I have said this on numerous occasions, that FSX is a wonderful vehicle to explore the world and experience places we might never have a chance to visit otherwise and this scenery is another great example of that.
Brazil, known officially as the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and the Latin American region. Brazil also happens to be the 5th largest country in the world with a geographical area of 8,515,767kms sq and an estimated population in 2012 of 193,946,886.
To summarize just what this package gives us here is a paragraph taken from the developer’s product page at SimMarket. It is a very brief outline of what this scenery is all about.
“This scenario covers the entire city of Rio de Janeiro and SDU (SBRJ) airport, as well as the region of lakes and coastline of São Paulo, and also as a bonus the city of Natal RN (With Airport SBNT) is the capital of the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Norte and is located in the Northeast region of Eastern Brazil and in the Northeast.”
The main focus of the scenery is Rio de Janeiro which is also the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Rio, a name commonly used to refer to the city, is the second largest city in Brazil with a population of approximately 6.3 million people.
Vienna in Austria will play host to next year’s VATSIM Global Conference, announced in a Press Release issued today by the Virtual ATC organisation.
“VATSIM is proud to announce that Vienna, Austria has been selected as the venue for the next VATSIM Global Conference (W14). Scheduled to take place 9 – 11 May 2014, the organisers have been able to secure one of Vienna’s premier locations for this conference.”
Click “Read More” below for the full press release.
Carenado‘s promise to keep supporting the many users of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 is still bearing fruit, this time with the release of the C90B King Air.
The twin executive turboprop comes in six liveries (plus a blank for repainters), plus a wide array of custom gauges, animations and eye candy. 2d panel fans may want to steer clear, though, as the aircraft comes only with 2d pop-ups for some gauges – the rest is available in the VC only.
Find out more and add it to your collection via the product page here.
Along with Stansted, it may be the butt of many national jokes, but Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) is one of the busiest in the UK and is home to many budget and regional operators, as well as many business jets and charter aircraft.
As usual with UK2000‘s “Xtreme” scenery packages for FS2004 and X, Luton comes with many custom structures, full custom ground textures and a lot of extra features such as ground traffic, animations and appropriate traffic. Full details can be found here.
The two jackets that you can see on the left are the latest Aviation Blu-Ray videos launched by Just Planes :
OSAKA shows some “runway action” from different points of view in the Kansai Airports, with many heavies of a “great variety of airlines”.
Turkish Cargo A330-200F shows the flight and aircraft preparations, loading and unloading cargo, during the operations from and to Istanbul, Milan, Bangkok and even more destinations
It’s not always easy to find the flight simulator retated apps in the stores, but when we find one enough interesting to share, we don’t hesitate !
This one works with FSX on iPad 3, iPhone 4 or iPod. iFMS simulates a flight management system with LNAV / VNAV calculations in a Boeing style, with NavDATA updates for the navigation database and with a HSI display available. Another version for X-Plane is being prepared.
Among the first 200 customers of Mumbai scenery by Thai Creations, a part of them have been selected to receive a gift directly from the developers.
They will send an original white cap with the designers logo in front of it. Interested customers should confirm their actual home address to receive it. See Facebook for the people list or get in touch with an email.
Proud of their popular greek island scenery Skiathos X, 29Palms and Aerosoft present another trailer video showing other aspects of their latest product like the vehicle animations and the pilot’s view during final approach.
If you have used standard instrument departures charts of Paris Charles de Gaulle, you may have noticed the Pontoise VOR often used to guide your turns out of Paris Departure radar.
Just a few thousands feet below your wheels stands the airport LFPT Pontoise Cormeilles-en-Vexin. That’s the actual and freeware FSX project of FROG X.
More than New York city only, it’s the entire state that MegaScenery Earth covers with high definition photoreal textures and mesh. So you can fly to Albany, Buffalo, Rochester just to name the most famous.
Read the complete description on the product page at simMarket, to find out all details about the content and the numerous PDF charts included.
Aerosoft's Munich X is a very detailed depiction of the Franz Josef Strauss airport in Munich Germany. The airport has been thoroughly and meticulously recreated using high resolution photo real ground textures along with intricately detailed structures and objects. To cap it off they have also populated the entire area ...
Slovenia; officially known as the Republic of Slovenia covers an area of approximately 20,000 sq kms and has a population of just over 2 million. Relatively speaking it is a small country located in Central Europe. For those of you not familiar with Slovenia it borders Italy on the west, ...
The developers at FranceVFR are slowly recreating France one region at a time with their regional scenery releases. Following on the heels of Bretagne VFR for FSX is the second in the series; Nord-Pas de Calais for FSX. Read on to discover what I thought about this recent release.
The most ...
Fairbanks International Airport, ICAO: PAFA, is a state owned public use airport located a few kilometers southwest of the city of Fairbanks in the state of Alaska in the United States. The airport serves both cargo lines and a limited number of passenger carriers. Up until several years ago it ...
The IRIS Diamond Star DA40 XLS is a reasonable model of this new style type of GA plane ie made from composite materials with radical design features. It looks good and flies very well and it has its own sounds which are unique to this plane. In general terms the ...
East Midlands Airport, EGNX, is situated between the cities of Derby, Leicester and Nottingham in central England. The site was originally a Royal Air Force station used during the Second World War but was decommissioned in 1946. It was eventually purchased by local government authorities in 1964 and was reopened ...
Our staff reviewer from down under Peter Hayes takes an in-depth look at A2A Simulations latest creation, their Piper Cub rendition, which he calls 'the definitive J-3 Cub'. This is his verdict:
This is a fantastic rendition of the J-3 Cub, It is faithfully reproduced in all its glory, ...
FSPS Flight Simulator Manager (FSM) is more of an analyzer than a manager and I suspect 95% of the users will find it to be the same. It is an application that runs separate from FS9/FSX and feeds you data collected from flight sim’s various modules and allows you to ...
Three things make this a stupid airport to even try and land on... and that’s why you’ll love it. First, the altitude is 9,527ft. Second, there are mountains and steep hills on the path to both runways. Third, the location looks like a place for a really challenging golf course ...
Review Orbx FTX Melbourne V2
Overview:
The Orbx FTX YMML Melbourne V2 airport scenery for FSX is a complete remake of Orbx’s popular first version of Melbourne for FSX, which was the first ever payware airport release by Orbx. Released late 2010, version 2 comes with all new techniques, innovations and features ...
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