[jhb] Re: FS Scenery
- From: "Mike Brook" <mike.brook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:57:27 +0100
He was one of a series of folk who set out specifically 10 years
or so ago to fleece naive fightsim followers (including, sadly,
me!). Another b*st*rd (who was, in my opinion, worse) was the s*d
who set up 'TecPilot' and then did a runner with 'loadsa money'
...
We are well rid of the likes of them.
M.
-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Gerry Winskill
Sent: 10 August 2011 19:48
To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jhb] Re: FS Scenery
That was him. A trail of wreckage followed him.
Gerry Winskill
On 10/08/2011 19:40, Mike Brook wrote:
> Aaah! The unlamented 'Papa Tango' aka Peter Tishma (or
similar).
> WOT A ROGUE!! Hopefully he is languishing at Her Majesty's
> pleasure somewhere (or maybe that is just wishful thinking on my
> part ...).
>
> Them was the days!
>
> MikeB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Gerry Winskill
> Sent: 10 August 2011 19:36
> To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jhb] Re: FS Scenery
>
> Like Mike, I've an idea he's now with Horizon / Playsims. He
was,
> as you
> say, dumped by Horizon, who then did the same to Darren, after
> he'd got
> his ideas into product form for them. After being ditched he had
> problems getting it accepted that parts of what they were using
> were his
> property. Subsequently he managed to set up ES and produces much
> better
> work than his ex employer, though with a smaller geographical
> photoscenery area available to him. He did in fact manage to
gain
> an MOD
> contract that his former boss was holding at the time.
>
> Whatever happened to the bandit who used to turn up at the
> flightsim
> shows in airline uniform?
>
> Gerry Winskill
>
> On 10/08/2011 19:25, Fossil wrote:
>> I still feel Mally got dropped on from a big height when
Horizon
> took over
>> the photo scenery development. I hope he is doing enough to
> survive now as
>> he gave up full time work to develop the VFR scenery.
>>
>> I still find his web page at
> http://www.visualflight.co.uk/photoscenery/ but
>> most of the links seem dead.
>>
>> bones
>>
>> bones@xxxxxxx
>> http://woodair.net
>>
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