Well the JS4100 looks great in the day time, nut the night textures are a nightmare.  PMDG and most payware companies now use a .DDS conversion with a DXT5 compression instead of a 32 bit DTX3 compression.  This is specifically for FSX and can be a royal pain in the… well you know.  So when all the textures are “flattened” to go into the sim the night alpha layer goes away thus the plane GLOWS in the dark.  This is no good and has to be fixed.  O when I get home from work I have most likely an entire night night of pulling my hair out, lots of cussing, then lots of confessing.  I have been told when you pray for patience you are given a lot of opportunities to be patient… gee, thanks.

I am putting further expansion of Hartford on hold for a bit even though I have the routes all set to go.  It seems the BDL hub is taking off a bit slower than I anticipated which happens.  While Cleveland and Milwaukee are doing well Hartford will need to pay for itself a bit before going further.  We put an “ad” up at flightsim.com to see if we could get some new pilots for Hartford and that ad is not really producing what I had hoped for “so far”.  We will wait and see what the weekend brings.

We are looking at an extraordinary month so far, we may actually hit 600 flights which is amazing considering I took the airline over two months ago with virtually no pilots other than myself, Zane and Chris.   I think the short flights and the smaller regional aircraft are a really big attraction and this is the reason for the growth.