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I am trying to hit fifty sales this week. To try and encourage those on the fence, I will send a free copy to anyone here who is a quick read and would be willing to post a review for the other members. First in with the PM. Again, thanks for all the support guys.

You posted THREE WEEKS AGO!? Wow-that was just embarrassing :D.

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http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Catalyst121apreviewdriver.aspx Someone call his home, make sure he's alright.

"Also people build their own cockpits." "To an alarming degree of accuracy." :D

Effing ridiculous. "[Government is] an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself." Ibn Khaldun

Pretty much winning the lottery, and just outdated. I think it's comparable to brick and mortar record stores-remember those? You're better off putting together a song on your computer and uploading to iTunes as compared with a record company advancing you some party money than shafting you on the backend as was the custom. Books are headed that way, I believe. Even after you publish, I think it's still a good idea to blog some of the good stuff for free ("Freemium") to generate interest. Thanks-please post your thoughts/reviews in this thread and hopefully get some of the other members to take the plunge. Each early purchase counts to get visibility and move the book up the ranks. So come on guys, please pitch in with either a free rental or $2.99!

Just saw this over at SimHQ: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/01/navy-pilot-suicide-coronado-shooting.html :(.

He's a heavy driver and a regular contributor at SimHQ. Big sim fan.

My favorite example is the privatization of the water utility in a South American country (I forget which one). The French company the took over convinced (read paid-off) the government to pass a law prohibiting the collection of rain water for home use. A guy in the related documentary said he had to choose between buying drinking water for the family and educating his son!

Exactly as EtherealN said. It's extremely easy, and just blows the traditional route (find an agent, find a publisher, get cents on a book sold for $15+) out of the water. Even after taxes, you get about a third of the price. After much research, I decided the best price to generate sales and revenue was 2.99, although many advise pricing at .99 to sell and get your name out there. I chose 70% and also opted into letting Prime members borrow the book for free (you get a share of the pice each month depending on copies lent, but you have to give amazon exclusivity for 3 months. No biggie, as they will be responsible for upwards of 95% if not more of your sales). There's other fun stuff, including designing a cover and putting together a Twitter and Blog presence. In short, no money down for doing something you love. Very easy and straight forward, just go by the FAQ EtherealN posted. Also, I highly, highly, highly recommend you write using this software: Scrivener. Apart from being a tremendous tool, it allows you to export to Kindle format and the press of a button (something that would otherwise take a long time and much trial and error). Good luck, and I look forward to reading it! God bless Google, Wikipedia, and Amazon :D.

Here's a good mission: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1067987&postcount=21

In and of themselves, the hit is minimal, particularly if you use 256 res and disable MFD display in the 3D pit. The hit comes from having to run in windowed mode (7-9 fps on my machine). To minimize that, make sure your run an aero theme in windows (this relates to DX optimizations on all windows iirc). Also you can try to run full-screen using sofTH. GregP is the expert on that. For me, the increase in immersion is well worth the hit.

Here we go: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/04/us-iran-tensions-israel-joint-military-exercises_n_1183952.html?ref=mostpopular

Really nice. Wonder what the story behind that is.

Many thanks to everyone who has bought/will buy the book. Off to a great start! Below is the A-10 excerpt. Just keep in mind this isn't a techno-thriller, there's a bit of satire going on, and these 300 words are pretty much all that relates to aviation. Head over to Tumblr for another excerpt, and if you feel like supporting the cause, here you go: Trade! Edit: anyone who is reading or has read the book, feel free to post your thoughts, reviews (good/bad) or anything else related. "The XO got the nod and had Mudman rolling inside of twenty. No wingman, no flight plan, and no clearance, not even from the tower, the XO was that good. Mudman makes sure to squirt a little into the piddle pack before stepping. Below twelve thousand on his way to twenty-two five, he likes to fire up a Menthol and the Piddle Pack is the ashtray. How the hell had he gotten so lucky? He’d wanted to fly bad enough to give up the drugs. Turns out the two weren’t mutually exclusive. In fact, party time in the Air Force was fully funded. Temazepam for the hypnotic, Zolpidem for the straight-eight, Zaleplon for the quickie. And speed, lots. All in all, a pretty wonderful world for a reformed club kid turned fighter pilot. An hour later, teeth grinding, synapses popping, Mudman is at the Initial. Time to play the piccolo. He powers up the two D’s, flips the Master Arm, then uncages. Mudman drops to nape of the earth for the run across the border. Three minutes, forty seconds later, he pops up and rolls for acquisition. Level now, he begins to slew. Left to right, up, right to left. Mudman is where he’s supposed to be, but the briefed target is small and he’s basically looking through a straw. He needn’t have worried. Ten seconds into the extended run-in, the Maverick’s IR optics pick up an ungodly signature. Hell are those sand-monkeys doing down there anyway, he wonders, though not for long. Mudman narrows the field of view, ground stabilizes, then slews a hair and gets his lock. This was going to be a strictly one-pass affair. Mudman starts the chaff-flare program, wills the range caret down, pickles, then immediately re-acquires and pickles for one more. Mudman breaks one-eighty for home, he’s that confident."

Great article over at SimHQ

These guys are pretty awesome: http://fullterrain.com/ Thing about FSX, you have to decide how much you want to sink into it and stick to it. Otherwise, you can dig yourself into a hole quicktime. I must have spent an amount = to a decent machine, DCS, and a WH, and you still end up spending A LOT of your time tweaking.

I think you'll find most of the people here use VAC, but don't quote me. I use VAC and it's great-many profiles around here too. Going from Shoot it was well worth it for me. I suppose it's like TIR vs. some of the free alternatives.

Here you go: http://www.lockonfiles.com/index.php/files/file/889-modman-73/

You have to patch it: http://www.lockonfiles.com/index.php/files/file/1804-modman-7-dcs-a-10c-and-ka-50-v2-patch/

Well deserved!

Maybe even have the physical Bleed Air switch also tied to the valve opening and closing.

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Not to get political, but the one big surprise for me was that none of the regulators, secretaries, and chairmen at the helm during the housing bubble collapse were prosecuted. In fact, almost to a man they were re-appointed and/or promoted. What the hell?