Pam, I'm going to hijack this thread for a bit if you don't mind.
As I posted last night we executed a Combat Search and Rescue event this morning which aside from a loss of one Jolly due to mechanical failure, somehow in mid game the elevator axis reversed:isadizzy:, went off according to the timetable set. Since it has been posted today that WWII events be planned and executed here I wish to invite SOH Members that are interested in Vietnam / Cold War era operations to any and all events planned by the MFC. I am getting the next event in the works for Brown Water Navy operations in the Mekong Delta. Assets planned will be Piglets Bronco, PBR, and Mohawk. I still need to get a good free H-1 as I can't expect members and guests to use the ND Charlie model. Over then next couple of weeks I will post both here and on the MFC site on the progress and any files needed.
There was also two concerns about having to have a membership to access the site and files. Let me take each on it's own merits,
1 Membership, as I stated earlier, there are certain files that were gifted to us by Razbam as well as files in the beta or earlier stage of development and are for the use of the club only. This should not be a concern as I am a member of several sites and forums that require membership before you can even get past the welcome page in some cases. Being an owner of two Webs.com pages myself I can attest to having my monthly bandwidth sucked dry by everyone and their brother in a few days and having to put up with advertising and slower D/L speeds for the rest of the month so there is also a monetary incentive to secure access. This does not however preclude a member of staff form sharing a file with some one whose opinion is valued. We, I know myself for sure, want to know what others think of our work as it is the only way to improve, we are just careful as to what gets out lest we become know for shoddy work, which we do not do.
2 Donations, donations are on a voluntary basis by members that can afford to give so another member does not go without a needed item of software, hardware and the like. It is an in house benevolence fund that is updated to indicate contributions and debits and is visible to every member in the group. I want to say again, this is not a requirement of membership but a way of taking care of members that are in need of help to further their endeavors in support of the the club and the FS community in general.
Warhawk can elaborate further if need be but at the end of the day MFC is made of folks that have a love of flight, Naval Aviation and are interested in the period from 1965-1995 in general. We have a good time, some of the members I have known from my noob period in FS9, Navy Chief is one, to guys I flew with at FS Top Gun up to the group we have now. These friendships are the reason I still look forward to starting FSX, I know that I am going to have a good flight when they are around.
Next to strikehawk...i'm the roughest LOL. But seriously, almost all of us are over 50 and veterans, very easy going. I got a hangar, and then some, of warbirds..come on over and fly...its an open club, so ya can fly and not be a member if you wish.
