IVAO LAN Party In Belgium

Kenny Moens reports that “…… On October 3, 2009, IVAO Belgium organizes its 8th FS Lan Party. For the people that don’t know it yet, the FS Lan Party is an event where you’ll be able to fly in a network environment. You bring your PC with Flight Simulator to Everberg, Belgium, and [...]

50% Sale This Weekend Only: ‘Fly Wonderful Islands’ Sceneries

simMarket is holding a 50% off Weekend for all sceneries of FWI – Fly Wonderful Islands. Fly to one of the busiest airports during the Summer in Europe in the Canary Islands with this products:

FWI – CANARY ISLANDS X FWI – GRAN CANARIA AIRPORT FWI – EL HIERRO X FWI – LANZAROTE X [...]

FS Water Configurator

Here’s a little app that will change the way the water displays in FSX. Brought to you as freeware by Striking Software and working with the shaders of the graphics drivers to change the reflection (mainly) of the water used in FSX. Since it is freeware, how could we criticize it? I guess [...]

More Missions From ‘FSX Add-ons’

‘FSX Add-ons’ (really, that’s the company name from the San Francisco based mission designer) is on a roll and has released his fourth product on simMarket. This one’s called Afghanistan Corkscrew and lets you drop a Learjet from high up onto the tarmac at Kabul. As if you’d want to go there in [...]

The Building Of Space Station

A good aviation friend of mine came up with THIS LINK today, pointing to USAToday, showing the various parts and stages used to build up the Space Station up till this date. An eye opener to many of us I think, especially if you’re not really ‘into’ this space stuff, other than hearing [...]

PT Boats From Auran Announced

Found this bit of news on the Auran website/shop. You know, the guys Down Under that brought us the Trainz simulator franchise after MS started it all. Haven’t tried it ourselves (yet) but it looks like a ‘simulator game’ that might we worthy of having. If we can get more facts about [...]

In Memoriam of Curth Roth, TRC

We were informed that Curt Roth, Sr., founder and president of the by now famous Dutch The Real Cockpit (TRC) and Simkits companies, regretfully died on August 5th. Curt was only 64 years young and departed us much too soon. Our thoughts are with his family, his wife and sons. [...]

Debit Payments At simMarket

simMarket.com, the world’s largest on-line (Flight)simulator shop, has now added the option for customers from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Belgium to pay via their own bank accounts directly. simMarket uses the services of the Payment Network AG via their DIRECTeBanking system, that links straight into the customer’s own bank procedures. Payments [...]

Astragon Bus Simulation

(In German only!). Astragon (known from the wildly popular Farm Simulator) continues its slew of simulations with this Bus Simulation.It contains 12 models, a huge gaming world, a route editor, but also the option to manage the purchase and maintenance of your equipment, and even ticket sales! Fun stuff! Get it here at [...]

Learn The Mad Dog

Flight Deck Productions have published two interesting products for those wanting to learn to fly the Mad Dog. The first is a pdf file that can be downloaded upon purchase, called LTMD – Study Guide. It goes very well with the other product, a DVD, called Training DVD, which goes into great depth [...]