• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Good developers

My first post in this excellent forum.

My first award goes to the thread starter for his idea to start it.

My payware developers awards go to the following good and supporting payware developers (numerical order is arbitrary and doesn't reflect order of preference) :

1. RAZBAM for their top ranking Corsairs and superb personal (i.e no tickets etc.) 24/7 customer support
2. LOTUS SIMULATIONS for their near real L-39 and prompt support whenever asked for.
3. VERTICAL REALITY SIMULATIONS for their unbelievable Super Bug and 24/7, all weather, personal support.
4. PRECISSION AERO BUS for their shiny and might Fokker 50 and for their willingness to look for any possible friendly solution for fullfilling customer requirements.
5. IRIS SIMULATIONS for their unique F-16D and A-10A as well as their excellent support (when they're undisturbed by attackers).
6. AEROSOFT for their really good F-16, AIRBUS-X, CATALINA and TWIN OTTER aircraft and their prompt support.
7. JUST FLIGHT for their DC-3 and CONNIE and for assembling real bargains of packages as well as their excellent support.

I'm assembling my freeware developers list, which I think deserves a new thread that I'm planning to add soon after finishing.

Thank you guys I really enjoy your efforts in keeping this hobby alive and well
 
He hasn't been mentioned yet and mainly works in FS9, but he does let people have his source files for reworking into FSX aircraft and still assists further with that development. Plus his work is freeware! Besides, he's just an all around good person to boot.

IMHO, Milton Shupe is one of the best out there! :ernae:
 
Should just list every single payware company out there because somebody will be offended if their not listed and it seems as of late we all have to walk on Egg shells and be Politically correct.

For me its A2A. They set the standard in every category by which others should follow. John Stinstrom and Jim Dhaenens are top notch free developers and are the ones who really showed me the way to creating some of my projects and are true gentlemen.
 
yeah I think by now there is a consensus in this forum on who we like, kinda like, and could like better as add-on developers.

offending people either by omission or by discrediting their work intentionally serves no useful purpose...

I have gone to specific developers sites to praise quality work, service etc...and to others to offer suggestions, and reference materials to help improve their products.

Maybe that is the best way to go - PC or not PC - I think we all know what we like and it is usually not identical from one to another, so ranking developers will only serve to please a very few of them and irritate all the rest.

I respect them all for taking on the heartache of trying to bring more choices to all of us and for being great at customer service - I have never had a bad experience in that regard (including Icarus Gold) and I have a lot of addons in my FSX main folder. be sure

I know people are disappointed in Icarus Gold over the Duck Debacle as it has come to be known as in my house - but I think it just points out how hard it must be for payware developers to sweat working on a product for months, only to see another one released before, during or just after theirs....especially for free....(especially if it is Really Good)

Just makes me respect them more..the guys that take it in stride here, even praising the competitors work or offering to co operate by modeling a different mark of the same plane. This is what makes me a customer as much as the quality of the work they do.
 
I tend to show my appreciation to my favorite developers by spending my hard-earned moolah on the products they produce....:salute::salute:
 
A2A, Classics Hangar, Warbirdsim, Vertigo Studios, VRS, and Captain Sim are all on my list. I know others may think different, but all of these developers have been great so far. Developers in general, shout out to you, thanks for all the time and effort you guys invest in our hobby!
 
My hat is off to Mark Harper of ALS-SIM.com for his wonderful Mirage III/5 package (originally sold under the Skysim label). I fly it all the time. His Flanker package is also a favorite of mine. Amazing the system depth in that one.

And a tip of the hat to David at Iris Simulations for that killer sale this past December and the resulting hanger of outstanding aircraft I now have.

And also to Bill at Lionheart Creations for a steady flow of unique and really well engineered general aviation subjects.

And I have to selfishly give a nod to Alphasim, now Virtavia, for years of great releases.
:ernae:
 
If I can be permitted to add to my earlier post .....

Picking up on Frank's comments (and I can do this unselfishly), Phil at Alphasim/Virtavia has been unceasingly helpful over the years; and the same goes for David Brice and his team, who have provided me with excellent support all the way back from the DSB days.

Mr UKMIL deserves a special mention for ploughing that lonely furrow that is ... um, classic UK military (and a huge thanks for all the help he has provided me today regaining access to his site).

Bill deserves a shout out, but not just for his Lionheart work (although Operation Valkyrie forms an essential part of my GW3 installation) but for his recent work which has opened up new possibilities in FS9 .....

.... which brings me to Steven Beeny (Nazca Steve) who has fed my Canberra addiction over the years, and was even kind enough to post some of my own feeble repaints on his site. The team he has working around him at Flying Stations are producing lovely work in both sims; I await their Buccaneer S1 with barely restrained drooling.

And Rob Richardson (and the lovely people at Britsim) who finally persuaded me to put another toe in the scary waters of FSX, with his Brit classics culminating in the recent Meteors; if Rob gives us a FR9 or even a Mk I.III, I may have to offer to have his babies (sorry!!!).
 
Just to go back to my first post..........................

I really think that I must applaud Mr Conrad (Piglet) a bit more. :salute:

This evening I have moved his PC7 and J21 over to join the superb A-29 on my new FSX pc. Really great work .........and freeware!

I was so impressed, that I even found and downloaded his paintkits. Maybe something will follow.

Cheers

Paul
 
I just want to say i think everyone,freeware and payware alike,deserve a pat on the back for making our hobby what it is today,and will be in the future,thank you guys and gals for everything.:salute::salute:

Adam
 
adambar said:
I just want to say i think everyone,freeware and payware alike,deserve a pat on the back for making our hobby what it is today,and will be in the future,thank you guys and gals for everything.:salute::salute:

Adam
Click to expand...

I was going to say the same as Adam! Adding my own personal thank you to all devs both payware & freeware who have given me a lot of personal joy in my love & interest of Aviation. Every penny & dollar I've invested was worth much more than monetary terms or words can possibly say!

:salute::salute::salute:
 
From the FS9 camp, I'd like to add Steve Beeny and Flying Stations.. in addition to those already mentioned.

:ernae:

--WH
 
...and Sylvain Parouty and Skippy Bing for all of their stuff. Lukasz, Empek... boy I don't want to slight anyone.... there are a ton of 'em.

Jim
 
Kaz Ito......

He has given us hours and hours and hours of freeware fun. Has anyone heard from him lately?

I know he dropped out because of eye issues a few years back, but he came back for a little whle last year but has since droped off the radar again.
 
Hey All, :wavey:

I'd like to add the Uiver Team, who make the DC-2! I believe they qualify as a good developer because most of their profits go to keeping the real Uiver DC-2 flying, and they just released a 3-D gauge update for their DC-2, for free, keeping in mind these guys are all volunteers, I find that incredible. Also, not many developers re-visit their older products to update them, even the big firms don't normally do this. :salute:
http://home.hccnet.nl/r.cappers/dc2/
Just my 2c.

Craig :)
(the link is also in my Sig)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top