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Wow! Some months we do get ‘em. If we thought last month’s contest was a tough one to judge, this months was not much easier. Forum member Liltrey did manage to get a clear lead in both the public and the judges votes, but second place has never been more hotly contested. Both JDHaenens and Vingador Turbina had picture that could hardly have been more opposite. But “There can only be one” and so second place goes to JDHaenens and his very compelling moonlit shot of a carrier deck just coming to life.
Current and past contest winners can be seen here, in the prizewinners’ gallery.

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There is times where we have nothing exciting to report about….. but this does not mean that there is nothing exciting to report about, right?  If you happen to come across an interesting FS related developement, curiosity, event, etc please email it to us at news@simflight.com or send it via our feedback mask or you can try your editorial skills on the same mask we use to bring you news (no fears, it will not be published to the public before we did not take a look at it… no, we are not suicidal!).

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We had one heck of a time judging the entries this month. The decision was not easy with the standard of entries that were submitted. If you followed the competition, you’ll recall that the theme for this month was “Workhorses”

The Dromedar snapped by WingZ has got the lot this month. It is a fairly old workhorse and it looks the job too. Probably smells like a fertilizer plant, it’s in desparate need of a bucketful of soapy water, but the pilot is earning a few zloty more.

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In the right hand column you can find our new poll; Do you use Facebook? Why are we curious? Because WE are using it and already have a few ‘groups’ running there (such as the Emma Field group and the Support FS group). We’re planning on expanding that presence, but are curious to know how many of our readers would find us. Facebook is a ’social networking’  application, something between chat, email and blog. More info here.

If you maybe do not see your press release published on simFlight, it may have to do with spammers. We were using Google Groups to filter messages sent to news@simFlight, and Google has now declared US spammer…… just because of all the spam messages that were sent to us. Great! So now we do NOT get most of the e-mail sent to us. Which makes for a nice change, and a few quiet mornings for your editor. But if you REALLY have news, you may want to send it temporarily to francois at simFlight dot com, until we fix things with new spam filters.

Since Microsoft abandoned Flight Simulator many people ‘declared’ they would no longer support the Redmond giant. FS was the only reason they were buying MS products (read: operating systems) anyway and that reason now had disappeared. Obviously many people, especially in communities like ours, were extremely disappointed. But to what extent did the recent unfortunate events in Redmond REALLY change your behaviour towards Microsoft? Let us know in the poll (see right-hand column).
By the way, you can also still show your support for FS via our Facebook group here !

We put up a little ‘poll’ on the right of the screen. Vote for your favorite ‘fetish’ in Flight Simulation today! Are you a ground-hugging Cub flyer, or do you rather sit in a dark room pushing buttons on an FMC? Or, who knows, maybe you’re more into sailing the FS Oceans now that flying has become so complex? Let us know!

We’re curious, and maybe so are you? Lets see where our readers get (most of) their Flight Simulator news from…. and yes, we’ll point others to this poll here too !

Let us know ALL your sources, multiple answers possible !

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The Dutch Ubisoft office together with simFlight Benelux has started a little screenshot competition to promote the upcoming ‘Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.’. Readers from Holland and Belgium – oh yeah, and Luxemburg – can join in and send their best ‘military aviation screenshot’ to the dedicated forum here on simFlight. Screenies may be from ANY game, as long as they include military flying of some sort or other. There are some nice prizes to be won, too! Read more about HAWX here !

Gals & Guys, are you a flight sim or/and aviation fan/nut/hobbyist? can you write in english? then you can BLOG!!!

Blog it right here on simFlight.com because we are looking for you, we want you to write your views and reviews and musings and rants here! don’t keep them for yourself anymore… share them with thousands of readers! 

Shoot us an email to miguel@simflight.com with a short bio and we will get you an audience!

well, sort of….. : I am BACK!

But maybe you didn’t miss me, in that case, please skip this post and continue your download of some exciting new simMarket titles… *cough*.
Both Nina and I had a severe case of the flu and we’re only now slowly recovering. At the same time both of my main PC’s crashed. What is it about trusting an IT expert to have working back-ups !!?? Hmf….
Anyway, I am sufficiently recovered to pick up work for simFlight, simMarket, FSAddon and my other customers again and happy to be back. With thanks to my fellow editors for keeping the simFlight Ship afloat…. and wishing all readers a much better start of 2009 than mine was!

Another day, another year… That’s the theme for the January screenshot competition. And with the new year, we are opening up the rules a tad. There have been a few requests to allow larger images / file sizes so that entries might look better. It’s not that our regular entrants need this of course – you already know how to optimise your screenshots of course. For more information on how to enter and what can be won, visit the screenshot competition forum. The picture here is from forum member Naki several months ago.

A quick update from your editor:
Unfortunately my main PC, the one with all the ’serious’ programs and data on it, would not restart when we returned from our short Christmas holiday in Prague. Something broke on the motherboard. So I took it to the repair shop.

But even MORE unfortunate was the subsequent breakdown of Windows ( I think ) on my backup machine, after I moved the two ‘ production hard drives’ to it. It means I now only have a notebook running my email program, and Firefox…. but none of my programs and data I use daily.

It also means that a few projects I was working on are now on hold and my regular work for simFlight and simMarket is severely hampered as well.

Please be patient and know that I am doing everything I can to get back up and running as soon as possible, but not before the end of next week ! Meanwhile I am sure my trusted ‘ assistants’  will try and keep the ‘ news flowing’.

Yours, Francois

Dear Reader,

if you feel that urge to write rant and comment about your hobby on these pages, why not become a contributing editor? We sure can use a hand! We do not offer anything but your claim to fame and you will get to pick a shiny fantastic job title  like: Associate Editor , Managing Editor, Assistant Managing Editor, Contributing Editor, Contributing Managing Staff Associate… well you get the drift, mix & match as needed.

But serioulsy, if you’d like to blog with us please shoot an email to miguel@simflight.com.

As you can (not) see most of our images belonging to the posts are gone!  Mea culpa and the simflight editors are going to crucify me for it!

I was calmly upgrading Wordpress, the engine behind the site, when i made a quick but fatal mistake….. you don’t want to know details! I am now keeping my fingers crossed that our host can retrieve yesterdays backup of the site and help us out ….. bear with me and sorry!

A demotivaded Admin….. (no more, oh joy!)

UPDATE:  Got it all back! Thanks to the guys at Dreamhost! Phewwww… i am a happy camper now!
PS: now Editors, pleaaaze get those news flowing again!  and you, the User, please shoot any news to us at news@simflight.com, thanks!