Halycon International Fighters

Halycon boxed products are often rehashes of Abacus Pub titles. As such the International Fighters box is not new, but it IS new on simMarket. In it you get 11 aircraft designed by the Russian Piskin family. They include such icons as the F-15, F-117 Nighthawk and the Russian Mig-29 Fulcrum, but you’ll [...]

GMap Chart Manager 1.1

FSWidgets report that they have “….. updated their free calibration utility for making GMap-compatible charts. The new version adds Vista UAC compatibility, improved memory handling and a new step-by-step, easy-to-follow tutorial on how to create a calibrated chart. The Chart Manager has built-in tools to view and overlay charts onto Google Maps in [...]

Kansas City From Taburet

Raimondo Taburet from London has released yet another of his photosceneries, this time covering Kansas City. “… It is a photorealistic scenery for day and night / summer – covering the whole area of Kansass City – The scenery resolution is 2m /pix  to ensure that all users benefit from the highest frames [...]

Ecuador, Quito For FSX

Boris Forero writes about his latest scenery “….. This scenery is the evolution of Quito for FS9 version, and has been built in order to get the most of the new Flight Simulator X improvements. Quito is the capital of Ecuador, and its airport is one of the highest in [...]

New Release Of MyTraffic Coming

Burkhard Renk of MyTraffic is constantly improving what already is the world’s best AI Traffic program for both FS9 and FSX.

“…. With the release of MyTraffix X 5.2a there will be a notable improvement of the eastern hemisphere traffic, airline companies and aircraft.

It includes all new models [...]

Piper Aircraft No Longer American

With the sale of Piper Aircraft to the investment company Imprimis, the ownership of this 72 year old, famous aircraft company moves to Singapore. For old-fashioned people (like me, admittedly) this is a ‘loss’ in a historic sense. Piper, like Cessna, has been one of the icons of American aircraft design and development [...]

Spring Air Show Duxford

The good weather is coming…. we hope… and so are the air shows. Here’s one to chalk into your agendas! “…… Spring Air Show opens Duxford’s 2009 air show season in style, celebrating the Best of British in an aerial spectacle that features some truly outstanding aircraft. We are also delighted to welcome [...]

Enough Already……..

Alright, you’ve looked at all thses Cats long enough now… lets get on with ‘the news’…. Wilco reports that they now have burned their FS2004/FSX Tiltrotor onto a CD for you to buy. That’s if you don’t like downloads, or are bandwidth-challenged for some reason. Available here from their website.

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PBY Catalina Out Now

And just on a day like this I had to be out of the office, and miss Aerosoft’s latest release, eh? Well I can’t get enough of her, so here’s yet another article…… Mathijs Kok writes “…… Aerosoft has just released the PBY Catalina. The feature list of this project is extensive, from [...]

New Reference Plane For FSX

I don’t think I want to put anymore news on the site today… just so that we keep these Catalina pictures on top….. I have a bunch more, but had to make a selection. They are ALL breath taking (thanks Nick) and the upcoming Aerosoft Catalina (out tomorrow) will for sure set a [...]