"Puzzled by your rather negative review."
Mike....
I think you'll find that one of the first things I said was...
"It does appear to be one of the best, if not the best, add-ons for FS2000".
I consider this to be a "glowing review". Do you not?
Re aerodynamics...
I must admit here that I was generalizing about MSFS aerodynamics. I haven't tried it myself, but rumour has it you can continuously loop a MSFS Cessna and it will gain altitude with each successive loop (Realistic?).
Learning how to actually _fly_ a 767 ("hands on" and not "push buttons"), IMHO, on a desktop sim is counterproductive. You would have to unlearn all the bad habits you picked up in the sim. Even full motion sims don't fully prepare you for real manual flight.
Re: ILS systems
You can't tune the ILS via the CDU on 767-300's last time I checked. Also, I don't believe FS2000 allows for 3 ILS Receivers to be modelled, so obviously, compromises must be made here.
Re: Autolands
Better than the standard MSFS Autoland, but there are things that are not modelled (and admitted to, privately and publicly, by the PIC Team).
Anyway, I repeat... PIC is a excellent desktop simulator add-on (both unqualified... and considering things like price and to what base it has been added). However, on a professional forum like this, and not knowing if Mr. Partanen was a professional aviator or a game player, I had to err on the side of caution (even though doing so, may have put me in the sim community's black books). As an active participant in such, I know that criticism (balanced or otherwise) is not always well-received... but there are certain standards to be upheld here.... and I'm sure the 767 PIC Team would agree with me here.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to the next incarnation of 767 PIC.
Regards.
Q.
P.S. By the way, I noticed that Mr Partanen quoted some of my posting on the PIC Forum (the not-so-glowing parts). I find this strange considering that he came to this site looking for unbiased opinions, but then returned to the PIC site to challenge the authors of the program, based on a (my) single (reportedly unkind) review. If he has a point to make... or an axe to grind... I do not wish to be a participant in this endeavour.
[ 18 December 2001: Message edited by: QAVION ]