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Just installed it last night. Works fine.

Stephen, I have no doubt you guys did a lot of great things with it and improved it, but for me paying $58 for what is essentially just a camera add-on isn't worth it. I have no interest in the weather portion. Bundling it together doesn't leave people with any options if they already purchased another wx addon, and there are several. What isn't plentiful are camera addons. EZDok is the only other addon I know of that works in P3D v3 (and it's not even that stable). You guys would make a killing by offering a P3D compatible camera addon on it's own because right now the market is extremely bare.

Super. :smile:

Just my 2 cents, I'm an OpusFSX owner and I haven't simmed in FSX/P3D for a couple years. I'm just getting back into it and there is no way I'm paying $58 CAD (after the USD-CAD conversion) for OpusFSI just to get the updated camera functions when I'm already using ASN for my weather. Imo, no matter how long you offered the discount, it should always be there for customers who return to upgrade their product, and even if I had been around during the 2 year period you described according to what you said the price for me would only have been around $53. $53 for an upgrade is silly. I probably wouldn't have done it then, either. You guys also may want to consider separating the camera stuff from your software and offering it as a standalone purchase for a reduced price. I would buy it then. I've read posts of others saying the same thing. Good luck with FSI.

So I guess you just want to lash out at anyone that quotes you in this thread Michael? Looking at the two of you go back and forth, I'm not sure you can call my extremely mild comment "immature" while standing on both feet. But just like you two pick apart what each other types, you want to pick out a few words of what I wrote and ignore the overall intent. So with that, you can continue your "mature discussion" and I'll bow out of this thread. Have fun. Already enough drama here. Grow up.

Still down for me.

I started reading the comments section on msn news below this story, and had to stop before I threw my monitor. People just have no freaking CLUE how modern aviation works. People were complaining that American Airlines is "leaving the fate of hundreds of people in the hands of an electronic toy", aka the iPad. I guess the pilots are just mindless robots that push buttons at regular intervals? Yes the iPad flies the plane and the pilots are there to make sure the cord is still plugged in... Give dumb people a way to communicate in mass social media and they spread their ignorance like a cancer spreading to other cells. And those cells would be other dumb people who don't know any better.

Nothing says "hairdryer" like the CFM56-5C on the A340. I don't know if it was just the aircraft Air France kept sending to us, but the one we serviced had the distinction of letting us hear all the fan blades shift in their slots as the fans turned in the wind and gravity kept dropping them as they came around.

Hopefully we won't hear the kid screaming behind you in seat 5F

The whole picture also includes the fact Carenado doesn't have any real world ties to the aircraft manufacturers they depict in their products, or that they don't have to pay these manufacturers lots of money for licensing fees for real world training applications and etc. Anyway that is a completely different discussion entirely and is way out of the scope of what everyone is talking about here.

I don't understand why there is ANY ridicule against users criticizing this release. A company, Carenado, is charging $50 with the buyer's expectation it is a finished and polished product. The reality is it's not finished, it's not polished, it's full of bugs, and it likely never went through any meaningful beta testing. What people are ticked about is paying $50 to beta test their product for them when (and I'm guessing here) 99% of these paying customers would have happily tested the product for free pre-release and then would have happily forked over their $50 for something they knew worked. Imo Carenado has now adopted the unethical practices of Captainsim, where you charge people full price for something that isn't ready to be sold yet. They hang on to the money while they drip out service packs over several months (in Captainsim's case, years) that bring the product a little closer to completion after every pack, yet the product never actually gets finished. I really hope the Hawker gets finished, and I feel bad for those that forked $50 for it and got something half done. Hopefully more people condemn this type of business practice and says no to the next unfinished product with a full price tag.

Don't you know how it works these days? You pay for Early Access and your money goes into helping to develop the product so that the developer can release something that is 99% bug free! Except...this was the release. And there was no beta. I guess they should change the name of their program to Late Access.

If someone camped outside your store window with picket signs, wouldn't you tell them to leave? That said, I don't support Carenado's practice of releasing $50 aircraft that in effect don't work like $50 aircraft. They can censor all they want on FB and their own forums, but here they have no moderation authority. I was excited to buy the Hawker but no chance of that now.

Beta testing didn't pick up on this I'm guessing.

For $50 that thing better be a carbon copy of the real deal. Waiting to hear reviews.