So here is what we have so far; all mentions of pete removed.... I guess he doesn't want hordes of adoring fans from the wiki pages to add to the ones he's already got here.

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Simviation (www.simviation.com), sometimes known as 'SimV' or 'The V' is a specialised website for users of Microsoft's Flight Simulator and Combat Flight Simulator franchise. It was founded as "The Strip" in 1998. The website hosts freeware aircraft, scenery, and other miscellaneous files and utilities for use by flight simulator enthusiasts. These range from FS98 to the most recent FSX, and for all three releases in the Combat Flight Simulator franchise. It is currently considered to be one of the top three sites dedicated to flight simulation [1], along with avsim.com and flightsim.com

Simviation offers free downloads to all users, in keeping with the underlying Microsoft Flight Simulator freeware ethos, and also offers a membership system where users can pay a small annual fee to recieve faster download speeds.  

The website has a sizable forum area, which provides several areas for support and a focus for various aspects of the hobby, such as system performance, simulator setup and a dedicated area for various screenshots (images taken from within the simulator). The screenshot section comprises a major part of the forums and includes several competitions and contests. This is reflected on the homepage of Simviation, with prominent visual links to the screenshot areas of their forums. The forums are also used as an area where Simviation members can converse over topical and personal matters, as well as a location where advice and information on a wide variety of matters can be exchanged. There is also an area dedicated to aviation photos. The forums currently operate on Yabb 2.2 forum software.

Simviation is also known as the parent site of a video hosting website; www.simteevee.com. 'Simteevee' is a website dedicated to videos recorded in flight simulator and is ultimately aimed to provide an area for videos from gaming in general to be posted and shared. This addition to the Simviation community was launched in summer 2007. Other sites hosted include the "Historic Jetliners Group" (historic jet airliners for Flight Simulator, and "The Lair", an excellent little site offering tutorials for earlier Flight Simulator editions, advice for which may now be hard to come across.

The premise of Simviation.com is information sharing, to the advantage of its users. The forums are widely reputed, and indeed are marketed by Simviation's administration staff, as being a 'family forum' - the emphasis is on a friendly atmosphere - and this atmosphere is maintained by a team of administration staff. This is part of what makes the site so attractive to flight simulator users.

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Bearing in mind wiki needs citations, some areas will need proof provided - such as the claim (I read this somewhere a while back but not sure if it's true) that simviation is one of the top 3 fs sites.

EDIT; Look what I found while searching! http://www.simviation.com/index2.htm

Is this genuine? All I did was google 'simviation top 3 flight simulation sites' and it was the top result!

EDIT 2; I found a citation for simviatin being one of the top 3 sites; citations are represented as such; [#], where # is a number.

EDIT 3; I've added a couple of nicknames to the article with explanation.

Something's just occurred to me... this is simv's 10th year!!

Do you know roughly when in 1998 simv aka the strip started up... I love specifics...

I shall post a revised edit soon.

EDIT; here we are; changes in bold.

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Simviation (www.simviation.com), sometimes known as 'SimV' or 'The V' is a specialised website for users of Microsoft's Flight Simulator and Combat Flight Simulator franchise. It was founded as "The Strip" in 1998. The website hosts freeware aircraft, scenery, and other miscellaneous files and utilities for use by flight simulator enthusiasts. These range from FS98 to the most recent FSX, and for all three releases in the Combat Flight Simulator franchise. It is currently considered to be one of the top three sites dedicated to flight simulation [1], along with avsim.com and flightsim.com

Simviation offers free downloads to all users, in keeping with the underlying Microsoft Flight Simulator freeware ethos, and also offers a membership system where users can pay a small annual fee to recieve faster download speeds.  

The website has a sizable forum area, which provides several areas for support and a focus for various aspects of the hobby, such as system performance, simulator setup and a dedicated area for various screenshots (images taken from within the simulator). The graphical (photos and screenshots) area comprises a major part of the forums and includes several competitions and contests. This is reflected on the homepage of Simviation, with prominent visual links to the screenshot areas of their forums. The forums are also used as an area where Simviation members can converse over topical and personal matters, as well as a location where advice and information on a wide variety of matters can be exchanged.

Simviation is also known as the parent site of a video hosting website; www.simteevee.com. 'Simteevee' is a website dedicated to videos recorded in flight simulator and is ultimately aimed to provide an area for videos from gaming in general to be posted and shared. This addition to the Simviation community was launched in summer 2007. Other sites associated with Simviation include the "Historic Jetliners Group" (historic jet airliners for Flight Simulator), and "The Lair", a miniature site offering tutorials for earlier Flight Simulator editions, advice for which may now be hard to come across.

The premise of Simviation is information sharing, to the advantage of its users. The forums are widely reputed, and indeed are marketed by Simviation's administration staff, as being a 'family forum' - the emphasis is on a friendly atmosphere - and this atmosphere is maintained by a team of administration staff. This is part of what makes the site so attractive to flight simulator users.

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I've done my best to reduce the forums paragraph but I couldn't do much because I felt that almost all of what was already there is relevant and major with regards to those using the site. I think to balance it out, what needs to be done is not to reduce the forums paragraph but to expand the other paragraphs. I however don't know enough about alot of this site to do much along those lines... I think I need some input from you or one of the mods here pete, if you wouldn't mind...

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"hosted by Simviation" would be a little less of a tongue twister.

spitfire boy wrote on Jan 14^th, 2008 at 10:19am:


Well HJG's homepage does say "website hosted by Simviation.com", as does Doug's Lair.

I struggle to comprehend exactly what "hosted in direct relation to" means.

What nit-pickers we are...

Is this ready to go up on Wiki as a start point?

Don't forget to save the final incase someone stuffs it up

Made a few possible edits.....in red below.

best,

....................john

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Simviation (www.simviation.com), sometimes known as 'SimV' or 'The V' is a specialised website for users of Microsoft's Flight Simulator and Combat Flight Simulator franchise. It was founded as "The Strip" in 1998. The website hosts freeware aircraft, scenery, , and other miscellaneous files and utilities for use by flight simulator enthusiasts. These range from FS98 to the FSX, and for all three releases in the Combat Flight Simulator . is currently considered to be one of the top three sites dedicated to flight simulation [1], along with avsim.com and flightsim.com

Simviation offers free downloads to all users, in keeping with the underlying Microsoft Flight Simulator freeware ethos also offers a membership system where users can pay a small annual fee to recieve faster download speeds .  

The website has a sizable forum area, which provides several areas for support and various aspects of the hobby, such as system performance, simulator setup and a dedicated area for screenshots (images taken from within the simulator).   the forums are also used as an area where Simviation members can converse over topical and personal matters, as well as a location where advice and information on a wide variety of matters can be exchanged.

graphical (photos and screenshots) area comprises a major part of the forums and includes competitions and contests. This is reflected on the homepage of Simviation, with prominent visual links to the screenshot areas of their forums.

Simviation is also known as the parent site of a video hosting website; www.simteevee.com. 'Simteevee' is a website dedicated to videos recorded in flight simulator and is ultimately aimed to provide an area for videos from gaming in general to be posted and shared. This addition to the Simviation community was launched in summer 2007.

Other sites associated with Simviation include the "Historic Jetliners Group" (historic jet airliners for Flight Simulator), and "The Lair", a miniature site offering tutorials for earlier Flight Simulator editions, advice which may now be hard to come across.

The premise of Simviation is information sharing users. The forums are widely reputed, and indeed are by Simviation's administration staff, as being a 'family forum'  he emphasis is on a friendly atmosphere and this atmosphere is maintained by a team of administration staff. is part of what makes the attractive to flight simulator .

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