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    Emma Field Lives

    in Emma Field Flying Club

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    Plenty of room in the back of the hangar ..... the club house is a bit crowded with old boxes of tinned food (kept here in case Fritz can't get home for some reason.... drinks nothing to do with it.....!!!), an old computer.... and tyons of old aircraft manuals that nobody around here ever seems to read.

    The restaurant is only opened on weekends in the winter season..... (but there is someone who has the keys... guess who !!?? :roll: ).

    Welcome home :wink:

    Emma Field Lives

    in Emma Field Flying Club

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    I tend to agree that we do NOT need to move the base of Emma Field Flying Club. It is here, it basically works, and looks the same as it always did.....

    What is missing are the 'gimmicks', like the cook and other things appearing based on time and season. Yes, I miss them, they were fun, but certainly not needed for flying, for meeting other Emma-ites, or using the field as a base for many activities.

    The only problems I see in future is that for new members it will look a bit awkward.. having to spend dollars on an FS2002 title to use in FS2004, and not having the features that are advertised in the documentation.

    The other problem I see is that the original EFFC was sponsored by LAGO and simFlight. I think it is safe to say that simFlight has kept its part of the deal.. providing webspace, prizes, the forum and support in other ways, amking EFFC stay alive and grow to what now seems to be one of the biggest virtual flying clubs around. But do we still keep LAGO featured as a sponsor....... I am sure I know the answer of quite a few members already :wink:

    So to me there is no real need to change airfields for EFFC as we know it today. (Except for the purely personal and selfish one than to set up yet another club like this and provide the basic scenery for that one..... which could well be the Mountain Flyers Aéroclub to be based on Courchevel in future...... still leaving EFFC fully operational and intact).

    To me EFFC has it roots on Emma, and we really should not change that. As Phil (I think) said it, there are enough telented folks around who can add zome pizzaz to it :D 8)

    Just my two cents.....

    umm, guys...what is this? (Emma Scenery Question)

    in Emma Field Flying Club

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    I can tell you what that is.......

    our fine friend Léon also made an add-on to the FS2004 Emma field... this is a haystack - or what's left of it - after I did some beta testing for him. Unfortunately I was also beta testing a new aircraft and did not quite get the hang of doing both things at once - yet.

    For those that don't know, Léon's farm is at the end of the runway. He also put a restaurant along the road bordering Emma... where you will find some well-known faces welcoming you :wink:

    Interesting (but not so good) Emma Field News...............

    in Emma Field Flying Club

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    Not so good indeed......

    today I did some 'investigative reporting' to find out what the real status of the assumed Emma Upgrade for FS2004 is....... seeing all the comments in the LAGO forum and here, and the bunch of vague and evasive answers from LAGO so far, I thought it was about time to step in.

    So we have two sources: LAGO on the one hand, mr. Ferrato usually, and the folks that must actually do the work for LAGO on the other hand (freelance developers like Maurizio Gavioli, Oliver Pabst, Richard Goldstein and perhaps even others).

    LAGO so far has maintained a straight face, promising an FS2004 version 'in a few weeks' or 'as soon as the modules are ready', but has been saying that for months now without any further specification.

    Well, I decided to ask the devlopers straight out today. I already knew from Richard that he had not been asked to make an update (which he had anyway and made available some time ago).

    The 'trouble' is in the other parts of the title, i.e. the movement and the sounds. These are no longer functional because of changes made by MS in the new product FS2004.

    Today Maurizio told me (and he stressed that this is NOT confidential information.... thank you Maurizio !!) that he needs to change IntelliScene, a software interface designed and owned by him, to work in FS2004. This is not a trivial program change. One he is done with it, he COULD license it to LAGO, as he did for Emma FS2002. He has no contract for that yet though.

    He also has no time to work on it because LAGO's FSE still needs a lot of work. He also has an opinion on WHY there is still work needed on FSE, but I will not go into that. And for that he HAS a contract !

    Apaprt from IntelliScene there are a few other (smaller) changes that need to be made as well, and Oliver Pabst among others would need to be involved. I have not heard back from Oliver recently, but last time we spoke he had no firm requests pending. He also can NOT do much without IntelliScene being finished first

    Maurizio last sentence in his letter kinda prompted me to write this message to you, fellow Emma-ites:

    '.... I have little time to devote to IntelliScene and this may indefinitely delay an FS9 release of Emma Field....'

    Sooooo..... two what I would call 'opposing opinions' uncovered for you to ponder over.

    One last thing I would not withhold from you.... FSAddon plans to license IntelliScene as well as soon as Maurizio has had the chance to upgrade it and we are already planning on making a new base for the flying club..... or a parallel flying club.

    Not that I want Emma Field to change, but it will be increasingly difficult to explain to new members why we have a club but they cannot buy the FS2004 software that goes with it...... and that was the original idea after all.

    so there it is folks..... hic..... over to you.

    Fritzois

    iPAQ info....

    in Emma Field Flying Club

    Posted

    Ravenblack: small problem..... where do I look ?? I might have you added already to the EFFC memberlist (or I might not, last batch was January 6th), but even if I have I can only search on email address or real name...... Nicknames are not used for membership administration. :oops:

    Who is (are) Your Hero(es) of Aviation

    in Emma Field Flying Club

    Posted

    :lol: Skoll !! Prosit! Cheers !

    Thanks to those that said nice things here !! :oops:

    Yes, I agree with most things said .... it IS a pity that young boy's dreams are a lot less harder to even 'create' these days.. Where did we get our dreams from?

    Indeed, straddling the fence of an airport, or of a race track for that matter. But also from reading fascinating and thrilling books, red ears, no time for home work...... Where are those books !!!??? Where are is the time to read them in between telvision, video games, disco's, drinking and drugs..... !!?? :!:

    That is why I started to write..... on forums, on websites, in magazines, and now... a book too.... (long story.... long planning... don't hold your breath but take another pint :D )

    I also think it is the most wonderful thing to see AND hear a Spit thunder by, or a majestic DC-3, even the putt-putt of an old Tiger Moth.

    It is sooooooo much different from our modern-day electronic wizzardry controlling an F-16 or F-117...... they have their place for admiratin, but it just isn't the same.

    That is why I joined the Dutch Dakota Association years ago... and pay for keeping two Daks flying. And that is why I spend time and money on the MAAM, to help them keep some old aircraft flying.... the B-25 Briefing Time being one of them.

    And I help organize a new versionof the Dutch FS Weekends in the now beautiful new National Aviation Museum.

    Yes, we should conserve these planes AND try to keep them flying.. although the latter will become ever more difficult..... ever thought about the environmental issues..... these boys run on unleaded fuel to name but one problem..... soon there will none be around :shock:

    I think we should do both.. keep them flying, and make sure we don't lose them all by doing so. Some folks have built exact replica's.... that's one way of putting them in a museum... and dicumenting them !!

    To finish this long winded and boring tale.... yes, I DO think that FS (certainly after 2002) is HELPING in getting people closer to aviation.... and closer to dreams....

    I know of a few people that never thought about real aviation until they got hooked on the simming.... and then thought it would be a terrific idea to do it for real.

    There are also more and more official uses of the sims... for training purposes in many ways.

    But to me the biggest attraction of FS is still the fact that it is a ambassador of aviation, making people dream, and even making dreams come through a little teeny bit... with enough imagination and some add-ons you ARE really there.. wherever 'there' is for YOU !

    Communities like Emma and others make this feeling even more a reality....

    So Three Cheers for Flightsims and their creators !!!! :D :D :D

    Fritzois

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