FS ‘Tycoons’ To Meet In Amsterdam

Arnie Lee of Abacus Software in the US has managed to arrange a meeting in Amsterdam next Monday. Attending are the creme-de-la-creme of Flight Simulator add-on publishers like Aerosoft, Flight1 and Just Flight, some smaller development and publishing companies like FlightSimLabs, CaptainSim and FSAddon Publishing, a couple of individual developers and some retailers. [...]

FSCheckride Now Available For Free

Bryan York, the developer of FS2crew, reports “……FSCheckride, a FS9/FSX addon valued at 19.95 Euros, is now available for FREE courtesy of FS2Crew. FS2Crew owns the rights to FSCheckride, and FS2Crew has decided to give it out as a free gift to the flight sim community as a token of its appreciation for [...]

AMD Phenom Processors Reviewed

FS(X) runs mostly on processor power and thus new processors are always interesting for the flight simulator crowd. Guru3D has a look at AMD’s Phenom CPU’s. “……AMD released two processors in the Phenom II line-up, the Phenom II 955BE and the Phenom II X4 945 processor. Both processors can be considered and positioned [...]

FSX Aircraft Toolbox Updated

Fermin Fernandez reports “…… TweakFS has released a new edition of the their FSX Aircraft ToolBox, a tool that allows developers and FS users alike to make non-destructive changes to the FSX aircraft fleet, back up/restore entire aircraft folders, enable/disable aircraft groups and automate the creation of high-quality thumbnails used in the FSX [...]

Captain Sim Announces More Discounts

Tanya Kucher from Captain Sim sent out the following little press blurb: “….. We are pleased to announce Captain Sim Spring sale is on: all FS9 titles: anything is 9.99 or less! FSX 727: 20 EUR off. FSX C-130: 85 EUR off. FSX 757: 50 EUR off…. and more… For further details please [...]

FS Altitude Western USA

The France VFR team is “…… proud to announce you its second pane of FS Altitude representing more than 5 million km²  from the entire Western coast of USA down  the Mexican border (major part of Mexico included) getting to the middle states of the USA . The scenery has been built using [...]

Quest Kodiak From Lionheart Creations

Bill Ortiz, the owner and soul of Lionhearts Creations, has released his Quest Kodiak ‘modern bushplane’  a while ago. In Bill’s own words this is a “…… high technology, extreme environment bush plane, the Quest Kodiak. This unique new ‘real world’ plane was just released to the world officially this past year and [...]

US Cities X – Indianapolis

Aerosoft has now embarked on a quest to model US Cities for Flight Simulator X. The first one in what is going to be a series is Indianapolis. “…… US Cities X is a series of city scenery for FSX that will cover US cities created by LimeSim. Based on [...]

Review – FCS / Abacus – MILITARY HELICOPTERS 2

Ian Pearson takes a quick look at this First Class Simulations / Abacus title: MILITARY HELICOPTERS 2. This review is accompanied by screenshots of the product, please see the gallery at the end of the text:

I have to admit, this one came as a bit of a surprise to me… First of all, I wasn’t [...]

Raw Grit – You’ll Need It Here

We ought to  be reviewing this, but right now you deserve a taster commentary from your reviewer:

I said it in the preview a few months back: Pacific Islands Simulation are on a winner with this addon. But this product is so attractive that it doesn’t need a review. Take a look in simMarket [...]