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• Aviasim Products at simMarket

  Two new products for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 have made their way onto simMarket’s virtual shelves this weekend from Aviasim, Saarlouis-Düren in Saarland, Germany, and Leicester Aeroclub Revisited in the Midlands of England.

  Both products feature photorealistic ground textures and detailed custom structures, with BGL lighting and, in the case of Saarlouis-Düren, the up-to-date airfield [...]

• Perfect Flight gets adventurous in FS9 & X

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dbXkGlnuTc

  “Flight Service Pack 3” is a collection of adventures from developers Perfect Flight that comes in two formats; ABL files for use in FS2004 and mission files for FSX. Simulating multi-crew airline operations with features including interactive briefings and cabin announcements, the product includes B737 and B747 repaints [...]

• Tropicalsim Flores for FS2004

  Following their release of Flores for FSX, the team at Tropicalsim have now made it available for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 as well.

  The island, part of the “Occidental” segment of the Azores, features new coastlines and landclass, with photoreal scenery around the airport itself. For full details, please click here.

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• Alabeo working on C188 Crop Duster

  Another “fun”, and easy to recognize aircraft will be modeled for FSX by Alabeo !

  Visit their facebook page to enjoy the preview screenshots of their C188 Crop Duster.

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• Hinrichs It Service – FS-Charts

  Instead of searching for charts in different places over the web,  FS-Charts is a new software launched by Hinrichs IT-Service. In one central place and offline on your hard disk, you’ll have all needed FAA navigational informations.

  According to the maker’s homepage, it’s divided in region package. At simMarket, you can purchase the first US Package [...]

• FSRaas v1.1 Runway Advisory freeware

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUH7gAj24MY

  How interesting it is when you have knowledge in code programming, you can reproduce some nice piece of software.

  That’s what Dongjin Shin did bringing FSRaas v1.1 Runway Advisory, simulating Honeywell equipment. His freeware tool makes announcement of runway entry or crossing, distance remaining on taxiway or runway…

• sF Exclusive: sim-wings FAIRBANKS preview

  Thorsten Loth of sim-wings has kindly sent some fresh and first images of their actual project: Fairbanks Airport, Alaska.

  As we are told work is progressing steadily, all the building are in place, still missing the window mirroring effects as you will see in the below images. Basically all 3d-Objects like vegetation and vehicles are however still [...]

• Aerosoft Airbus X Extended VC details

  A bit more of informations about Airbus X Extended details have been introduced in Aerosoft previews forum.

  The existing textures were reworked for a sharper display, but you’ll also find new details of reflections and heating elements in the windows.

• Aerosoft Toulouse X preview

  Toulouse Blagniac LFBO, home airport of Airbus Industries in Europe, from where they takeoff for first time. And it’s also an historic place for Sud Aviation Caravelle, Concorde and the first Airbus A320 productions.

  Since 2005, the FS2004 scenery of Sim-Wings (Manfred Spatz) hasn’t received update so Aerosoft will be welcome with Toulouse X [...]

• Carenado – B200 & TBM 850

  Two “New incomings” got revealed this week on Carenado‘s Facebook page : the Beech KingAir 200 and the Socata TBM 850.

  Simmers are already excited about these announcements, join them here.

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• New Navigraph nDAC tutorial videos

  In their latest newsletter, Navigraph have announced the addition of eight new tutorial videos, which can be accessed directly through their nDAC software.

  The videos cover two departures; London Gatwick SID-08R and Madrid SID-15L, plus six arrival procedures; Reykjavik LOC-DME-13, Cambridge ILS-23, Philadelphia ILS-09L, Madrid ILS-18L (with an engine failure), Jerusalem ILS-30 and Honolulu ILS-08L.

  Navigraph’s [...]

• GoFlight adds P3D Support

  GoFlight Technologies, developers of home cockpit hardware, have announced on their blog and via Press Release that they are now supporting and “Fully integrated” with Lockheed-Martin’s Prepar3D simulator.

  To allow the platform to work with GoFlight products, a new version 2.20 of their GF-Config software has been released, which users can download from their support [...]

• FScene improves some Hard Winter Grounds

  Ruud Faber – developer of the FScene replacement ground textures – offers another free patch for the FSX Total-Pack and TwinPack#2 (Europe + Africa).

  Once installed the landscape pattern in Europe will show more diversity in Hard Winter.

  You can download it for free: fsc4x-tp-patch03.exe

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• LatinVFR Updates for Summer 2012

  Tying in nicely with the timing of Rick Desjardins’ latest review of LatinVFR‘s Caracas, the developers have sent a press release with a link to their latest updates and news for Summer 2012.

  The highlight, as pictured above, will be the release of Montevideo’s Carrasco airport (ICAO: SUMU), several images of which can be seen [...]

• Flight Illusions RMIs for home cockpit builders

  Home cockpit builders seeking to develop custom panels with accurate gauges may be interested in these latest two releases from Flight Illusions.

  Modelled after the Collins RMI-30, FI’s GSA-RMI features switchable nav sources on a two-needle RMI gauge, while the GSA-RMI-DME, as the name might suggest, adds two displays to the basic gauge for Distance [...]

• Trains & Drivers add four more activity sets

  The TS2012/Railworks 3 activities developers at Trains & Drivers never seem to release a single product at a time, do they?

  Inkeeping with their usual practice, we have another four sets from them to report today, all of which require more than default stock, so check you have all the required add-ons before purchasing.

  The [...]

• LivingFS Mesh for Sri Lanka

  Like much of the FSX world, the Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka is best described as “somewhat lacking in detail”.

  The default mesh away from the areas considered important by Microsoft is definitely somewhat lacking, so LivingFS have brought distinct improvements to the island using 30m ASTER data.

  The developers have provided a number [...]

• E-E Lightning at simMarket

  It was released a while ago through the publisher’s site but, as of yesterday, the JustFlight English Electric Lightning for FSX is now also available via simMarket.

  If you want to experience the power of an aircraft that is basically a man sitting on top of and control surfaces attached to two large, afterburning, engines, [...]

• WoWP Ground Attack Teaser

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjWaDCGcrGM

  Wargaming.net have continued their ongoing trickle-feed of public teasers for their upcoming World of Warplanes game, this time covering the destruction of ground-based objects, rather than other aircraft.

  Although the teaser only shows Soviet aircraft, so we have no idea what will be the equivalents in [...]

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• LATINVFR – LATIN HUB CARACAS SVMI for FSX review

  Simón Bolívar International Airport of Maiquetia, ICAO: SVMI is an international airport located in Maiquetia, Venezuela which is about 13kms from Caracas. It is the busiest international airport in the country with two runways; 10/28 @ 11,438ft and 09/27 @ 9,930ft. As a point of interest both runways are sloped but runway [...]

• Rafale C freeware for FS9

  Fly the Frenchie Rafale of Dassault ! Spectra-3D mentioned here a few months ago finished the FS9 freeware version of the Rafale C.

  Among the download links, don’t forget to grab the English tutorial to follow the startup procedure, as you may have surprise if you think to hit CTRL+E and go.

  No worries [...]

• The World’s First 2cm/pixel Airport! (Stewart Airport)

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDJVekb6x4c

  Orbx released the first FS airport designed at the highest resolution of 2cm/pixel ever.

  CZST Stewart Airport is located in British Colombia, Canada. Note that FTX NA Blue USA Canada Pacific Fjords is required first, then you could enjoy (forum membership needed) this and this too.

  Just two screens here if you are not registered [...]

• FS Tools – Addon Converter X 1.07

  In order to make compatible to FSX some of your FS2004 addons, you may use Addon Converter X.

  This FlightSim Tools plugin exists in version 1.07 as the latest, to be compatible with Flight1′s Airport Studio and bring a better stability on some PCs running Windows 7.

  If you just want the update, click [...]

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• FS Captain 1.3.1

  If you’re already a regular user of FS Captain tool, this shouldn’t be considered as fresh news at all.

  This update has been available for weeks already, it’s better an opportunity to bring some more light on this career and passengers rating solution.

  In its last version 1.3.1, FSCaptain can “review or add winds aloft [...]

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• Bush Airstrips 1.0 for free in Canada

  Its complete name is Khutzeymateen Bush Airstrips 1.0. This is a free compilation of 21 gravel airstrips in British Colombia, Canada.

  Check your wheels as you remove the blocks, you will need to feel confident in them ! Get to the download and further infos here.

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• Los Angeles US Cities X preview

  What’s new under the Californian sun ? With some new shots, LimeSim shows how is going the design of US Cities X Los Angeles.

  The receipt is still made of mainly photoreal terrain, numerous buildings and custom Autogen.

• Nemeth Chinook for MS FSX

  Nemeth Designs and MilViz have released their latest model, the Boeing Vertol CH-47 Chinook heavy lift helicopter, through simMarket.

  The Chinook is, without doubt, an aviation icon. Developed in the early 1960s, the twin-rotor workhorse has seen action in many military roles around the entire globe, has flown as a heliliner, done logging duties, search [...]

• Shovsoft’s Lunar Flight on simMarket

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkm0apCWjOc

  It’s worth putting up that video again, we think, to advertise the addition of Shovsoft’s “Lunar Flight” to simMarket’s catalogue.

  If you’re after a break from the norm, a trip to the moon might be just the ticket and Lunar Flight gives you the opportunity to [...]

• JRollon CRJ Birthday Sale

  In honour of the developer’s birthday, JRollon‘s award-winning CRJ-200 airliner for X-Plane is on half price sale until 20th May 2012.

  The little Canadian jet is in use around the world as a short-haul commuter or feeder aircraft and JRollon’s version for XP9.55+ (some features require XP10) includes a functional cockpit, FMS and numerous upgrades [...]

• FSPS Xtreme Booster for L-M Prepar3D

  Xtreme Booster from Flight Simulator Platform Solutions has been around for a while for Microsoft FSX, getting good reviews from customers, so it is perhaps unsurprising that the developer’s next step has been to copy the technology across to Lockheed Martin‘s Prepar3D simulation platform.

  What Xtreme Prepar3D Booster does, essentially, is manage the way that [...]

• Prometheus takes to the FSX skies

  Iris Development Studios have been branching out a bit recently, from their primarily military aircraft past, the latest example of which is this rather eyecatching aerobatic aircraft from Owen Hewitt: “Prometheus“.

  To quote Hollwood Stunt pilot Corkey Fornof; “Prometheus the flying machine is part Pitts Special and the rest Skip and Christina Stewart. Starting life [...]

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• Stewart airport from Orbx

  The buildings may look a little run down, but we’d guess that this is quite probably going to be the best looking airport you’ve ever seen in a flight sim.

  Stewart airport (CZST) in British Columbia, Canada, is the latest release from Orbx to support their “FTX Pacific Fjords” base package. Already known for the [...]

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• France VFR more Autogen revolution news

  The new Autogen engine of France VFR, 3D Automation, has more innovative technical features  to demonstrate.

  When the source data are available, they can manage up to 24 types of vegetation, and then generate their density according to this type to enable more variated and realistic forests, but also to place aligned trees along [...]

• Reality XP GNS update 1.6

  Regularly asked by users of the Garmin GNS 430/530 by Reality XP for FS, the new – and free – update 1.6 enables a “dynamic sharing” of the flight plan loaded in the GNS to FS.

  Shown in the unofficial Reality XP forums, the above pictures how the PFD and ND takes in account the [...]

• FSDT Ground Services for FSX Updated

  FSDreamTeam‘s Ground Services for FSX has received a major update to now stand at version 1.5

  According to this post on the FSDT forums; “We are happy to announce the release of a new major update to GSX, the 1.5 version, which introduce a big new feature, a Scenery Graphical Editor, that will allow users [...]

• Robert Graf’s Talladega… day?

  Following recent disappointment and exclusion from the race at Bristol, Robert Graf‘s simFlight liveried virtual Chevy Impala has made it back into action in the Deutsche Online Meisterschaft/German NASCAR League of iRacing.

  In spite of a mid-field start, not only did Robert manage to advance through the pack for a much improved finishing position, he [...]

• FSFlyingSchool updated

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZkfr5tmQaI

  FSFlyingSchool have announced an update, bringing their software flight instructor up to version 5.6 for FS2004 and FSX.

  “FSFlyingSchool Pro now gives you the option to use your GPS during the flight in a way that interacts directly with your instructor. These have been developed using [...]

• VATSIM does the social network thing

  VATSIM have today sent out an e-mail to announce that they have joined the hordes and have created accounts on both Facebook and Twitter.

  They can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2204580601/ and on Twitter as “@vatsim“

• New scenery from openVFR

  A new press release from freeware scenery team “openVFR” has been received today, detailing a number of new sceneries that have been released.

  “Last week the openVFR team finished the development of some new  Scenery AddOns for Microsoft Flightsimulator X.  After the new release of openVFR Germany now you can download the new openVFR versions [...]

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• Greenland mesh upgrade for P3D

  Anyone who has looked at most of the world’s default mesh in almost any sim will know how inaccurate the default mesh and coastlines are, without significant second or third party input. Well, in Greenland‘s case, it’s worse than most. The reason? SRTM data, which is often used as the basis for mesh upgrades, doesn’t [...]

• Super Traffic Board updated

  Flying-W Simulation have released an update to their FSX AI monitoring and manipulation tool Super Traffic Board V3. From their press release, received today:

  “Flying-W Simulation is delighted to announce the availability of a Service Pack 3 (SP3) update for Super Traffic Board V3, the leading add-on for displaying and interacting with your FSX AI [...]

• Alabeo’s Extra 300S now available at simMarket

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGs5Oqptb8g

  Do we actually need to post anything more that that video to make you want Alabeo‘s latest aerobatic aircraft release? Probably not, if that’s the kind of flying you enjoy doing in Microsoft Flight Simulator X, but we’ll add that it comes with a PDF of aerobatic maneuvers to [...]

• Version 9.2 update for Flightsim Commander

  Volker Heine has announced the release of the version 9.2 update for popular flight planning and tracking tool Flightsim Commander.

  Amongst other new features, the 9.2 update includes compatibility with Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D to join existing capabilities. The forum post announcing the release can be found here and FSC9 licenses can be purchased at simMarket, here.

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• Area51 products on sale at simMarket

  Area51‘s array of military fixed- and rotary-wing products for FS9 and X are currently on sale at simMarket for the reduced price of only €7.69 (€9.15 inc VAT) until Sunday 13th May 2012.

  It’s only a short sale and the press release gives no indication as to why it has been done, but as flightsimmers, [...]

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• Key West gets the Newport treatment

  FSX photoreal scenery developers Newport have released their latest package, covering the area around and islands off the coast of Key West in Florida, USA.

  Recreated in 1m/pixel resolution, the scenery uses photoreal textures for the water, as well as the land, which are then blended into the default water as you reach the scenery [...]

• More Screenshots of AMS for X-Plane

  Mathijs Kok from Aerosoft has today posted more images of their upcoming Amsterdam Schipol for X-Plane to the preview forum.

  The ten new images show everything from tulips and roadsigns to 737s stacked on a ramp, so whether you are a user of Laminar Research’s sim, or just interested in what Aerosoft have been up [...]

• Version 1.1 for Flight1′s Cardinal

  Flight1 Software have announced that the developers of their C177 Cardinal aircraft for FSX have released an update to version 1.1.

  “The development team behind the Flight1 Cessna 177 Cardinal II has been hard at work the past few weeks to eliminate initial release issues and provide fixes to the product.

  The update includes the [...]

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