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now there is a solid reply, rvn - thank you for taking the time to post it.

everyone can appreciate making a personal decision based on respect, and the laws pertaining to copyright are explicit. It is also generally up to the holder to enforce those protections.

AS I said - I have no urge to promote or participate in IP theft or piracy. I merely posed a question. I have purchased the SF260 and the Citabria which I bought long ago. I have no remnants of those purchases left on any functioning hard drive - mea culpa - so I have no proof of purchase to show. It just seems such a waste to lose access to the artwork forever in this way.
 
heywooood said:
now there is a solid reply, rvn - thank you for taking the time to post it.

everyone can appreciate making a personal decision based on respect, and the laws pertaining to copyright are explicit. It is also generally up to the holder to enforce those protections.

AS I said - I have no urge to promote or participate in IP theft or piracy. I merely posed a question. I have purchased the SF260 and the Citabria which I bought long ago. I have no remnants of those purchases left on any functioning hard drive - mea culpa - so I have no proof of purchase to show. It just seems such a waste to lose access to the artwork forever in this way.
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I don't believe I said anything about piracy here, and I don't think it was implied by anyone else. JMO. I am in agreement that if you had a licensed copy of a RealAir model and lost it in a hard drive crash, there should be a way to retrieve it legally. I have the Spitfire MkXIV and the Sf.260 for FS9 and thankfully the hard drive I installed 3 years ago on my FS9 machine is still holding up. I also have them backed up on a separate HD along with the purchase codes. I tried logging into the RealAir website to no avail, its gone. Still, unless an authorized someone comes along and makes a formal announcement about the RealAir software, one way or another, I'll continue to adhere to the agreement I made with them when I purchased those. Sad tho... I would have really liked to have procured the Spitfire IX for FSX.

BB686:US-flag:
 
I think I remember reading that they planned on releasing new installers in the future that would work once there website disappears, when they do that I hope they just make them freeware. But we will have to wait for them to do that.
 
Well here is an answer re RealAir. I had to reinstall the Spitfire today for reasons relating to a complete cluster on FSX, which has required a rebuild from the start.

(I am a bit smarter now I keep hardcopy backups of all the relevant key FSX files that would otherwise mean endless hours of work but I digress).

The install went flawlessly, it went off on the internet somewhere, verified my purchase then installed the Spifire (Big sigh of relief) not only that I was able to download additional extra textures that I did not have before as part of the original download. I think it went to a Cloud site, but that does not matter, I still was able to get back the product and install it. So if you have the product you can still get some sort of service but alas not buy anything else. So it is not abandoned in any sense, just withdrawn from sale, which is of course the vendors right.
 
Blackbird and others,

not sure if it helps, but both the FSX Spitfire and the SF260(dual FSX&FS9version) are still available on the german aerosoft online - store website , actually both are even on a kind of permanent sale, at 10€ each, which is excellent value for the money, if you ask me.

The only drawback is, they are on disk media/DVD , so depending on where you live, the mailorder fee might make
it cost-prohibitive, despite the sale.

Whats strange is, they don't show up on the english version of the website,so be sure to switch to the german flag symbol on the top of site , if my link should be automatically
be redirected to an english version on your computer.
(Hopefully there are enough icons and intuitive buttons/ interface to manage the Checkout&pay process without being fluent in german.

http://www.aerosoft.com/de/search?sSearch=realair

Hope this helps,

Kind regards,

Oliver
 
I've seen a couple sites, like pcaviator and fspilotshop, and all the RealAir stuff that is available is disc media only. I'd guess that RealAir can't really ask retailers not to sell their stock, but, they can ask to pull links for downloadable content.
 
As Nick said elsewhere, they work splendidly in Prepar3D, and I have enjoyed many an hour at Heron’s Nest in the Citabria on floats. I do still have the TD2 and plan on installing as soon as the sound issues are sorted....

Meanwhile, should anyone be able to point me to the Legacy 2 I’d be obliged!

Best- Carl
 
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