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Oh damn, I wish you a speedy and full recovery.

Thanks!

I think I lost my modder status with the latest forum updates. I didn't mind it that much. But I only found it odd that i couldn't send DMs any more.

Hi, I wanted to write a DM, but I can't because it says my inbox is full and that I'm allowed to have max 15 inbox messages. Was that limit introduced recently?

I searched my archive of the Thirdwire forum posts for "AUTOMATIC_AERODYNAMIC_LOAD". In one thread TK posted the following (the bold highlighting is by me): So I think the values are indicated airspeed in m/s. I made a quick test flight with the F-100A: DeployValue = 128.89 (circa 250 kias), RetractValue = 149.28 (circa 290 kias). After takeoff the slats stayed completely deployed until I reached 250 kias, then the slats retracted until they were fully retracted at 290 kias.

How much disk space is required?

Do you know, how the blending works?

If you could find more information how exactly stall is modelled in SF2, I would be *very* grateful! How the normal flight envelope is modelled I understand quite well: sf2_fdm_notes.pdf. But the stall regime is still rather unknown to me. BTW, the key 'Qr — Downwash/relief factor used in aero build (vs α)' is also unknown to me. And I couldn't find it in any stock aircraft data inis. What exactly is this downwash/relief factor?

The LODViewer should work with either encoding: ANSI or UTF-16LE (unicode).

Why do you have a problem with posting your mods on other sites? Why does it matter where and how the mods are shared, as long as the license terms (containing readmes, etc. ...) are fulfilled? Genuine question. I was under the assumption, that creating and publishing (free) mods is about sharing them. And the more they get shared, even on other sites, the better.

No, if one has to pay money to get the mods, that makes them effectively payware. And It doesn't matter who receives the money, the mod author, the website operator or any other person. It' not about that all mods must be free (as I wrote, you can of course choose your license as you like). It's about mods, that were published by its authors as freeware under the CA freeware license, are now effectively payware by putting them behind a paywall. That's where I see a problem.

I thought you wrote about "CA files" in general. And since (I think) most mods (CA files) here are published under the CA freeware license, I only wanted to point out my understanding of this license, that it's perfectly fine to share mods that were published under this license, even off-site. Of course every mod author is free to choose it's own license, e.g. make the mod CA exclusive. No problem. But my understanding is, as already written in my previous post, that CA exclusiveness means the mod is practically payware now and therefore must not be based or contain any mods published under the CA freeware license (without permission of the mod authors).

Why? According to the CA Freeware License it's not forbidden to share the mods/files as long as they remain "free": From the CA Freeware License: "The work may not be used in payware projects or in projects that will not be freely distributed under these same terms". On the contrary I could argue that putting the mods/files behind a paywall and simultanously forbid sharing them (off-site) makes them practically payware and that is against this very license. I would think that most modders here want to share their work for free so what all (including those who can not or don't want to pay any money) can enjoy them. Yes, I know Erik has to pay bills, and I myself have a subscription to support this site although I haven't downloaded much in the last years. But personally I had hoped there would be a donation based solution or similar be found.

Good luck and keep fighting the big C!

Damn, sorry to hear that. I wish you a full and speedy recovery!