium members.  

[Travis]

Uploading any addon onto any server that the author has not SPECIFICALLY agreed to is a breach of the ReadMe file that nearly every author puts in their downloads.

[Gary R.]

Well, I discovered the problem I'm having is that I amnot a premium member at fs.com, only a dial-up connection, download approximatley 1 hr. 20 min. give or take. fs.com's server automatically disconnects non-premium people after so long of not moving around the site and for some reason resumable download accelerators can't resume. I don't know if their server changes urls on file or what but I'm never able to resume even after re-logging in. I contacted my Internet provider to see i they have a size limit for email attachments and if I can attach a 20 meg file I will go to my mom's which is cable and downloa it on her pc and then email it to myself.  I am very tempted to go to walmart and get a 128 meg jump drive. They have em for $29.87 now.  It would save me lots of download time for big files because I can just always download on my mom's cable connection and then stick the jump drive in the usb slot, save the file in it, take it home and copy it to my pc.  I guess there are always advantanges to anyone if they want to pay a little but nothing really optimal is ever totally free.  >:(

[Gnome]

That sounds like a good idea.
Mike Stone's one is OK as an external model.
Williams is right up there with the commercial stuff in terms of quality.  He really is producing some nice work these days.

Shame they're getting so darned big!


Kev (also on dialup)

[Gary R.]

Yes, I concur about the size issues. And, you know what makes me wonder is that whenever I download a large freeware file and I open it and find 2 megs worth of screenshots it makes me wonder why they put them in the zip??? I mean if we install the download we do our own. All screenshots in a zip do is un-necissarily increase the size of the download and the time.  I don't mean to impune these good artists or anything and if they feel they must thats fine. I'd rather have free content and take longer to download than have them quit on us but still I wonder. It would be a nice thing for dial up users if extras like screen shots were not included in zipfiles.