Virtual World Aerobatic Championships 2009

Michael Gerbers reports that “…… From the 9th to 23th August in parallel to the real world aerobatic championships in Silverstone virtual pilots from all over the world will record and send in their aerobatic flights to compete in the 7th virtual world championships. Since every year the quality of the flights has [...]

Orbx Bug Fixes And New Airfield

Orbx Simulation Systems from Australia announced their FTX Australia SP3.001 service pack release, adding new features and hundreds of bug fixes ! (We hope that was a typo by the submitter. Ed.). Here’s some of the press release text, the full text can no doubt be found on their web site.

“……Orbx Simulation [...]

Wonderful L-39C Albatros Released

Lotus Simulation have released their Aero Vodochody L-39C Albatros for FSX and it is available now from simMarket!

“….. The Czech built L-39C is the most popular and successful jet trainer of all time. Designed and built in Czechoslovakia during the cold war, the L-39 was developed to train pilots [...]

REX 2.0 Released

Jay Kae of Real Environment Simulations reports they are “….. pleased to announce the release of Real Environment Xtreme 2.0 for Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X. REX 2.0 is the long awaited update to the award-winning Real Environment Xtreme. Many additions and enhancements as well as user-reported errors have have been addressed.

REX 2.0 [...]

Tecnam’s Rotax-powered Twin

AOPA News tells us that “….. Tecnam from Italy introduced its twin-Rotax-powered P2006T to the crowds at EAA AirVenture. Its base price is $409,000 with analog instruments or $469,000 with the Garmin G950 glass cockpit suite. Once fees are added for importing the aircraft from Italy, the total price becomes $500,000. The aircraft [...]

German FS Magazin Issue 5 Available Soon

Bert Groner of the German-language FS Magazin writes “….. Yes, time is going fast and so almost two months went buy again since the last FS MAGAZIN 4/2009. Now FS MAGAZIN 5/2009 will be available shortly. It will be available from the ‘usual suspects’ and sales will start August 6th, 2009. With a [...]

Saitek ProFlight Multi Panel

You can now also order the new Saitek  Multi Panel from their Pro Flight series from simMarket. The Multi Panel incorporates a set of switches and LED display for use in controlling various aspects of flight simulation. Featured are a Full Autopilot panel with associated setting controls, Auto Throttle, Flaps and Elevator Trim [...]

Piper Cheyenne Missions

Combat Planes has made six missions for the Piper Cheyenne made by Digital Aviation.  “….. Piper Cheyenne Pilot for the Digital Aviation Piper Cheyenne adds six adventure flights for the twin engine pilot. A series of six missions begins in Kelowna, BC, Canada and continues to the coast and then southward, ending up [...]

VFR France Products Temporarily Discounted

VFR France is offering some of their older FS2004 products with a huge discount on simMarket. You can get them with a 75% reduction if you act fast! The products involved are the VOL VFR & Avions and the Parisien Airports.

The first includes some of the first products produced, like Belle-île, Quiberon, [...]

Melbourne Photoscenery From Newport

Newport has published some new photoscenery on simMarket. “…. Photo Real Melbourne is a ground texture replacement package that overlays the default terrain with high quality, satellite image textures. This scenery covers the entire city of Melbourne, Australia and the surrounding suburban area…”. If you’re ‘into’ this kind of scenery and love flying [...]