Miami International From LatinVFR

Posted: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 20:58
LatinVFR has just released their latest scenery, Miami International KMIA. Features included with this new production include: KMIA (MIA) airport completely modeled with significant attention to detail, Surroundings extremely detailed, More than 44 sq miles (100+km) of photo scenery with thousands of hand placed autogen, High resolution ground textures / Custom runway-taxiways textures, Custom made shadows for airport buildings.

Revised land classes for surrounding photo scenery, Fully AI traffic compatible. With their respective parking airline codes (according to real world data), Animated Terminal Skytrains, Excellent night effects, Optimized for great performance in both FS2004 and FSX.
Landable helipad in building center of the airport (FSX), Static aircraft in the maintenance areas. B737’s, B757 and B767’s, Inclusion of manual in PDF format, Volumetric grass in holding point areas, Installer automatically adding to FS library, Birds (FSX), Native vehicle animations (FSX) Reflection effects on terminal (FSX)

Microsoft Flight Is Looking For A Few Good Men

Posted: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 1:38
Gather your Flight bag and prepare to board, Microsoft Flight taxis into beta testing this February. Applications are being accepted to participate in the upcoming Beta Test and you are invited. The latest iteration of the venerable franchise has been under development with tantalizing previews that impress, the opportunity to be among the first to see it is too good to pass up. A visit to the sign up page is all it takes to get your chance to participate in this much anticipated release due next year.

A few details have been released that can be related at this point, among them system requirements, recommended and minimums indicate that Flight has been optimized to operate on wide variety of computers and operating systems , from XP to W7, desktop flying will have a whole new world to discover.

The Microsoft Flight homepage and the complimentary Facebook page will be receiving increased traffic this month as an announcement is expected in the near future, what that might be is not publicly available as yet but insiders are getting excited so it must be something special indeed, stay tuned for breaking news!

Tonga Domestic and Fua'Amotu International from Pacific Islands Sim

Posted: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 15:29
Staff reviewer Peter Hayes looks at a collection of islands in the South Pacific with Pacific Islands Simulations' Tonga Domestic and Fua'Amotu International NFTF V2. "Tonga domestic gives us photoreal coverage of three Tongan island groups, Niuas, Ha'apai, and Vava'u (there are around 176 in the Kingdom) and basically 3 of the major domestic airfields on those islands. The Fua'Amotu International NFTF Airport scenery covers yet another island group Tongatapu (the main Tongan Island) with a fantastically detailed Fua’amotu International Airport (NFTF)."

"Now the coastlines resemble the real world, the sand, vegetation; land and sea are what you would expect to see on a tropical paradise, quite a remarkable and amazing transformation, with white coral sands that are blindingly white during the day.. The airfields have the correct buildings, runways, aprons, markings and items such as trees and grass and other features indicative of the local area."

FSAssistant: New iPad Flightbag App

Posted: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 14:10
FS-Assistant will assist you in your basic requirements while flightsimming to make supporting tasks a bit easier. The app currently includes the following features: - Integrated routeplanner (based on Route-Finder by Davide Giacopello). Plan your route and directly import it into your FMC to use as company route. - Realtime moving-map including your airplane and all AI planes in a certain(eg. 150km) radius. Get detailed info on each plane like altitude, heading, and route information. - CDU simulator with direct access to your airplane.
This requires the PMDG 737NGX to be installed. Get direct access to your FMC and program/load routes, view your progress and get direct access to failures/fuel etc. - The charts and Checklist database can be used to manage all of your airport, taxi, departure and approach charts or even all checklist and procedures for your airplane. You are able to import any PDF HTML or TXT document and view it fullscreen in an uncluttered interface. Or just have the planes QRH. The app is delivered with an addon-module for Flightsimulator to feed it with information and requires FSUIPC (free) to operate correctly.

FS++ Multi Crew Experience

Posted: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 14:04
The FS++ team is proud to make it possible for the simulator enthusiast to operate the beautiful PMDG 737 NGX bird in a multi-crew environment, using voice control. A radical departure from previous releases, this one comes with 2 co-pilot pre-recorded voice sets, negating the need to acquire high quality voice fonts. Give voice commands to your virtual FO, and ask him to turn MCP dials
(altitude, speed, heading) or tune radios while your hands are busy doing other things. It really takes two to tango.

Because this package is special, FS ++ have decided to reset trial, so that every one can have a go at the available fully working, time limited Demo Version .

LFLP ANNECY - MEYTHET

Posted: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 13:54
LLH Créations is proud to announce its latest release for alpine flying, "LFLP ANNECY - MEYTHET" for FSX. A new platform in very high resolution for all mountain pilots with this regionnal airport close to ANNECY, Haute-Savoie, France. More info and screenshots on the LLH website

X-Plane 10 available from Avsim Store

Posted: Monday, December 5, 2011 - 17:11
X-Plane 10, the latest edition of the famous simulator by Laminar Research , is now available at the Avsim store. Get your copy today to be one of the very first one to own it. X-Plane 10 introduces a brand new generation of scenery that will leave you breathless.

Visit the Avsim store today.

Koeblitzer Mountain Route from Aerosoft Train World

Posted: Saturday, December 3, 2011 - 19:29
Senior staff reviewer and RailSim/Railworks enthusiast Gene Davis looks at a fictional scenery set in Germany with Aerosoft Train World's Koeblitzer Mountain Route. "The route itself incorporates electrified track that covers almost all of the route and it offers both passenger and freight types of service throughout. In total there are 10 different scenarios to choose from and each is as unique as the actual route"

"The route offers three different locomotives and a drivable control car from German Railroads. There are over 1000 custom made objects for this route and as you pass through each town or village you will notice that it will have its own unique church and or other custom buildings. The vegetation throughout this add-on is intense and really adds to the entire Koeblitzer experience visually."

"The Koeblitzer Mountain route from Aerosoft’s Train-World is simply one of the best routes visually for Train Simulator 2012 and if you enjoy train simulation then you definitely owe yourself this one."

FS2Crew PMDG 737 NGX Give Away Contest

Posted: Saturday, December 3, 2011 - 17:55
FS2Crew is holding a contest for their soon-to-be released PMDG 737 NGX Version of FS2Crew. Five lucky winners who successfully answer five skill testing questions (here's a hint: When in doubt, pick 'true'!) will receive a free copy of the software.

FS2Crew has been developing flight crew simulations for Microsoft Flight Simulator for over six years, and the PMDG 737 NGX version will be its flagship product. It features both 'Voice' and 'Button' control options. You can enter the contest in the FS2Crew PMDG 737 NGX Staging Area. Winners will be announced on release day, so enter now before it's too late.

Vertical Studios Colorado Camping Weekend

Posted: Saturday, December 3, 2011 - 14:04
Vertical Studios invites you to continue your Colorado Camping Weekend with their latest add-on mission for FSX "Today you will continue your weekend plans by flying from Glenwood Springs to Leadville, the highest airport in the US. To get there, you will fly over the Hagerman Pass. Before doing so, however, a fun detour is planned to land at the world famous ski resort in Aspen. Your flight instructor will help you navigate and handle all the radio communications, but it's up to you to arrive safely at your destination. You are the Pilot in Command!" Each mission is designed by an active FAA certified pilot and includes detailed aeronautical charts of each departure, route, and arrival as well as real world voice actors to provide the most realistic flight experience available. Add-on missions also include complete FSX Nav Logs, Flightplans and GPS programmed waypoints, as well as the full text of the spoken dialog

X-Plane 10 Official Press Release

Posted: Saturday, December 3, 2011 - 0:54
The “Plausible World” has arrived in desktop flight simulation. Over the years as desktop flight simulator has progressed from low-resolution crude graphics to realistic 3-D cockpits and scenery, the X-Plane franchise has always been at the forefront in bringing to it's customers the most realistic flight simulation possible, with flight modeling so accurate that has been adopted by numerous professional-level simulation facilities. Now X-Plane is poised to make the biggest leap ever with the all-new X-Plane version 10. This totally redesigned product features a “plausible world” of scenery, realistic weather generation & clouds, and newly designed aircraft.

Enter the plausible world of X-Plane 10. Every city in X-Plane 10 will be built up from the first blades of grass. This means that our artificially-intelligent city-planning algorithm builds plausible cities. This is scenery that you can fly over at 5 miles per hour, 10 feet above the ground, in a helicopter, and see road traffic, freeway signs and realistic-looking buildings and houses... and then zoom from street-view all the way to orbit, and all in 3-D!

The night lighting in X-Plane 10 has been totally designed from the ground up... with actual point lighting which results in each light actually illuminating the ground and objects. The weather system is so detailed that you will see cloud wisps right around your plane as you fly through clouds, and they will go hundreds of miles in every direction without any repetition. This will let you have fronts and thunderstorms, clear and cloudy weather, all at once, depending on your location. Set enough wind and an icy runway, and it will blow you right across the ramp. The weather in X-Plane 10 is totally scalable, from the local detail around your plane clear out to region-wide fronts and storms visible from orbit.

X-Plane 10 also includes interactive audible air-traffic-control (ATC) with virtual controllers & pilots, as well as visual aircraft in the air and on the ground. This is in addition to an all new livery of flyable aircraft, from general aviation to commercial, even including the Space Shuttle. This is X-Plane 10, sitting on top of an object-oriented,RAM-optimized, CPU-optimized, multi-core-capable code-base. You will see these results as X-Plane 10 reveals incredible detail, motion, and accuracy at all scales. Visit the X-Plane Homepage to get a look at this upcoming release.

Ultimate Airbus A321 Simulation

Posted: Friday, December 2, 2011 - 14:53
Now available from Perfect Flight is Ultimate Airbus A321 Simulation. Ultimate Airbus A321 Simulation is not only a complete game add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator X but also an expansion for Aerosoft Airbus X Ultimate Airbus A321 Simulation includes realistic multi-crew airline missions to replicate real flight operations in a populate aeronautical world ambience with interactive briefing step to step checklists, Speed restriction, Cabin Announcement and much more. You can choice from tree different versions: FULL VERSION - Includes 9 FSX Airbus A321 new liveries; 27 Missions for FSX A321, 27 Missions for Aerosoft Airbus X (Optional, You do not need to have Aerosoft Airbus X installed) MISSION PACK - Includes 27 Mission for Aerosoft Airbus X (You need to have Aerosoft Airbus X installed in order to fly missions) SPECIAL BUNDLE - Includes two box sets - Aerosoft Airbus X and Ultimate Airbus A321 Simulation Mission Pack. For more info, visit the Simulshop website

THE 12 DAYS OF SKY BLUE RADIO

Posted: Friday, December 2, 2011 - 14:50
It's the holidays and Sky Blue Radio is back with the "12 Days of Sky Blue Radio"! This will be the second year of the holiday giveaway contest, where lucky listeners can win a holiday gift from Sky Blue Radio courtesy of these contest sponsors; Go Flight, Blueprint Simulations, FS2 Crew, Flight 1, JustFlight and Captain Sim. Over $1000 in prizes will be awarded. Entering is easy, but you have to identify our "Bells of the Season" in your entry.

Just listen to Sky Blue Radio during the "12 Days of Sky Blue Radio" from December 11th through December 23rd, and when you hear the "Bells of the Season", identify the songs and the artists and send us an email to contest@skyblueradio.com with your guesses! Even partial answers could win. Listeners can enter up to five times, increasing your odds of winning. Be sure to include your contact information so we know how to get in touch with you. For contest details , keep it locked in to Sky Blue Radio for a chance for a great holiday gift .

Sky Blue Radio broadcasts 24/7 around the world. Listeners can tune in to Sky Blue Radio by accessing our website at skyblueradio.com. Listeners may also tune in via their com 2 radios on 123.45 with our Wee Tune Beastie application available for download on our website. We are now available via Black Berry or iPhone through radiotuner.mobi/SkyBlueRadio; Android listeners can access Sky Blue Radio by downloading Retro Radio, then search for Sky Blue Radio. The station can also be streamed via vRoute and our facebook page.

Flyware FsXPand FMS Version 6.1 released

Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 13:51
Flyware FsXPand with FMS for FsX, Fs2004 (& X-Plane) 6.1 has been released. This version is modular: it includes a Basic and an FMS part. The basic version is capable of loading an Fs9 or FSX flightplan, showing it in the ND.

At startup, you can choose which one to use. The demo version is fully functional, you have 30 minutes unpaused air time. The underlying database is updatable and there is an update service for FsXpand available from Navigraph.com. The FMS version contains a CDU/FMS implementation for 737NG.

The FsXPand FMS is stand-alone software that links to FS. It is completely independent of other software or built-in logic of third party aircraft models. This version is compatible with CPFlight MCP/EFIS/Radios.

MD-11 Training Now Mobile Compatible

Posted: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 1:02
Angle of Attack, winner of an AVSIM Bravo Zulu Award, is pumped to announce the remodel of their MD-11 Training. Based on the PMDG MD-11 and totaling 11 hours and 23 minutes of HD video training, this training can now be used on your mobile device. iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android Tablet or Phone are all supported. Checkout the improvements for yourself.

Last 2 Lectures From Flight 1's Open Day

Posted: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 1:00
The fifth and sixth episodes in Flight 1's series of lectures, recorded at the Flight1 Open Day 2011 at Shoreham Airport, are now available for you to watch.

The fifth video features a talk by VATSIM UK. If you want to fly with realistic Air Traffic Control then this online Flight Simulation Community is just the ticket. This video explains what is required to get started and is an absolute must if you want Flight Sim to be as real as it gets!

The sixth podcast is a talk by RAFSIM. Flying information is a rewarding aspect of Flight Simulation, and this video explains the secrets of how to practice formation flying, even when you are the only aircraft. It provides clear instruction on technique and the things to avoid.

Alabeo Releases Pitts S-2S For FSX

Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 15:16
This aircraft features a set of blank textures for creating your own designs. It has a real flight model with high quality 3D Model, textures and sounds. The doumentation includes a detailed aerobatic maneuver chart and a datasheet. Purchasers can also download 3 free liveries. Complete details can be found at the Alabeo website.

Open VFR New Extended Coverage

Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 14:08
OpenVFR has extended their high quality VFR scenery range for Microsoft Flightsimulator X based on Openstreetmap.In this development cycle new sceneries covering more areas in Asia, Africa, South America and also Europe have been added. openVFR Asia, Nepal (2011/11) openVFR Asia, Bhutan (2011/11) openVFR Africa, Uganda (2011/11) openVFR Africa, Ethiopia (2011/11) openVFR South America, Uruguay (2011/11) openVFR South America, Guyana (2011/11) openVFR Europe, Romania (2011/11) As usual a landclass scenery, a scenery for placing additional 3d objects and also a mesh is now available for each country. You can find several screen shots at the openVFR facebook page.

New Cessna-Reims F406 From Neuroflight

Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 1:21
Neuroflight Cessna-Reims F406 twin turbo prop comes back. New version for FS9 FSX SP2 compatible. This version reprogrammed (new gauges files) works with FS9 and Microsoft FSX SP2 (DirectX 9 standard and DirectX 10 WITH Addon Converter X).

The F406 is a twin turboprop engined, fourteen-seat low-wing monoplane of conventional aluminium and steel construction. The F406 is aimed at passenger and small cargo transport, and civilian and military surveillance. The Surmar is a new maritime surveillance version of the aircraft with extra equipment such as a 360 degree radar. NeuroFlight F406 for Flight Simulator includes these 3 models and 9 liveries.

MARA-Missions Releases 3rd Bundle Set

Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 1:06
MARA-Missions have released their third mission-bundle: "Magical Mystery Flights". These are seven missions to mysterious destinations all over the world: Loch Ness in Scotland; Angkor Wat in Cambodia; a mysterious hole in Greenland; Uluru in Australia; the Pyramids in Egypt; the Nazca Lines in Peru; and Dracula's castles Romania. These flights are not challenging aeronautically but they are entertaining and informative.