Chris Brisland, Saturday, 10 January 2009 @ 19:17 Some folk might say this plane was made famous by Tom Cruise. Indeed, the F14 Tomcat wsa the mainstay of the US Navy’s “Top Gun” school – formally called the “United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor (SFTI) program”. Now you too can join “Top Gun” and fly the Tomcat. With more liveries than even [...]
Chris Brisland, Saturday, 10 January 2009 @ 19:00 A new Carenado aircraft has been released: The Cessna 172N Skyhawk II joins the Carenado Fleet.
The first 172 flew in November 1955 and since then more than 43000 have entered service world wide. This particular model variant, the Skyhawk”, was introduced in 1977. Carenado include three standard factory paints plus a commemorative 50th Anniversary [...]
Chris Brisland, Saturday, 10 January 2009 @ 18:41 PMDG has released new versions of the PMDG MD-11 for FSX and FS2004 during the night, Friday. These updates serve to bring both versions to parity, and to add some new features and fixes since the FSX release in October and the FS9 release earlier this week. Both platforms are now up to version 1.10.0051, [...]
Chris Brisland, Friday, 9 January 2009 @ 17:38 Orbx have announced completion of their FTX: Australia series with the release of FTX: AU Red Central Outback. This now completes a highly immersive series of scenery addons that all fans of the “Down under” will enjoy. For more information about the FTX: series and how to acquire them, visit the Orbx website and folow [...]
Chris Brisland, Friday, 9 January 2009 @ 6:40 Justin Tyme sends news of the latest FSGenesis meshes for FSX: “A V2 progress build for Alaska-Hawaii is now available. This progress build includes plateau fixes at numerous airports in SE Alaska. Several more AK airports will be available in next week’s progress build.”
Find out more about this update and about FS Genesis meshes [...]
Chris Brisland, Friday, 9 January 2009 @ 6:27 Right on the heels of their GeForce 295 review, The Guru of 3D do something really horrendously expensive, insane and quite honestly a little silly. (Their words, not mine)
To continue in their words: “You have probably just read the GeForce GTX 295 review. A dual-GPU based solution that kicks ass pretty intensely. Obviously you’ve [...]
Chris Brisland, Thursday, 8 January 2009 @ 15:42 The Guru of 3D has been busy again! This time they review the BFG GeForce GTX 295 graphic card – it was previewed a few weeks ago. They write: “Everything we could not talk about in our preview will be covered… making this a new review on the GeForce GTX 295 final product. We’ll compare [...]
Chris Brisland, Thursday, 8 January 2009 @ 11:21 Leonardo Software have released their Pro version of the MD80.
Available for FS9 and FSX Fly The Maddog is one of the most sophisticated and complete add-on ever developed for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The accuracy of cockpit and system simulation is very high and there are many features which add realism to the simulation and [...]
Chris Brisland, Thursday, 8 January 2009 @ 11:11 There’s a new helicopter for X-Plane fans. It is the Agusta A109E Power from IFLY.IT
The A109E Power is a versatile aircraft that offers the highest level of benefits, combining optimum performance with cost-effectiveness. It is a world famous helicopter manufactured by Agusta of Italy. It is a light-weight, twin engine, eight seat multipurpose [...]
Chris Brisland, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 @ 19:05 Who doesn’t know what a Piper Cub is? Come on, hands up? No one? Good. Now who can honestly say what an “L4″ is? To be honest, I had to raise my hand at this point, but when I saw the pictures of Flight Replica’s L-4 for FSX I really thought “Piper Cub”. Of course, [...]
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