ACSoft

Using the same update system for years and years does not mean your system is good !!! It take 20 seconds, when you know/remember what to do, otherwise it is everything but not straight forward. I have ton's of other applications who warn you that an update is available and simply ask if we want to update. If you answer yes, then the update is made automatically, without affecting your settings. No, I won't blame pirates but YOU ! I don't care you need everyone on the same 'page', what I care, is to be able to decide if I will update or not. I am the customer and I consider this is my elementary right. For sure, I am not going to buy anymore any of your products. Cheers.

They are absolutely no valid reasons to impose us to update to the last version. I urge you TO STOP this in the future. I buyed this application and want to have the freedom to adopt or not your new versions. Moreover, your upgrade process is just a big mess ! You are directed to a page where you have ton's of choices and when you select the link to the product, you come to a page where you just can do nothing. To download the new version, I had to go to my shop transaction history page and link from there, to a download page. Something which is not really intuitive, I must say. Maybe I am stupid, but it took me more than 15 minutes of searches, to finally find the solution. Then after, you have to reconfigure the tool, because you are not even able to keep the user setups and all this for what ? Just 2 or 3 ridiculous minor changes and no correction of the other problems we signaled to you. In the change log you say that hotkeys are no longer bound to MSFS stock events. Fortunately THIS IS WRONG, because your new binding system is just a bad joke ! It DO NOT ALLOW to choose any of the keyboard keys, just a poor pulldown list, with just the alphabet in capital letter. Apparently, no way to combine keys with shift or control keys, or use like me, some well placed special characters keys. Not having the possibility to went back on previous version, if I hadn't been able to continue using the keys I'm now very used to, I would have asked for an immediate refund and desinstalled this application forever, because I start to be really fed up with your product and your lack of professionalism.

It is more the transparency that I don't like. Yes, right, typical things that will never made everyone happy, this why options exist, so everybody can choose and even if this panel is most of the time not visible, to satisfy every body is good. Double clicking the menu bar is a method I never use. Why to keep this imersion breaker before my eyes ? To remind me that this program is runing ? Sorry but I am not a very old man, whith big memory problems ! LOL ! Moreover, using the hotkey shortcut is much more convenient to my opinion. But, if they are people who prefer double-clicking the title bar, please guys proceed. To have the hotkey in toggle mode do not invalidate this double-clicking method ! Sorry, initialy, it is not a "+", but an aircraft symbol ! It become a big "+" after you start. So it is on this very initial step, that the problem occur, when the captain say "Let's start setting up", the 1st officer answer OK over the end of captain speech.

Thanks ! Effectively, this solve almost my main problem, but you would be advised to rename your option into "keep in front" instead of your mysterious "Lock Main Panel". Just my 2 cents ! Nevertheless, I still hope that you will change the hotkey "Open Main Panel" to "Toggle Main Panel" function and I would also love to see the new option to choose if we want a transparent window or not. By the way, when you start the process with the big "+" button, with UK voices, the answer of the FO overlap the end of the captain talk. Not very clean this !

About your new 1.4 mandatory version (why ?!?), thanks to have added the memorization of the window location, a feature I asked to you, BUT... Now, your windows CANNOT BE HIDDEN !!! To my humble view, this is a very bad move, a big immersion killer. Why didn't you changed the logic of the "open window" hotkey in "Toggle window" like I suggested to you ?!? This would have neen a much better move, to my opinion. OK, now when I am in full screen mode and I click outside your window, it make your window to disappear behind. This is the typical Windows normal behavior, for a window not defined "always in front". But, apparently, you detect this situation and quickly force your window to come back in front !!! By the way, to see this window going away and coming back is something really ugly and again, all this stuff is a bad immersion killer and a bad design !!! You really must CHANGE this please !!! - Add an option to activate or not this "come in front again" feature. - Transform the *open window" hotkey into a "toggle window" function. This way, everybody will be happy and able to configure program behaviors to their taste. You said in you release description: Main Panel background is now transparent. This makes the main panel look much nicer. Sorry, but this is a matter of taste. Personally, I don't like this AT ALL. Personally, I would be happy if a further additional option would allow to choose transparent or not. In the waiting of better days, I have returned to the very first version I have, the 1.1, which fortunately, don't force me to update to this bad 1.4 version. I wait for your soonest reaction to this message.

1) OPEN FS2CREW PANEL (function assigned to Toggle TAIL WHEEL LOCK) Made this function to be TOGGLE FS2CREW PANEL instead of just OPEN. It would be much more convenient to use the same button to close the panel, rather than to have to take the mouse and minimize the panel window. You often just want to quickly check the panel (for example to see the remaining time, or the actual position into the check list, etc...) and close it immediately after. 2) FS2CREW PANEL WINDOW POSITION Please, memorize the position of the window on the screen, so we do not need to place it where we want it, on each start of FS2CREW. For example me, I place it on the left, just under of where the ATC window open.

Maybe you should try this instead: https://www.foobar2000.org/ Personnaly, I use it in parallel with Flight Crew A320, to play some other sounds, including some .wav sound loop I made myself in the time of FS200X, for on of my addons.

Any news about next update with boarding / debording sound and musics ?

OK, fine. I was suspecting this. So, it isn't my change of sidestick type !

Is it normal that, when it is the turn of the co-pilot to check his command, that both joystick into the game cockpit are moving ? Asking this, because I had my Thrustmaster sidestick set in co-pilot mode and now, I switched to pilot mode. Maybe, it is the reason of this anomaly ?

Very good news, thanks a lot. I can't wait to have these nice improvements. Allow me to give to some more advises: Of course, a music volume control is mandatory, maybe also for the rumble of passengers embarking and disembarking. Some other addon have the same permanent rumble during all the flight, I think this is not good. Just a specific noise where you can hear passenger opening and closing hand luggage compartment. Maybe even the stewardess welcoming or saying bye bye to them. During the flght, you may just play a very very low rumor. Maybe also, for futur improvements, screaming during severe turbulence and in the event of a hard landing. speaking of the music I would play it automatically during taxi, but, of course, not during announcements. Maybe also during end of approach ? I don't know if it is still the case (very long I didn't fly), but in my time, it was done to calm passengers being afraid of landing phase. Of course, just ideas ! I am sure you will design this "picolo-bello" LOL ! Thanks again for your agreement on this ! I am soo happy now !

Realistic or not, door open or not, to my humble view, it is not the right approach to this question. The good approach is to satisfy a maximum of customers ! As long as these kind of features are optional, purist will have the possibility to disable them, so no problem. In French we say: "who can more, can less". As a former developers for FS (https://www.acsoft.ch/Flight_Simulator/ACS-CRPB/acs-crpb.html), I dream to have not only this feature, but also music playing during taxi. This will remember me my old addon I mentionned here ! Something in a very open fashion, where the user can add mp3 files into a location and your program choose them randomly during both taxi phase and even maybe during approach. Byork, please do this for an old collegue ! LOL !

Dear Simmer's,I have just discovered that, when booting my PC in /3GB mode for FS, the other games I have, which have the StarForce protection system, just crash hard my machine, when attempting to run them (black screen + reboot and then, after the reboot, Windows saying it recover a "serious" error). This occur, for example by me, with Lockon 1.12b (StarForce Internet protection) or Silent Hunter III (StarForce media protection).I wonder if some other simmer's of this large community, have experienced the same problem ? Or the contrary ? Can somebody affirm he is able to run StarForce protected games with his machine booted in /3GB mode ?Many thanks in forward for your numerous testimonies. They will be probably very helpful to clarify the situation about this problem.ACSPS: My PC run Windows XP version 2002 / SP3 (32 bits / French)

Hoops, Armen, sorry for the name !You mean probably "PMDG_MD11_NoseGearAirflow.wav" but not "PMDG_MD11_NoseGearAirflowxxx.wav" ?I guess the "xxx" version is the old one and probably forgot behind.Alain Capt