A trip to the memory lane :)

[teropa]

Hi all PIC freaks!Now while we're waiting for PICv2, I thought it might be interesting to take a look backwards in time... Most of us here have probably read all of these a million times before, but for some of the new users it should be interesting.Let's start with the interview of the PIC team, that was posted on late March 2001 (three years ago!)http://www.avsim.com/pages/0301/picinterview.htmlAs many of us know, Eric & guys first published (Eric alone at first) the 767 as a freeware panel, which later evolved into 767PIC. Take a look at the last version (actually there was at least one update to it, but anyway) of the Freeware "PIC", v7.0 of the 767 panel.This review on the v7.0 panel was posted on May, 1999 (almost five years ago!).http://www.avsim.com/pages/0599/ernst767/767.htmlInterestingly, after the v7.0 panel was released, Avsim reported this on May 20th, 1999:"Download Record ?In what surely must be a download record for simulation freeware, Eric Ernst and team's new 757/767 panel has set one. In the 24 hour period ending at 09:30 EDT this morning, the 2 meg file was download over 4,000 times. That's over 8 gigabytes of file transfers to the community. We know of no other file that has received that much attention in such a short period of time. And the downloads just continue to tick away."---And here's another interesting piece of news, that probably changed the world of serious flight simming more than anything else. Posted on September 11th, 2000."767 Pilot in Command To Be ReleasedFair warning, armchair flyers: Wilco Publishing's soon-to-be-released 767 Pilot in Command is not for the faint of heart. The new add-on to Microsoft Flight Simulator gives desktop pilots a series of nerve-wracking lessons in the art of managing predicaments ranging from tire blowouts, locked gears and windshear to electrical failure, cabin depressurization and engine trouble. No airliners go down in flames, but Wilco has turned up the heat in the interest of showing simmers what real pilots face when they're wrestling with more than 300,000 pounds of crippled metal.Building on original new gauges and panel details designed by active 767 co-pilot Eric Ernst and co-developers Laurent Crenier and Wade Chafe, 767 Pilot in Command begins with step-by-step training in flying the widely used twin-aisle twinjet. The pilot, copilot and onboard instructor verbally interact as they go through each stage of flight, from cockpit preparations to pre-takeoff, post-takeoff, cruise, descent, pre-landing and after-landing procedures. The virtual plane is empty (as it is throughout the sim), and the training is followed by a flight with full ATC chat. Then you can select from a menu of failure scenarios and go through the motions of taming your airborne tiger. The pressure's on: it's time to show your stuff"Nice huh ? ;)And finally, this is the one link I always show, when someone's asking me about "that panel, what is it ??"http://www.avsim.com/pages/0301/767pic/pic.html;)cheersTerops. I would've posted more links but some of them are dead in Avsim news library, which is a shame...

[Guest Stephan Haas]

Tero,Brings back memories of my first experience with PIC767. The usually proven "fools rush in method" left me standing on the platform: no way the engines would start. For one evening I thought that buying the 767 was a big mistake. More than 3 years have gone by. Now I know better, much better.Kind regards,Stephan Haaswww.lemont.nl/b767flightdeckhttp://www.pic767flyingclub.com/images/sas544.jpg

[Guest deltaflight]

I'd like to know what Ferd Burful thinks......... :)Mike

[Guest Stephan Haas]

A wild guess:"All your memory are belong to us"Kind regards,Stephan Haaswww.lemont.nl/b767flightdeckhttp://www.pic767flyingclub.com/images/sas544.jpg

[BobK]

>I'd like to know what Ferd Burful thinks......... :)He wants to know when the PATCH for PIC2 will be released! :)

[Guest BoeingFreak]

With Sir Burful being such a hardcore PIC user I feel Wade must be obliged to tell him then Bob, dont you think? :( (hehe worth a try :()

[Guest Rasputin]

Thanks For MemoriesWhat a great addon it is and was from the moment it was delivered and the forum to support it was full of great people willing to help others master the finer points to relizing the true depth of this sim.In my opinion second to none in all respects and I`m waiting on the V2 in much anticipation.Ted

[Guest LLgaz]

Memorieeeeeeeeeessss. How fitting that we remember the hard work / labour of love, done by these talented guys who dared to push the envelope. Just goes to show what can be achieved when money isn't one of the important factors affecting production.To be perfectly honest, if the new PICV2 was released with absolutely no new functionality, everything being the same as the original one, I know that a lot of people would be disappointed and probably angry at the developers.Me? I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I'd be happy because, I'd finally be able to fly my most favorite jet in FS9 again.