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August 8, 2008

 

TBPB, Barbados Grantley Adams Intl. is now available for download as a courtesy of BluePrint Simulations.  Get your free copy here.  And, we will see you next month in Montreal.

 

A new ticket system expected to improve our tech support performance is being implemented.  Please visit the "Support" link above for details.

 

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A free upgrade for KSDF from v1.1.x to v1.2.x has been posted here.  It is a compilation of all previous updates plus some changes aimed at improving performance in slower computer systems.

 

A patch has been posted to correct the SVMI ILS 10 misalignment problem in FSX.  Please download the patch here.

 

The files necessary to re-label runways and taxiways at KIAD according to data published by the FAA on AIRAC cycle 0806 are now available here.

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KDAL, Dallas Love Field SAEZ, Buenos Aires Ezeiza TBPB, Barbados Grantley Adams SVMI. Caracas Simon Bolivar KMSP, Minneapolis - St. Paul Intl KORD, Chicago O'Hare KMCO, Orlando Intl KMEM, Memphis Intl KRDU, Raleigh - Durham Intl KIAD, Washington Dulles KIND, The New Indianapolis Intl KSDF, Louisville Standiford Intl KCLE, Cleveland Hopkins CYYZ, Toronto Pearson CYUL, Montreal Trudeau

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BluePrint Scenery videos wanted:

If you have used BluePrint sceneries as backdrops for web-compatible videos, we are interested in exploring the possibility of using them in our upcoming advertisement campaigns.  We are particularly interested in short, 60 - 120 second videos featuring any of our sceneries during taxi, takeoff and/or landing operations.  We will negotiate a reasonable payment for the video upon selection for use in our web site and/or any of our advertisers web sites.

 Please contact us at:  info@blueprintsimulations.com including a very short portion (5 - 10 seconds) of the video for initial evaluation

Please note that if your video features a third party aircraft, permission must be obtained by you from the aircraft owner prior to submission for our consideration.

 

 
Please read:

Currently, our products do not offer animated jetways (jet bridges) or service vehicles.  We do not expect this fact to change in the near future.  Animated jetways and vehicles are not a priority in our designs.  We rather dedicate precious system resources to achieving the highest possible level of detail regarding essential airport features and graphic accuracy. With over eighteen (18) years of flight simulator experience, we consider our knowledge of flight simulator scenery add-ons to be excellent. We have purchased and experienced products from every single developer that has ever published their work as well as most developers that have kindly offered their products as freeware. We know exactly how our products compare to other products, including artistic quality, technical accuracy, and product features.  We are quite aware that our sceneries lack some animated features and, in most cases, they are incompatible with default versions of such animated features (specifically animated vehicles and jetways in FSX).  If such features are critical to you, please select sceneries by other developers that may be more likely to satisfy your wishes. 

 

Welcome - Bienvenido

We are committed to producing the highest-quality sceneries possible. We are also very proud to stand behind each one of our releases.   Consequently, we will issue fixes and upgrades to bring the older releases to the same quality standards of the most recent ones.  Please visit our site often to check for the availability of fixes and free upgrades.

The latest fixes and upgrades can be found here.

 

Important info:

Please read the Customer Support and Product Return policies before purchasing any BluePrint Simulations product.   The policies can be found in the support section of this web page or by clicking here.

 
Two years and counting!  Will you ever go away dude?

Even though our first commercial scenery was released in January of 2007,  BluePrint simulations started operations a few months earlier.  I tested the waters by developing KRDU2010 and releasing it  as freeware on Avsim.com and Flightsim.com during the summer and fall of 2006.  I was quite overwhelmed by the encouragement and support that I received then, and I am even more overwhelmed by the support and encouragement that I continue to receive today.  The story started much earlier tough...

Back on the days of FS4 (running in an IBM PS1), I  dreamed of flying  real-looking B757 in and out of real-looking airports, especially my favorites O'Hare, Orlando and Atlanta.  Perhaps I was naive thinking that flight simulation was more than a hobby because it enabled me to experience flight in a way that made it feel REAL.  The fact is that I will never forget the day I downloaded the first "real-looking" United B757 or the day I purchased my first SimFlyers' scenery.  It was like being in heaven, what ever heaven might be.  One thing is for sure though,  I never imagined the impact that such simple facts would have on my life.  Over time, one thing led to another and before long I found myself flying real aircraft in and out of real airports, and the flight simulator was relegated to occupying space in the hard drives of my ever more powerful computers.   By the time I realized that flying across both the Atlantic and the Pacific toward more and more exotic destinations would actually never happen, FS2002 and Gmax as well as the great products by add-on designers like Phoenix Simulations, Aerosoft/SimWings, and FlyTampa were already available.  I just could not believe what I had been missing.  How could I become part of it all?  Thanks Microsoft, thanks PMDG, thanks PSS, thanks 767PIC, thanks SimFlyers, thanks Aerosoft,  thanks FlyTampa, thanks you all.  The dream is alive ...  and I have been missing it all.

A few years later, starting up my 767PIC at a gate in SimFlyers KMCO v2 and flying way across the Atlantic to land at any of Aerosoft's many European destinations became routine.  That is when I decided that I would spend most of my time, at least for a while, making my own contribution to this unbelievable experience.  But, would anyone like my stuff?  In fact, would anyone pay to enjoy it?  After all, I still have to pay my bills.  Being quite handicapped at hard-core computer programming, an attempt to offer a new aircraft seemed just plain stupid.  After all, PMDG and Level-D had already set the standard.  But hey, making my dream airports a simulated reality was not such a stretch.  Miles, meters, inches and feet are just words in a language as natural to my brain as Spanish and English are.   Visualizing structures in 3D is as natural to me as it is walking or breathing.  And to top it all, I am a real pilot so I know my way around an airport.  Soon enough I downloaded, installed and learned Gmax.  It took me a couple of days and voila, I was on my way.  That is how the idea of selecting a challenging new terminal and bringing it to life was born.  BluePrint Simulations was just the name that popped into my mind as I wished I had the real blue prints for RDU's new Terminal 2.  The name stuck even though I realized that I could recreate it without an actual set blue prints as long as I dared to let my imagination take flight.  It was not long before I became obsessed with recreating every detail of some of my favorite airports.  The fact is that thousands of you out there now enjoy the results.  Nothing makes me happier than knowing that I have helped some of you bring your own flying adventures to life.

Not everything has been so easy though.  Today, I receive daily e-mails pointing out that I do not use animated jetways and vehicles, and that my sceneries are not AES compatible.  Every day I think that it would perhaps be best and less frustrating to enjoy my own creations at home as I used to do before I started flying for real.  Then I realize that if the PMDG guys or the SimFlyers guys, or the Aerosoft guys had listened to such stupid criticism, we would not have the unimaginable options that we have today.  So I once again commit myself to moving ahead, in part to satisfy my own dreams and in part to contribute to the ever increasing and improving set of FS adventure options.  

Unfortunately, on a daily basis I have to read stuff like: What a waste you moron, no one cares about Buenos Aires or Caracas.  Don't you realize that they are not in the US? or ...  Hey, dude, KORD and KMCO have already been done!  or ... Watch out, KATL and KMCI will be released soon by someone else [even though you announced you were working on them almost a year ago!]  It helps telling my self: So what? if the FeelThere guys had not produced their awesome Airbus Series because PSS had already done it, the awful reality is that today we would not have the outstanding Airbus Series by FeelThere!  Now, that would have been a waste ...

So, our KORD scenery will be our KORD scenery.  Our KMCO scenery will be our KMCO scenery.  Our KATL scenery will be our KATL scenery.  Someone else has already done them?  Who cares... If you do, please spend your time more constructively instead of warning me about the obvious.  Believe me, I am aware of it already.  And, honestly, I do not care.  By the way, the Buenos Aires/Caracas package is our best seller ever, even though you warned me that no one would care.   What if I had listened to you and moved on?  That would have been the real waste, don't you think? 

For now, I am here to stay.  My choices will sometimes please you, or frustrate you, or threaten you.  Fortunately, they are my choices to make, mistakes to get over, and my dreams to follow.  Just enjoy them and say: Thank You!  I sure do it every day:

Thank you for the last two years, and Thank you for all the years to come!

 
 
 

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