The Dutch FS Weekend 2009

Preparations for Europe’s, and very likely the world’s, largest flight simulator show started this afternoon at the Aviodrome in Lelystad. As always the Aviodrome is host for many hundreds of enthusiastic hobbyists and quite a few commercial FS companies as well. All are showing the general public what ‘flightsimming’ is, in all its [...]

Aerosoft’s Lelystad Price Reduction

Aerosoft Online have reduced the price of their Lelystad Airport title during the current ‘FS Weekend’ (see other article todya, Ed.).  The  price of 12.95 Euros is valid until November 10th, so hurry ! “….. Lelystad Airport is located at -12 feet in the heart of one of the main polders of The [...]

Cloud9 Support To FSDreamTeam

In a recent press release Virtuali s.a.s. of Italy says it “…… is pleased to announce to have reached an agreement  with Cloud9 s.a.s. to handle customer and product support for all  their existing products to FSDreamTeam support. This will allow an  easier user experience, because the FSDreamTeam support will now  handle reactivation [...]

The “UIVER” team Releases Douglas DC2 for FSX

This is a complete rework as a TRUE native FSX product, with improved 3D modelling, complete new textures, mapping, bumpmaps, specular maps, FSX animations, new gauge programming etc. We thank our customers for the purchase of the FS2004 model, and hope they will support the museum by purchasing this improved FSX model as well.  The [...]

Grumpy Tales – I could do without computers

Really, although I’ve been in the ‘computing business’ since 1978 and involved with PC’s (or microcomputers as they were called back then) before that, I could very often well do without the bloody things. We’ve all been there. A perfectly fine and proper working (Windows) PC suddenly won’t start in the morning. Eerie DOS error [...]

Citation X Extreme V2.0

Ron Hamilton of Eaglesoft Development Group reports that they now have released “…..  Citation X Extreme V2.0 with full FMS and Navigraph Support for FSX/SP2. This aircraft is released to market with our Navdata Service Upgrade enabled! FSX Citation X Extreme V2.0 now supports updateable Navigraph FMS database under the Eaglesoft banner which [...]

Flightport Helipack

Joerg Dannenberg of Flightport.de reports that they have released Version 3.0 of their Helipack, sinking more than 1000 hours in its development. It means that now just about each and every heliport in Germany is covered. The package is freeware, but you will need to have some patience downloading it. It now is [...]

Flight1 Released A P51 Mustang

This isn’t the first and surely won’t be the last, since it seems to be such a popular aircraft to model for FS. Flight1′s model is built by Aeroplane Heaven and they write “….. With extensive research and help from a P51D owner-pilot, this is probably the most realistic development yet of [...]

Switzerland Small Airfields Vol. 5

Aerosoft’s (or rather Jeffrey Stähl’s) small airfields are now also available through the simMarket on-line store in download and in boxed form. We reported about this titles some time ago already. The 5 Swiss airfields go well with the excellent Switzerland Pro product that covers the entirety of Switzerland with mesh and phototextures.

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FS Force From Dirks

Dirks Software from Canada has developed more specific effects to be used with your force feedback joystick. It adds all sorts of effects when using FS2002/FS2004 or FSX, and also provide some predetermined profiles like GA Aircraft, Business Jet and so on. You need a force feedback joystick to enjoy the addition of [...]