Good morning,
For those who would like to download the Canso PBY-5 or the Menestrel HN-433, unfortunately following the outage on July 19 the server that hosted frenchvfr.free.fr seems to have problems.
I have opened a support ticket with the provider to get my server and site back up but since it is free hosting, this may take some time.
Thank you for your understanding
Hello,
Well after a week of exchanges that will have served to nothing with the FREE Support because their technical services are either undersized or “not competent”, nothing has come forward and they maintain that the “site was blacklisted”.
Therefore I decided to delete my pages purely and simply.
For those who followed our creations, do not despair: I am thinking of a solution to put back online our addons, however it will take a little time.
The update of the Canso that I had planned, will necessarily be delayed but do not be discouraged it will come out this year. In life, you don’t always do what you want.
Thank you for your testimony.
Hi,
As a last check, I just did an ultimate test on my URL and miracle: it works again.
These events have shown me that it becomes urgent for me to change my host.
It is quite possible that I buy a hosting elsewhere and a domain name so as to be autonomous and have real support in case of difficulties.
Therefore, despite the 11 years of maintaining frenchvfr and the 3 million visitors to date, you will have to get used to another name in the near future…which I am defining at this moment.
I hope you work will not lost (I’m using googlesite but no board, files storage on drive not most efficence) and PBY will be compliant with FS2024 
See you later.
No, after many emails exchanged with my provider and after more than 3 weeks I managed to have my website again. Apparently, nothing was lost.
As far as my projects are concerned, they are saved locally on two different external drives so no worries on this side.
For the PBY, the major work in progress since 2023 was the redesign of my old Damage Mod (that of my Cessna 150 TiBush) which I modified and adapted to MSFS 2020 as part of the work done on the Stearmans.
This “Damage Mod” is now OK and “cherry on the cake” it was written so as to be adaptable to several aircraft. Everything is parameterized and can be used on a single engine as on a bi-motor.
These days I work on the last part which is the graphical development of the interface. As soon as it is finished, I think I can instantiate it for the PBY and release a new version.
I had also planned an update of the interior textures, but there I did not have time to do it, nevertheless I developed work workflows to quickly create PBR textures. This work will be used to complete the last part.
Then there is the compatibility with MSFS 2024 … there, until information is published by Microsoft or Asobo, I could not do anything.
Browsing the net, I realize that this plane is used by many youtubers and that every time it’s the same question: shame that the dev has not finished his project.
To this I would like to reply several things:
As these functions are almost complete, here is the list of what will change:
I hope that this way I will not have any surprises by reading disastrous comments on the future of this add-on which will remain freeware and whose next release should be by the end of 2024
Thank you very much lagaffe for this work and we’ll look forward for the update in the end of the year !
Many thanks Lagaffe!
Good new, I have tested my Canso PBY-5 and the latest version should work fine with MSFS2024, with negligible glitches.
Even the pilots can be managed with the tablet and they appears in the cockpit.
Legacy sounds which are not impacted by a FS24 bug are marvellous in this version.
Nethertheless, I plan to make some modifications ont it to bring others functions and new PBR textures.
Can’t wait.
I love the cat!
Kitty! Yay!