Hinson Meml

I have been in and out of town over the past couple month's, and upon the last visit home, I received the news that a fellow flight simmer had passed away. Steve Hinson is probably familiar to you if you are into the military jets, for he was part of a team that helped to develop the freeware model, F14D, Tomcat and make it one of the most popular freeware aircraft downloaded.

I had met Steve only through emails. It was a rather bumpy first meeting, as I had uploaded the F14D to the site, having read the wrong readme file for permission to upload. I got a rather scathing email from him, but once I explained what had happened, he was quick to forgive, and from there on, his generousity really knew no limits!

He always kept me informed of any updates to the model, and I was impressed with his devotion to the hobby by keeping all the other sites informed as well. He was truly proud of this model, and very protective I might add!

Steve is going to be missed by not only his family, but by those of us out here that benefited from his love of flight simulation.

Steve's family is also in our thoughts. I apologize that I was not available to post this sooner.