I met Peter Tishma when I visited the RC Simulation's FS Show at the National Motorcycle Museum near Birmingham, England in the late 90's or early noughties. Pete Dowson was with me and PT was sucking up to him big time. I'll not forget that for a while.

 

Those were happy days when we had annual shows where you could meet so many people you only knew on forums. :smile:

 

God, how I miss those days. Those of us who have been simming for 25-30 years really have to reflect on how lucky we are. There was even a time when we talked about flight parameters and FDE's instead of bird flocks and missing cruise ships. Or, maybe it's just the musings of an old man.....

 

Doug

Why would anyone look any further than PMDG or iFly, for an accurate 737NG experience in flight simulator? People...it does not get any better than these two Boeings! (unless you just go out and buy a real one.)

 

 

God, how I miss those days. Those of us who have been simming for 25-30 years really have to reflect on how lucky we are. There was even a time when we talked about flight parameters and FDE's instead of bird flocks and missing cruise ships. Or, maybe it's just the musings of an old man.....

 

Old? You're not old Doug. Methuselah, now that's old! :Big Grin:

 

Ah yes, the days when CompuServe ruled and you were just a number. 100651.450. That was me. God, I'm showing my age.   Can't say I remember FDEs or flight parameters but I do remember flying in DOS and worrying that 640kb of memory was going to run out!

 

 

People...it does not get any better than these two Boeings! (unless you just go out and buy a real one.)

 

Well if you want to get to places really quickly there is always Concorde. 23 miles a minute at 60,000ft and sipping champagne. Everything else is just too slow. :wink:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3e5i6SGOtA

Interesting info and links. Before my time as a simmer, but interesting (and sad) nonetheless. Thanks for the history!

A lot of nostalgia came into this post , but still there is no answer why people do not talk even about AD ?, if nobody is buying their planes so how they stay in this business for so many years ?.

Now AD is doing something completely new - new secret project is going on.

I met Peter Tishma when I visited the RC Simulation's FS Show at the National Motorcycle Museum near Birmingham, England in the late 90's or early noughties. Pete Dowson was with me and PT was sucking up to him big time. I'll not forget that for a while.

 

Those were happy days when we had annual shows where you could meet so many people you only knew on forums. :smile:

 

Hi Ray..

 

Wasn't that Tishma's show setup that I did my keyboard flight in the Lear under Tower Bridge ?

 

I used to fly using the keyboard then. I recall that he was a little mad when he found that I had edited the config file to accommodate my keyboard commands for the throttle and flaps, which I used at that time. I had to disable his stick and yoke in order to use the keyboard. I dunno why he was so mad....I had made a backup first... :rolleyes:

 

(which BTW I still use, Ctrl/del for full deployment, Ctrl/* for full retract & '*' for full throttle/'.' for throttle cut)

 

It was a good show that year - I think that is when I ordered my UK VFR scenery - the first photoreal product for the UK....(..and suffered a domestic after the wife found that I'd spent almost £100 on scenery for a 'Game'...)

 

Regards

Bill

 

 

Mornin' Bill,

 

I vaguely remember you flying the Lear using the keyboard. Crikey, that took some skill! But the show at the NMM went on for many years and I'm sure it was Bob Sidgewick of RC Sims that organised it. Tishma just turned up and made out he was the big cheese.

 

I don't recall any of PT's software other than the Ariane 737 and I never went near it mainly because of the price and the growing negative publicity.

 

I remember the 2003 show because some bright spark had organised a computer fair on the same day and the traffic and parking was horrendous. I parked about a mile away and was so fed up I treated myself to GoFlight modules. I probably beat your £100 but didn't have to answer to anyone. :wink:  I hope you did some serious sucking up to placate her.   Game indeed! :rolleyes:

Is Ariane actually in business?  I notice the copyright date on their home page is 2007 and they seem to be oriented to XP and VIsta more than anything else in their ad copy....

 

DJ

oops wrong topic

Apart from the fact that the DUB waypoint I entered in,was never the correct one,and you had to pay again to re-activate the software,should you upgrade your PC. 

Not been installed since the PMDG NGX came out. 

A lot of nostalgia came into this post , but still there is no answer why people do not talk even about AD ?, if nobody is buying their planes so how they stay in this business for so many years ?.

Now AD is doing something completely new - new secret project is going on.

 

So the whole point of your topic was to let everyone know that Ariane is back in business ?

I found it strange that anyone would ask about Ariane when just typing the name in Google would be enough to warn you about the practices used by them . Not just with the original release ( read the review ) but the fact that you had to pay for repaints ( which were not cheap , by the way )  whereas all other developers do not .

Luckily for the most of us , we know what to expect when ( if at all ) their " NEW " product is released .

 

John

For those kissing the old Birmingham shows, this years big event is being held at RAF Cosford on October the 4th. Details at http://www.flightsimulatorshow.com

 

As for Ariane, I reviewed it years ago and, well I was less than impressed.

 

Jess B

Sorry to go off-topic for a second... 

Any of you from the Uk who are missing the days of big shows should get yourselves along to Cosford in October. Thousands of simmers and big name devs there last year and hopefully even more this year. 

http://www.flightsimulatorshow.com/photos.html%C2'>

I'll be going and will be getting my ticket soon. I really enjoyed last year's show including a tour around the museum.

 

No doubt the wallet will take a hit but you can't go to a show and not spend can you? :smile:

 

 

I'm sure it was Bob Sidgewick of RC Sims that organised it. Tishma just turned up and made out he was the big cheese.

 

Yes, it was Bob's show. After the fire in the museum in early 2004 (?), I think Bob threw in the towel on those shows.