The Three Grumpy Simmers’s Podcast

Your favourite cantankerous trio of simmers are back and at least one is grumpy as hell.

In the wake of the announcement by Military Visualizations of their intention to use Kickstarter to fund the port of their upcoming ATR72 to X-Plane 11 from ESP.

Together we look over the motivations and the impact that this new development could have on the community as well as delving in detail to the project itself.

Links that you may find of use to allow you to make your own decisions:

MilViz Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atr72/atr-72-600-addon-for-x-plane11/description

FSElite News Story on the launching of the Kickstarter - https://fselite.net/news/milviz-looking-to-use-kickstarter-to-fund-atr-72-x-plane-development/

FSElite News Story on the announcement of the price of the ATR - https://fselite.net/news/milviz-reveal-proposed-p3d-atr-price/

Novawing24's OpEd on the situation - https://novawing24.com/2019/03/ned-kellys-not-dead-yet/

MilViz response negative commentary on the Kickstarter - https://www.facebook.com/Milviz/photos/a.274798289231220/2255057017871994/?type=3

Podcast also available on Podbean

We can be found at https://www.threegrumpysimmers.com/

Tristan "Novawing24" Ayton is a highly opinionated YouTube content creator with a focus on the Simulation genre. Believeing that giving back to the community is important, he provides open and honest commentary and feedback on developments in the simulation genre. He has also tried his hand at texture design, with content available at his website and at the AVSIM Library, as well as writing for numerous websites. When not simming he can be found training or competing in Obstacle Course Racing or Triathlon events around the world.

The Three Grumpy Simmers are back for another year of navel gazing nonsense while asking the uncomfortable questions of our community.

We start the year by looking at the concept of Early Access, Alpha and Beta testing and what the impacts of changing attitudes have been on the community. In the wake of the last few years the picture has definitely shifted!

Video also available on YouTube

We can be found at https://www.threegrumpysimmers.com/

Tristan "Novawing24" Ayton is a highly opinionated YouTube content creator with a focus on the Simulation genre. Believeing that giving back to the community is important, he provides open and honest commentary and feedback on developments in the simulation genre. He has also tried his hand at texture design, with content available at his website and at the AVSIM Library, as well as writing for numerous websites. When not simming he can be found training or competing in Obstacle Course Racing or Triathlon events around the world.

After the depressing nature of the last assemblage of the Three Grumpy Simmers, they are back with a brighter and more hopeful subject matter (don't worry they are still grumpy)

After all the hullabaloo of payware and its haphazard pricing and quality control, the Three Grumpy Simmers highlight some of the quiet achievers and out standing treasures of the community as they talk about some of their favourite Freeware developers.

Ranging from scenery, through helicopters and over to fast jets (and everything in between) these true pillars of the community give so much more than their time to our hobby. They give passion, energy and AMAZING quality work to us for free.

We all enjoy this work, we hope you find something amazing here too.

Ko Poda

MisterX6 San Francisco

Eagle Rotorcraft Simulations

Robert James Richardson

Manfred Jahn

MV-22B

Dino Cattaneo

Podcast also available on Podbean

We can be found at https://www.threegrumpysimmers.com/

Tristan "Novawing24" Ayton is a highly opinionated YouTube content creator with a focus on the Simulation genre. Believeing that giving back to the community is important, he provides open and honest commentary and feedback on developments in the simulation genre. He has also tried his hand at texture design, with content available at his website and at the AVSIM Library, as well as writing for numerous websites. When not simming he can be found training or competing in Obstacle Course Racing or Triathlon events around the world.

The Three Grumpy Simmers come together and one is grumpier than normal.

This month The Three Grumpy Simmers assemble to dissect a startling new development in the Flight Sim Store Saga.

With many developers confirming they have had no contact with the online retailer for many months, some have started moving customer who had bought content with them over onto other digital sales / distribution platforms. As a customer of FSS, Novawing24 received an email from Pilot's and their plans to move across to SimMarket...at an unexpected cost.

Together The Three Grumpy Simmers delve into what this alarming turn of events potentially means for the community and ask a more deep rooted question about the state (and price) of content in the simulation world at large.

If you would like to review the original email it can be viewed at https://novawing24.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Pilots-Letter.pdf

Also available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/IWrJHuz1bKg

We can be found at https://www.threegrumpysimmers.com/

Tristan "Novawing24" Ayton is a highly opinionated YouTube content creator with a focus on the Simulation genre. Believeing that giving back to the community is important, he provides open and honest commentary and feedback on developments in the simulation genre. He has also tried his hand at texture design, with content available at his website and at the AVSIM Library, as well as writing for numerous websites. When not simming he can be found training or competing in Obstacle Course Racing or Triathlon events around the world.