Well - I was in the beta test team of the "other sim", but was silently excluded without any notice or word of "thank you for your service" the weeks after Jason left. As I work too much I really did not put down enough time though... Then it does not matter that I have hundreds of hour IRL, been flying simulators since the 80:ies and work as an IT Manager / CIO at much larger companies since many years. I do however think that there can be some improvements on the beta testing process, especially regarding reporting and bug tracking software. But they get away with very unstructured beta testing as are some VERY talented people doing free work for "the other sim". They are finding a lot of things that the users never knew where in the RC days before the planned releases... Instruments not working in odd scenarios, incorrect textures or 3D models, weapon inconsistencies, damage models, missing LODs, FM problems, reproduceable CTDs etc. Some of them that I cannot name are extremely knowledgeable and very quickly come back with detailed reports and screenshots of how to replicate and correct bugs and problems that they have found. Sometimes within hours... Unsung heroes.
