We decided to go all out to beat the Credit Crunch and change the price from $38.95 to $19.95 – the price will vary somewhat according to the currency used to purchase the product.
We hope this will get lots of folks flying with FSFlyingSchool over the Holiday Season and give undecided Flight Simulator fans an even bigger reason to try us out!
So for only $19.95 you can have 5 flight instructors at your disposal for the rest of time!
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Back again – took a very short break from coding the next version… All this writing I’m doing… How about if you do some reading?
Read what the Flight Simulation community at large are saying about FSFlyingSchool in reviews at:
http://www.flightsimx.co.uk/reviews/fsflyingschool-review
http://www.simnewz.com/Product_Reviews/SIMnewz_FSFlyingSchool_review.pdf
http://www.fsflyingschool.com/forum/Topic946-5-1.aspx
http://www.avsim.com/pages/1207/FlightSchool/FlightSchool.htm
Also – World renowned PC Pilot Magazine honoured FSFlyingSchool with its PC Pilot Classic Product designation in issue 45 in early 2007. Reviewer Joe Lavery calls FSFlyingSchool a “brilliant idea and one that works very well…”
Read it here:
http://www.fsflyingschool.com/images/PC Pilot review – FS Flying School.pdf
BUT REMEMBER – the PC Pilot Magazine review was of version 1.3 – this was a long time ago and many, many new features have been added, bringing the current version to 1.7 (Oct 2007)!
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Hmmm – been a while… busy, busy…
What’s new? Well, we’ve been corresponding with museums, clubs, schools and such as we figure FSFlyingSchool would be of great use to aviation related places of interest and in teaching a whole host of skills, via the exciting conduit of simulated aviation.
We got a great review over on the splendid Aussie site at www.SimNewz.com
Good on ya, Mates!
Lots of new features are working their way into the system – not released yet, but coming soon.
The most I dare say is, let me see…
The failures system has been expanded yet again. We have added loads more for the pilot to worry about up there – will keep everyone on their toes.
Pilots are going to need to operate their lights correctly if they want to keep those instructors happy – and you know what they’re like…
The keen eyes of the instructor will be looking for pre-flight checks, so we’ll all have to brush up on them.
The instructor is going to have a lot more to say about the flight plan during the trip, so we’ll be encouraging everyone to load one into FSFlyingSchool to get the most out of the experience.
OK – that’s all I dare say for now or MrSmith will be after my blood!
In other news, somebody just figured the best way to declare a missed approach is to pop the current flight mode back from ‘landing’ to ‘cruise’ and that’s it – you’re all set.
Gotta go –
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We got version 1.5 out today. This breaks new ground with random erroneous behaviour (REB) in the operation of aircraft panel switches. The existing random and “loose wire” failures systems have been beefed up to make more trouble for the pilot who was just getting used to a bit of piece and quiet on those long haul flights…
Problems requiring detection and resolution now include: Pitot heat; autopilot master; battery; alternator; avionics and NAV/GPS switches. What we’re really trying to model is the potential that the switch, or the circuitry immediately behind it, is somehow faulty and may require a good jiggle to get it working again.
Those darned ground crew…
We also introduced an additional (new) log book, using the traditional real world aviation format of one ‘line’ per flight. This brings in lots of data not available in previous versions, such as hours flown at night or under IFR, and “block time” for Virtual Airline buffs. You can print it too – suitable for framing…
We’re looking into making it possible to export it as data for submission to some of the popular Virtual Airlines.
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Well – here I go – this is the start of my FSFlyingSchool Blog. I hope that this will prove of some interest to those fine virtual (and real) pilots out there who have come to use, or are interested in using, FSFlyingSchool, or are just interested in flight simulation itself.
I’m Jeff Preston, the founder of FSInventions, makers of FSFlyingSchool, and am the main developer of FSFlyingSchool, along with my friend and software development partner John Paul Jones.
Things have been very busy lately with the release of several versions of the product since its initial publication in December 2006.
Out motto has been to frequently update FSFlyingSchool so as to resolve any issues as quickly as possible and to make new features available to existing users and new customers alike.
The new Career Analyzer is a great tool to use to evaluate your own performance with FSFlyingSchool. I have been using it for some time now and it’s very interesting to see which areas of my own airmanship needs extra work. The other day I managed to get a 747 down with a vertical speed of 66 fpm, which my experiments say is about as fast as a sheet of paper falls to the ground on a calm day. But, before I pat myself too hard on the back, I’m also very familiar with that awful sound FSFlyingSchool makes when you slam that baby down onto the runway and get told dryly that “you landed too hard”.
The FSFlyingSchool user interface training movies just made it onto the web site. We hope these will be very useful in explaining how the program works to both customers and interested simmers alike.
Dedicated users of FSFlyingSchool continue to submit new aircraft data for us to turn into FSR (aircraft profile) files in The Hangar – this scheme has proven very successful.
The web site itself has of course undergone several recent changes with the introduction of The Hall of Fame and the stats which can now be obtained on each pilot and each aircraft on the high score tables. There’s been quite a battle for the title of Circuit Caesar (pilot with the best circuit score), with Eric1972 currently holding that honour with 102.60 points in his SIAI-Marchetti SF.260 G-AERO.
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