Paul,
Yes I must admit that it is one question that is not very often
answered by the team over at pilot club these days.
I speak to Stefan and other team members regularly and it just isn't a
permitted topic.
However, as for the shutting down theory I fear we may be up for a
worse result. The shop is, as I understand it, selling rather well
given the fact its prices undercut a lot of the other FS stores. In
fact I hear that the store does well enough to be able to support
Pilot-Club for the foreseeable future. Which for me is infinitely worse.
If Pilot-Club were to just shut down it would force people to go
elsewhere. However if it stays open with the current level, or less, of
traffic then stubborn gits like me will just hold on with empty skies
and silent microphones in the vague hope that something will be done.
However having said that perhaps its not their fault after all. As far
as members of a Pilot "Club" go... we are hardly very clubby on the
whole! But I seem to recall towing that particular banner just before
the demise of FPI.... so I might just shup up after all :D
Alex
Paul Reynolds wrote:
Frank,
Alex has raised this issue on the Pilot Club forum a couple of
times. It's been met by a stoney silence.
Watching the use of the Pilot Club server and I can see it
getting closed down any time soon. I think our Wednesday sessions are
its peak period. The Germans seem to have a session running at the
weekend but that only attracts 4 - 5 players. Otherwise you might find
just one or two pilots connected at any one time. As I write, there is
no-one connected at all! Indeed, yesterday I did one of my round the
world legs and was the only one on for the majority of the flight.
Further, I see the use of the comms channels has dropped too, as many
of you know the German contingency were using Communicator while
playing online elsewhere. I've a feeling the Pilot Club team have
backed off and are targetting there energies elsewhere with the Pilot
Club site being maintained only while it is cost effective to do so.
Since most of us signed up for a years membership I can see it winding
down as they come to an end
Paul in pessimist mode
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Frank
Just a thought, dual boot. Use Vista for FSX and the rest of your
activities, and WinXP for FS9.
You will need to install WinXP first to your main partition, and Vista
next
on another partition.
Or a removeable drive bay, with one drive setup WinXP, the other Vista.
Just a thought.
Frank
Frank,
Its
a solution of course, but I was hoping that the days when we can only
use FS9 on Pilot's Club were numbered.
I
don't know if its any guide to serious flyers in general, but I think
about 8 out of 10 of our Sunday morning group have switched to FSX,
which we use with FSHost. As we fly VFR mostly in the UK, the Horizon
scenery in FSX makes it relatively easy to follow progress simply using
a road map.
Is
there any sort of progress report available on the progress re FSX from
Pilot's Club?
Frank
T.
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