Aviation eBrief From AOPA

For all those interested in General Aviation (in specific) AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) is a tremendous resource of information and services. Although mainly US focused, the AOPA does have charters in many countries all over the world. To better provide news they now launched an electronic newsletter called Aviation eBrief. You [...]

WW2 Pacific Missions For FSX Accelleration

Ron Jeffers has uploaded his latest Mission Pack to simMarket. “…… WW2 Pacific Missions is based on World war 2 action of Hellcat, Corsair and Zero aircraft. The aircraft are scenery game based with basic gauge virtual cocpits and gun sights. The Exterior are DX10 ready and have all the needed animations. Note: [...]

Review: VRS F/A 18E “Superbug”

simFlight Networks forum member “Skinny Puppy” has been occupying himself with the Vertical Reality Simulations (VRS) Superbug these past few weeks and has found it such a challenging and interesting addon aircraft that he felt moved to write a review about it.

Readers thinking about adding this plane to their hangars will find this review [...]

CH Joysticks Now On simMarket

You can now buy your hardware through simMarket too, offering you more and more the One-stop Shopping  experience for all things simulation!

The CH Products joysticks are well-known for their rugged design, and although not the latest and greatest these are very reliable sticks with great features. Order [...]

Aruba Photo-mesh From SyDesigns

According to SyDesigns “……..Mesh ArubaX is the only satellite image of the island of Aruba (not including the airport) at a resolution of 2m/pixel which shows the most important places aswell as the color contrast of the different water depths, even the coral banks can be seen. Includes ship traffic, boats and cruises, [...]

Multi Crew Updated

Ian Reilly of the FS++ team informs us of the following: “……. We are pleased to inform the flight simulation community, that an updated version of our voice control add-on to FSX & FS2004 has been released today. The new improved version is available for download at this link….”.

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Be The Next Van Gogh

…. or how to paint an aircraft. Amidst all the economic and FS gloom and doom, ‘fact’ finding and virtual war mongering, let us bring you something positive. One of the reasons that Flight Simulator is THE simulator is its huge and broad range of communities and all the information available for it. [...]

simMarket (Down for Maintenance) UP NOW [Update3]

Our store, simMarket is going down for a deep system maintenance shortly!

We have to upgrade Apache, that is the name of the software that does all the magic behind a server… an upgrade that has been pending for a long time and now that time has come… and you want to know why? well, [...]

Interview with Curtis Olson, aka Flightgear

This morning i found a blog named Aerial Phenomena that recently posted an interview with Curtis Olson titled ‘Inside Flightgear‘. Curtis is the man behind Flightgear, the Open Source flight simulator that has been around for many a days and most of us have been wanting to give it a try and never got around to it [...]

Open Letter to MS Games Studios

We’re not giving up so easily! I just sent this letter to Phil Spencer in Redmond.

To: Phil Spencer VP of MS Games Studio Redmond, WA An open letter regarding the incomprehensible decision to kill Flight Simulator development.

Dear mr. Spencer,

I have reason to believe that you are, at least partially, responsible for [...]