He did the flight engine for X-Plane anyway and sold it serveral times now for a reasonable price… using sullenbergers name to promote x-plane is cheap behaving it`s ok if you have been granted the right to do so… and it even ok if you officially donate the bugs earned….

of simple give away as a free trial as anybody else would do….

You don't have to follow the the flight path. You have 4 options for where to take off. You can also choose to begin on a final approach to a runway to practice landing. You can fly freely for a short time/distance before you will encounter a bird strike, losing both engines. It's then up to you to attempt a safe landing, ditch it in the water, or just do a spectacular nosedive into the city. Basically, it's a fully featured flight sim with a sort of a time limit.

Going by this logic news channels should donate to him from the money they make of the adverts they were running during their live coverage of it…. welcome to the real world, people make money from other people and there's nothing wrong with that.

Sullenburger could always make a website about his story and put an affiliate link to the app store if he wanted to make money off this game anyway..

(Does that make sense?)

Anyway, it's not for me, but .99 seems fair enough.

How do you know he isn't making donations after receiving the money? Perhaps he's already given more money to victims of other incidents than the all of you guys combined, but doesn't say it because it would be shameful self-promotion?

He (and others, of course) did the work, he can distribute it as he pleases (of course, as long as he follows the Apple App Store guidelines ).

Sorry for the rant, but if you think he charges too much (Dean)… try to make a living as an independent developer yourself for a while. You know, having to pay for your own healthcare coverage, having to pay a lot more in taxes than someone who isn't "self-employed", even though you make the same amount of money to begin with…

If XPlane wasn't a niche app (your average teenager with an iPhone isn't going to buy it), maybe he could drop the price of it to $0.99… but when you are making a painfully difficult to code app for a limited audience, it's natural to expect that the audience, with very few good options available due to the complexity of the software and the small market size, will pay more for it than, say, an IM app that will have 20x the number of downloads. If I'm wrong, and it isn't that hard, and the market is larger than I say it is… then fine, I'm sure some other developers will pick up on it and offer an alternative at a much lower price… and then the competition will cause the price of X-Plane to come down in order to stay competitive.

Bottom line, if it's too much, don't buy it. Feel free to write your own simulator, nobody's stopping you, the dev tools are free.

i thought about something like a donation, too.

he should make a donation out of it, for planecrash victims or whatever. after making so much money maybe it's time to give some money to people who deserve it?..