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/images/notams/notams20/cosf0506.jpgWe're extremely sorry to have to announce that our planned two-dayFlight Sim 2020 show, which was scheduled to take place in earlyOctober at the RAF Museum Cosford in the UK, has been cancelled. With the ongoing uncertainty about the possibility of largegatherings taking place this year, possible travel problems and allthe other considerations which we're sure you're all aware of, we havesadly had to make the decision that hosting the show this year issimply not possible. With Flight Sim 2020 being a real highlight of our year, and one ofthe few occasions when the FS community can get together in person,we're all going to miss catching up with everybody this year. In the meantime, our best wishes to you all and we hope you arekeeping well. We'll look forward to catching up with you all againbefore too long! Source

/images/notams/notams19/show0814.jpgFlight Sim Show 2019By Michael HaywardOn the 5th and 6th of October, Just Flight and PC Pilot held theirfifth UK Flight Sim Show, allowing both hardware and softwaredevelopers alike to showcase their products. /images/specials/fsshow19/t/flight-sim-show-2019-05.jpgAs an added bonus, this year's event was run over two consecutivedays! The previous four Flight Sim Shows had shown that the settingwas becoming increasingly popular, so in an effort to maximise theevent/capacity, an extra day was added. This provided greaterflexibility for people attending, with the possibility of making aweekend of it. In total, 35 companies attended and provided stands; while a fewothers roamed the venue and talk to visitors about what theyoffered. /images/specials/fsshow19/t/flight-sim-show-2019-03.jpgDuring the weekend, there were seminars from nine differentdevelopers: Laminar Research, Infinite Flight and ProSim, alldiscussing their different simulators, whilst Magknight, Just Flight,Orbx and Aerosoft, provided info on their upcoming add-ons. If thatwasn't enough, you then had Honeycomb Aeronautical showcasing theirall-new yoke and throttle system, while FSElite talked about how tointroduce new users into the world of flight simulation. As with previous years, I attended the show armed with questionsthat you, the community wanted to ask the developers. These questionswere asked in interview format, and then put together in a shortdocumentary-style video, giving you guys the chance first-hand to seewhat the developers have in mind for the future. flightsimshow.com Flight Sim Show 2018 Report And Interviews /images/specials/fsshow19/t/flight-sim-show-2019-01.jpg /images/specials/fsshow19/t/flight-sim-show-2019-02.jpg /images/specials/fsshow19/t/flight-sim-show-2019-04.jpg /images/specials/fsshow19/t/flight-sim-show-2019-06.jpg

/images/notams/notams19/show0912.jpgBig news for show visitors who are fans of helicopter simulation -you can be amongst the first to try Airland! Airland are partnering up with Komodo Simulations to givevisitors to Flight Sim 2019 an exclusive taste of their new helicoptersimulator (still in development). Visitors will have the chance to test their flying skills usingKomodo's professional helicopter flight controls. Visit the KomodoSimulations stand to take a look. More details can be found here About AirlandA spiritual successor of simulators such as Search and Rescue 4,Airland is an independently developed flight simulator with a focus onhelicopters at a high level of flight model realism. Airland willoffer pilots a set of very challenging missions around the theme of arescue operations organisation. Source

/images/notams/notams19/show0814.jpgWe're aware many of you have been eagerly awaiting news of this year'sPresentation Scheduleso we're glad to be able to announce these are all confirmed now. See attached for the schedule covering both Saturday the 5th andSunday 6th October. Buy your Advance Show ticketshere. Source www.flightsimshow.com

/images/notams/notams19/show0814.jpgComing Soon - Flight Sim 2019 -- The Perfect Weekend Away! Date: 5th - 6th October 2019 Cost: £12 per day or £22 for the weekend. Buy inadvance now for £10 per day or £18 for the weekend. Once again aviation fans can experience the best that virtualflight has to offer when Flight Sim 2019 takes place at the Royal AirForce Museum Cosford on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th October. We're proud to be hosting this show for the seventh consecutiveyear, but with one big difference this time! Flight Sim 2019 will onceagain be returning to the RAF Museum Cosford but, due to populardemand, this year's show will be extended to a two-day event, allowingvisitors extra time to check out everything on show and to enjoy morepresentations. You might also wish to take the opportunity to take alook around the wonderful RAF Museum, where entry is free to allvisitors. Close to 30 exhibitors have already confirmed their attendance,with more expected to follow, and a full weekend of presentations isscheduled in the adjoining auditorium. We're already looking forwardto welcoming many of the leading companies in flight simulation,including Laminar Research, Orbx, Aerosoft, Honeycomb Aeronautical,Infinite Flight and many many more. Join us in October and enjoy the very best of both the virtual andthe real worlds of aviation in the same venue! We guarantee a verywarm welcome to new and veteran desktop pilots alike and to allaviation enthusiasts who are keen to find out more about life in thevirtual skies. Keep an eye on the Flight Sim 2019 web site for all the latest newsabout exhibitors and events over the weekend and to save money bybooking your ticket in advance and for all the show details, visit theFlight Sim 2019 web site atflightsimshow.com. Flight Sim 2019 is organised and hosted by Just Flight, inassociation with media sponsor PC Pilot magazine.

/images/notams/notams19/show0417.jpgFlight Sim 2019 - The Perfect Weekend Break! We're proud to be hosting this show for the seventh consecutiveyear, but with one big difference this time!Flight Sim 2019will once again be returning to the RAF Museum Cosford but, due topopular demand, this year's show will be extended to a two-day event,allowing visitors extra time to check out everything on show and toenjoy more presentations. You might also wish to take the opportunityto take a look around the wonderful RAF Museum, where entry is free toall visitors. Flight Sim 2019 is organised and hosted byJust Flight,in association with media sponsor PC Pilot magazine. Purchase Tickets

Flight Sim Show 2018By Michael Hayward /images/notams/notams18/fs180815/fs180815.jpgIn October this year, the Flight Simshow returned to the UK, and was bigger and better than everbefore. With over 1,800 attendees and nearly 40 exhibitors attending,it was the largest UK show of flight simulation ever, with Just Flightreally breaking the scales of European shows. In much the same way as last year's show, I was luckily enough tobe able to interview some of the largest developers on the simulatorscene, and so poised with the questions YOU in the community kindlycontributed, I set about my task... Without further ado, let's get right into some of those! Laminar Research Laminar ResearchLaminar Research first, today we take a look at their in-Beta 11.30update which aims to break the boundaries of their simulator throughthe use of a new particle effect system being implemented, as well asthe backend for Vulkan to be added in the near future. This will giveus a new scale of realism that we've never seen before. Over toPhilipp for the interview. Thank you very much for doing this with us Philipp from LaminarResearch. So, last year you talked a lot about VR and your 11.20update and what it would bring to the simulator. What have been thebiggest changes to X-Plane 11 this past year since the last Flight SimShow? Well, we now have the VR system now out for everyone, people areusing it, we support all the major headsets, the Vive, the Oculus, theSamsung headset which has really great resolution and people loveusing X-Plane in VR. But at the same time, of course, we have otherpeople talking to us like "Oh you shouldn't focus on this VR fad, youshould go down to the real basic features like better physics, betterjoystick support and stuff like that." So 11.30 which is in privatebeta right now will become public in I think within the week is veryfocused on physics and features. So we have a lot of flight modelimprovements from Austin with regards to prop wash, in regards totaildraggers, especially the prop complaining about the ground effectin 11.20, that has been vastly improved. We have some changes comingin systems and we have this whole new joystick UI where you can do theresponse curve for every single joystick axis, you can configure thedead zone, you can configure the response curve whether its linear orwhether its like...interpolated curve, you can save the joystick axisso it's a setting per axis per aircraft so you can make a setting likefor the 172 I want my joystick to react like this and if I'm in ahelicopter I want to react it like this, you can save those profiles,you can share the profile with other people and, ja. And we got thenew particle effect system in 11.30 so this is going to look great, itchanges the heatburn, changes the water spray effects so I think 11.30will be great from the visual perspective with the particle effect andI think the hardcore simmers will be very happy with the physicsimprovements. Sounds good! So when it comes to the autogen library and yourscenery, how do you guys plan to broaden and introduce specificsceneries such as South America, Asia and Africa? We've seen updatesto London, you've updated to Las Vegas, how will you do the rest ofthe rest of the world in the long run? Well, there are two different things. The updates for the cities,that's not autogen. This is specifically tailored city scenery and wecontinue doing that, we have more cities in the pipeline, not only inthe US but also in Asia we have cities coming outside the US in thepipeline and the question of autogen is a little different because theautogen system of X-Plane 11 is very open and very flexible, so Ithink we at this point it's up to the add-on developer community toembrace the X-Plane autogen system and make more variety becauseX-Plane's not limited to two autogens, right now we have the USautogen and the European autogen, but it's really limited to that, youcould have one tile running a completely different autogen librarythat an add-on maker could make. So you want more of the communityintegration rather than yourselves make everything? I don't think, sowe will continue to make cities, yes, but right now I don't think wehave our own effort on the way to make regionalised autogen for likeSouth America or Asia, no that's not something we are working on rightnow. So X-Plane system requirements, sometimes they can be quite high incomparison to other simulators. As such, do you see this as hinderingsome users from playing your simulator? I don't see it as hindering because, with the X-Plane 11 UI, it'svery simple to set the lower settings with your graphics. I know somepeople are upset that they don't have all the different sliders forall the different settings like they did in X-Plane 10 but what wemade sure is that in X-Plane 11 is that when you put the qualityslider in one position that it sets the settings in a way that makessense for a slower computer or a faster computer, and with X-Plane11.30 people are going to see big frame rate improvement alreadybecause X-Plane 11.30 is not Vulkan yet, but we are in the middle ofrebuilding the stack for Vulkan and you're going to see the benefitsof that with the new shader compiler and other improvements in thepipeline in X-Plane 11.30 already so even though it's not got Vulkan,X-Plane 11.30 runs at a higher framerate already than 20 and I thinkwith Vulkan it's going to be even better than that. And with that as well, the urban legend, is it true that if yoursim is not running at 20 frames-per-second, the simulator slows downthe backend? Well, that's not a legend, that is exactly how it works and thatcomes from an FAA requirement so that came in X-Plane many many manymany years ago for certification requirements from the FederalAviation Administration. Oh so it was not a thing you guys planned out, it's something thatthe FAA actually kind of made you implement into the simulator? Exactly! For our more technically gifted users, when it comes to developingaircraft, will we see N3 engines officially added to the simulator andin Plane-Maker? So modern jetliners like the A350 and the 787 bothhave N3 combustion... The 3 spools. Yes, so will this be something that is reflected in the simulatorin the long run? Alright! Let me into a secret, right...right now in X-Plane 11prior to 11.20 we don't even have a real N1 and N2. They're kind of N1and N2 up until 11.20 are kind of fake because they are coupled with apower function and only in X-Plane 11.30 they are physically coupledthrough the airflow that goes through the turbine blade so I think thequestion is when will N1 and N2 work perfectly, and the answer to thatis X-Plane 11.30 because now the physics for the two spools actuallywork correctly, and now that Austin has this I think it should bepretty easy for Austin to add a third spool, an N3 spool to it whichwas not really possible previously. So I think the two spool jetengines are going to be much more realistic in certain situations likethe drift down from altitude when the engine is coasting, windmilling,and behaves differently than when it's under power during climb. Youare going to see that in 11.30 already and I think from there onadding an N3 spool shouldn't be too hard. Sounds good! So is there also the possibility of WED incorporatingthe inclusion of sounds such as ground airports and nature? This is something...so basically you want FMOD sound triggers inthe scenery like when you taxi by something, you taxi by the machineshop and you hear people working in it or you fly by a wind turbineand you hear the wind turbine. It's not something we have in 11.30right now but it's definitely something we can do with FMOD. So it'snot on the short term, you're not going to get it next week but it'sdefinitely something we are aware of and want to give to scenerydevelopers. FSX famously used SimConnect which allows modders to interactdirectly with the simulator at all levels from weather toaircraft. While XUPIC is available as a freeware, is there anythingthat will be built into the simulator, if not already available? Well I think the SDK that is in the simulator already is far morecomfortable to use than FSUIPC ever was because, what you needed to dowith FSUPIC you would need to go look in the big table, find the thingyou were looking for like landing light, switch, gear lever, whateverand then it came up with a pointer with a long number, and you had toremember that number, figure out the offset and use that, and I thinkX-Plane's much more straightforward, much more simple in that youdon't have to look up a number, but everything is named. The landinglights level is something like sim cockpit switches landing lights,its a string you can remember you can read and X-Plane has about threeor four thousand of those data refs that you can just look up by name,search by name and get the variable and so the X-Plane SDK I think ismuch easier to program than FSUIPC ever was because its more intuitiveand people like from FlyWithLua have put something on top of that SDKbecause not every person can program C but its very easy to write LUAand I think that this is something FlyWithLua makes that veryaccessible to non programmers. Can we see the adoption of seasons and whether improvements in theX-Plane release cycle? So currently we're only flying in the summeracross the world, will we see snow, will we see weather updates in thefuture? So you are asking about this X-Plane release cycle and I think theanswer for this X-Plane release cycle is no. I think the focus forX-Plane 11 right now is to get Vulkan to you, so Vulkan willdefinitely be in X-Plane 11, its not going to be a 12 feature, this isgoing to be in the X-Plane 11 run and I think with Vulkan and X-Plane11 we will get the room to grow to add more features, more graphicalfeatures and we will get the experience running Vulkan on user'smachines with Nvidia cards, AMD cards and Intel Graphics and so on. Sosorry to disappoint you for X-Plane 11, I don't think seasons willcome from us for X-Plane 11, but I think with the Vulkan we get theroom to grow and to implement weather features and season featuresbetter than you could do with textures only because right now youwould have to like quadruple all the textures for the four seasons andI don't this that is really feasible, I think the modern way to do itshader based is the proper way to do it and that's the road we'regoing down. And the most important final question of all, will we ever see achange in the aircraft contrails? Surely two years on, you guys willknow how to change the thick black smoke spewing out of the aircraftengines into small white puffy clouds of water vapour clouds. Alright, this ever! I can replace the ever question with next weekbecause as of X-Plane 11.30 the contrails are no longer handled by theold puff code but they are handled by the particle system so withX-Plane 11.30 you can get the contrails out of the particle system,you can configure them with the data refs like they can be differentwhen it's cold or when the troposphere is colder or warmer, thecontrails can get bigger, more fluffy, or smaller and I think theX-Plane 11.30 particle system is going to make much better contrailsthan we've ever seen. So it's finally happening? Ah, ja! Thank you very much! Alright, a pleasure to meet you! Flying Development Studio/Infinite Flight Flying Development Studio/Infinite FlightNewcomers Flying Development Studio are showcasing theirever-popular mobile flight simulator, Infinite Flight. This was theirfirst show in the UK, meaning they had lots to talk about when it cameto their community and the history of their program, so we decided tospeak to their founder Laura for more on this platform. Laura, thank you very much for doing this with us today. Well, thank you for being here! So where did the idea of Infinite Flight come about and who decidedto start development for the mobile flight simulator? So it's a multi-stage process which started back in 2004 when Iwent to engineering school in Paris, France. I started working onprojects that turned into a simulation for aeroplanes. After that Ithen moved to California to work for Nvidia, I worked for the founderwho was working there at the time and we kind together joined forcesto make a product out of it. So this goes all the way down to 2004? So this wasn't 2000...So I moved to California in 2006 for abouttwo years and in 2010 we decided to join forces. I always developedfor PC initially so we had a PC version internally working fordeveloping still, that we have the power to work on a PCversion. Microsoft then sent us sent us sample phone for the WindowsPhone operating system which was not out yet and we figured that forphones, there is nobody there, and it's easier to get to market withbetter features so we got it there, and then iOS and Android is how itgot started. So what would you say is the biggest reason to choose InfiniteFlight over other mobile sims such as X-Plane Mobile? If you compare to other mobile sims, I would say our community,multiplayer system and the diversity of aircraft we have. Multiplayer,something we have a big emphasis on in the project. We got peopleplaying together over here. They got here to the show and they're herejust playing what we call a flash flight and together they have acontroller somewhere over here or over there somewhere else. And thatis a key point as you're not flying alone but with other people andit's super exciting. What would you say to the traditional PC flight simmers who may nothave given a mobile sim a chance, what reason could you give to temptthem into Infinite Flight and mobile flight simulators? Well, I would say two things. One is I used to be a PC flightsimmer, I played Flight Unlimited, I played FSX, I was a beta testerfor FSX for a while. I got interviewed with Microsoft actually beforeI entered this, but it's about the flying fix, you know, as when Istarted development I stopped playing FSX because all I needed was notto be in the cockpit but just the feeling of flying I got even from alow poly model and basic terrain. It was enough for me to get thatflying thing going and the second thing is we're not reallycompetitors to the other PC sims, it's more targeted for when you'renot in front of your PC. So, for example, you're going away with yourfamily or have some time for yourself, just open your phone and getconnected. Alternatively, when you're in your house, you're on yourcouch the movies over and you have 10 to 15 minutes before you go tobed, instead of going to your room and starting your PC which couldtake 10 minutes to get it all up, just open your phone and startplaying. So it's a lot more handheld and compact and is with you all thetime. Yeah! I think people will realise that when you give them this,like a craving for flying, you get it satisfied by flying whatever itis. So what feature are you most proud of in Infinite Flight and isthere anything that really differentiates you from the rest of themarket as well? What is the biggest feature of Infinite Flight wouldreally get people into the sim? I'd say that it's multiplayer, definitely, when you have thousandsof people playing together on the same server with the differentcontrollers vectoring people, it's pretty exciting. It exists on otherplatforms, not on mobile, and we have 24/7 activity on our serverswhich is pretty amazing. I would say the second thing is the renderingitself. We've had airlines re-tweet our pictures and featured postsbecause they think its real pictures, so it's a good testimony to thequality of the graphics. Would you ever consider implementing a Virtual Reality element intoInfinite Flight thanks to the availability of platforms like GoogleCardboard and similar and the numerous features on iPhone as well? So we have talked about this, I mean, the issue is that we need torender the game a very high frame rate, and now mobile phones todayeven going 60 frames per second, it just kills the phone. It getsreally hot, the battery dies quickly and especially, the framerate'sgonna drop because it's gonna overheat and will throttle down thespeed of the CPU and GPU, there's nothing you can do about that andfor iOS there is not much possible at this point, what we are hopingfor is for Apple to come to this market with something that's slick,as that's just what Apple would do. You know it would work just rightaway. Unless they do that, we're kinda stuck and we've tried going onPC and just trying it on PC versions, just the setup to make thingswork. I've looked into Windows 10 latest edition, like setting updrivers and...yeah it's too problematic, too much of a... With Infinite Flight, about a year ago you released the whole worldavailable on the flight simulator, and so a lot of changes havehappened to the simulator from where it was two years ago which justhad small regions to the whole world, big jets, multiplayer flying, sowhat could we see in Infinite Flight in the next 6 and 12 months? Whatis the future for your simulator? You know we really don't talk about future at events because it's,I recently made a post on our forum about that, the reason why wedon't say when things come out, mostly because things can happen, butI just said in the presentation a couple of hours ago an importantpoint is that anything that's missing from the sim that people say ismissing like instruments, like buildings, clouds, we're working onthem. There are different stages of development, features coming atsome point so we're not just not doing them purposely, it's just thatit's on mobile so there are additional constraints we have to abideby. So, yeah, all the things that are "missing" will be here at somepoint. Thank you very much! Thanks for your time! REMEX Software/Deadstick REMEX Software/DeadstickREMEX Software is next with their soon to be released DeadstickBush Flight Simulator. With nearly two years of development behind itand the game itself revealed at last year's show, today we speak toChris again who takes us through the simulator since we last saw itand gives us an update on its progression. Thank you very much for doing this today with us Chris. You're welcome. For those who don't know what Deadstick is or where it came about,give us a brief history of the simulator and what the main focus of itwill be. Okay so the big thing about Deadstick is that we're trying tosimulate the experience of being a pilot rather than just simulate theaircraft, so the way we've done that is its all first person, so youcan get out, you can walk around the aircraft, do your pre-flightchecks and then with that we've got a whole career mode built inaround it so the idea is that you're trying to earn money deliveringcargo from A to B, and then you can use that to upgrade the aircraftand maintain it along the way. So it's almost like its fly realexperience, trying to keep the plane alive rather than yourselfalive. So bush flight is by and large VFR. Given that flight sims strugglewith true pilotage because of limited time and processing power that'sneeded to create landmarks and identifying features, what does yourgame do to overcome this, that an obstacle for most flight simulatorshas in order to make it necessary to create a bush flight simulatorwith any degree of realism? The big thing for us is that we're not trying to simulate the wholeworld, we're trying to do a small area...relatively smallarea...because we're doing a small area we can focus on the graphicalfidelity so we're not using photo tech, just everything is mesh,everything is modelled, every blade of grass and every rock and thatreally allows us to drill into the detail for adding those landmarksare piloted, and things like flight dynamic effects and using fullvolumetric clouds to make it fully immersive. So how big will the map be when it comes into its finalrelease? The current version as you see it here today is southern island its2,500 square miles and we'll be adding another northern island thesame size into the platform, so that's what we'll be taking into earlyaccess and from that case it's expanding it from there, as well aslooking into completely different locations, places like Papua NewGuinea and packs beyond that. Sounds good! It looks like you're trying to make a game with a lotmore personality than the traditional flight simulator and a huge partof a plane's unique "temperament" in real life is quirks andundocumented oddities means that these aircraft don't control in thesame way as you would find in your commercial aircraft other lightaircraft as well. To what extent will this "personality" be present inDeadstick? I think just that topic generally is a big thing that inspired meto make this, you know when you, when you do your pilot's licence Ilearnt that just flying the plane is kinda the easy bit, but there's alot that goes on around that as when you're doing your pre-flightchecks and also how you plan your routes to ensure that you flysafely, so a big part of that was we really wanted to get thatpersonality into the aircraft down to like the keyring moving and theaerials wobbling, down to all the avionics and how does thatsimulate. So a big part of the process is making it...I keep sayingtoday because I make it feel like a living and breathing aircraft, notthat they live or breathe, but you know what I mean yeah, so that'sreally important and we wanted it to feel like it's your aircraft andthat it's your job to look after it and maintain it as you go alongthe way. Obviously, there will also be a map for navigation, but how closewill it be to a real-life sectional map and how do you plan onemulating this within the simulator? An interesting question, we've got our own development version weuse and it looks a lot like a US sectional map, but obviously whereveryou go in the world there are different chart styles, so I think westill have to...some artwork on our side to figure out exactly how wewant it to look, we certainly want it to feel like a sectional chartand feel like the icon overlay and the UI we use makes sense, soyeah. To add to that last question, flying in advance generally meansplanning, like getting your routing sorted out, and getting yourdirection sorted. Given that your map is fictional, how do you plan togive players the resources necessary to plan a flight in terms oflanding areas, routes, weather, and emergency preparation? So we've got a map screen which we haven't shown off yet, partiallybecause we still need to figure out exactly the chart style, butessentially that is your, that's where you go from selecting your jobsto planning your route, so you go onto your map screen, there will beairfields on there and each one had got a list of jobs available, andwhen you click on it, you can drag it out routes which creates a PLOGfor you, that transfers to the PLOG inside the aircraft which you canpull up on your lap at any time to see your waypoints, so it's alldone through one map screen and you've got all your weather andeverything on there so yeah, we try to integrate it, if you'refamiliar using flight planning software for VFR flying, then its verysimilar to that kind of thing. How in-depth and defined will the collision detection and damagemodelling be, so will the aircraft be soft body and likewise when itcomes to wear and tear, how does this work within the simulator? It's not...I wouldn't call it soft body so it's all rigid body, butat a point of a collision we use a semi-soft body system is the bestway to describe it to deform specific areas. So areas know about theirstructure and their integrity, and then based around that we use adynamic mesh deformation system which will deform and crumple theaircraft around it, so it's not like we're taking one model and thenswapping it out for, say, you damage you wing we swap it out for adamaged one, but we're actually calculating the damage of the wingaround you, we're not using full soft body physics for that becausethere are stability issues there when you go fast they might start tobecome like jelly and not feel... It's like fluttering but at the extreme levels. Exactly, exactly, so we tried to find a nice level trade-off therebetween what's realistic and what looks nice. So when would you say we could see the simulator on our screens forus to play in the long run? Well we were obviously intending to have it out about now, we'vehad to do a lot more work than we anticipated in the terrain system,the streaming system to do the fidelity we've got to the size of theworld so we've solved those problems now, its set us back a little bitso we're looking at the early part of next year now. In terms of modding, what kind of modding process will we see, sowill you guys be releasing an SDK and whatnot and likewise willmodding be solely on the Steam Workshop or will we maybe see likeother web sites with modding capabilities get add-ons forDeadstick? It's a bit too early to say yet. Modding is going to be hugelyimportant so we do want to open it up in Steam Workshop, that willcertainly be the first thing we'll look at and trying to create atoolset which we'll allow people to do interesting things, you know,we certainly want to create it flexible so people so can createdifferent vehicle types and have fun with it, at the same time we wantto look at a more formal API for third-party developers, so they areall things we need to explore, but we don't have answers for them yetso definitely something we'll look at after Early Access. Sounds good, thank you very much! You're welcome! Flight Sim Labs Flight Sim LabsFlight Sim Labs again, and a bit of a rollercoaster year for themat that. They have however seen some redemption within the flightsimulator community, with some rather fantastic Airbus aircraft nowreleased, as well as some more in the works. We got a chance to speakto our favourite Greek developer today, Lefteris Kalamaras, with ascoop of what's to come. So Lefteris, thank you very much for doing this with me today! The pleasure is all mine. So a year of redeeming for Flight Sim Labs, one year ago when welast interviewed you, you guys were in the process of finalising yourA319 as well as getting your aircraft ready for Prepar3D v4. That's right. So what else has happened in the last year of FSLabs in terms ofdevelopment, and nothing else in particular... Well, we've developed an update for the 320 and then the 319 cameout and we're very happy with the response, lots of, thousands ofcustomers bought it so you know, the response is overwhelming, we'revery happy with it and we're now developing a new product for the A321so... Sounds good! So when will we see the A321 arrive for flightsimulators and potentially other variations for the aircraft as wellso the sharklets, neo's, engine types, what timeline do you have inthe future for your A320x? The A321 will come out we hope in the next few months, we'reworking on it as you can see, I don't know if you took pictures orvideos of our monitors over there, the computer we have on the desk,it's coming out within the next few months so it's still indevelopment and our early beta testing is showing very promisingresults. It has new features that we have talked about in our forumand some new features that we haven't talked about so we're veryexcited to have those come out as well. Any sneak peeks on the new features? I'm sorry? Any idea on new features? Anything that you've not said yet whichyou might be inclined to say? Ohh, you're looking for exclusives here. Of course. Well, I can tell you that there's something ATSU stuff coming outand we're working with some online providers to do some work foronline flying. Okay! So when you guys have finished the A320 series, what will yoube doing next? Will we see an A350 or even an A340 coming from youguys? Err, I'm gonna tell you this, it's gonna be an A3 something. So Ihope that answers your question. And also like how long do you think you'll be developing the A320series for, so when do you think will be like the endline for this?How many years would you say you'll be doing this? I don't see an end of life for that product because the aircraft isso much in development and we have so much to do still with it, thereare sharklets, there's the neo's, there are the new FMGC versions thatare come out so you know, we have a lot of work still to do. We havethe cockpit version, we have the professional versions, so still, lotsto come. And at the very least could you at least say that if you could oneday incorporate an Airbus widebody in the future rather than thesenarrowbody jets? Aha! Very interesting question! I think that falls back to the A3XXproduct that we talked about before. Sounds good! And I guess the next one is what was the reason toincluding a Tomatoshade preset in your aircraft? This is somethingwe've not seen any other developer do, what inclined you to addTomatoshade built into the aircraft? I think it adds to the immersion, so whenever people look at it andrealise that we have involved this and included it with our product,they're very happy that we've preset it into the product and so theyappreciate that we're put it in rather than them having to do itthemselves. Okay, so very community oriented and guided, kind of like not awaykeeping yourself from the customers but actually bringing their ideasinto what they want to see in the simulator. Yes, exactly, we listen to our customers so yeah, we hope thateverything that we added is gonna excite them even more. Sounds good, thank you very much! Thank you I appreciate the interview! Orbx ORBXORBX is back and better than ever before. Announcing their X-PlaneTrueEarth Great Britain South add-on at the show, we got a couple ofminutes to speak to John Venema about the progress of this scenery, aswell as a couple of other products in the pipeline yet to beannounced. Right so thank you very much again for doing this with us,John. That's alright! So last time I interviewed you a year ago, you talked about yourlatest releases coming to ORBX as well as some X-Plane developmentsthat were in the progress of being made. What have been the biggestchanges these last 365 days? Well we've introduced a new technology called TrueEarth, and you'veno doubt seen that once which we've released for P3D and Aerofly FS2,soon some out for X-Plane, so that's where the company are making ashift to photoreal regions, incredible detail, hundreds newmodels..and we're this.., today we're announcing TrueEarth GreatBritain South so we're going to continue that TrueEarth series all theway through the UK and again that's going to be for all threeplatforms as well. So you'll be doing FSX as well as P3D and X-Plane... We won't be doing FSX because 32-bit sims can't handle the sheeramount of data that are being processed. So it's just going to be 64-bit simulators in the future? That is correct. Okay, so, you also mentioned last year as well that you had teamsdeveloping OpenLC for both the African and Asian regions. So whatupdate do you have on that and when will we ever see them release? Africa is about 80% done and is out before Christmas. So all thetextures are being finished, that is hundreds of new unique landclasstextures, which is, basically we're finishing up the actual landclassitself which is being done by hand. It's quite a long process but willbe out before Christmas. And then we start on Asia after that. Will we see and new airport releases for P3D and X-Plane and evenFSX or will there be a focus on regions the next coming months? On no, we're seeing a lot of new airports. We just released Kirunain Sweden which is a triple pack, that was released three days ago, wehave about, in terms of new airports being worked and run down isprobably about 24. 24? Yeah, we've got a...there's plenty of stuff happening across allplatforms, porting a lot of our P3D airports to X-Plane so Greg fromTurbulent Design is here, he's been porting Southampton, Shoreham,Cardiff, they're all going to be available in the next few weeks aswell. Sounds good! So whatever happened to Australia? Your first FTXRegion pack was Australia, and you also released the freeware AIaircraft pack mainly to go with it as well, but other than those twoit's been very quiet for that part of the world. Well we have released, we released Gold Coast airport only a fewmonths ago, we have a few other Australian airports in the works thatwe can't talk about yet, we've just release Gisborne in New Zealandonly a few weeks ago, so we're certainly still in the southernhemisphere and we're about to break cover on Australia v2 which isgonna be absolutely phenomenal. Ah, so you've got a new update for it... That's right, a completely new re-build of Australia, it puts theGreat Barrier Reef, Cityscape Melbourne, incredible coastlines, lotsof really new...great textures, so we're hoping to get that out byChristmas or New Year time. So Australia is coming and it sounds like it's going to be big. It's going to be amazing! Yep, Holger Sandman is leading thatproject. So will we also see scenery packs for more Central American citiesas well such as Minneapolis and Tennessee? We see a lot of cities onthe coast and major cities in the US and Worldwide, but no love forthe smaller US cities and airports. We're doing CityScenes all over the world and also the US. We'reworking on a CityScene right now, it hasn't been announced yet, butit's going to be quite impressive, people will be very excited aboutthat one. We'll continue to do those all over the US, we're also goingto release TrueEarth Regions in the US starting next year and what wewant to do is cover the entire US with regions and cities and thingslike that. When it comes to support from developers, how good is it fromLockheed Martin and Laminar Research when developing products, and whohas better tools when it comes to developing? Well, we have a very good relationship with Lockheed, I talk toAdam Breed on a regular basis and being a part of the BETA testingprogram, so that's a very solid relationship. I can also talk toLaminar guys when we need to, Ben Supnik and Marty are always veryhelpful, so you know we tried them and I was at Germany last weekvisiting IPACS so I talk to those guys as well, so we've got a prettyhealthy relationship with the three sim makers at this stage. With the loss of Flight Sim World and the Dovetail Game flight teamessentially now non-existent, does this affect your stance on 32-bitsimulator platforms such as FSX? I think 32-bit simulators, we've seen a migration of people awayfrom 32-bit to 64-bit. We've seen FSX numbers decline, and our ownsales go down, so it's less than 20% now, it's around about 18%customer base as whereas a year ago it was about 28% so, that's been a10% migration to P3D 64-bit in the last year alone. So, in that case, is it still worth developing for the 32-bitplatforms or is it now time for a sole focus for 64-bit X-Plane 11 andP3D? When we do an airport and it's not a lot of work to make it FSXcompatible, of course, we'll make it FSX compatible because you know,18% of our customers are still using that platform. So we want to lookafter them and we also, we're releasing region products that willstill be compatible with FSX so, you know, the landclass basedregions, OpenLC, Australia, all of those will still work in FSX. So for the last couple of months, you have definitely seen thecommunity move towards the 64-bit platforms, so I think that coversthe next question as well so you now see that the simulator is nowmoving towards 64-bit platforms and you see a lot less going towardsFSX. That's true. It's a natural progression you know, it's just we'redealing with a lot more data here, we're talking about products thatare 30 to 90 Gb in size and you need that extra bandwidth to processthat. So big important question, are you and Laminar Research, or morespecifically Austin Meyer, the best of friends yet or do you bothstill have your mutual disrespect for each other? I bumped into Marty last night over drinks and he said "Greetingsfrom Austin" so you know, roundabout sort of way, we are talking toeach other, look, we're working with them, they're important to us, Ithink they enjoy the fact that ORBX has embraced their platform sothere's no need for an ongoing tit for tat type of scenario tocontinue. And the other question from last year, did PayPal ever give youyour money back? They did. They did! It took 11 months. 11 months between the final purchase and the money getting toyou?! Correct. So for 11 months, there were about 30,000 customers thatwe weren't paid for their purchases. 30,000?! So...That was a big chunk out of our business and that iswhy... I can imagine for a small company like yours as well, that is a lotof... It is. That's why we won't use them again, I just don't respecttheir company whatsoever after this. They had no reason to hold ourmoney and so, we won't do business with them again, it's as simple asthat. Yeah, thank you very much for your time! My pleasure! No problem at all. Just Flight Just FlightShow hosts Just Flight are here with their plethora of generalaviation and historic jetliner add-ons. Today they talk to us abouttheir upcoming work in X-Plane, as well as where the balance of thecommunity is heading to in terms of simulator usage. Let's see whatMartin and Richard have to say. Right so thank you very much for doing this with us today. Pleasure. So since the last Flight Sim Show, you guys talked mainly aboutyour transition from FSX to X-Plane 11 and how you're starting to likerelease more towards that genre. So what have been the biggest changesto Just Flight in the last year? Yeah, I suppose that X-Plane 11 is the biggest I suppose. It's beennearly a year since we released the Arch...Arrow III, so our firstX-Plane release, since then we've done maybe five or six new aircraft,that's been very popular, very well received I think. Yep! So yeah, much like the industry in general, I think X-Plane 11 isthe biggest change. Yeah so you mentioned it's been about a year you did the Arrow IIIas your first release, and you've now got maybe around 10, 15 productsnow ported over to X-Plane 11. How different is the developmentprocess between FSX, P3D and X-Plane 11? Very different really, we have an external team that does most ofthe X-Plane stuff, so we tend to do the FSX and Prepar3D version, andonce that's been completed we release bug fixes and everything else,then it tends to go to the team that's dedicated to X-Planeversions. They make use of the model, the textures, but a lot of thecoding is stuff from fresh so it's quite a different simulator When will we start to see some of your more advanced jetliners suchas the BAC 1-11 or even the VC-10 make its way onto X-Plane 11, orwill you guys be sticking with general aviation in the meantime? We are trying to get bigger stuff. 2019 I reckon there'll be anairliner for, with some of the scripts that are coming. Yeah so thenext are probably gonna be the Dutchess, and then maybe Archer IIIbecause they're both fairly simple to get them out of the way, butyeah we are intending to get to the bigger stuff like the DC-10, 747,so yeah, it's certainly coming. You guys are basically the only developers at this time who arestill working with AeroflyFS, so what do you guy see in that platformthat others may have missed, and how much of your development do youput towards Aerofly? Currently not so much at the moment, but it's something we'regetting to get back into, its ORBX also supporting Aerofly, so it's agood solid sim, it's not as detailed or as complex as others but youknow, it's easily satisfying and fun to use. So it's a slightlydifferent market as well. And it's also yeah, its a way of accessingthe mobile market as you obviously got tablets and we sold ourselvesthrough Aerofly onto the tablet. Yeah, we saw good sales when wereleased content for FS Aerofly, the original, obviously, it's grownsince then so it's certainly a good platform I think but yeah,slightly different market to the current. Certainly, there will bemore Aerofly content to come to some point. Sounds good! With the loss of Flight Sim World and Dovetail Gamesnow essentially not having a flight sim team anymore, how does thisaffect your stance on FSX and 32-bit platforms and is this may besomething you'll start losing in the future and start focusing on P3Dand X-Plane? Yes, I think in time FSX, like previous ones will start to dwindleoff, people moving to Prepar3D and X-Plane, some people moving toboth, some people toward the other so I think hopefully in time yeah,we'd like to get to the point where we don't have to develop for FSXanymore. Also, the more the P3D v4 technology moves on, the harder itthen becomes to port back to FSX so at some point the rewards of doingthat will just be too small and we'll move on from FSX and be 64-bitplatforms only. You might find some aircraft we release are available for FSX butmaybe not the full feature set you get in P3D version, I think thatmay be true of other developers because things will become impossible,and FSX one will not be as good anymore. And so where do you feel that the community is going as a whole? Soyou've released products onto both FSX, P3D and X-Plane 11, so howdoes that between the different genres, the different sales, how dosales impact with each one, where do you kind of like...where do yousee the community going, where are they heading to as the mainsimulator? Well I mean for the first time in maybe ever, X-Plane seems to beneck and neck with the other platforms out there. There has definitelybeen a big shift towards X-Plane, I think the shows we go to andobviously we can see it in our own sales, I mean we've only been onX-Plane for a year, so we don't really have any past data to go on butit's certainly healthy sales in X-Plane, we've seen as good if notbetter sales for some of our GA aircraft in X-Plane that we have inPrepar3D, so it's certainly not niche simulator anymore, it'sdefinitely a strong best. X-Plane 11 was a turning point for us andLaminar. Yeah so I think, I think P3D and X-Plane will carry on inparallel for the foreseeable, I don't see one will take over the otheror..No, and that's certainly the biggest two platforms for me. A focuson those. Yeah and there's a lot of crossover and people will beflying both, plenty of people seem to fly both so. Thank you very much! Thank you! A pleasure. ProjectFLY ProjectFLYProminent face of the community Matt Davies is next. Today he talksto us about ProjectFLY and POSCON, as well as their new projectSimMarket currently in the works, and also some hints on where theirA380 is currently headed. Let's see what he has to say. (Note: Since the show, Matt Davies has unfortunately stepped downfrom ProjectFLY, but the projects themselves are very much stillon-going.) So yes thank you very much for doing this with us today. Okay, no problem. So for those who don't quite know what ProjectFLY is or only knowthe name, what is ProjectFLY and what does it bring to the flightsimulator? ProjectFLY is a fancy Logbook with a bunch of features that enhancethe logbook experience. Sounds good! So on ProjectFLY...You're the head of ProjectFLY,you're the lead of POSCON and it will be integrating with everythingelse. So these programs integrate with one another, so how will theyintegrate, how will they like, compatible as well? So POSCON will use data from ProjectFLY to tailor make your POSCONexperience, and it will also allow us to understand the levels ofcompetence to which you have as a POSCON user by using the way you flywith ProjectFLY. It will also integrate with the A380, SimStore, so like alltogether so you've got the distribution channels of SimStore, you'vegot the flying modification experience of ProjectFLY and then POSCONis the network we use to get, you know, controllers and flying withother people. Sounds good. So regarding your A380 in development, what is thecurrent progress of it and what stage is it at? So modelling is into what they call late refinement. So they gotall the bulks done, and now they're going through I guess finesse andthey're figuring it all out. Systems are pretty early on but it's amodular based system so, in terms of completion it's hard to say butthe model is definitely ahead of the systems, but not by much. When will we likely see a release of the A380 if you have thetimeframe for that right now? Impossible to say. I mean I reckon if we get it out in 2019 I wouldbe impressed, but it's more like maybe 2020 because we still got otherprojects to do, it's a side project. If it was a full-time projectthen maybe next year, but it's not. And so you talked about the A380 being modular based and yourinterview..your seminar earlier on talked about how it will be donewith the same model in FSX, X-Plane...Sorry, P3D, X-Plane andpotentially Aerofly model in the future, so how will that system workwithin the simulator? So each platform has its own specific model requirements, animationrequirements, so as long as the modeller in question knows what to do,then essentially it's just a port from one to the other, and becausewe code it from sort of, an emulation of a 7...was gonna say 787there...an emulation of an A380, we just gotta move it around, there'sreally no issue. So it's like you have your one platform, you port it to another, youport it to another. Yeah, you just create a bridge, then it will know that thevariables all match up, the flight model's important and you know, allthis stuff that you would necessarily think of, and then it works!Surprisingly very simple. So from the sound of things like shared cockpit could be like amassive thing in its future. Yep. So could it potentially be the case where you're in X-Plane, andyou share a cockpit with like a P3D user, or would that be toodifficult to integrate with the flight model? So we're using a web-based client to share the flight model, right,and because of that I mean, to be able to share a plane with someonethat's in X-Plane versus someone that's in P3D, we could compensatefor that using the server, using the web-based geotracking so itshould, in theory, be possible to fly, me fly in X-Plane and you flyin P3D and still share the same cockpit. Sounds good, thank you for doing that with us! No problem, thanks. VATSIM VATSIMVATSIM has finally revealed a new voice codec at the show, so it nolonger sounds like you're talking through a paper bag over comms. Wespeak to Simon and Gary about this change, as well as a little on thehistory of VATSIM voice codecs. So thank you very much for doing this with us today. Firstquestion, finally we seen or even heard evidence of a new voice codeccoming onto VATSIM. How different is this to the current codec to theprevious version and how long will it be until this is implementedfull simulator? So if you want to give it a go we've got it on our laptop, you cangive it a go in a minute, that's alright, as that will answer most ofyour question. But how different is it? Everyone doesn't sound like they are in apaper bag anymore and you don't have a one-second delay betweentalking to each other, that's our main gain. So what actually goesinto developing a codec for voice? Well our one actually started off as a cabin interphone simulationfor our simulator that we built, we wanted to be able to call thegalley, so we actually started off like that and then we figured oh"How can we actually write a VHF...Why don't we turn this into a VHFsimulation?" so one thing led to another and to be honest, what mostlygoes into it is a guy called Mark Barne who is an absolute genius whobefore I knew it designed a terrain model, a VHF simulation model andbasically all of the working behind it. So we do actually use astandard, modern stuff so basically, a lot of our stuff that you'veheard is based on something called OMQ which basically solves half ofour problems for us. So what actually prompted you to make this new voice codec afterseven, eight years of using the current one? Oh, so I sat there thinking well if I want to sound...Basically,what happened as I said with the cabin interphone, one thing led toanother and we thought you know what, why don't we try and make this acodec for VATSIM and you know, here we are! So are there any plans to open the API for third-party users, sofor example who's online, what data you can put through that, so is itpossible to open up an API to allow other developers to work withVATSIM within the simulator or is this something you want to kind ofcontrol? Oh I...actually as you are more qualified for VATSIM but, it's apart of why we actually develop it, we're all up for opening it up tomodern technologies so. I suppose VATSIM, yeah, we come up with the idea to do that thendefinitely we want people to get involved. So we've, actually what'shappened is we've ended up working with the guys from VATSIM who arein the FSD part of the service and voice service and data feeds, sobetween us we've managed to write a new data of working with VATSIM isactually working really well, everyone's working with everybody and weall have a shared Git Hub, it's all very open. Oh yeah, so I was going to say one question we got was do you haveany timelines on when there would be a public repository such as aGithub link, so like how public is this? How open is it forsupport? So actually, what we've got is called GOVR, what we've got for itwhich is the virtual radio system. The bits that are non-VATSIMspecific are actually public and out there now so it is very wideopen. Obviously there is some stuff in the legacy VATSIM network sideof things that we do have to keep in a separate repository, justbecause the new technology with the new data server and that isn'tquite there yet, so that's got to stay prone because you can't reallyjust shovel that on the internet and hope for the best. And so last question, what would you do to encourage more users tobecome flight controllers? It can be a fairly tough process to join,and as a result, too few people shy away from this. What could you doto bring more controllers to the community? Over to Simon for this! Well, I think the new voice architecture's gonna help us. Weget...you can hear the new voice codec now, how clear it is you canhear that there, so I think that's gonna be a game changer. There area lot of...the biggest things we get is that people will come to usbecause they say the voice isn't very good so I think this is gonna bea real game changer for us. It's certainly going to help. And the funniest thing actually coming out of all of the voicecodec testing as we said, everyone's being really friendly to eachother when they're controlling, I think you don't have people sappingon each other and you know, really struggling to hear people, andpeople are cracking jokes to each other, they know what's happened sohopefully this is the way forward! And the frequencies are reallycalm. It's a really calm place to be. Very calm. So yeah, thank you very much! Okay, thanks very much. Cheers. Cheers, Gary. No problem. FSElite FSEliteWe also got a chance to speak to FSElite about their own newsite. Today we learn a little history about where they came from,where they are currently going and the upcoming release ofDCTRY. Let's interview the interviewee, we have the head of FSE, CalumMartin. Calum from FSElite, thank you very much for doing this for us. You're very welcome. First question, FSElite have been very much a rising star in theflight simulator community, recently making a big name for yourselfjust over a year ago. Where did it all start and what was the site'sbig breakthrough moment? Good question. So it all started as you said two and a half yearsago and I think the idea was we just wanted to something a little bitdifferent, I've always been quite passionate about the PDS side ofthings, I used to run like, really amateur gaming blogs when I was akid and flight sim was always something that held my interest so Ikinda wanted to combine the two, made some cool friends with bothJordan and Greg and we had similar ideas about what kind of news mediasite we wanted and then we kind of just put this really basic blogtogether, did it for a bit of fun, and then when people started totake note of what we were doing, we had lots of people ask to join theteam, so some of the original guys like Dan and Mungo are still withus today, they really helped to grow that team and for me theimportant element was to try and get that worldwide coverage and so wekind of put out some feelers and managed to get a team of 20people. You ask about that kind of big moment. I think when we went toFlight Sim Con in Connecticut in 2017, we made a big point in kindahaving a representation there because people hadn't really heard of usor hadn't met us in person and for us that was the real pushing pointto say hey this is what we do, this is who we are and I think peopleappreciated that interaction and that stuff we did and for us it isimportant that community felt part of the event as well and I thinkthat was the moment where people took us a lot more seriously becausethey could finally put the web site to an actual personality with itas well. How do you say FSElite compares itself with some of the otherflight simulator news sites out there, that have built themselves upover the last 10 to 20 years? What makes you like the standout,different to the others? So I think the important thing for me with that is we've alwayswanted to challenge what happened in the past because we know as yousaid, 10, 20 years there have been countless news sites, all trying todo the same sort of thing and yeah, some elements we do similar toother sites, but what I think what makes us stand out more is becausewe have a really universal global team, who have very much differentpassions, very much different skill sets and we like to kind of bringall that together to make a, firstly a strong brand, I like how we arekind of a bit more visual compared to some other sites and theengagement thing is the most important thing for us, we do a lot ofstuff on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, even today we've got a Snapchatfilter for the entire community around, so just that kind of smalldifferent engagement things and just pushing the boundaries, and eventhings like organising events on behalf of developers and stuff, wejust wanna be a little bit more different and kinda just be a littlemore on the same level as the community rather than think we're abovethem and telling them everything and stuff. So what are the current plans for your web site and do you have anymajor expansions and plans for the future? The first thing for the site and it's been a much-featured requestis the speed, so we are working in the background and we are now inthe next iteration of FSElite. Haven't got anything to show on thatone but speed is like the dominating driving force for that, but Ithink the next expansion for us is DCTRY so we announce that in FlightSim Expo in Vegas and basically if you haven't seen it or heard of it,DCTRY is just gonna be global map for you to find any add-ons fromX-Plane, Prepar3D or Aerofly and it will literally host everythingfrom freeware to all the top-tier payware as well so you can type intothe search function, say, SODE Jetways, and it will show you show youevery single airport that uses SODE Jetways in it as well. Ah okay so it's not just going to be like the ICAO code and theairport name, but include any feature the airport includes aswell. Feature, so if you were like I want a dynamic lighted airport withSODE Jetways that's under $10, you can literally search to that detailand it will ping you all of those results, so country, region, youknow, you name it, we've found a way to kind of get you that airportand I think what we really like about it is it supports the communitybecause you are hopefully gonna find airports you've never heard of, Icertainly did when we were compiling the database, also for thedevelopment side of things as well they're gonna be able to release anairport but know it's not gonna get lost in the massive mix of newsbecause people will be searching for it or searching for similarairports and actually they may discover that really cool uniqueairport that...I dunno that just that is kind of our next big thingand hopefully we'll gonna release that in the next couple of weeks forthe community to enjoy. Sounds good! So when it comes to the video content on your website, how are these made in comparison to other flight sim news sites,for example, the one this interview will be uploaded to? What's theprocess that goes into the video editing? So I'm no video editor. Many of our team don't have the skill andthe capability to do that, however what we do is we look for otherYouTubers who have a real passion and enthusiasm for developing videosand we ask them to join our team as kind of like content editors andstuff, so we've got a couple of guys, we've got Flight Sim Deck, we'vegot Aus Flight Simmer, we've got Q8Pilot, we've got a new guy namedRonnie and all of them kind of have their speciality or you know,their favourite type of flying and they will produce kind of videos onwhatever they think is cool or they think will be beneficial for thecommunity and then they upload it to our channel and then we promotethem and they promote us and it's like a really cool crossover betweenwhat we do and the way we see it, and the reason we like it very muchis because you get different personalities in the video and alsodifferent experiences as well. So how does this differ from the Featured YouTube Community guysstarted last year, but I don't think really took off as much as muchas you guys expected it. So the idea behind that, and it's still something that I want to domore of, is it was, so these guys were flight simmer, Flight Sim Deck,blah blah blah, they produce content for the FSElite Channel. TheFeatured YouTube Community was purely a new platform for video makersto use us to share out to the community. So they were never going toproduce for us, but we wanted to say "Hey you produce some cool stuff,actually a lot of your stuff doesn't really rank that high in YouTubebecause maybe you're not a huge 80k subscriber kind of guy but it wasjust that way to promote because we know Facebook Groups, they don'tnecessarily allow this kind of self-promotion side of things, butactually, I very much believe that if we self-promote to an extentsome good quality stuff, then the community gets to experience a muchwider girth of awesome content and that is what Featured YouTubeCommunity was about. We're gonna develop that and you asked about thesite earlier about what we're going to do, and that is going tobecome, instead of it currently being here it's going to become muchmore integrated with what we do and also with DCTRY in the future. So you guys will bring it back in the future. In a big way. Sounds good man thank you very much. Thank you, thank you for your time, enjoy the show. ConclusionAnd finally, we can bring our little interview saga to an end foranother year. The Flight Sim Show was an extremely fun day out withthose in the flight simulator community, as well as a great way topreview products that are soon to be released. If you ever get achance to visit one of these events, I do very much recommend it, asit gives you an opportunity to really mingle with those in thecommunity. For those interested in upcoming shows, Laminar Research will be atthe Aerosoft booth during the Friedrichshafen Germany Show, which isat Bodensee in southern Germany, April 2019, and the Flight Sim Expo,which takes place in June in Orlando Florida. Here they will beshowcasing X-Plane, as well as flying in VR.