Archive for January, 2008

Whereas we could only show a mesh model a few months ago, and after some unexpected delays, there is progress in the building of our Lysander, FSAddon’s FIRST aircraft. As you can see texturing is now almost completed (this is a copy of the aircraft as it is flying out of Old Warden’s Shuttleworth collection!). Next it will go into the workshop to get a proper (FSX) flight model, made by none other than Rob Young.

Pacific Feelings and FSAddon Publishing proudly announce the release of version 3.0 of our highly advanced It’s Your Plane add-on to FS2004 and FSX. IYP now comes in 4 versions: a free trial of a Cessna 172, 2 ‘light’ versions (C172 and Boeing 737 both with full checklists) and the Standard Full edition with checklists for ALL default MS aircraft, and then some!

IYP is now sold on its own website for ease of access and reference. Apart from the versions above there is also an UPGRADE available to go from any of the ‘light’ versions to the full version!

MAJOR ENHANCEMENT in Version 3.0 is the ability to use IYP off-line, without being connected to the Internet (of course you WILL miss certain features in that mode).

As for pricing: IYP is now offered for 14,95 and 24,95 (light versions) and 34,95 for the full version.

Let me spell that out for you: this means for customers living in Europe the price remains Euros 34,95 as before, but for our American customers it is US$ 34,95 (instead of US$ 50 with exhange rates), In Canada IYP costs CAN $ 34,95 and in Australia AUS$ 34,95. All other regions pay the Euro price.

FSAddon Publishing and Pacific Feelings promised to reach out to a majority of our customers being ‘punished’ by bad exchange rates and we are now doing so, paying for the difference out of our own pockets.

There are two other exciting products waiting in the wings as well, also based upon the main engine of IYP. Stay tuned !!….”.

It’s Your Plane information and purchase available on the dedicated IYP website here.

I think we are not alone here at FSAddon.com Publishing worrying about the US economy and feeling sorry for our US customers. Being a European based company we have to charge in Euros for our products, but that nowadays means that things have become very expensive for our US customer base and all those whose income is linked to the US Dollar.So we have been working on a solution, which we will put in place over the coming months! We will set up a new website where our customers can buy DIRECTLY from us. Thats not earth shattering news, is it?

However, you will be able to buy in YOUR OWN CURRENCY (depending on where you live) WITHOUT currency exhange rates applied!!! Now THAT IS earth shattering, right!?

So how does this work? Simple. WE – the publisher and developers – take a ‘hit’ on the currency problems, instead of YOU, the customer.
It means that you can buy a product like ‘It’s Your Plane’ for 34,95 Euros in Europe, for 34,95 US Dollars in the US, or for 34,95 CAN$ in Canada.

Now how’s that for doing FAIR BUSINESS !!??

In addition we will found a new, foreign based company this year, thereby leaving the expensive ‘VAT Region’ that Europe has become. It means that European buyers will be responsible for paying VAT themselves if they so choose to, but our prices will NOT have VAT imposed onto them!

The first product to benefit from this new setup and policy will be Robert Cezar’s wonderful It’s Your Plane series, and we’ll start selling the new version on February 1st !!

Stay tuned !!