Belfast Airport By UK2000

Gary Summons of UK2000 published another of his UK titles and writes “…..Welcome to the most detailed scenery ever made for Belfast  Airport! Belfast  is the latest creation of the new generation of products from UK2000 Scenery, using new methods and modeling systems which allows us to make truly amazing [...]

Aircraft FactualTV Website Open

The folks at FactualTV report that “….. a brand new website has been launched: aircraft.factualtv.com.  Here users will find the best long and short form videos and documentaries about aircraft. The site also provides news, blogs and other content related to aircraft.  FactualTV is an online service dedicated to gathering content relating to [...]

GeForce GTX275 Shootout On Guru3D

Guru3D writes “… A week or two ago NVIDIA announced it’s latest graphics card positioned in the high-end region, called the GeForce GTX 275. The GeForce GTX 275 is a bit of a hybrid card in-between the GeForce GTX 260 and GeForce GTX 285. NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 275 in an allergic [...]

Facebook And Twitter Gain Momentum

Social networks like ‘Facebook’ are gaining popularity by the day. Already 200 million people (!) use Facebook nowadays. Yes, I myself am on it too, daily ! And ‘Twitter’ is another popular way to ‘waste one’s time’ on the internet and mobile phones. simFlight.com is on Twitter (see bottom right column), and now [...]

HMS King George V W2 Battleship

Something else from Delta Sim, the Polish developer who has brought us a series of wonderful contemporary yachts and ships so far. The HMS King George V – class battleship “….. was the flagship of the British Fleet during II WW. Was built by Vickers-Armstrong at Walker’s Naval Yard – Newcastle upon Tyne [...]

April/May Computer Pilot Magazine

Yup, it’s on the bookstands again, and on simMarket. Unfortunately the publisher, PC Aviator, had to decide to reduce the frequency back to bi-monthly due to the economic crisis much of the world is engulfed in. That means less to read and longer to wait. Volume 13, Issue 3 is chockful of good [...]

Lock Haven Airport For FSX

We reported about this before, but now the FSX version of the Piper Memorial Airport has been posted on simMarket for download. “…. This scenery features this historical general aviation airport with great realism and attention to details. All runways and taxiways replicate the real ones with great precision and detail, all custom [...]

HDR in FSX DX9

It sounds incredible, but it really works (NVidia card needed, newer models only 9xxx and later, probably 8xxx as well – couldn’t test it on ATI, you’ll have to try yourself): This little .dll adds HDR  to FSX in DX9 – without noticeable impact on framerates (at least on newer cards). It’s the same effect [...]

HJG 3rd Anniversary

Mark Cranston of the Historic Jetliners Group (HJG) writes that they “….. have pleasure announcing its 3rd anniversary website update featuring debut release of its secret aircraft project of the past several months, along with another flightline of classic/nostalgic B707, B720, & B727 liveries for FS2004 & FSX ….”.

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More FS Replacement Textures – ESS

Elemental Software Solutions, yet another FS textures replacements group,  say it is “…..  pleased to announce the release of it’s flagship product, FS Elemental – Natural Pack, for Microsoft’s FS2004. FS Elemental is an extraordinary and complete environment enhancement dedicated to Flight Simulator 2004. With simply one click, you can now revive your [...]