Quoted from SB Website"Release Candidate! The RC1 build of SquawkBox was just released to testers. Release candidate builds differ from betas in that no changes will be made unless a further critical error is found during testing. So barring any major problems all that remains is for VATSIM to grant approval to SquawkBox 3 and for me to finish up the final holes in the documentation.Thank you all for your continued patience--it shouldn't be much longer until release now. Rest assured that everything is being done by all parties involved to get SB3 out as soon as possible."

that's good news.fortunately i haven't had much trouble flying onlineuntil now,it does work as it is now too(for me at least).but i'm looking forward to have a one click connection,instead of fiddling with 2/3 programs :)tataJP.

Looking forward to checking this out and getting back into VATSIM...

Can't wait any longer..............:-grr But I will...I have been using SB for years and looking forward to the change to SB3. I am sure it will bring online flying back to life. Thanks to all those dedicated controllers that keep things interesting.Regards,Andrew:-wave:-) :-)

>that's good news.>fortunately i haven't had much trouble flying online>until now,it does work as it is now too(for me at least).>but i'm looking forward to have a one click connection,>instead of fiddling with 2/3 programs :)>>tata>>JP.Well you could always join 'F.P.I@ (Flight Project International) instead?Their 'ATOC' system has been doing all that the promised SB3 is still trying to catch up to, for over 12 months now.All the best,Dave.'Three greens and soft landings'

You all should know that once SB3 is done, it will be sent to VATSIM for testing and approval on the network before it is released. It may take a while (read...month or two) before VATSIM approves it and it is released to the public.

Correct. So if you go to the Joel's SB3 download site: www.squawkbox.ca you won't find a file to download yet. The release was apparently to the current list of beta testers and I assume to the VATSIM authorities.Hope RC1 all works smoothly. SB really needs a new face. And Joel has been laboring on this for a long time. He'll deserve a break and our thanks.Larry

I'm happy to wait until everything works before using SB3. Who cares if it's another month or so? It's all free after all.http://online.vatsimindicators.net/916312/3.png

IMHO, we've waited this long (2 flightsim versions, I think), I think we can wait another month or so... :(

***I am sure it will bring online flying back to life.***Back to life? When did it die? Sure isn't dead when I'm flying ;-)P.S. I see it says "HTML use enabled" but when I try to use it, the HTML tags show up?

If anyone is interested, here's the feature screen shots of SB3:http://www.vatita.net/screenshots/SB3/Had to dig around to find them!

Here is the link to the above quote from Joel at SquawkBox.SquawkBox Latest News http://www.squawkbox.ca/main.phpThere is also a Video Showing SB3 which was posted in January. You can download it from the link above. Regards,JoeJOIN The AVSIM RTW RACE FLIGHT TEAM****************Grab My FREEWARE Voice recognition Profiles here:[a href=http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004misc&DLID=58334]Cessna 172 Voice Profile[/a][a href=http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004misc&DLID=60740]FSD Avanti Voice Profile[/a].You will need the main FREEWARE Flight Assistant program to use it, get it here:[a href=http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=genutils&DLID=39661]Flight Assistant 2.2[/a]