>Of course you won't>>PSS's forum is locked, so any posts that PSS doesn't like will>simply not appear.>Did you know that we used to have a non moderated forum. But as a few of us does not know how to behave when they are not under constant monitoring we had to close that forum.>I'm very happy to see that PMDG keeps the forum open and only>deletes post containing personal insults, but apart from that>allowing an open discussion but their product.>Me too, but we should be abble to behave ourselves and normaly no post should be deleted. But we are all human, and human kind is weak.>To me, a locked support forum, like that of PSS lights a few>caution lights and rings one or the other alarm bell, because>I might just not get a nunbiased opinion or open discussion>there. To be honest, that alone is a reason for me to stay>away from their products.This is one of the consequenses, but it is not totaly true. I have seen quite agressiv post not deleted by the moderators, in their forum.>>I'm not saying this is the case at PSS, but a locked forum>might hint to many people that there are things which a>company doesn't want to hear and/or be heard about their>product.Ask any one of the PMDG team, when you write a complete manual, and when you have dozen of post requesting to model a VNAV and LNAV on the bus, what would you think about it? Specialy when you spent hours and hours to explain that a bus is not a Boeing, and a bus works with Open, Selected, or managed features, and thus there is no LNAV and VNAV button, but instead you have to push/pull the heading button or the altitude window.Well it is exactly like in the PMDG forum about customer requesting after the TOGA button. At the end you are tired of always justifying yourself.>>Again, this is just my own CHF 0.02, no offense meant to any>person or organization. This also by no means to be>interpreted as any judgement about the quality of any>product.I have never doubted of it>But hopefully, the majority of us are educated enough to behave in forums with out the need of being monitored. But as always, the majority will face the music for the minority...And I am the first one to regret that the PSS forum is moderated. Also, if I remember correctly, when the 737 was released, the PMDG team could have gone to a moderated forum as of some "sensible posts". Maybe the PSS moderated forum is the good example that have reduced the amount of "unfriendly" posts in other ones, and have made pepole to think about it... So in this case, it is sad for us, but a benefit for the community.>Best Regards>Max (Bern, LSZB)>http://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004betateam.jpg>http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/800driver.jpgChussCpt Cyrille de Lattrewww.corporateaviationservices.comAsus P4P800/P4 2.4 giga/1.5 giga DDR/Ati 9700 pro 128 meg

Hi fellows, to me it is very important that the forums are and remain a free discussion board where people can post their opinion and critism freely without seeing their posts removed.I find that very "regiem" like and simply hate it!Forgive my english if their are a few mistakes on this post.My best to you all,David

Thanks Pete,David

its worse than that you know. you complaian about having to buy the

A newbie question. Is there really any big difference with these aircrafts except that the 800/900 are taller and bigger?Will it have features that migrates over to the 600/700 versions like the TCAS thingies and such?

Hi,maybe I'm the only one, but I think the SUGGESTION part of the original post is a legitimate one. The COMPLAINT is another matter, which I do NOT want to defend.I also do not want to argue on quality, quantity, pricing or what else, but maybe PMDG should *LATER* consider to release a standalone version of the newer -800/-900's, priced accordingly to the 600/700 package.See, if You really want to have only one aircraft of this series, it might seem unnecessary to obtain ($$$) the others as well, which may be perfect in other's eyes but are -in your personal opinion- no use to You.Sure, it's buy it or leave it, but a suggestion to re-think vending policies could be considered without any hassle.My 2 cents,Torsten