Hi everyone,There is a way of flying with millibars/hectopascals or inches now :-)Shameless plug begins...Radar Contact v4. Click the link below.Shameless plug ends.Cheers,

>The reason we pay more is simple: taxes.>European copies are produced AFAIK in Ireland, so production>cost is higher.>Then they're sold through European stores which have far>higher overhead because of property and income taxes.>Then there's VAT which is several times more than US>salestax.There is a thread on this I posted in earlier. We pay around 40% more in the UK for FS (and my copy of FS2004 was produced in Ireland). We do not have 40% higher taxes than America in the UK on goods. We are being ripped off and if you are prepared to sit back and accept that then you are welcome to. I for one will be buying my copy from a tax-haven.

Okay.....I just bought a rheostat / dimmer / potentiometer (whatever you want to call it) that controls the overhead red dome light on my Piper Dakota. It's a little "pot" than brightens / dims the dome light, no big deal at all.As much as I hoped the shop could source it at Radio Shack or similar, it turned out to be a "special order" item, and cost $40 without installation and the FedEx charge to ship it in. I figure it cost $100 to replace that little potentiometer.This certainly lends new meaning to the term "rip off". ;-)Always remember, it could be worse, much worse.It could always be the real thing.BTW, yes, we use "IN HG" in the USA. However, when I learned to fly, I did learn that the "standard day" pressure is 29.92 IN HG and 1013.2 MB. We use QNH in the USA.Did you know that there is QNH, QNE, QFE and QFF? ;-) The last one really should not concern pilots (just meteorologists), and you could probably add QFE to that list also.So when I land my plane, the altimeter reads field elevation.Some altimeters show both baro values, some just show one value. The ones we program for DF products always show both. The altimeter in my Dakota only shows IN HG, and these days I have to put put on my reading glasses just to read it! :-lolRegards,http://www.dreamfleet2000.com/gfx/images/F...R_FORUM_LOU.jpg

the price is something like 20% higher because of the higher production cost and another 20% because of higher taxes in the UK (which are leveraged over the 20% higher production cost).Yes it's a ripoff, but it's our own socialist "fair division of income" governments that are doing the ripping off, not Microsoft.

I doubt many people in Holland would call the current government socialist :-)Anyway, I'm not convinced that this is the answer, because in that case just about everything would have to be double as expensive here as in the States. And to be honest, given the fun I have I don't think 70 euro's is too much as such, it's just that I think it's odd that a product that is in some respects more realistic (ATC, accents, etc.) and thus "worth" more to Americans is in fact more expensive in Europe. However, I doubt my voice in this matter will change much, so I'll leave it at that.Leo Bakker