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simFlight Back On Its Feet

francois, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 @ 13:52

You will have noticed that we had problems these past few days. Both the site and the forums were running extremely slow, or not at all at times. The server was totally overloaded, no matter how many resources we threw at it. Turns out there was one of these ‘commercial hackers’ having added [...]

Hanson Airstrip For FSX

francois, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 @ 13:43

FarmFlyingUK has released Hanson Airstrip. Contrary to its company name, the field is NOT located in the UK but is situated in the deserted hills of Montana just south of Little Bitterroot Lake and United States Route 2. “….. Mainly used for private use and an access point to the outside world, Hanson [...]

FSX Mission Editor Enhanced

francois, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 @ 13:26

FSAddon Publishing reports that “…. a new build of the FSX Mission Editor is available which fixes some small problems and adds some important new features. The FSX Mission Editor provides a graphical, fully checked environment for creating FSX missions. It is available for free, limited to creating small missions, or can be [...]

P-38 From SkyUnlimited For FSX

francois, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 @ 7:34

SkyUnlimited have released their new P-38 Lightning WW2 fighter for FSX!Â They write “….. With the release of the P-38 Lightnings X SkyUnlimited can now offer its acclaimed P-38′s in true native FSX fashion. These true FSX aircraft feature new custom smooth 3D gauges, enhanced interior and exterior textures, all of the features [...]

MROC From LatinVFR

francois, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 @ 7:26

Never heard of MROC? You will have if you live somewhere in Latin America. MROC is the code for Juan Santamaria International Airport, located on Costa Rica near San Jose. It was previously known as Coco and is still referenced by pilots that way. It is the main airport of Costa Rica and [...]

FSMagazin 6/2009 Out Now

francois, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 @ 7:17

The German-language bi-monthly flightsim magazine FSMagazin published its Issue 6 2009 this week. SimFlight Germany has a partnership with the magazine and now shares news and forum with them. If you are interested (and can read German), you can find a listing of the current issue’s content by clicking on Read Full Story……

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Imaginesim Announces Hong Kong Intl.

francois, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 @ 7:04

Cal Lewis of Imaginesim is working on portraying Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok Airport into FSX and FS2004. That’s the NEW airport in Hong Kong (VHHH). He writes “….. For anyone interested in Imagine Simulation’s forthcoming Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok Airport there are some work-in-progress screenshots at our web site. More preview [...]

FS2Crew News

francois, Monday, 28 September 2009 @ 9:10

FS2Crew, a developer of realistic flight crew simulations for FSX and FS9, would like to make the following announcements: “….. 1. The FSX 737 Voice Commander has been updated to version 1.1. The update is built into the main installer and is not available as a separate download. 2. Official FSX 737 Voice [...]

The 2009 simFlight Awards Results

francois, Saturday, 26 September 2009 @ 22:45

The Annual simFlight Awards Ceremony has taken place once more in Paderborn, home of Aerosoft GmbH who hosts the German Flightsim Conference at Paderborn Airport every year.

As has become ‘tradition’ already, Francois Dumas handed out the awards, assisted by the owner of simFlight, Miguel Blaufuks. You can read who WON [...]

EFB for X-Plane 1.2 with GMap Support Released

francois, Friday, 25 September 2009 @ 12:45

FSWidgets from Australia reports that EFBXP (Electronic Flight Bag for X-Plane) Version 1.2 has been released adding many new features including support for the free GMap moving map system, X-Plane 8 and 9 compatibility, PNG weather image handling and support for systems with 120 DPI (Large Fonts). This is a free update for [...]

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