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- FsFan - The Net for Flight Simulation
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- FsFan was founded by Mathijs Kok back in 1986 as a way to exchange
- information and to have a good time with FS4. We did not want to form
- a usergroup, discuss contributions and spend lots of time organising
- instead of having fun in the air. So we set up small squadrons (less
- than 10 members) in several cities. This idea seems to work and we
- have got now squadrons in Holland, Belgium and Germany.
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- The pilots of a squadron meet once a month and they are very active
- building scenery and utilities for FS4. The squadrons will use the
- flights other squadrons have flown at their meetings. The atmosphere
- at those meetings is very relaxed, we like to toast our incredible
- flying skills with a drink and tend to laugh loud when a crash is
- heard. In the air though we are very serious and try to make flying
- as real as can be.
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- Once or twice a year we organise big meetings, we call them
- Interstate races. There, individual pilots (or small teams) can prove
- they are the best pilots that ever lifted from the earth surface.
- Like at our 'normal' meetings we consider the Interstate races as
- parties and will have a lot of fun. The winner of the race is
- considered the Dutch Champion and will be honored until the next
- race.
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- To coordinate these efforts we started a BBS, the FsFan BBS in
- Diemen, Holland in 1990 and it was a major hit from day one. On the
- BBS we try to coordinate scenery building and give writers of scenery
- files and utilities the opportunity to get in touch with their users.
- Also a Flightsim related topic is allowed. We tend to have very
- relaxed rules and will not interfere as often as in other mail areas
- in other nets. We like to be as independent as possible and do not
- like rules made by others so we started our own Net. In this net many
- BBS's are connected to exchange our mail and file area's. The FsFan
- Net is Fido standarts compatible but not part of Fido because we will
- feel their rules will not allow us enough freedom. For example, we
- allow commercial articles (adverts, if you like) in our mail area's
- because we feel they are usefull to simpilots.
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- We do however check the BBS's that want to be connected to FsFan
- because we will try to be only connected to BBS's which are
- respectable, serious and are run by dedicated Sysops.
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- Our file base is the fundation of the net. We have over 80 megabytes
- of files for download. They are selected, checked and catagorised. We
- use a simple way to classify files and will always have the latest
- version available. We feel it is the best FS Collection of all times
- because we try to delete files which are outdated or replaced by
- newer versions.
- The mailarea is very active and of high quality and the users
- seem very willing to answer questions. Beside that, it is also very
- like FsFan itself: serious, but we do like some fun.
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- Today the FsFan Net is a prime source of information relating to the
- Flight Simulator issue worlwide.
- The FsFan Net spans the globe, we are available around the
- world from Vladivostok, Russia to Naire, Australia, across Europe and
- the United States, our users are known for their knowledge and skills
- and many of the best known files were written by FsFan members.
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- We are always happy to share our enthousiasm with newcomers.
- Contact any FsFan Node or/and the following for more information and
- to join:
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- Mathijs Kok 2:280/304.1 @fidonet.org 81:81/1.1 @fsfan.org
- Hans Hoekstra 2:280/304.0 @fidonet.org 81:81/1.0 @fsfan.org
- Miguel Blaufuks 2:245/5555 @fidonet.org 81:81/2.0 @fsfan.org
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