TropicalSim Releases São Paulo / Guarulhos Intl' Airport - SBGR

Posted: Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 19:35
Welcome to Guarulhos Airport, Brazil's main airport, located 25 kilometers from downtown São Paulo. The airport has just completed 25 years with it's two runways, 260 check-in desks and ever increasing demand with over 25% increase in passengers in the last three years. Several major world airlines serve the airport, connecting São Paulo to a vast number of countries and cities.

The airport has been carefully modeled attentively textured, featuring all airport arquitecture and adjacent areas crafted to confirm FS's slogan of "As Real As It Get's" giving you a being there feeling never never before. Complete details can be found at the Tropical Sim website.

MJKP (Jamaica) from Latin VFR

Posted: Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 2:03
Staff reviewer Philip Wilson heads to Jamaica, man. Here he looks at Latin VFR's Norman Manley International Airport - MJKP. "The Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) is located on a picturesque peninsula twenty minutes from Kingston’s business center. It is bordered by the seventh largest natural harbor of the world and is one of Jamaica’s global gateways. The Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) is the primary airport for business travel to and from Jamaica and for the movement of air cargo."

"The scenery's textures are where the MKJP product starts to lose its glamour. Unfortunately there are more disappointing areas than positive ones. Based on earlier titles, I have a lot of respect for the LatinVFR team and it is with great sadness I have to report this. There were positive scenery areas however."

"The Norman Manley Int'l Airport from LatinVFR is the best rendition of this airport available for FS, but unfortunately the use of photo ground textures and lack of attention to detail were the contributors to this products downfall."

Multi-Crew Experience V2.0 Released

Posted: Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 0:45
It is now more than a year since Multi Crew Experience, voice control add-on to FSX and FS2004 was been released. The FS++ team is pleased to announce the release of Version V2.0 of their award winning add-on.

This release allows you to create your own commands and more. Also, support for radar contact ATC voice interaction has been added.
MCE is a speech based add-on that allows the flight sim enthusiast to fly those heavies in a more realistic way. Issue commands to co-pilot, go through the checklist, etc... You can also interact with the native FS ATC entirely by voice. There is more to this add-on than meets the eye. A fully working, time limited demo, is available for download.

Flying the Mustang VLJ / Garmin G1000

Posted: Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 0:30
Guidelines and Tutorial on Flying the Mustang VLJ / Garmin G1000 now in Avsim Library. A major phenomenon is sweeping the General Aviation world-the advent of "very light jets" such as the new Cessna Citation Mustang, modeled in FSX by Flight1-and with it Garmin's G1000 "glass cockpit" being shipped with virtually all new GA aircraft. Discussing this at a recent San Diego SimFlite club (www.simflite.com ) meeting we noted that relatively little has been available to acquaint flight sim hobbyists with flying and navigating G1000-equipped high performance aircraft as it's done in real-world aviation. With that in mind three SimFlite members, Kurt Kalbfleisch, Bill Clark and Avsim's Maury Pratt researched and wrote a Tutorial and Guidelines on Flying the Flight1 Mustang.

Menorca X Released

Posted: Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 0:28
Aerosoft has been working on a series of scenery to cover the Balearic Islands and today released Menorca X. They covered the whole island with great textures and high definition mesh and using AESlite there is no shortage of moving vehicles on the main airport. The scenery is both for FSX and FS2004, but rather different for both sims. The FSX version is many times bigger as it covers the whole island with high detail 50 cm textures. But in both sims this seems to be a very solid scenery created by Sim-wings. The screenshots show an island that thousands will recognize from their holidays.

CLS 767 Updated

Posted: Saturday, February 20, 2010 - 0:21
Commercial Level Simulations has released Service Pack 2 for the Boeing 767. The service pack is now available in our downloads section. The service pack is for both the FS9 and the FSX versions.

The Avsim Store has a great selection of download products

Posted: Friday, February 19, 2010 - 16:18
From Carenado, you can get the latest PA-28 Archer II, the Mooney 20-J , the C172N Skyhawk and others.
From Wilco we have the Boeing 777and the CRJ Regional Jet.
From Aerosoft, we have recently added My Traffic 2010. It is the latest version of the popular and successful My Traffic series. My Traffic 2010 generates more than 800,000 flight a day, worldwide. For
Team SBD, we have just added UK Cold War Airfields and RAF Scampton, on top of US Airfields 1 and 2.

For those who want to extend their Flight Sim experience, we carry FSFlying school as well as FS2Crew products.

Visit the Avsim store today.

The 2010 Round-the-World Race

Posted: Friday, February 19, 2010 - 13:50
The annual FS Round-the-World Race begins this Saturday, February 20th. This is the eighth running of the Race between teams representing AVSIM, FlightSim.com, Sim-Outhouse, and now iFlyOnline. (Team AVSIM has won four of the previous seven events...last year by a mere thirty-nine minutes. The success has been a joint effort by the AVSIM staff, Tom Allensworth, and the team's pilots.) The race is run in real time and real weather over four or five demanding days. Skill, determination, and especially teamwork are essential for success.

Newcomers are always welcome. Simply jump to the AVSIM Race Forum and "sign up" to gain access to the team forum and so forth. You can learn more about the Race by visiting the official Race Site.

FS2Crew PMDG 747-800 Update

Posted: Friday, February 19, 2010 - 13:42
FS2Crew is pleased to announce that a free FS2Crew iPhone/iPod Newsreader app is now available for download. FS2Crew would also like to announce that a special update is now available for FS2Crew FSX PMDG 747-400 owners who purchased the recently release PMDG 747-800 Expansion pack, both of these releases can be found at the FS2Crew homepage

Lysander Secret Operations

Posted: Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 14:58
Lysander Secret Operations From FsAddon has been updated, the full installer of this Service Release the can be downloaded from the point of purchace or in part by a visit to their Support Forums for the updated files.

Ultimate Alaska X Released

Posted: Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 14:50
Flight One Software, in cooperation with Scenery Solutions, is excited to bring you Ultimate Alaska X. Alaska is one of the world's most unique scenic locations. And, it is an excellent place for flight simmers to enjoy the beauty of VFR flight. Unfortunately, you probably won't be able to enjoy Alaska's beauty with FSX alone.

Ultimate Alaska X is the most complete rendering of Alaska to date. It provides a ground up redesign of nearly every scenery aspect in Alaska. This includes more accurate water, roads, railroads, urban modeling, mesh, detailed glaciers, repositioned airports and more. Alaska is no small scenery package. It covers 586,412 sq. miles in area and has 40,544 miles of shoreline (40% of America's total shoreline). Out of the 20 largest mountains in North America, Alaska is home to 17 of them.

Mega Airport Amsterdam For FS9 Released

Posted: Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 14:46
Amsterdam Schiphol is the international and by far the largest airport of the Netherlands. In fact it is one of the biggest airports in Europe and serves as a hub for the national carrier KLM and its partners from Skyteam. Other based airlines are Martinair, Arkefly and Transavia.

Schiphol airport is situated to the south-west of Amsterdam in the area of Haarlemmermeer. The unique feature of this airport is that its elevation is approx. 3 meters below sea level which makes it the lowest European airport.

This airport scenery from Aerosoft has been modelled to the smallest of details including all buildings and airport institutions. Its docking systems and all features of this airport are shown in an up to date virtual replica Microsoft Flight Simulator. Countless static and dynamic objects enhance the flair of a busy mega airport.

FS2004 MEXICO CITY INTERNATIONAL

Posted: Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 14:40
FS2004, MEXICO CITY INTERNATIONAL From Taxi To Gate has been released and is available from the Taxi To Gate MMMX Website.

Real New Zealand Tauranga Updated

Posted: Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 14:33
Real New Zealand Tauranga Airport and City for FSX has now been updated. This Avsim Gold Star Award-winning scenery is available as a free download for existing owners of the full FSX version of Real New Zealand Tauranga.
The new update includes a high resolution (15cm) airport background, completely redesigned airport buildings and objects optimised for FSX, plus heaps of other new features. The updated scenery is available from the Real New Zealand Tauranga Info Page.

Fs6DOFware for Flight Simulator X

Posted: Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 14:27
fs6DOFware for Flight Simulator X Has been released . This add-on can be used to add full 6DOF (degrees of freedom) movement to FSX camera using a 3D mouse from 3Dconnexion. Now users can move the eye point quickly throughout the entire cockpit, with a single control and along all the directions, without have to remember tricky key combinations. For additional information, please see the official web page for fs6DOFware for Flight Simulator X .

The 767 Long Haul And ETOPS Guide

Posted: Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 14:17
LROPS has updated the '767 Long Haul and ETOPS Guide'. The critically acclaimed book has been updated in time for VATSIM's Cross the Pond Event. There is new information within the book, a few cosmetic changes and a few other alterations: all in an attempt to make the events of the coming months as enjoyable, and best of all, as realistic as they can be! Existing cusotmers can download this updated version by logging into their account. More information is availible at the 767 Long Haul and ETOPS Guide Homepage.

SBD Dauntless For FSX Released

Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 14:50
UK based Vertigo Studios ,producer of add-ons for FSX, has launched their second of a range of WWII aircraft to flight simmers through their website. The SBD Dauntless is now available from Vertigo Studios following 12 months of research and detailed modelling and painstaking replication of 6 liveries to represent versions from SBD 1 through to 5, and the A-24B of the famous carrier based dive bomber that operated in the Pacific and Atlantic war zones.

Project Manager Dean Greasley says that the SBD follows the success of their first product, the Grumman F6F Hellcat: “We set out determined to raise the high benchmark already set by the Hellcat and are very confident that the detail, combined with an immersing selection of animations, will please simmers who love aircraft of this era.”

Anyone who downloads the free Manual will be delighted to see that the highly detailed and realistically textured virtual cockpit also includes the gunner’s position. The Vertigo team have not only animated the forward canopy, but the gunners main entry canopy, and to work with separate key controls. Having opened the rear canopy, the twin flex-mounted, rear facing .30 cal machine guns can be lifted from their bay in readiness for action!

The SBD’s dive bombing capability has been replicated within the carefully tested flight dynamics. Of course there would be little point in dive bombing using the massive perforated dive flaps if a bomb could not be released. The ability to lower the bomb cradle first, then release the bomb is animated in stages as experienced in real world action.

The SBD Dauntless is available only for FSX including SP1, SP2 and Acceleration (no planned version for FS9). A comprehensive paint kit is provided for the growing community of repaint artists.

De Havilland Tiger Moth DH-82A V1.1

Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 14:34
Anthony Lynch Releases Tiger Moth V 1.1 at OZx , the update contains a number of fixes and improvements as well as another couple of versions, all yours with a visit to Ant's Airplanes at OZx .

MyTraffic 2010 from Aerosoft

Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 2:21
Staff reviewer Philip Wilson adds more life to his virtual skies with Aerosoft's MyTraffic 2010. "MyTraffic 2010 from Aerosoft, along with MyTraffic X from Simmarket, are both developed by Burkhard Renk. My Traffic 2010 is the latest version of the popular and longtime successful My Traffic series. Uncompromisingly optimized for the Microsoft Flight Simulator X this product provides realistic air traffic in the air and on the ground, which is controlled by artificial intelligence, for more than 8200 airports."

"MyTraffic 2010 features 146 unique AI aircraft representing 4,106 liveries across the globe. In addition, you will see the FSX default GA and corporate aircraft at most airports. Each aircraft was designed specifically for FSX with the latest tools and are fully DX10 compliant. There are no “carry over” models from FS9 which speaks volumes about the dedication of Burkhard to ensure only the best products are incorporated in this release of MyTraffic."

"Many of the commercial IA aircraft are beautiful. After examining 50+ commercial aircraft in various liveries, I found most of the repaints excellent on average, with a few that bordered average. In addition to the default FSX corporate aircraft, MyTraffic 2010 adds the Challenger 300, 601, 604, 850 and the Global Express. The quality of the textures on these aircraft fall into the average category as I didn’t see any truly high quality repaints regardless of which airport I visited. Visit any small real world airfield and there will be numerous GA aircraft sporting a wide variety of paint schemes. One aspect of this product I really looked forward to was the addition of military aircraft at bases around the world."

"More than 2,100 FSX stock airports have been modified with greater AI traffic. In many cases where there was no AI at all, including many military airfields, MyTraffic 2010 added a number of additional parking locations. Givin the limits of FSX, I feel the resulting AI traffic is extremely realistic and given that the user can add/remove or edit schedules makes for a very complete product. MyTraffic 2010 displays as much airport activity at 16% than FSX does at 100%."

"MyTraffic 2010 brings everything into one easy to use package. From thousands of new FSX/DX10 compliant airliners, to military bases across the globe full of realistic combat aircraft, this package is a definite must-have for anyone who wants a one-stop-shop for all their AI traffic needs."

Acapulco Int'l Airport For FS9 Released

Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 0:42
Mexsim is proud to present General Juan N. Álvarez International Airport or also known as Acapulco Intl Airport for FS9. It is the largest international airport in the country's southern Pacific region, and one of the largest air facilities in Mexico. The Scenery offers Custom Buildings, High Quality Ground Textures, Terminal Replica as Real Life! ,Friendly FPS! ,Custom jetways, car's, trees, taxilights, and much more! Realistic Night Lightning! and an Accurate Afcad.