With another year ending……..

…. and with a BANG, literally as far as your Editor is concerned (my PC blew up after I turned it on upon returning from Christmas Hols), or with a ‘ fizzle’  as far as flightsimming is concerned with dwindling sales, dwindling forum posts, dwindling interest all around it seems, I would like [...]

Flight Illusion Digital Clock

Flight Illusion have released yet another instrument for GA pilots. “…… The GSA71 is a digital clock as used in general aviation panels like the Cessna. it is modelled after the Devtron Digital clock and has the same functionalities. The LCD display is backlit…..”. More information regarding features and pricing is available from [...]

Quick Poll: are you a FS9er or a FSXer ?

Let’s do it quick and dirty so we all know what we are and where we are at as 2008 draws it’s last curtain. Pleaaaase be honest, we do want to get a quick but accurate view of the status quo of you, our readers. We believe this to be of interest to all. Go [...]

A2A Simulations and the “Angel of Deliverance.”

Scott Gentile from A2A Simulations has been in touch to announce that they are developing an official training package for the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation and their Boeing C97 freighter aircraft, ‘Angel of Deliverance‘. The “Accu-Simulator” training package will be based on A2A’s popular Wings of Silver Boeing 377 Stratocruiser package (available from simMarket here).

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New releases from France VFR

Two new releases from scenery developers FranceVFR via simMarket today, one for each of the latest versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Firstly, for FS9, there’s Brest Guipavas (LFRB), an airport about as far West as you can go in France without getting very wet indeed, at the tip of Brittany.  The scenery includes approximately 40km² [...]

Got my Christmas present today …. post yours!

This thread in our forums got my attention today: Got my Christmas present today.

What a nice idea, tell us about what you received from your loved ones or presented yourself with that is FS related? Use the comments feature below or/and post screenshots in our Screenshots Forum.

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MegaSceneryEarth, no less!

Even more Photo-Real Scenery coming at you, this press release came in for an interesting concept of Scenery on Demand, please read to understand: “ PC Aviator Launches MegaSceneryEarth, Hyper-Realistic Photo-Scenery On Demand For Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

MegaScenery publisher, PC Aviator, in partnership with MegaScenery developer Aerosoft Australia Pty Ltd, today announced the launch of the [...]

Any Reader feels like Blogging FS News?

Dear Reader,

if you feel that urge to write rant and comment about your hobby on these pages, why not become a contributing editor? We sure can use a hand! We do not offer anything but your claim to fame and you will get to pick a shiny fantastic job title  like: Associate Editor , [...]

A Javelin for X-Plane

A product for X-Plane as reached the simMarket shores, an ATG Javelin MK-20 made for X-Plane v 9.21 and above. It comes with: Full Function 3D Cockpit in pilot and copilot seats. Custom dataref, and instruments. Easy click buttons. 10 Liveries of 2048 pixels each, with night and day textures. Real HUD (one of the first planes [...]

Fokker 50 V2 for FSX (not DX10)

Available from simMarket is VirtualCol’s second version of their Fokker 50, now for FS2004 and FSX, however not compatible with DX10: “Virtualcol is proud to presents the version 2.0 corrected of the model FOKKER 50 VIRTUAL for FS2004 and FSX….”  While English is not their strongest the airplane is claimed to deliver 20 repaints and [...]