Gerry,

I cannot verify uploads. If something is uploaded I naturally presume it's legit. Occasionally & rarely I hear of a great files through our screeshots of other forum & will contact the author for permission to host. Otherwise all uploads are uploaded directly to us by people - We get uploads almost every day that we already have so a lot of people seem to enjoy uploading .... 

I will now search out & remove the file as we do not knowingly host problem files at simviation.

I can only presume you are new to this game as you accuse this site with so little knowledge of the likelihood of your files being distributed - which is what generally happens.

In my own  releases (helicopters for FS2000/2002) I only released here yet they were all over the sites within days.

I will try to remember your name & if there are further files with your name included they will not be posted.

Edit: File removed. One less problem at Simviation.

I find your response entirely unacceptable. In the first instance you have made no mention of the ethics of offering for download files which you do not have the designer's agreement to  so offer. Since we are clearly not on the same wavelength here, and to avoid any ambiguity, I would ask you to remove from your site not only the "Dodgy" volume 3 but any other files that I have designed.

As to being a newcomer to simming, are the following credentials sufficient; I've been simming since before the invention of the Internet as we now know it. From the sites that offer my work, excepting your own, downloads of my sceneries exceed 40,000.

Gerry Winskill

Unreasonable? No. Amazed that it can be wrong to object to this sort of practice. Remember that several designers of aircraft and scenery of a standard I could never personally achieve have already stopped designing for reasons similar to my own.
No replies worthwhile, since I've put across my view and left the site.

wheeew ... the guy is gone ...

He just couldn't seem to get it. We did nothing wrong. He couldn't get that into his head.

Upon complaint file removed. Still whining on ..... 

I think I could guess which forum you could find is HIS home FS forum .....  

Luckily this 'back-end-up' attitude simply doesn't exist here at Simviation ... & whenever it arises the culprit is always shown the door in as quietly a way as possible .. (ideally) 


OK ... now back to having fun & enjoying this great hobby  .. 

pete wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2007 at 5:10pm:


Quite. He was obviously far too important than to think this could have been a genuine mistake...

...mind you, if you come charging in all guns blazing like a large bull in a very fine china shop like he did, well.

Has he been banned and/or deleted?

Thats hardly fair, all he did was say please remove my files they do not have permission to be hosted on this site, and it seems everyone jumps on his back. Ok he could have emailed the webmaster directly and cut out this ugly middle man, but it still seems harsh how everyone jumped on him like that.

I have uploaded a few repaints to AVSIM but i have not found them on any other sites (yet) however if i did i would hope to be treated a bit more respectfully that gwinsk. Then again i would probably just email the webmaster instead of makeing a public statement about the matter.

J. wrote on Nov 26^th, 2007 at 7:20pm:

Nobody 'jumped' on his back, he asked for the files to be removed & 7 minutes later Pete had replied to the problem & had the files removed as requested. Seven minutes, on most sites you'd be lucky if that was done within a week, if at all.

Good job Pete, but I guess you can't please everybody.

TSC.