Tom Allensworth

Please let us know what funeral, memorial, or other services and remembrances we can provide from our community here. And certainly please provide our condolences and best to all his family and friends from the AVSIM Staff.

That is exactly correct. When we set the system up, we inadvertently set the auto renewal to "on" and that was not the intent. So we started to get cancellation notices and decided that we had to go in and cancel all the future renewals that were about to occur. If you get a auto renewal now, please let us know ASAP and don't allow the renewal to take place.

It is indeed a pleasure to announce AVSIM's 18th Birthday today. We have had our share of sad news this last week, but with the bad also comes the good. 18 years! Happy Birthday to AVSIM and all of our community members! Please head out today and celebrate in your traditional fashion! This post has been promoted to an article

This comes in two parts; my health and the future of AVSIM to the community and our team of members, forum owners, etc. First, my health… To state it directly; I am dying. I am dying from a carcinoma that started as a tumor in my stomach cavity that enwraps my stomach feeder vessels, kidneys, liver, the major blood vessels of the area and which are so embedded and wrapped around the maze of blood vessels and nerves that there is no cure except that of delay. The carcinoma has spread to most of my major organs. I have been given a pessimistic short 90 days of survival up to a lifetime number of 365 days. Second, and most importantly, the future of AVSIM… The staff and I with others in the community are looking at the alternatives that will keep AVSIM alive and prospering for years to come despite / in spite of my missing good looks and glowing positive daily participation. We will be expanding information on the future of AVSIM in the coming days. This post has been promoted to an article

So now is this thread.

That's March 3, 2014!

Well, that shouldn't be.I will look into it and correct. Edit: sure enough. Okay now taken care of.

Yeah but! AVSIM IS STILL FREE!

As it was said in my first response; it is a matter of our selection when we set up the forum.

No, that is a master setting controlled at the forum setup level, not by individual users.

It is not an "odd" issue. It is a matter of selection; we do not provide guest access to all of our forums. If there are some forums that you want access to, asking you to log on using your existing account is not too much to ask.

As a retired Northrop Grumman dude, I have a particular attraction to this plane... Thanks PMDG guys for bringing it out.

Simple... Don't create duplicates. How? Post your message. At the top of the forum screen you should see a green horizontal notification that your post is being posted. When that disappears and you DO NOT see your message posted at all, do a CTRL-F5 (refresh your browser). If it shows a lack of service response, do another ctrl-F5 and continue to do so. You see, once that green bar disappears, your message has been posted. Had you done a CTRL-F5, you would have seen your post made.

It would be really helpful when someone has a public report like this to make, to provide a screen shot with the initial post. That way, fellow users can confirm immediately whether they are seeing the same, instead of speculating over the cause and folks scratching their heads over what their systems may have aboard to be concerned about.

Well, you may be "41", but you are now gone from here....

Good grief. Could you do a bit of research before declaring stuff like this? Your "POSTS" are not gone. "PM's" over a year or so are. There is quite a bit of difference.

You just don't get it, do you? You do not speak for the community, never have and never will. And, your personal attack in that sentence has resulted in you being banned from this topic. I have a PM coming your way as well, that I am sure you will not like too much either (again, as we have been down this road before).

Folks, this thread has grown to over 870 posts in length and 59 pages large. It is time to start creating individual threads instead of lumping them all together in this one. This one is now closed. Please create new threads of specific interest.

Rob, you resurrected a nearly 7 year old topic? I might have to reconsider the earlier request to close old topics...

Folks, there is now an official forum for this A/C in the Carenado section.

Yeah, that's a BETA feature and how it ended up being placed in this forum was funky. Anyway, fixed.

Where did you try to do that and what is the error message? Details help.

Yup, and there is now a forum for it, which this topic has been moved to.

It was just published on the front page. Have a look!

There is no such capability - post an advisory message - that is in-built or available to us as a mod to the base software. We can CLOSE all topics after a certain amount of days, but the very few incidents of users resurrecting old posts is rather miniscule and hardly a "major" issue. It may be an annoyance, but to have the lifetime of topics available to the entire community is far more important than what I would consider a very minor, minor, irritant that frankly can be ignored. In fact, having the entire thread of topics available and still available to reply to is what a community like this is all about, in my opinion. And finally, though maybe an irritant to a few, the additional burden it would place on our mods to open closed threads on request, again though minor, would be additional loads I don't want to impose on them. Please weigh the actual impact of what you are asking to change against other factors, such as openness, mod load, system modifications, etc., before you request them.