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Spring Discounts At FSGenesis

francois, Saturday, 4 April 2009 @ 10:17

FSGenesis reports that “… in celebration of spring we are offering 20% off everything in the store. Simply enter SPRING in the coupon box in the second checkout screen to receive an instant 20% off your order.Â Also, tax season has snuck up on us this year, so we are taking a short [...]

Free Update To RealATIS

francois, Friday, 3 April 2009 @ 20:27

Michael from the SkyTalk team announces “…… the next version of our RealATIS for MSFS software. This version supports SAPI5 technology, which allows you to use the best payware (such as Scansoft, Acepela, AT&T) voices for ATIS and VOLMET messages. In addition, this version includes general fixes and software enhancements. Current customers of [...]

Plum Island Gets More Praise

francois, Friday, 3 April 2009 @ 20:18

Francois Dumas of FSAddon.com Publishing reports that “….. we’re happy to see that AvsimÂ now too is enthusiastic about our Plum Island scenery for FSX, made by Bill Womack. Bert Pieke, who reviewd it here, finds it a ‘gem of a scenery package’ and his only negative point about it is that he [...]

Cessna’s RISE Campaign In Defence Of GA

francois, Friday, 3 April 2009 @ 20:08

Especially in the US the general aviation industry is facing a public relations nightmare partly caused by the Big Three automakers arriving in Washington in business jets to seek federal bailout money. According to AVweb the industry is planning on fighting back, with Cessna is planning an aggressive PR campaign, called the RISE [...]

FlightSim Commander Version 8.5 Released

francois, Friday, 3 April 2009 @ 19:49

Sascha Felix and Volker Heine report that they have released “….. the new version 8.5 of our popular flight planning and navigation tool FlightSim Commander. The program can be downloaded either as an upgrade or a full-install version from simMarket or www.fscommander.com. The new version hosts a large number of new features and [...]

VFR Extreeme Presents Boise X

francois, Thursday, 2 April 2009 @ 12:15

“…… Boise has a very diverse landscape that makes it “Extreeme” and a logical location for VFR flight. In the Northeast corner of the Boise area you will find beautiful mountainous terrain and the Boise river cutting through on its way to the pristine Lucky Peak Lake. The middle of Boise is filled [...]

Backcountry Pilots Unite Here

francois, Thursday, 2 April 2009 @ 10:07

One of the Emma Field Club members found this wonderful site for bush and mountain pilots, called Shortfield.com. “…… Shortfield.com is an online community for backcountry aviation and airplane camping enthusiasts working together to create a comprehensive database to document and share information about backcountry airstrips.

The site is built around an FAA [...]

Vehicle Simulator From Quality Simulations

francois, Thursday, 2 April 2009 @ 9:41

Vehicle Simulator has now appeared on simMarket too. According to Ilan Papini, the developer, “…. it is a unique simulator, combining land, underwater, sea surface, air and low orbit environments into one, the program makes it possible to drive, fly, sail, dive and go into space in one convincing simulation environment.

ATI HD4890 Versus NVidia GeForce GTX275

francois, Thursday, 2 April 2009 @ 9:30

Guru3D has looked at two of the latest graphics cards, the competitors from ATI and NVidia, being the ATI HD4890 and the NVidia Geforce GTX275.

“….. the Radeon HD 4890 is armed with a weaponry of 1024MB memory and we’ll take it through all our test paces and software, offer you [...]

Pegasus Website Expands

francois, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 @ 17:07

Henk Arents of The Pegasus web site reports “…… Regular visitors may have noticed during the past months that both websites “Latin wings” and “Caribbean Props” are rebuilt completely from scratch. Individual in their own specific colors but tightly connected to The Pegasus, Cirrus Productions has expanded to the max. Useful links are [...]

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