Save MS-Flight Sim...Petition

As some of you may know. Microsoft have dissided to shut down ACES studios, while cutting five-hundred jobs.

If you (like me and MANY other flight simmers) don't like this stupid and unusual choice made by Microsoft, then you can join me in signing a petition i found while crawling the web. As of 20th May there have been 7335, which includes me.

You will find the petition here

Avsim- Hacked!!!

Can you believe, some people. On May the 12 (US) the famous flight sim website www.avsim.com was hacked. My understanding is that the hacker, practically destroyed the site. Some are saying that it could be impossible to repair the site from its damages. The site servers and the back up servers were both apparently destroyed. My understanding is a bit blurry so far, due to the lack of information. Avsim have issued the following press release: “We regret to inform the flight simulation community that on Tuesday, May 12, AVSIM was hacked and effectively destroyed. The method of the hack makes recovery difficult, if not impossible, to recover from. Both servers, that is the library / email and web site / forum servers were attacked. AVSIM is totally offline at this time and we expect to be so for some time to come. We are not able to predict when we will be back online, if we can come back at all. We will post more news as we are able to in the coming days and weeks….”. A sad, sad day for the flight sim community, and in my opinion, if the hacker is ever tracked down or found should be charged with...i don't know, destruction of property or something. AVSIM have set up a temporary forums site. If you have ever used Avsim you will know that it is a great source for flight sim addons. On that note if you want avsim back i have found a donation link on PMDG.com so if you would like to donate click here and donate as much as you can. Every donation will go towards the recreation or rebuilding of the avsim website.