ATP Rev. A was released by subLOGIC. The first simulator dedicated to Airliners was born. The coming years would prove how far ahead ATP's concept was at this time.

The first maintenance release, fixing a few bugs in the career assignments was released.

The second maintenance release, fixing a few more bugs in the career evaluation and enabling additional drivers to be hooked in

This certainly was a special trip to Dallas for me. Actually, I did attend the Networld show there to explore more about NOVELL and networks, which I needed for the FMS projects. In between I went to a software shop and found ATP. I would not have expected the major changes this caused.

Well, the first consequence of my trip to Dallas. ATPUTIL did appear. This started a lot of versions over the coming months and years to a never ending story …

And again subLOGIC proved to be ahead of time. The first spoken ATC came into virtual aviation, with the voices of Cathy Netherey (ATC) and Stu Moment (ATIS).

And again subLOGIC did it. The first of the two sceneries covering entire US was released on flppy disks. Area covered was from Mississipi/Missouri Line eastwards til Boston and from the Canadian/US border down to the keys.

After many subversion with major steps forward in getting ATP supported ATPUTIL finally reached its second major version featuring a lot of new features. Around this time the first lines of source of 3DAGS got hacked into the computer.

And now the second part, USA West covered the rest of the US in still stunning detail to set standards of scenery accuracy and quality for long time to come.

ATP got enhanced to be able to run directly off a CD-ROM. The CD also contained USA East and West.

ATPUTIL went into its 3^rd major version, to also support ATP Rev. E.

After a long year of silence 3DAGS suddenly revolutioned ATP introducing photorealistic and accurate cockpit panels for the ATP aircraft. At the same time 3DAGS also fixed a few annoying bugs especially with fast computers. The addon was received with huge acclamation by the ATP community. Message Traffic on Compuserve exceeded traffic about any other flight simulator for weeks and months to come.

In a conference in Salzburg various key people around ATP and developers meet to discuss the future of ATP. This conference is set to influence the direction of development and priorities on what should be improved next. The flight model clearly gets highest priority.

With ASD2ATP it became possible to create additional ATP sceneries, an offer which was gladly taken by Air Pierre (Peter Leadbeater) who started to create an entire series of Addon Sceneries for England, Netherlands and surrounding areas to be released as freeware.

An unbelievable, on the first look even ridiculous idea suddenly made it appear possible, that an entirely new flight model could be designed for ATP with the criterias Simon had envisaged all over the years. Research and design of the new flight models, that will be the basis for AS2, started, originally planned for one year until release. It turned out, that much more time will be needed to complete the research.

The first ATP User Conference is held in Salzburg, and introduces AAL to the stunned auditorium. The first ATP Interstate gets won by Richard Cook and Urs Wildermuth.

SubLOGIC ceases to exist after being sold to Sierra. This also marks the end of ATP being available on the market.

Interstate 8 was a competition between several teams flying Microsofts Flight Simulator and one ATP team flying on AS1 Pro Beta, using Steve Garry's excellent cockpit rig (two man seater). Criterias were accuracy of procedures, cockpit coordination and generally flying skills, shown in a 24 hours of flying around Europe. See a detailed report here.

Airline Simulator is released to replace ATP. It combines ATP's B747 with the 3DAGS graphics and panel, and also introduces an European Scenery covering Western Europe. It proves quickly, that this scenery needs major improvements, which finally get released in March 1997 as AS Version 1.15.

At the real world aviation conference ECAS (European Conference of Aviation Simulation) AS2 Professional System gets shown to public for the first time using Steve Garry's rig, and is able to excite Airline people.

Another ATP team participated in the European Rallye (Interstate 8.2) in Bologna and confirmed the victory of the year before. See the detailed report.

LAGO and NOMISSOFT developed different opinions of how to proceed and decided to end cooperation, that had lasted from release of 3DAGS to Airline Simulator 1. This step is a major blow to AAL and AS2, which at this time basically is lost. Development of AAL and AS2 stopped.

Due to new license agreements NOMISSOFT is now able to continue AS2 development and get it ready for release. At this time the development team decides to expand the feature list of AS2 in a big way for the benefit of the future AS2 users - however this means further delay in AS2 release.

And has been very well received by its users, who quite frequently went into enthusiastic comments about Airline Simulator 2.