"Alistair Wright" wrote in message
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"Kristoffer Raun" wrote in message
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Hi Kristoffer,

First off, thanks for the trouble you have taken replying to my comments.
At
least a few of the SotS supporters are prepared to answer questions and
not
just make smart remarks. I will follow up your leads on padlock etc and I
hope that the new patches cure the problems I have outlined, which are
from
a beginner's perspective.

I never said this was a bad sim. What I did say is that it is a poorly
supported sim, and because of that a lot of people could be put off using
it
as a result. I have tried soaring on two other sims SFS4 and MS2002/4.
SotS has them beaten easily because of its superior scenery (even if Wales
is a bit too superior g) and better dynamics. Spinning in SotS is truly
frightening as indeed it should be, and the aircraft performance is very
realistic except for perhaps ground roll and some of the noises (do your
flaps sound like that??). I would guess that with some more work it could
be a world beater. If the problem lies in it being a one-man effort then
perhaps a few more of the talented folk around should offer to give Saiz
some help.

A better set of tutorials for add-ons is a must. I find that computer
experts are so far away from the average Joe that they are not best suited
to writing instructions and this gives the average Joe a lot of grief.
For
example I downloaded a T21 glider from the site recently and it comes with
no instructions at all. Looking at the files in the zip there is no
correspondence with a typical file set for a default glider. This is
baffling. I have tried to contact the designer of this add-on but he does
not reply to emails in spite of saying in his blurb that he would like to
hear from users. Maybe all he wants to hear is praise not questionsbg.

I am pretty old (71) and am relatively new to computing (say 12 years or
so)
so I am still not confident about chopping up files and parking the bits
in
the right places though I did manage to get the Wales scenery into the sim
after a lot of effort. Again the instructions might make sense to an
expert, but they were double dutch as far as I was concerned.

Anyway thanks again for your help. Do you have an email address for off
list use?

Alistair Wright




Hi Alistair

I'm sorry you had problems with my T21. It was designed as a .x file and has
a different format from the standard SotS aircraft. Have a look at
www.hangsim.com for details. For more information and feedback please
contact me (evals) on the SotS forum.

evals