Just wasted more than $500

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Yes I know thats what the payware gallery is for but come on guys we need a payware Contest

...and hope not everyone chooses the RAS Spitfire XIV...


I think we have enough contests already. I doubt we'll be able to have an Edited contest this month, as most of the regular judges are otherwise engaged.

[Hagar]

As I said, I didn't intend to start an argument over payware vs freeware, especially in the Payware forum. I know some people enjoy collecting payware addons & that's fine with me providing they can afford it. If I saw something I really liked I wouldn't object to paying for it but it would have to be far better than any freeware alternative before I would part with a single penny. It would also have to come from a reputable company with good customer support. Maybe I'm old-fashioned but I still think spending $500 on FS addons in one month is excessive for a 14 year-old. There is good & bad in everything & I'm sure the best payware is excellent, which it should be if it's created by professional modellers. I've also seen some rubbish in my time that I wouldn't release as freeware. Just because you're paying for something doesn't guarantee the quality.

[Nexus]

"People who needs an FMC to fly their aircrafts aren't pilots, they are programmers."

Quoted from my CFI....  ;D
People here seems to forget which wonders a basic flight computer ( "nav slide") can make  8)

All I want now is a realistic Lockheed TriStar  :)

[Craig.]

All I want now is a realistic Lockheed TriStar  

i second that motion:)

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Maybe I'm old-fashioned but I still think spending $500 on FS addons in one month is excessive for a 14 year-old. There is good & bad in everything & I'm sure the best payware is excellent, which it should be if it's created by professional modellers. I've also seen some rubbish in my time that I wouldn't release as freeware. Just because you're paying for something doesn't guarantee the quality.

Indeed. I think $50/month is pushing it, and thats for a 23 year old on a salary. Unfortunately most of us have been bitten by poor quality payware at some point, not mentioning any names...

For the record, this would happen to be post number 3000 for me...

[SaVas]

who is stopping you?..it is not reall to 'expensive" to get a pilot license.

As for the FMC, yes it is not everything but I still love them

Jrpilot, when I was a kid, roughly 7 years old, while asleep, I fell out of the top bunk of my bed and hit the back of my head, right under the base of my skull. To this day, because of that, I lose my balance, I can black out on a swingset, a roller coaster, and even in a plane. Thankfully I have not had it happen in a plane, but I no longer ride roller coasters, nor do I do anything that means excessive head movement.

Trust me...I would LOVE to be a pilot, but due to the above, I would never pass my medical.

[Hyperion2]

This is precisely why I don't bother with payware.  If it's not freeware, I don't waste my time or my money.  There are plenty of uber-high quality aircraft in the freeware hangars.  Look at the new P-3, the Stearman, POSKY, MelJet, Project Fokker, Kirk Olssen, Daisuke's Hornet (I always butcher his name so I'm going to leave it at that), Moach's 737...the list is endless.

The belief that you can't get a good plane without paying for it is nonsense.  

[Stormtropper]

Trust me...I would LOVE to be a pilot, but due to the above, I would never pass my medical.

Hey, some blind guy in England passed his physical, so theres nothing that can hold you back

You just got to retrain your brain (thats what makes us more advanced than any other animal), I belive there was a conslusive study that stated that if you try something hard enough (no, not jump off a cliff and live, nothing of that sort) your brain will eventually find a way to do it. So I believe if you put yourself in some balance-intensive acitivies, you'll eventually get over it

I used to have a minor balance problem* too, but spinning in a spinny chair helped me get over that

*bike accident, went down a hill really really fast, and fell off...there were bells rining in my ear for like 2 days

I think you should go for it savas....(the only reason that I haven't picked up flying lessons is cuz my mom think that I'll kill myself....no idea where she got that from )

[SaVas]

Stormtropper, its not that I dont think I could do it, I just dont want to risk the lives of others if for some reason I were to blackout, and I dont think I would be able to pass.

[Jared]

Jrpilot, when I was a kid, roughly 7 years old, while asleep, I fell out of the top bunk of my bed and hit the back of my head, right under the base of my skull. To this day, because of that, I lose my balance, I can black out on a swingset, a roller coaster, and even in a plane. Thankfully I have not had it happen in a plane, but I no longer ride roller coasters, nor do I do anything that means excessive head movement.

Trust me...I would LOVE to be a pilot, but due to the above, I would never pass my medical.

hmm....When I was a kid our church scout group went camping to a 4H property out in the snowbelt in the middle of winter. They put us in cabins with those little plastic mattresses. You know the ones, thinner than your jeans you wore that day. Then you gotta use the nifty winter sleeping bags which are a slick vinyl type setup.

I swear to you the truth that I woke up one night as I was falling out of the bed. Luckily my legs went first, and I woke up mid-air, because I remember vividly hitting the ground and wondering what was going on that I was liek flying in the middle of the night...lol

After a minute or two I put two and two together and realized that the sleeping bag and mattress both beign slick had allowed my legs to fall off the side of the bed and the rest of me just followed....

Sorry to hear that something like that had to happen mate...

[Prowler1111]

sorry i don

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Hey, some blind guy in England passed his physical, so theres nothing that can hold you back

If he was unsighted he would never pass a medical, however, there are a lot of pyshically disabled people who fly, albeit with safety pilots.

Having said that, if you happen to have a friend with a nice aeroplane, there's no reason why you can't fly as much as you can (obviously not solo though...)

[ctjoyce]

Dude you are absolutely right on the piracy thing. If you all remember I had a problem with not knowing that a certain F/A-18 that I had used was payware.

But I also agree with brett, as we should have atleast an unoficial contest for payware, I mean hell they have it for edited screenies.

[CODY614]

Jrpilot, when I was a kid, roughly 7 years old, while asleep, I fell out of the top bunk of my bed and hit the back of my head, right under the base of my skull. To this day, because of that, I lose my balance, I can black out on a swingset, a roller coaster, and even in a plane. Thankfully I have not had it happen in a plane, but I no longer ride roller coasters, nor do I do anything that means excessive head movement.

Trust me...I would LOVE to be a pilot, but due to the above, I would never pass my medical.

Is that why you tried to land "Up-Side" down when you were at your new airport?

[CODY614]

All I know is that as long as people make it, and market it well, someone will buy it!
Look at Flight1! A Cessna 172R? I'll end up getting it.
Along with a lot of others. I will admit that it has hurt one thing!
Upgrading my computer! I did go out and get a new video card a week ago.
As for "Kids" spending a lot of money. Well, I've been in 3DMax forums were thats all your talking with. I surely dont' have $7,000 for 3DMax. But they do,and with all the bells and whistles.
Now lemme see Carenado gets $20.00 and Flight1 gets..........Yeah, I got enough1,Honey were did you hide the credit card!