::happybirthday::Hey Folks,
Version 0.8 will see the end of life in the next days as 0.9 is ready to be insalled by your AI Managers (Auto-Updater has been implemented in the last version

). Before we are releasing it Chris and I want to thank you all for beeing part in this "closed BETA" and making AIM better and better from time to time.

Without you we would not be at this point in the development, for the release of 0.9 we plan to make a bit more advertisement to get even more users

Version 0.8 has proven us that the concept of an one-click-installer like WOAI was needed for the community and we should not hide behind the big payware developers with our AI tool

AIGAIM 0.8 has started in this forum and on our homepage with a release post around December 2018, when now using Google you will find many forum-topics over at AVSIM, 2 online news-articles from german sites and some other foum-topics in other communities. Reading that many users have switch from payware solutions to AIGAIM and OCI makes us proud and incurage us to put more effort in the development to reward this confidence in AIGAIM.
But don't give credit only to Chris and me. Yes we are the developers of this great tool, but without the AIG Dispatch-Team, the Model-Developers and Repainter this OCI would bot have been possible.

Finally I want to answer a question/suggestion I got quit often in the last week:
1) Do you plan to make AIGAIM payware?
2) Why is AIGAIM freeware?
3) Do you want to compete with the payware Developers?
1) No. AIM will be freeware forever. AIG has never released any payware product. Yes we do have some expenses (Homepage, Forum, Data for our Flightplans) and are spending a lot of our time for this hobby, but we do this for fun. Meaning that we have the option to take a step back and focus on our reallife.
2) See 1. And since AIM is using mostly freeware products from our community there is no need to make it payware.
3) Well, as soon as there are multiple solutions/products that offer the same there will be a competition. We let the user decide which software they want to use, and if it AIGAIm we are happy and if not then so it is - we want to make our users happy with our product and not getting as many $$$ as possible

So thanks again to everyone and stay tuned for the release of 0.9

Kai