Ian Pearson Reviews Aerosoft’s AES 2.x

As you might have noticed from recent news releases, Aerosoft’s Airport Enhancement Services (AES for short), reviewed by me here not long after its initial release, has been undergoing a growth spurt recently, to include not only yet more airports under its auspices, but also an entirely new sim – FSX to be precise, although not [...]

‘Wimpey’ From Halycon Media

The German Halycon brings you the rehashed Vickers Wellington in a box. “…. Featuring the four most popular variants of the Vickers Wellington, the MK IC, the B. MkIII, the B. Mk X and B. Mk XIV, military aircraft fans will delight in getting airborne in support of Bomber and Coastal Commands in [...]

Managed SimConnect Client SDK Released

Tim Gregson, aka ‘Beatle’ on the numerous FS forums, has released the first public beta of his (private) new Managed SimConnect Client SDK. This SDK can be used to build managed SimConnect clients, both desktop (Console, WinForm, WPF) and web (Silverlight). This is not an add-on to play with, but an SDK (Software [...]

Rent A Boeing 737 Simulator In Holland

Peter Visser of Prosim4u in The Netherlands offers a special discount until July 31st for their customers. “… Our Boeing 737 Simulator has been placed inside a new training area with many improvements: airco units, better projection screens, a radar screen for ATC vectoring, a complete instructor station with failure control and many [...]

An FSX Tomcat From Italy [update]

Dino Cattaneo, known from his excellent Goshawk, has now released the first version of his F-14D Tomcat for FSX. He writes on his blog “…..  Ok, here we go. First public release of the Tomcat. As it is partially incomplete, the release number is 0.9. For now, it will only be available for [...]

News For Cockpit Builders

Two news worthy messages that we picked up from our Cockpit Builders Forum. One is a link to a wonderful Blackhawk home cockpit under construction somewhere in The Netherlands (unfortunately the ‘About Us’ part of the site is not  used). Have a look at MH-60S’s website here. The other is the mentioing of [...]

Historic Airport Reopened

Here’s an interesting tidbit of news from our AOPA news source. Brad Frederick, a pilot from Michigan, coughed up the money to help reopen an abandoned, overgrown field that was closed down back in 2004. Since then the airport has been improved and is now being used to promote the history and cultural [...]

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport Released

Somehow this news item got stuck in our news scheduler, so we’re a tad late. Nevertheless Umberto Colapcchioni from Italy’s Virtuali s.a.s reports that  “….. FSDreamTeam is pleased to announce the release of FSDreamTeam Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Available for FSX and FS9, with a license valid for use in both simulators…..”.

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Tongass Fjords X Glory on Video

A quick morning video for your viewing pleasure: Buzz313th (don’t ask me, that is a user name…) has made a video showing the Sitka area in the newly released Tongass X scenery by FSAddon: “Just picked up Tongass Fjords X from FSAddons this morning and took the DodoSim 206B up for a quick flight to [...]

SSM2007 Service Pack Released

Exciting Simulations, the makers of the Spache Shuttle Sim, have released a new free Service Pack for the Space Shuttle Mission 2007 simulator. “….. The most notable addition is the new “free floating” mode, which allows the virtual Astronauts to float from the flight deck, down the stairs to the mid-deck and, if [...]