CDs – another review – more features in the works

We’ve started producing CDs for those customers who are not comfortable with downloaded software or just prefer something they can hold in their hand. In order to start off with a bang, we’ve offered a promotional price and free airmail shipping to anywhere in the world.

In other news, we’re about to be reviewed in print, in a language other than English for the first time; this is most exciting! I look forward to hearing the response.

Development continues at a feverish pace, with emergency procedures next up. The instructor will be watching the pilot’s use of the radio and transponder to make sure appropriate actions are taken when bits start to fall off the plane…

The instructors, despite being unnerved by all the failures occurring in those awful aircraft the pilot insists on flying, will soon become even more helpful by announcing which specific runway’s ILS we’re tuned to: it all helps.

The program itself will become easier to use with the introduction of pop-up tool tips for all buttons and fields. When the pilot lets the mouse hover over the control, a tool tip will explain what it does. This will help folks understand the program better and encourage them to try out new features.

PC Pilot Classic Product!

Whoa – I just finished speaking to Derek Davis at PC Pilot – he tells me that we’re a PC Pilot Classic Product! This is a great honour – we owe many thanks to Derek and Joe for such a positive review. So – the review will be in the next edition of the magazine and we’ve even been included on the CD, along with a movie Joe made during his time with FSFlyingSchool.

Just flew some more flights with heavy iron to look at some new features we’re working on. I had a heck of a time when, having planned to execute the perfect flight, I suddenly noticed the gauge of the left main fuel tank slowly dropping down to zero! Wow – that thing must have had a hole in it the size of a Cessna. This changed the balance of the aircraft, but other than that I was able to get her down to EGLL without too much trouble. Basically, I’d forgotten that I had set the failure rate fairly high to test a different feature and I paid the price. It can get pretty wild up there with FSFlyingSchool…