OPEN LETTER
TO THE FLIGHTSIM COMMUNITY
Everyone
knows the site you can
find
lists with the links to all freeware scenery available for FS2002,
FS2004 and
FSX (http://www.freewarescenery.com/fs2004.php).
This site is
maintained by
Robert-Jan Oosterloo for which I have a pronounced
respect for his long-standing work, which consists of nearly each day
during
all those years searching on the net for new freeware scenery and
cataloguing
it. And, contrary to one might think, it is not only restricted to
searching in
AVSIM libraries. I can assure that, for instance, the widely spread
French
scenery is moving all the time and not always easy to localize again.
Even
after AVSIM was hacked, he managed to change many links to
flightsim.com for
those files that were available there, all that in order to keep on
serving the
Flightsim community.
I have never known an
individual doing such constant task for us all. I
still
see in many forums that people refer to his site. His site must have a
tremendous
amounts of hits every day, but he is even so humble not to put a
counter.
I have asked the AVSIM staff to award this guy for his precious and continuous contribution to the FS world (http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showuser=114343), but they didn’t want to go into my demand. I was also very disappointed with some reactions in the Flightsim forum (http://forums.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?t=213085) It is apparently easier to give awards to commercial or freeware groups than to an individual!
With this
letter I
still ask if any
FlightSim Organization would like to reward Robert-Jan
Oosterloo (even with a
symbolic
award) for
his outstanding service to the FS community.