Amazon Research Facility

Yet another fantasy place compiled by Freedom Simulations, the Amazon Research Facility. Looks like something a good drugs cartel would use, to be honest, but alright, there are chopper landings fields for ya. The developer writes “…. This package features 8+ Chopper landing areas, a Chopper Re-Supply Base, a Research Facility which is [...]

STS-128 Shuttle Mission Pack

Exciting Simulations reports that they released a new free Mission Pack for the Space Shuttle Mission 2007 simulator, “….. which among other goodies such as a new EVA-assist help mode for novice Virtual Astronauts, also contains the STS-128 – the most recently-completed NASA Space Shuttle Mission…..”.

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Next Mesh France From FranceVFR

FranceVFR has launched a new mesh product, based on data from InterMap Technologies: ”….. NEXTMesh France FSX covers the entire French area with a 4.75 meters (LOD13) resolution terrain mesh, and a 19 meters (LOD11) resolution terrain mesh for the french DOM. This product is not an upgrade from the actual «MESH France FSX [...]

LiveDispatch 4 Opened

Efrain Ruiz has opened LiveDispatch 4 for simmers and writes “….. After almost 2 years of testing and having racked up over 8,700 virtual hours, I am pleased to announce that LiveDISPATCH 4 is open to the flight sim community! LiveDISPATCH 4 provides dispatching services for all flights flown by the 3 major airline [...]

FS2Crew’s Audio Module

FS2Crew, a developer of flight crew simulations, “…. is now licensing its new audio engine module and SDK, FS Audio Extreme,  to other Flight Simulator and Windows developers. The new audio module, which uses Microsoft XACT audio technology, is powerful and very easy to incorporate in one’s code. Wel, that is if you’re a C/C++ [...]

Review: Lionheart’s Wittman Tailwind Collection

Peter Hayes, our staff reviewer located in Australia starts this review with his usual quick summary: ” This is a nice rendering of the Wittman Tailwinds —W8/W10 (aka “The Flying Carpet”) which is a popular home build 2-seat light aircraft with outstanding performance. The first W8 was launched in 1954 with the W10 appearing some [...]

OZx 3.0 Release

OZx is “…… proud to announce OZx 3.0, the latest standalone version of our Australian scenery project. It introduces over 20 new fields and heliports, 13 water starts and ½ a dozen new VFR sceneries to the Aussie landscape to make a total of more than 300 OZx sceneries and airfields, not counting [...]

PMDG Releases BAe JS4100 SP1

PMDG releases this service update which was designed primarily to deal with some critical operating issues that appeared on some hardware/operating system setups. As normal, we decided to tinker with a few other things as well- just because we were under the hood already. For more information head to the PMDG homepage by clicking here.

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News From Captain Sim

Captain Sim reports some newsworthy items: their 767-200 Expansion model has been released now and is available from their website. Also made available now is the 767 Captain Service Pack 3. And last but not least they have upgraded their CS Weather Radar v.1.1 to work with any rotorcraft as well now. More info on their [...]

Review: FranceVFR Strasbourg Entzheim LFST

Rick Desjardins flew to France to review FranceVFR’s scenery of  Strasbourg Entzheim LFST for FS2004: “ My next review takes me to the Alsace region of France to the small regional airport of LFST Strasbourg- Entzheim. The airport is located in eastern France near the border with Germany just southwest of the city [...]