rcmarple

This certainly helps explain the "payware lag" that developers have had to contend with to upgrade v11 acfs to the brave new world of v12. Imagine having someone work for months fixing lighting/flight model or whatever, only to find it changes again? 
 
*** Message to developers - I DON'T MIND PAYING FOR UPDATES - keep at it 🙂 ***

This certainly helps explain the "payware lag" that developers have had to contend with to upgrade v11 acfs to the brave new world of v12. Imagine having someone work for months fixing lighting/flight model or whatever, only to find it changes again? 
 
*** Message to developers - I DON'T MIND PAYING FOR UPDATES - keep at it 🙂 ***

This certainly helps explain the "payware lag" that developers have had to contend with to upgrade v11 acfs to the brave new world of v12. Imagine having someone work for months fixing lighting/flight model or whatever, only to find it changes again? 
 
*** Message to developers - I DON'T MIND PAYING FOR UPDATES - keep at it 🙂 ***

Saved me some dollars there - you're right, the original release looks to be way better so sticking with that. 👍

Hi Stephen,
 
I don't know if your "Best of the year award" is dedicated to payware only: if it's open to the freeware, there is the absolute gem DC-3/C-47 from Aeroworx.
 
I own the VSkyLab too and they provide both a slightly different view of the same airframe; really interesting to compare them.
And they are some nice dedicated painters as well.
 
And still about the "Best of the year award: Person of the year", they're multiple, at least regarding their activities in my scope:
Franz Falckenhaus (dedicated to the SMS's Beaver by providing top notch liveries, custom objects and a marvelous engine sound mod and now member of SMS); some painters like Leen de Jager, "monoblau", ...; Bertrand Augras who's upgrading some of the XPFR gems; Claudio Nicolotti from SimCoders; X-Trident guys for the support they provide to their users lately; I agree with you about Beti-X Bella Coola (and Stewart!).
The only downside, if there is any, could be the time to deliver products but, even, I still prefer a low pace in high quality than a quickly done product. 
 
Besides:
I'm worry about the PMDG DC-6's future. A really nice add-on in v10 but needs some love in v11. And no news from PMDG, AFAIK... tdg's sceneries are really great, I own WT3 too (as WT2) but still don't use it: with all the respect to the huge work provided by Greg Hofer, I'm still thinking that those kind of products should work by themselves without having to upgrade all the scenes. I know that the culprit is on the data side but we should have a tool generating the missing data (in the tdg's spirit: maybe not 100% accurate but 100% plausible, and fixable if we want accuracy) As always, thanks for your reviews.
 
Have a great New Year too Stephen, all the best.
 
Christophe.