Alphasim Rutan review at Screenshotartist

Screenshotartist.co.uk have just posted their latest review, this time of Alphasim’s Rutan “LongEZ” – very much a GA cruiser with a difference and with a few changes in content from the Alphasim models you may be used to, as well.

To read on, (and, as usual, see some excellent screenshots!) please visit Nick Churchill’s screenshotartist [...]

Adobe May Be Threatening Your FS Installation

Here’s a message we received tonight from Mike at PCGameControls.com, about a bit of Adobe software that may harm FS installations. Mike writes: “………FlightSim.com member Ocala has identified a serious threat to the FS community, please see the following thread in the FS2004 forum … “.

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Goshawk, ready for catapult launch

Today we got word from the legendary Dino Cattaneo, creator of a very successful F14 Tomcat freeware add-on, that his latest project, a freeware Boeing/Bae T-45C Goshawk, has been released today to several FS add-on libraries. The model features state-of-the-art graphics, a highly detailed virtual cockpit, a stable flight model and Acceleration compatibility. The Accelleration [...]

Taburet and Newport Battle It Out

Taburet and Newport vie for your dollars on simMarket, dumping one photoscenery title after the other onto us. Today saw two new titles from Newport, ‘Photoreal Chicago‘, and ‘Photoreal San Francisco‘, while Taburet released yet another of his own, titled… gasp!… ‘San Francicso Photorealistic‘. Anyway, competition is good for the consumers, they say. [...]

Washington DC Satellite Scenery

Newport has put yet another ‘photoreal’ title up on simMarket, now portraying Washington DC. “….. Photo Real Washington DC X is 2 m per pixel satellite image ground textures for the whole District Of Columbia, USA. This awesome scenery is perfect for those who like to fly VFR, or for those who are residents of [...]

NAV Gauges From Flight Illusion

Flight Illusion “……. proudly presents the new range of navigational instruments for use with flight simulator. To celebrate our 3rd anniversary, the developers at Flight illusion have closed the gap and released the last instruments in the general aviation segment. After the turn & bank coordinator and the F16 gauges, this is the [...]

A2A Releases Patch For P-47

A2A Simulations reports they have “……. released a patch for our Wings of POWER II: P47 “Thunderbolt” for Microsoft Flight Simulator X.  We also released the Thunderbolt under our new “Solo” line of aircraft, which is compatible with both Flight Simulator 2004 and Flight Simulator X…..”.

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FSLabs Releases Engravity/PMDG CDU Driver

Francois Dumas, PR officier for FSLabs, reports “……. Flight Sim Labs, Inc., (FSLabs), announces the release of yet another one of our specialized driver applications, this time to provide an interface between Engravity hardware and Flight Simulator software. This specific interface allows owners of Engravity’s 737 and 747 CDU hardware to interface their [...]

FSAddon’s Plum Island for FSX Released

FSAddon Publishing announces the release of a new add-on for Flight Simulator X called Plum Island. It is the first of a new series of very highly detailed small sceneries designed by Bill Womack. The series is called ‘100 Dollar Burger’, with a wink to an existing real-life chain of small airfield articles. Plum Island’s [...]

Are you using Internet Explorer 8?

If you are, you might have noticed that the menu bar with the drop down menus is not working like it should. To overcome this, simply press “Alt”-”T”on your keyboard and click on “Compatibility View Settings”. And just add “simflight.com” to the list and restart IE8. Now the menus should be working fine.

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