I'm in two minds about this.I like the awards you get in FSX (In the log book after Mission completion, 100 landings, landing at lowest altitude airport etc..) but I wouldn't want any potential award system to be like Xbox Live achievements (i.e flashing up on screen); It would be too game-like.
Money been set aside in readiness. What kind of site traffic are you PMDG guys expecting on release day? Only asking as it would suck if the download took ages to complete because of the amount of other people also downloading