Friday, July 4, 2008

Here we are, once again.

Now, last Monday I started studying for the exam of accountancy I've got to redo at the 28th of July. I was lucky this time; fortunately the director of my school arranged somebody (ironically, one of his accountants ;-) ) to be at school at that date. Normally it was set at the 19th of August, but since I return from our holiday at Corsica the day before, that would make it impossible to be prepared...

Something else now, back to 'business'. I'm curious who's going to be the new reviewer of Screenshotartist.co.uk...

As you see, my wishlist has been reduced a bit. Aerosoft (in fact, Mathijs Kok did, between "his 101 other jobs at Aerosoft" in Ian Pearson's words) has made a very nice deal: I promised to buy the upcoming Catalina (lovely aircraft) and the F-16, and I get the Hughes for free! Still, my list is in fact too long; my wallet can't take it.

And fortunate as we are, my fellow simmers, they (Aerosoft) are making a Huey! The ^mighty^ Huey, the nightmare and persecutor of the Vietcong. Another must-have to me.

Other must-haves include the RealAir Spitfire and Scout package. And the virtual birds I already wrote about of Aerosoft...I wonder how they keep doing it, developing such fine models, sounds (though that's more of matter to Turbine Sound Studios), and so on. I bought the Beaver and Twotter already, and it's in my opinion the only payware where I'm 99 % satisfied with.

That last percent means to me the lighting in the Beaver cockpit, the mountain reflection on it's floats, and the lack of the amphibian variant(s) of the Twotter.

Before these two I only flew the Goose and Grand Caravan, but now I'm very serious into seaplane operations (I can even reverse a Twin Otter into a crowded harbor these days ;-) ), therefore I installed MoCat's excellent add-on 'Caribbean Seaplane Tours'.

I talked to my parents the day I got my school report and said I wouldn't spend more than an hour on the computer per day, but it's hard to maintain...I wish I already had the Hughes or Spit (or the Scout package), then I at least had something to look forward too.