Frederic Nadot
am 34 years old, have a sweet wife, a little child (you can see him
moving his arm in Airport 2000 vol. 1 Paris and New
York JFK airports) and am going on to have a second one. I live in
Toulouse, France, where Airbus aircraft are built. I discovered
Flight Simulator (ver.4) in 1993. Since that day, I can't stop my
passion for flight simulation.I began to design Toulouse for FS4, then some aircraft. In 1995, I was beta tester for Apollo Scenery & Object Designer and I took advantage of that to design Toulouse for FS5. At that time, Flight Shop was just released and I tried to create all the Airbus Collection. The results were good and Pilot's was interested to publish this product as Airbus and Toulouse.
In 1998, FS98 arrived. I decided to rework all my aircraft in order to get a better visual quality in 3Dfx mode. I added their own panels and sounds and again, Pilot' s released them as Airbus 2000. This work finished, Wilco contacted me to submit a big project: Airport 2000 vol.1. I had first to design the Paris CDG Airport as real as possible. I did not have a lot of experience in scenery design but I read, read, and read again the SCASM manual and I understood (at last!) many things. Later, one of the others authors let us out of the way and I had to design the Los Angeles and New York JFK 3D objects. Wilco was satisfied with my work and asked me to design 5 airports for Volume 2. I designed the 3D objects for London Heathrow, then the entire Miami, Barcelona, Nice, Miami, and Boston airports.
For those who like my work, I want to tell them that I still have many, many others projects in my mind. For me, flight simulation is not a short story. Now, it is my only job.
Frederic Nadot
fnadot@csi.com
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