Flight project cancelled/on hold

[Chock 17,769]

Interesting.. after all this... "tenminutetaxi" didn't have a single show.

Yup, that could of course just be coincidental, for example the guy might be upgrading equipment or on holiday or whatever, but I agree, it is interesting that the show disappeared after that. Al

[Tomaz Drnovsek 440]

Of course, it probably is a coincidence but an interesting one. The last show was 1 month ago which is pretty long time to be absent. I'd like to have holidays that long!

[simmerhead 885]

Close relatives were hit hard by the recent wildfires and lost their house. That might be the reason behind the hiatus...

[Tomaz Drnovsek 440]

Oh, I didn't know that.

[dmaher 0]

It’s true Archammer was affected by the Bastrop wildfire in Texas - just after his last show.I believe he may have even lost his home (it seems from his receny youtube posts)All this sim-hobby stuff aside, he has my sincere sympathy.It must be a terrible ordeal to go through.

[ErichB 3,647]

As though life isn't hard enough.

[Chock 17,769]

It’s true Archammer was affected by the Bastrop wildfire in Texas - just after his last show.I believe he actually lost his home.All this sim-hobby stuff aside, he has my sincere sympathy.It must be a terrible ordeal to go through.

Absolutely. That must be a terrible thing to have happen, if it is the case, he's got my sympathies too. Al

[Jacoba 55]

It’s true Archammer was affected by the Bastrop wildfire in Texas - just after his last show.I believe he actually lost his home.

Yikes!

[KERNEL32 500]

We estimate less than 40,000 active FS enthusiasts worldwide, across both the tube liner and VFR disciplines. We know this purely from tracking our sales data and also being aware of other developer's sales data which they share with us. Please don't use the number of registrations at AVSIM, Flightsim.com or other forums as any indication of the community size. That is a totally false assumption. The community is based on what they purchase, and 99.95% of FS enthusiasts purchase add ons for their sim, as well as enjoying the plethora of freeware available.

Can we also assume that approx. 160,000 VATSIM registrants are "non enthusiasts"? I can't find an exact member count for VATSIM but from their website it states "approximatley 200,000". I'm certain quite a few of those are either duplicates and/or no longer valid, but could it be that many?

[JSkorna 137]

No.

[Jacoba 55]

At one time there was a program or web site that let you see the activity logs of VATSIM pilots. It showed the flyers who was active which was something like 10 or 20 thousand? But IIRC many of them flew like 2 or 3 hours a month, at best.

[orchestra_nl 947]

There may be a lot of duplicates for VATSIM, but there are also a lot of "enthusiasts" who don't use VATSIM. Either way, 40.000 enthusiasts seems a bit on the low side. Perhaps the number of FSUIPC users would be a good indication, but there's probably no info on how many users have installed it.

[mgh 89]

AVSIM's Forums have about 75,560 (3778 pages each with 20 members). Of those 54,640 have never posted and could be regarded as inactive members. That leaves only 20,920 members who have actually posted at least once. This suggests only 27% of members are active. It seems possible that Orbx's figures are in the correct ball-park.

[dmaher 0]

My interpretation was the 40,000 figure is a segment of hardcore pay-ware users. We can slice the audience a lot of different ways and come up with very different numbers. For instance, SquawkBox has 120,000 unique IP downloads. That could translate into maybe 100,000 unique users that have tried the tool. But it’s not clear what that means for commercial FS software – not much once you take account of the unknowns. IMO using a number around 40,000 is practical and realistic. But there are many-many users (I still call hardcore) that are outside of this pay-ware segment.

[Ops Normal 57]

Lets Assume that the 75,560 actually bought FS at one point but are not hardcore, that is still a potential market, even if they just buy and don't use it at all. but then again 40,000 would actually be practical plus or minus 10%, sort of a middle figure.