Help !!!I have a copy of the above program for MSFS 2000.I am now on FS 2002 - it does work to a fashion however should you press one of the cockpit buttons - it crashes......The model of the B757 is near perfect but was wondering, as the company who built the product is now no longer, if anyone knows of a company that has patches for this to work in FS 2004??In anticipation....:) :)

No. World Airline Simulations is basically synonomous with Ariane software, unfortunately, Ariane produces only 737 products and at that you have only to read the many posts on AVSIM forums about their problems. You will not find a patch for your product.Randy Jura, KPDX

Whatever is said heretofore applies to World Airline Simulations: (A post by Randy Smith with which I entirely agree)Lest ANYONE forget about just WHO Araine are please read thisAvsim Investigation: Here We Go Again ... By the AVSIM Staff Bob Hale, Bob Howe, "Bobbo", Peter Tishma, Papa Tango, PT, World Air Simulations, Ariane (1), Ariane (2), Corporate Worldwide Limited, Woodlandworld and who knows how many others, all point to the same individual, Peter Tishma of American Airlines fame (or is that infamy?). After a week or so of information being passed to us from a variety of readers, we have independently confirmed that information today. Ariane is in fact run by Tishma, who has steadfastly attempted to hide behind the obscurity of pseudonyms, and after having been dealt with quite firmly by the liquidation courts of the United Kingdom, continues to ply his trade in the flight simulation community. Were this just another gentleman who had gone bankrupt and was attempting to recreate his life after failure, there would be no large or even interesting story here. Given this man, his arrogance and disdain for the very customers he has to rely upon, it is a story worth reporting. This is the same individual that attempted to take over freeware by signing a contract with American Airlines which would have, in his "interpretation"; given him the rights to all AA owned logos, including that of TWA, in respect of their use by all others, including freeware authors. He attempted to force that interpretation off on the simulation community, and did the same with Lauda, British Airways and others. Of course, what he had in all cases was strictly a commercial arrangement with these carriers, and in no shape or way were these agreements intended to throttle the freeware contributors to our hobby, as AVSIM anticipated and subsequently resolved in discussions with AA. But, that did not stop Tishma from foisting off the attempt anyway. In doing so, he was successful in having a number of sites given "cease and desist" letters for either having AA liveried files for download and being interpreted as "commercial" enterprises, or being Virtual Airlines using the American livery. Had Tishma had his way, he would have gleaned enormous commercial benefit from cornering the freeware authors into publishing "approved" works through his company at the time; Papa Tango. Would they have remained freeware? We will let you draw your own conclusion. This is the same person who has literally stolen works from a variety of authors and organizations, including Graham Waterfield and Bob Kirkland of PSS fame. There are too many others to list, but we are quite confident that some of the "old timers" in the hobby can recall more than a few. And now we have Ariane (version 2) selling a GMAX 737. Folks, this is the same Peter Tishma of AA fame. How do we know? Thanks to some intrepid readers (who shall remain nameless) and our own staff, it was all very simple and rudimentary; we called his rented office and asked if he was there. It turns out that Tishma rents an office from Regus Instant Offices, a pretty well known instant office provider in the U.K. The phone number to this particular office is easily obtained by anyone. If you go to the Ariane site, you will find a total lack of any way to get in direct contact with them except through a rather non-descript AOL email account and a fax number. The fax number? Well it just happens to be the fax number for Regus Instant Offices in Luton, the home of the infamous Peter Tishma. What follows is a gist of phone calls repeated twice by a reader, and then by an AVSIM staff member: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Good Morning Regus" "Good Morning, can I speak to Peter Tishma please" "He is not in at the moment, but can I give you his direct number" "Thanks, that would be great" "Just a moment - that would be (number provided)" "Ok, is that Peter's direct line OR Ariane

Do a search in the PSS forum for the 757 panel. The panel was essentially done by PSS and marketed by WAS with their external model. I vaguely recall there being a simple fix in the panel.cfg to make it work and I remember using that panel in FS2002. Misha

Actually, I take that back. The PSS forum does not seem to have any useful info on this. There was a way, but I have long ago banished FS2002 from my harddisk, so I have no idea. Sorry.Misha

the product was created by PSS for FS98, marketed by WAS (who never paid PSS a cent of the agreed royalties) for FS2000 and later for FS2002 (which was known not to work by all involved except the unfortunate customers).