The status of Fly!

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Hi Cap,Man, this is EXACTLY what happened to me too! I read this add (on the same magazine) and got amazed when saw runaway lights (SFO airport, I think) with the entirely Cesna

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Oh yea mate. I remembered that full panel shot too! It was just about a week before the sim came out and I couldn't sit still in my seat. I saved that shot as a wall paper. And I remembered that original site and forum too!Ahh, the good times. But for sure that the good times will continue.>LEAD PROGRAMER for a product and indeed the entire team that devloped it actually ANSWERED peoples questions ON LINE!!That alone, made our Fly better than anything else because it is something "the other guys" could never do.

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May God continue to bless you and your family Richard and also Fly staff.Fly! III might seem to be dead, but with all the new developments and addons and changes I keep reading about, it sounds like Fly! II might as well be called Fly! III! YeAH!!! Thanks for all your hard work!RGClark

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I just want to add my name to the long list of thank yous. Thank you Richard Harvey for the hours and hours of pleasure Fly! has given me. With this Fly! community, I expect it will continue to do so for years to come.Don Bishop

[KenWood 5]

Hi Rich / Team Members, This *is* somewhat sad news. However, I like to think of things in this light: Flight Unlimited series is still living, thanks to it's dedicated following - so I have no fear that the same will happen with the Fly! series. Whether or not you are able to release code, those of us that love and respect this experience you have given us will keep it going. Of that, I have no doubt. :-) Many thanks for all the fun times you and the entire Fly! team provide (Beta Team as well!). Will still be looking for your contribution in the forum, Rich! All the best in your new endeavor -it sounds like another awesome project for you to involve yourself in. And one should also take a moment to thank all the creative third party people involved with Fly! too. Their efforts don't go unnoticed, and are very much appreciated. :-beerchugKen WoodCNN International Weather :-sun1

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EDITED TO TAKE OUT THE QUOTE OF THE TROLLA very good post Tony! >Speak of being pathetic...If you and the millions of others had brains. You would probably take them out and play with them. This is the Internet you know? Too lazy to read reviews? Oh of course that would be way to simple. That would require using your bregan.Your words prove the lack there of any evidence of working cells.For one to wish ill fate towards anyone is a perfect example of this.When you do your research on the truth behind the early release of FlyII!. Then you need to come back and apologize to Richard Harvey. I shouldnt even lower myself to your standards and reply to the likes of you. Boo Hoo get a life? When you have the balls to let everyone here know your true identity. Then you will have a life. Until then you are nothing more than a spineless poor excuse for life. Kerry Donnelly? Is this a name you had to make up? Or did it fall out of your brain while you were playing with it? Nuff said. Richard, Please do not think any less of me for replying to this low life, but it really bothers me to see someone say things like this.I along with many others here wish you all the luck in anything you do in the future. You have been giving a second chance in life. This is the commencement speech by the writer, Anna Quindlen, to the graduates at Villanova this year. It's a great honor for me to be the third member of my family to receive an honorary doctorate from this great university. It's an honor to follow my great Uncle Jim, who was a gifted physician, and my Uncle Jack, who is a remarkable businessman. Both of them could have told you something important about their professions, about medicine or commerce. I have no specialized field of interest or expertise, which puts me at a disadvantage talking to you today. I'm a novelist. My work is human nature.Real life is all I know. Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first. Don't ever forget what a friend once wrote Senator Paul Tsongas when the senator decided not to run for re-election because he had been diagnosed with cancer: "No man ever said on his deathbed, 'I wish I had spent more time at the office.'"Don't ever forget the words my father sent me on a postcard last year "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat." Or what John Lennon wrote before he was gunned down in the driveway of the Dakota: "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."You will walk out of here this afternoon with only one thing that no one else has. There will be hundreds of people out there with your same degree; there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you will be the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or your life on a bus, or in a car, or at the computer. Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account but your soul. People don't talk about the soul very much anymore. It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. But a resume is a cold comfort on a winter night, or when you're sad, or broke, or lonely, or when you've gotten back the test results and they're not so good.Here is my resume:I am a good mother to three children.I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.I no longer consider myself the center of the universe.I show up.I listen.I try to laugh.I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows mean what they say.I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today, because I would be a cardboard cutout. But I call them on the phone, and I meet them for lunch.I would be rotten, or at best mediocre at my job, if those other things were not true.You cannot be really first rate at your work if your work is all you are. So here's what I wanted to tell you today:Get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast?Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in which you stop and watch how a red tailed hawk circles over the water or the way a baby scowls with concentration when she tries to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter.Get a life in which you are generous. And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money you would have spent on beers and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a big brother or sister. All of you want to do well. But if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough.It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the color of our kids' eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again.It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all:I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and utterly. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.By telling them this: Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.TonyWhy Oh .... Why cant I ????FlyII! ver. 2.30Directx 8.1nVidia drivers 28.32ECS K7S5A SOCKETA /DDR/ AUDIO/ATX MB, DDR 128MB PC-2100 266MHZ MEMORY ,AMD ATHLON T-BIRD 1.2GHZ 256K FSB266 PGA , NVIDIA GEFORCE2 MX-400 64MB 4X-AGP

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First, Let me say thanks to you, Rich, for stating the honest truth about the future of Fly! I know that it is hard sometimes facing that fact. There are some of us that held onto hope for Propilot for so long and if truth be known, probably still wish something for it. It's never good to see things not go the way as planned that you put so much of yourself into. But like you said, I too felt it was something that needed to be said and it couldn't have come from a more appropriate person from the team. That being said.....Here's the part where people decide I'm the bad guy. :-)I simply cannot believe some of the junk I was reading in this thread earlier. I just check back in after a couple days and find the original intent of this thread utterly disrespected by some of the users in the forums. Normally I just leave the thread locked like Tom had done because I feel much can be learned about some individuals by reading how they act in the forums. I'm sure most of the regulars here have already developed their opinions about these people and the newbies really shouldn't be bothered with such pettiness. However, I felt by not cleaning out all the trash in the thread, it really took much away from the thread. I just didn't want to sit by and let that happen as I'm sure it was difficult for Rich to make that post. So to the few individuals that wanted to keep going back and forth with the silliness, all those messages have been removed. Also, if you responded to any of those messages, even though it was to voice your disappoint, those will be gone also. I hope you understand that is necessary to keep some sort of logic to the thread.Lastly, I really wanted to leave this thread unlocked because it does feel good to get some positive feedback and Rich and the rest of the Fly! team do deserve it, but I do not want the possibility of anymore negative input to this thread. So I decided to lock it back and anchor it for a while so everyone gets the chance to see it. I hope Rich understands that. And please don't consider rehashing any of the petty bickering that was going on because it will be removed as quickly as I can get to it. Sorry to all the others that were as dissapointed as me with the direction this thread took and we weren't able to catch it earlier.