Aus dem Forum zum Feature Pack:
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"Hello Everyone,
We are as you are all aware now on the final stages of the feature pack. As I am writing this the test team will be downloading the FS9 installer for the final stage of testing. We do expect this stage to last a few days and I will give 24 hours notice of our intended release date. As I have previous said the release will be staggered FS9 first followed by FSX a few days later and then the Pro CBE and P3D versions.
Because the feature is a huge update and contains the DEM data for the terrain radar we do need to phase the release or it would melt down the servers we have already standing by for the release. The Feature pack build will be installed over the top of your current build and will install new config files as well as the new aircraft. This means you will need to back up the additional repaint section of the configs to add to the new ones. You cannot copy the complete configs or you will damage the aircraft as the configs in the Feature do not match.
We have come a long way since the release of the FS9 release and thankfully a lot of good people came to my aid and have become part of the Flight1 iFly family. As many will have read the post from John thanking the beta team, it actually misses out a lot of very important people.
The development team of Jiangwei, Ming and Ric, have simply been amazing. I don't think they had any idea of what they let themselves in for when they came to Flight1. I think the past few months have been really tough as we pushed for more and more to be added to the aircraft and various systems to be enhanced. Given that these guys all have full times jobs, to work as hard and as long as they did for us has been simply incredible.
We now have a team for Flight1 assigned to the project Jannie, who came to my aid in the very beginning. Colin our superb painter that we were delighted to add to our team, his liveries have given us all hours of pleasure using the aircraft. Finally Grumpy John, who came to help share the load as the product began to get launched on multiple platforms and took on the role of running the feature pack beta team. There have been time I though I was going to hurt myself laughing reading some of the email from John as he pushed everyone on. The guys that are part of the team will understand and the personal nature of the way we do things comes across in the emails and helps bond the family of testers we have. I would like to echo John's sentiment on a job well done and also thank the guys that have had to step down over the last year, we really appreciated your efforts.
Finally I would like to dedicate the release of the feature pack to someone very special. As we have stated many times, our team has become a family. Tragically one of our team members life was turned up side down when his wife died suddenly leaving him and his sons devastated. We all take it for granted that our family supports our great hobby and our enjoyment of it. To say we were all deeply saddened by this would be a huge understatement and we cannot begin to image what he and his sons are going through. Despite all of this he still has found time to come to the forum and try and help others.
We are dedicating the release of the feature pack to the memory of Missy."