griffinmt - We are going to open things up so that people can do their
own modeling with things like Maya. We're not there yet.

Crater Meistro - Thanks for the ideas on the sound card issue. I cannot
comment beyond that because I'm not the "sound engineer". I'm the
airplane aero person. So with that, I don't have ideas for you
on tweaking the stock Blade CP to make it into the CP Pro. We will
probably need to expose more variables to get you there. In the
meantime, the CP Pro is pretty popular so it's a candidate for a future
sim model.

About copying/editing: The sim will not let you modify the original
installed airplanes/helis/transmitters. This is good. If you try to
edit one, it will say to make a copy first. So nothing can get messed
up here.

Wind: On any of the fly pages (windows), there's a region that has
'wind'. Click there and pick the wind setup that you want. In the list
are a lot of things - steady wind, wind with turbulence, and wind with a
proper atmospheric boundary layer and more winds for sailplanes.

Pano modeling: Some panos include obstacles. The "E-flite" armory
includes all the walls. The Eagle Sky panos include the trees. I could
go on here. They ALL include the proper ground elevation. With 25
panos, we did not model everything in all of them. We could have
modeled everything if we were to only do a handful for panos, but we
opted to have more panos and this meant not modeling all bits. That's
the trade off. I think people would opt for more panos. The other side
of the equation is (and I know not everyone will go for this), but when
flying like in real (perfectly), i.e. not behind obstacles and not
crashing into obstacles, then the illusion stays intact for all ~25
panos!

E-flite radio does not work w/ the sim. The radio was not designed for
use with FS One.

Michael