June 5, 200917 yr I want to address this letter ... To all personnel and editorial staff at AVSIM!I have been doing flight simulation since 2003 and though lately, I have not been actively simming, I still have the "flame" inside of me burning for this wonderful hobby which, in many ways, has changed my life for the better! AVSIM has been an incredible organization! In fact, there are few words to descibe how dedicated the staff of AVSIM has been in providing us the flightsimulation enthusiasts, with second-to-none quality of files, forums and up-time of its website. The recent hacking of AVSIM was shocking to me. Since I do not logon very often to any simulation site due to my "cooling down" period that I seem to be experiencing with flightsimming recently, I was utterly saddened by this event and could not believe anyone could have done this to what amounts to a mostly non-profit and free website (though there is the store but all membership and downloads and free).I wanted to congratulate AVSIM on changing MY life, and many AVMSIM members would probably also agree - for changing the lives of many other flightsimmers in a very positive way that cannot possibly be measured by money, or profits, or by anything "tangible" at all! Your contributions to flightsimming are priceless and irreplaceable. You not only provide quality resources on your website, you also link to many other flightsimming-related websites, making OUR world, the world of the flightsimmer, that much bigger! ... And I thought our world is was ALREADY pretty big since we fly the skies of the entire planet! ... but without AVSIM, Earth and flightsimming just wouldn't be the same and certainly not as "big".Thank-you AVSIM ... with all my heart!Can AgbabaMontreal, Canada I love flying my "iddy biddy Jumbo" CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, socket 775/3GHz/1333MHz bus/6MB cache MOBO: Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi-AP@n/Intel X38 chipset RAM: 4GB Kingston HyperX 1333MHz. rated 7-7-7-20, matched pair (2 x 2GB) GRAPHICS: Sapphire Radeon 5770HD 1GB (w/ fan) MONITOR: Samsung 24", 2494HM LCD wide-screen 1920x1080 SOUND: SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS HARD DRIVES: 1xWestern Digital WD1600JD SATA 160GB (primary/Windows XP and system boot drive) 1xWestern Digital WD3200AAJS SATA2 320GB (secondary/Flight Simulator 2004 running off WinXP Pro 32-bit, games video editing drive) 1xWestern Digital 500GB Black series SATA2 (Windows 7 64-bit: FSX is running off Win7; Windows XP Professional 32-bit) CASE: Antec Sonata III 500W OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit for FSX; Windows XP Pro 32-bit for other things.
June 5, 200917 yr Can, your testimony reaches the heart and strenghten our will to continue this wonderful experience.A warm thanks for your kind words. - PC Hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D // Asus ROG Crosshair X870E HERO // 2x32Gb Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5 6000MT/s CL30 // ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 OC Edition // 4Tb Corsair NVMe M.2 MP600 // Corsair 1600W PSU Samsung Odyssey Arc 55" curved 165 Hz monitor. - Simulator Hardware: VIRPIL Constellation Alpha Prime + VIRPIL VPC Universal Control Panel - #3 + MOZA AY210 Force Feedback Yoke + WINWING URSA MINOR 32 Throttle & PAC Metal + WINWING SKYWALKER Metal Rudder Pedals + WINWING Airbus FCU & EFIS + WINWING Boeing 3N PAP + WINWING MCDU-32 + WINWING PFP-4 + WINWING PFP 3-N + WINWING PFP-7.
June 6, 200917 yr Author Can, your testimony reaches the heart and strenghten our will to continue this wonderful experience.A warm thanks for your kind words.You are welcome! :( I love flying my "iddy biddy Jumbo" CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, socket 775/3GHz/1333MHz bus/6MB cache MOBO: Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi-AP@n/Intel X38 chipset RAM: 4GB Kingston HyperX 1333MHz. rated 7-7-7-20, matched pair (2 x 2GB) GRAPHICS: Sapphire Radeon 5770HD 1GB (w/ fan) MONITOR: Samsung 24", 2494HM LCD wide-screen 1920x1080 SOUND: SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS HARD DRIVES: 1xWestern Digital WD1600JD SATA 160GB (primary/Windows XP and system boot drive) 1xWestern Digital WD3200AAJS SATA2 320GB (secondary/Flight Simulator 2004 running off WinXP Pro 32-bit, games video editing drive) 1xWestern Digital 500GB Black series SATA2 (Windows 7 64-bit: FSX is running off Win7; Windows XP Professional 32-bit) CASE: Antec Sonata III 500W OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit for FSX; Windows XP Pro 32-bit for other things.
June 6, 200917 yr been flight-simming since days of FS98, and I totally agree with Can Agbaba Montreal, Canada, carry on the good work
June 9, 200916 yr Welcome Back AVSIM ! Truly appropos that aviation-related classic James Stewart film,The Flight of The Phoenix,you have resurrected yourselves.I'm sure I speak for a wide FlightSim community all round the world if I state that flight simming without Avsim has been like being in a state of limbo,a famine of flight simulation.I just put my hobby on hold and had you not been resurrected,I would have given up and sold every piece of software related to Flight Sim.Good to have you guys back,and a hearty applause to all those who made this happen.Fingers crossed that it never ever happens again.Reynaldo
June 9, 200916 yr I too offer my congratulations on the quick return and my thanks for all that Avsim has provided to the community. Here's to many more years of Avsim and flight simulations!KP
June 9, 200916 yr :( I have followed AVSIM since the early 2000's and it was very empty when they suddenly disappeared. I wish AVSIM welcome back to normal days again.Stefan
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