34 minutes ago, irrics said:

If there's anything we can do to help convince to undertake this, please let us know!

Perhaps a Patreon/Kickstarter type of thing so you know the money will be there if you make it?

Let him be.

He’s made as much a contribution as anyone.

He’s entitled to be let alone and enjoy retirement, especially when well earned.

Money doesn’t buy you everything!

Thank you Robert for all the joy you’ve brought us, enjoy your retirement!

I sent an email a while back to one of the contacts on the RealAir website, asking if I could buy the Spitfire IX and XIV aircraft downloadable for FSX, but didn't get a response. The website says pretty clearly that the installer posted there is not freeware and only for those who purchased the product previously. I have it on good authority that it converts very nicely in the Legacy Converter.

Edited January 30, 20215 yr by dobee51

I logged a ridiculous amount of hours in the Turbine Duke.  There haven't been very many planes, if any, that have come up to the level of quality in the RealAir planes.  I miss them.  

RealAir products always felt the most realistic in terms of flight models in FSX. The Marchetti was the first airplane I liked enough to hand fly all over the place, including my first sim trip across Canada. The Turbine Duke took me all over the Sim World. Rob is retired, although dabbling in modding much to many peoples delight!

New devs have to pick up where real air left off, perhaps you can learn the craft or find someone who would be into it?
@irrics

The secret sauce of the real air plane is in their analog gauges. No one else has managed the fidelity of real air gauges. I only wish they copy right it and then sell/license it to other developers so Rob et all earn residuals. This way, the unique Real Air technique would not just disappear if not, that would be a shame.  If the other add on vendors are smart, they would grab it and adapt.

Edited January 30, 20215 yr by Manny

On 8/14/2020 at 9:44 AM, hangar said:

we really have become somewhat spoiled in recent years, have we not? I can recall we were much easier to please back in the 90's when everything that released provided such a new experience to us all 🙂

Many thoughts go through my mind with this type of statement. A kernel of truth and a casual observation of change of forum activity since the '90's has parallels to western societies as a whole;  rampant materialism, waste . excessive consumption, immediacy, selfishness.  

I say,  look for a not always peaceful Global wide re-adjustment process as we learn to adapt with less, not more.... and probably a calmer less demanding forum.....😊

Edited January 30, 20215 yr by ray hughes

3 hours ago, Cmcollazo71 said:

Let him be.

He’s made as much a contribution as anyone.

He’s entitled to be let alone and enjoy retirement, especially when well earned.

Money doesn’t buy you everything!

Thank you Robert for all the joy you’ve brought us, enjoy your retirement!

Is asking such a harm?

Your comment makes it sound like I’m badgering him at his house or something..

I notice you omitted quoting the part of my comment where I showered him with praise and let him know that his add-on was the best thing I’ve ever used with any flight simulation ever. 

Edited January 30, 20215 yr by irrics

18 minutes ago, irrics said:

Is asking such a harm?

Yes when he’s clearly said, “No.”

No, means, no. 😁

3 hours ago, Gregg_Seipp said:

I logged a ridiculous amount of hours in the Turbine Duke.  There haven't been very many planes, if any, that have come up to the level of quality in the RealAir planes.  I miss them.  

I did a lot of flying in the Turbine Duke - typically in to London City from places all over the UK.

Wonderful aircraft - beautifully rendered in FSX/ P3D.

The sounds were pretty mad though. Like an Opera company gone a bit crazy and as for the brake sounds - it had reverb to it that made it sound like a pair of Maersk EEE's colliding in the Solent.

Wonderful manners in the air though. And that's what counts.

I think Robert had been clear that RealAir was a partnership and since the partners have gone their separate ways and the company has ceased trading, nothing more can be done with the RealAir assets.  

Meanwhile the Turbo Bonanza mod is great. 

I never had any of the RealAir aircraft so I missed out.  But life moves on sometimes.   

Edited January 30, 20215 yr by marsman2020

Change is a good thing.

😎

bs

11 hours ago, ray hughes said:

A kernel of truth and a casual observation of change of forum activity since the '90's has parallels to western societies as a whole;  rampant materialism, waste . excessive consumption, immediacy, selfishness.  

 

Most of my friends my age, like I do myself, have children in their 20's and 30's often with kids of their own ...  and the word that seems to best describe most (there are always exceptions) of that entire generation is "entitled".  Of course we are entirely to blame for that, we made them what they are.

Edited January 31, 20215 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

5 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Most of my friends my age, like I do myself, have children in their 20's and 30's often with kids of their own ...  and the word that seems to best describe most (there are always exceptions) of that entire generation is "entitled".  Of course we are entirely to blame for that, we made them what they are.

I think our generation (those of us who are in our late 40's or early 50's) were the first generation who become a bit entitled but not as bad as current generation, I agree that we are responsible for it though. A lot of it stems from mass TV coverage, and social media.

The last time Rob posted was 12/28/2020. I hope he's ok.

16 hours ago, irrics said:

Is asking such a harm?

Your comment makes it sound like I’m badgering him at his house or something..

I notice you omitted quoting the part of my comment where I showered him with praise and let him know that his add-on was the best thing I’ve ever used with any flight simulation ever. 

The harm in asking is that he has already shared with us more than once that he has health issues that prevent him from committing to any serious development efforts *inasmuch as he may wish to*.   Taking this circumstance into consideration, pressing the point by asking potentially could cause undue angst on his part in not wanting to let anyone down, which certainly wouldn't be doing him any favors.  A nice shiny new aeroplane to play with in our game is not a defensible reason to impact someone else's well-being.

Preceding the request with lavish praise as justification to ask, or to later defend your request, casts it in the same light as a quid pro quo.  Real, sincere praise is not accompanied by an ask in return.