Team

We are a loose collection of Flight Simulator military AI enthusiasts whose mission is to provide quality, freeware AI traffic packages to the flight sim community. The staff and contributors at MAIW come from all over the globe. Our overriding hope is that you enjoy our work and start designing yourself.

Website Admins

Michael Guenthner
"MIKE JG"
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"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill

Age: 36

Location: USA

Occupation: Commercial Pilot

Joined MAIW: Aug 2006

AI Speciality: Modeling and Scenery Design

Gregory Loones
"Tirithon"
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"I always said I couldn't even model a box. Thanks to Mike's FSDS tutorials now I can. There are no certainties anymore..."

Age: 27

Location: Antwerp, Belgium

Occupation: Military Air Traffic Controller

Joined MAIW: End 2007

AI Speciality: AFD Design


Staff

Barry Taylor
"btaylo24"
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Age: 41

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Occupation: Snr Systems Engineer

Joined MAIW: Sep 2006

AI Speciality: Package Consolidation & Flightplanning

Desmond Burrell
"reconmercs"
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"The Sky is not the limit... it's home."

Age: 29

Location: USA

Occupation:

Joined MAIW: Aug 2006

AI Speciality: Flightplan & AFD Design

Graham King
"Graham King"
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"Why can’t they keep the colours in the bloody paint pots and just leave them grey."

Age: 51

Location: Bracknell, UK

Occupation: Aircraft Engineer

Joined MAIW: Aug 2006

AI Speciality: Painting, Programming & Website Pages

John Burtenshaw
"VulcanDriver"
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"That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The A-bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives."
Admiral William Leahy

Age: 57

Location: UK

Occupation: IT Consultant

Joined MAIW: Aug 2006

AI Speciality: Scenery Design

Nick Black
"nickblack423"
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"Pain heels, Chicks dig scars........Glory lasts Forever."

Age: 30

Location: Ipswich, Suffolk, UK

Occupation: Police Officer

Joined MAIW: Aug 2006

AI Speciality: AI Models, Package Construction, AFD's

Steve Holland
"Firebird"
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"Sh*t happens, then you die."

Age: 50

Location: EGLL Heathrow, UK

Occupation: Principle Support Analyst for BA

Joined MAIW: Aug 2006

AI Speciality: Effects, FDE, Testing & Support

Stewart Pearson
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"The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee."

Age: 52

Location: Kinfauns, Perthshire, UK

Occupation: Retired Police Officer

Joined MAIW: Aug 2006

AI Speciality: Callsign Creation and Research


Contributors

Gary Barker
"Garysb"
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"I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. "
Buzz Aldrin

Age: 52

Location: Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, UK

Occupation: Engineering Construction Estimator

Joined MAIW: Aug 2006

AI Speciality: Package Construction

Kevin Reed
"Weescotty"
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"Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional."

Age: 46

Location: Sydney, Australia

Occupation: System Administrator

Joined MAIW: Aug 2006

AI Speciality: Aircraft Modelling

Les Heinke
"maddog65"
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"LEAD, FOLLOW OR GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY"

Age: 45

Location: In between KNGU and KNTU, USA

Occupation: Electronics Tech specializing in IT

Joined MAIW:

AI Speciality: Testing, AFD & Basic Flightplanning

Lewis Magruder
"lewis"
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"Rotary wings all the way."

Age: 63

Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Occupation: Retired (ex Elect. Power Co. & ARNG)

Joined MAIW:

AI Speciality: Testing, Painting

Marco Kosterman
"Dakotafreak"
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein

Age: 46

Location: Weesp, The Netherlands

Occupation: Administrator

Joined MAIW: Oct 2006

AI Speciality: Serial Research, AFD's, Scenery

Mark Campbell
"campbeme"
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"Leave it with me a few days."

Age: 38

Location: Birmingham, UK

Occupation: Production Paint Sequence Planner

Joined MAIW: Aug 2008

AI Speciality: Asking for help

Mark Heimer
"djnocturnal"
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Age: 30

Location: Grand Forks, ND, USA

Occupation: Government/DJ

Joined MAIW: Jun 2007

AI Speciality: Repaints

Matthew Ciao
"Felixthreeone"
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"Nothing in life is as satisfying... as doing something people say can't be done."

Age: 35

Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA

Occupation: Working on my ATP

Joined MAIW: 2009

AI Speciality: Testing, Voicepacks

Michael "Mike" MacIntyre
"mikewmac"
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"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;"
from High Flight by John Magee, Jr.

Age: 68

Location: KBTV, VT, USA

Occupation: Retired Engineering Middle Manager, IBM

Joined MAIW: Aug 2006

AI Speciality: FDE Design

Miljan Korac
"miljan"
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Age: 25

Location: LYNI Nis, Serbia

Occupation: Student, Medical Worker

Joined MAIW: Jul 2010

AI Speciality: AFD's, Flightplans, Research

Pascal Suls
"Psuls"
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"I wish I could make a real aircraft... and fly it."

Age: 41

Location: Court-St-Etienne, Belgium

Occupation: Design and Project Engineer

Joined MAIW: Aug 2006

AI Speciality: Aircraft Modelling

Tony Dalton
"aljude"
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"Just five more minutes honey."

Age: 55

Location: Grimsby, Lincolnshire, UK

Occupation: Full time carer

Joined MAIW: May 2007

AI Speciality: Testing, AFD's, Problem Solving

Willy Elliker
"Blank Fang"
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"Fly with the Eagles or scratch with the chicken."

Age: 56

Location: Near LSZH, Switzerland

Occupation: Senior IT Engineer

Joined MAIW: Nov 2008

AI Speciality: Testing, AFD & Basic Flightplanning


Other Contributors:

Andrew Hall, Jake Burrus, John Stinstrom, Mark Walsh, Matt Donica, Paul Stevens, Rysiek Winawer