Review: Aerosoft US Cities X — San Francisco

Rick Desjardins is a another young promising review staff writer at simFlight and for his first write up he looked at Aerosoft’s San Francisco scenery, ther first in their US Cities X series. On we go an d more after the jump: ”

Installation The installation was painless and complete, with this Aerosoft scenery package [...]

News for the Wilco Airbus

Our reader Stephan Schäfer has sent in this bit of information: “Eric Marciano is providing a driver which allows the full integration of the Cockpitsonic MCDU into the Wilco Airbus (similar to the integration of the Engravity CDU into the PMDG 737). Currently only Vol. 1 is supported, but according to his website Vol. 2 will follow with [...]

MDX8 Soundpack From TSS

TSS from Denmark reports that he is (yawn…) ‘…. proud to announce the TSS MD8X JT8D Soundpack for FSX….”. Sorry folks, this simmer is not into sounds (actually I wear earplugs when riding my motorbike and turn the flightsim sound down to get allowance from the wife to ‘play’ ….. !). But, realizing [...]

New Orleans From Aerosoft

The third product in their series of US Cities X, made by LimeSim (i.e. Sascha Normann) for Aerosoft, is New Orleans. It is ‘based on an extensive aerial image it has all the major buildings and landmarks plus all the heliports that are inside the covered areas….’ according to the marketing blurb. One [...]

Gold Medal Cockpit Kits

Here’s some new products from Gold Medal Sim Parts. Just discovered their cockpit kits on simMarket and was wondering about the ‘strange’ marketing expressions. Like “Long time of storage in improper conditions can cause deformities.”  Ummmm… say again!? Turns out the company is based in Brazil and they probably use Bablefish or something [...]

Review: VFR Short Airfields X Vol.1 Quebec

Douglas Zabizewski is a new review writer for simFlight and the object of his very first review is a scenery developer by an also new developer named Daniel Louvet. Daniel has created a series of small airfields in Quebec bundled in packs of three. This review was is for the title VFR-SHORT FIELDS X – VOLUME 1 QUEBEC, [...]

Flightsim Weekend Hergiswil

‘Hergiswil’  you ask… where the heck is that!?? Let me tell you, it is a wonderfully cozy little Swiss village near Lucerne with a view on the famous Pilatus Mountain. It was special to me, because we used to drive through it on our way to our Swiss holiday destination when I was [...]

DC-9 For FS2004

What’s totally boring to one simmer is sheer excitement for another. One calls them ‘tubes’ and the other ‘airliners’. For the latter group of simmers there now is an FS2004 version of the Sky Simulations DC-9. 7 different versions actually. And there’s an FSX model of it as well. In [...]

Carenado’s Piper Archer For FSX

We don’t know how they do it? Outsourcing to cheap labor countries? Having all uncles and aunts taught on Gmax? Where an FSX aircraft usually takes between 6 and 18 months to develop, Carenado continues to crank out new models. Their latest is the FSX version of the Piper Archer, [...]

Don’t Forget To Vote!

Voting for YOUR choice of the best FS add-ons of 2009 is still open until Sunday ! This is your chance to show your appreciation for your favorite add-on developers! Don’t let it lapse unused! Winners will traditionally be announced during the Captain’s Dinner organized by Aerosoft after their yearly flightsim day at [...]