Hi,I'll post this here because I am an X-Planer and want to primarily reach the X-Planers frequenting this site.I read your forum and some of the posts in the following topic really spoke to my heart:http://forum.avsim.net/topic/267918-is-x-planeorg-site-hurting-the-x-plane-franchise/page__st__25Some of you may know me as a somewhat long (not super long, just about 3 to 4 years) time member from the other site. I do not like to badmouth anybody and shed bad karma, but I really started to feel the need to be reorienting myself to find a new home for my X-Plane community interaction. I am pleased to find an alternative here and already feel like there is a "fresh breeze" on these forums. There's just so much negative energy on that other site, it is starting to be unpleasant over there. I found myself posting less and less over there because conversation was always dampened. I stopped having fun interacting with the community.So here I am, looking for new horizons :-)- J.P.

hehe there's a fresh breeze alright blowing in from the FSX camp :( :( :(

Hello JP,Welcome,I'm New to XPlane also.There are very knowlegeable simmers here in this forum who are very helpfull.

hehe there's a fresh breeze alright blowing in from the FSX camp :( :( :(

Yeah, I've noticed that. ^_^But to be honest, I'll rather put up with the FSX breeze than to interact in an enclosed cocoon where everybody slightly critical of any of X-Planes features (or the cocoon itself), gets treated like an "X-Plane su*ks go FSX!!!" troll. Because, at the end of the day, X-Plane can only benefit from new followers with high demands. It is a commercial product and it has not reached its full potential.And thanks for the nice welcome guys.

Another one. Sorry I haven't experienced this. Not saying it doesn't happen but I haven't seen it.

Yeah, I can understand. There are! a lot of good folks over at the other site. Whether or not you have a good experience there depends largely on your personal views and who you run into. It is, however, possible to make perfectly viable and factual points and arouse spiteful, sarcastic replies from the kind of forum member which sits on the longer end of the lever. Once that has happened once or twice to you, it kind of kills the overall enjoyment.