A big thank you to justflight!
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Hi,
Let me start by telling you again that I absolutely love this addon! There have been a few bugs in all the past versions (still have to thoroughly test the new 1.3) but none were showstopping; The Fokker was a joy to fly in all previous versions.
I started flightsimming with Microsoft Flight Simulator 1998 and Flanker 2.0, so probably about 23-25 years ago. Time has flown by and I still remember the pixelated 2d graphics as if it was yesterday. Here we are many years later with a sim I couldn't have dreamt of back then. Being a long time (mostly) PMDG user since their first iteration of the 737NG for FS9,
I've started to loose interest (somewhat) for simming since deinstalling P3D and being left with just the Fenix A320 and the PMDG NG3(third version of this A/C by them!) in MSFS, however the Fokker F28 brought back a lot of joy and also an undiscribable feeling I haven't had with simming in ages. It became truly exciting again.My first ever purchase with you guys was the Majestic Q400 for P3d v2/v3 in 2015 (also more than 8 years ago!) and the first "inhouse" development was the Turbo Arrow for MSFS 2+ years ago. I've knewn JustFlight for years but since your first developments for MSFS you became more and more an interesting developer, at least for me. Seeing all the attention you put in to the older aircraft I'll hope you'll never change course.
I'm afraid my or anyone else's sentiment will not bring you guys food on the table, so I hope creating the neglected classic aircraft turn out to be a cash cow for you guys . I am looking very much forward to the A300 and 747 and being a dutchy and having done my aircraft maintenance internship on this aircraft you made my "simming dream" come true by anouncing the Fokker 70/100 for MSFS. I still remember the Digital Aviation Fokker for (I think it was) FS2004, It's a shame we never got the promised VC update from them back then. I had a lot of fun flying that throught Europe on short hops.
Just after the announcement for the F70/F100 i've had contact with you through Facebook about still having a customer options manual for the Fokker 70/100 counting 100+ pages with all the customer options which you might be able to use for developing the F70/F100, but I never came around it to scan it (it's a ringband so it's a pain to do so), but If you think you could use it for the development please let me know, I'm willing to physically ship it out to you. Let me know if you could use it and I'll ship it on my expense.
Besides simming the F28 also got me back to starting repainting; It's been a pain to get to know Blender texture painting (which I think is a necessity to paint the Fokker) and the next step is to figure out how to create a MSFS livery package; But this is what i've been working on the last few hours.
All in all you've brought me direct (by flying) and indirect(by painting) hours of joy.Long story short; a BIG thank you! You've brought back great joy and excitement for me. This might be somewhat offtopic for the F28 support forum and therefore feel free to delete this topic if you feel necessairy. However since our community has grown immensely since the release of MSFS I think also the number of toxic people have grown, so instead of sending this message in private I thought I should post it in the public to maybe inspire some more people to come out with some positive stories.
Cheers and thanks again,
Luc
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@kenzo Many thanks for the kind words! It's great to hear from people who are enjoying our products as much as we enjoyed developing them! I will pass on your comments to the rest of our team too.
We can't wait for the community to get their hands on the F70 and F100 Professional, we are really pushing ourselves to make that one particularly special. We should actually have a few in-development updates coming up in the next few weeks and months to show off what we've been working on since the last update.
That Indonesian Air Force livery really suits the F28. Great work! I'm no painting expert, but for future reference you should also be able to create liveries for the F28 in Photoshop using the paint kits included in the F28 Professional support section: https://support.justflight.com/en/support/solutions/articles/17000134894-f28-professional-paint-kit
With regards to the manual, would you be so kind and drop up a support ticket at the following link so we can discuss this further?
https://www.justflight.com/support
Mark - Just Flight
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@mark hi Mark, I used the PSD paintkit however some parts are quite a challenge to get straight lines because of the way the textures are warped, for instance on the nose, under the tail and the engines. I did the straight lines in Blender and continued in photoshop.
I will contact support about the manual. I will give it another try this evening to get the rings out and see if I can scan them at work to save time and shippingcosts
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