Is it possible to have a forum dedicated to freeware/payware addons for Flight Simulator? It would be easier than having to post them in the Payware forum and then having it being made a sticky...

Cheers,

Rob.

I wrote the last review for Pete back in July (and I think most of the reviews posted on the main site over the last 2 years-for a short time I was even the "Simviation Staff Reviewer").  The reason there hasn't been any reviews lately is because I haven't had time to write any - I'm too busy with school -  and I guess nobody else has wanted to do them.

What I used to do was I just wrote the review on a word document and took a handful of good looking screen shots of the aircraft (or what ever I was reviewing).  I put them all in a zip file along with a little notepad file for Pete explaining basically it was a review for what ever file.  Within a couple days he usually had it posted on the main site.  I never did any reviews of payware things, only things that could be downloaded here.  I don't know if he would want to post a review of sometime payware on the main site, but you could always ask him.

In some ways I agree with you Doug. Having said that however, some of the larger freeware packages are now topping 30mb, which when you consider that most broadband operators have download limits, so maybe they would worth reviewing...

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Actually, that was what I did in all cases.  Personally, I feel like I couldn't sit down and write about something I didn't like.  First of all I was raised to believe that "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all" (OK, so I don't always succede there-but I try).  To that extent, I don't want to publically denounce someone else's hard work, all that does is discourage a designer who is doing their best and giving away the product-I feel an action like that would be beyond rude.  Plus, why pick one of the thousands of different addons and write about why someone shouldn't download it.  I enjoy flying these planes, and if I find one I really like (especially if I have time to write), I like to share my feelings with other simmers.  I look at it as a way to thank the desiger-a way to say "look at this one because its really special."  Anyway, I enjoy writing about the addons that I especially like and hopefully people out there like to hear what I have to say.

Also, I do plan on writing more-it just comes down to when I have the spare time (I'm a Biology student at the University of Oregon so they give us a pretty heavy work load).