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May 30^th 2007: Simon reports, that the first airplane, the MD-83, of AS3 has been completed and is flying. At the same time our online shop is now able to accept PayPal payments.

February 2^nd 2007: WinXPFix Utility now includes support for Windows 2003 Server (Media Center) SP1, too.

August 21^st 2006: AS3 has left research status and is now in development status. The development team has set an internal release date, however, announcements regarding release will be made when the beta announcement is being made. See more news in SimPilot Forum.

March 8^th 2005: VDMSound Utility can now be found and downloaded from our service and support page, as the homepage of VDMSound seems to be down permanently.

February 17^th 2005: All FOC registered users received an e-mail today claiming, that their navigation data subscription has expired by January 1st 1970 (due to a programming bug). Please just ignore that e-mail. Full Report

February 2^nd 2005: Version AS2.12 Patch has been released. This patch fixes a new problem in Windows XP causing garbled sounds and includes the "sleeping monitor" fix for WinXP SP2. For installation look up file "AS212.TXT" included with the ZIP file. Check out the list of improvements and bugfixes.

October 7^th 2004: ATPUTIL 5.11 released, includes a bugfix where flightplanning could confuse airport and VOR identifiers and compute erroneous routes as result.

September 12^th 2004: Included a new section featuring the correspondence chess activities of Simon Hradecky.

September 2^nd 2004: The utility to fix the "Sleeping Monitor" problem has been updated to work with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (final release version) as well. Download updated WinXPFix Utility or go to Service & Support.

June 7th 2004: SimPilot forum leaves Compuserve and moves onto this very server. The new forum is available with immediate effect at http://simpilot.net, offering a speedy and easy access via the Web or any Internet Newsreader.

May 7th 2004: Our Online Shop has been adopted for new secure payment methodes "Verified by Visa" and "MasterCard Secure Code", that replace SET procedures.

July 31^st 2003: Added a solution, that fixes "missing words in spoken ATC/ATIS" sometimes seen on Windows XP machines with VDMSound utility, to the service and support page. A big thanks to AS2 user Steve, who found this solution and reported it in SimPilot Forum.

July 11th 2003: Flight Operations Center 2003 has been released by its authors Urs Wildermuth, Heinz Oetiker and Simon Hradecky. Flight Operations Center is a flight planning tool like it is being used for airliner dispatch in real world aviation and thus is one of the most sophisticated flight planning tools ever created on a PC. For more details or purchase click here.

July 5^th 2002: A new measurement station, registering sound and noise, has been introduced. Check out our sound level meter at http://www.nomissoft.com/cgi-bin/noise.html.

September 23^rd 2001: All downloads for AS2 can now be resumed. If a download got interrupted (e.g. line interrupted), you can now continue downloading from point of interruption with according download managers.

August 21^th 2001: Our webservices have moved - our Webserver is now located directly in our offices, connected via a fiber line to the Internet, ready to take over tasks that may (will?) be used with AS3. When you read this, you are already connected to our new server - and almost look into our office. If you like, check out, whether we sweat/drown in our office or are freezing, or whether we sit outside enjoying some sunshine, or whether we are rocking the house so much, that even the seismographs cry foul ...

June 15^th 2001: Scenery Upgrade 2.09 introducing new Athens Airport, new runway at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, other new details in Europe and USA as well as several bugfixes (including the unfortunate compiler bug, that showed in scenery version 2.08). This upgrade now also contains updated career assignments.

April 28^th 2001: Months after Windows ME has been releaed, and after monthes, in which Microsoft provided false information about how to handle EMS in Windows Millenium, Microsoft has finally updated the information and provided accurate information about how to enable EMS under Windows Millenium. See our support page for details and a link to the now updated information.

April 4^th 2001: ATPUTIL 5.04 released, fixing an erroneous "illegal scenery code" message with AS 2.08 scenery.

March 21^st 2001: Martin Böhme, vivid AS2 user, has released several utility drivers for AS2 - have a look!

February 18^th 2001: Microwings, the International Association For Aerospace Simulations, has released a new review of AS2. Read more here!

January 23^rd 2001: We have updated our Online Shop with new and more capable software. AS2 can be ordered easily, speedily and securely from our site . Read our privacy and support policy.

We have also updated the quick link site to our online forum with new software, which will now forward connections without any delay as before. All links on this site have been verified and updated accordingly.

March 30^th 2000: SimPilot Forum is now fully available to all AS2 users without charge. Just register your free screen name and join the discussions, participate in the weekly conferences and make yourself comfortable! A heartedly welcome to everybody!

February 17^th 2000: FlightXPress, a German magazine for flight simulation, reviewed AS2 in its February/March issue 2000 (pages 8 to 14. Stefan Schäfer states in that review:

Fazit: AS2 ist ein Programm für Anspruchsvolle. Für Gelegenheitspiloten, die helle Freude daran haben, "Gegner" vom Himmel zu ballern, ist es nichts. Wer sich jedoch ernsthaft für Luftfahrt und deren Simulation interessiert, wird an AS2 nicht vorbeikönnen. Das Abarbeiten von Procedures, das "Fliegen" der Flugzeuge ist in diesem Simulator derart realistisch und spannend, daß einem die im Vergleich zu anderen Simulatoren vielleicht antiquiert anmutende Szenerie überhaupt nicht als Manko auffällt. Und diese spärliche Landschaft hat dazu noch einen ganz großen Vorteil: eine ausgezeichnete Systemperformance. Man kann den AS2 auch auf einem 486 (!) ohne Probleme betreiben. Wie er auf einem PIII läuft, können Sie sich selbst vorstellen. Da ruckelt nichts wenn Sie eine Kurve fliegen, und daß, obwohl Luftströmungsdaten und Flugverhalten der Maschine in Echtzeit berechnet werden. Das soll dem AS2 heute einmal jemand nachmachen! Ausserdem: die Szenerie am SimuFlight Simulator in Dallas hat auch nicht viel anders ausgesehen.

Translation of the review (translated by Simon Hradecky):
Bottom line: AS2 is a program for demanding people. It will mean nothing to the occasional pilot, who simply enjoys shooting "enemies" out of the skies. Those however who are seriously interested in aviation and its simulation, will not want to pass by AS2. While working procedures, the "flying" of the aircraft is so realistic and gripping, that the scenery, which may possibly look antiquated compared to other flight simulation packages, is not at all perceived as a shortcoming. And this sparse scenery also in addition has a very big advantage: an excellent system performance. You can use AS2 on a 486 without problems. You can about imagine how it will perform on a PIII. There is no stutter at all when you fly a curve, and this despite real time calculations of air flow and aircraft behaviour. I'd like to see anyone do better than AS2! In addition: the scenery at the SimuFlight Simulator in Dallas did not look much different either!

November 23^rd 1999: Airliner World, a magacine for real world aviation, reviewed Airline Simulator 2 in its December issue (pages 72 and 73), stating amongst others:

the flight model is second to none

The review concludes:

With a few hours under my belt, I began to fully appreciate the potential of this package. Other sims may offer more impressive graphics, but given the chance, AS2 delivers a realistic experience and you won't be disappointed.

You can also look up other interesting links to independent reviews.

August 27^th 1999: FALSE VIRUS ALERT! We have received reports, that Panda's Platinum Virus Checker Software reports a virus called "DUMMY.DR" in CAREER.COM. Also AntiVir 9 by H+BEDV has been reported to bring up a virus called "VGEN.26443" in CAREER.COM. These reports got verified to be false. Panda was sent a sample of that file and has confirmed, that it is virus free indeed.