Phototextures San Antonio

Tyler Newport has released yet another of his ground texture replacement packages. “… Photo Real San Antonio X is a ground texture replacement package that overlays the default terrain with high quality, satellite image textures. This scenery covers the city of San Antonio, Texas and the surrounding suburban area….”. Available from simMarket.

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Halycon Box: Pole to Pole

On simMarket available now is Pole to Pole, a box from Halycon Media, repackaged from First Class Simualtions and originaly from…. ? It is sort of a Round Robin flight. “…..  Experience the planet as you have never seen it before as you head south from the most desolate wilderness on Earth. Fly [...]

RealityXP GPS for X-Plane

Jean-Luc Dupiot of RealityXP in Canada reports about his XP GNS 430/530 WAAS for X-Plane. “…. Leveraging the latest capabilities offered with X-Plane 9.41, the Reality XP GNS 430/530 WAAS can guide you to fly your aircraft through holding patterns, procedure turns and other position-critical IFR flight procedures, with full autopilot coupling for [...]

Aerosoft’s Maldives

Yet another entry in the ‘holiday destinations’ by German software publisher Aerosoft. This time they give you the Maldives to fly to. “…. The Malè Atolls, part of the Maldives islands is one of those places you really should visit. It’s stunningly beautiful and an ideal location to relax.

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SimTouch Call-outs

SimTouch’s author declares “….. Your landing will improve dramatically and you will enjoy landing so much more. Minimum call-outs for all FSX commercial aircraft. Just set your ILS frequency and call-outs from 2500 down to 10 on landing. Other sounds are autopilot disconnect,  altitude reached and overspeed & stall.  (Note: If you have [...]

Airshow Pilot From Just Flight

Just Flight reports they have released a new title, called Airshow Pilot. “… It is all about aerobatics, and you’ll be testing your skills against other pilots in competitions around the world – both AI competitors generated offline on your home PC and real competitors who will be flying in the same events [...]

F-16 Glass

Say what !? Flight-Dynamix is selling beer glasses with F-16′s on them? Nope. They’re offering a cockpit add-on for F-16 builders. This is an “….. add-on program for MS FSX  that allows you to display a functional, interactive, hi-res bitmapped cockpit display of the F-16C Fighting Falcon. The F-16Glass application is designed to [...]

Control Your PMDG 737 With Voice

Bryan York of FS2Crew is “…. pleased to announce that a brand new version of FS2Crew is available for the FS2004 PMDG 737, on simMarket of course. Says Bryan: “Five years-ago, we released the very first edition of FS2Crew for the PMDG 737.  However, over the course of the last five years, we [...]

Review: WSS Piper Seminole PA-44

Our regular review on Sunday from Peter Hayes hailing from down under: “ This is the WSS version of the Piper PA-44 Seminole twin airplane.  It is well modelled with nice clean lines and you get 5 repaints in the package.  In general the instrumentation is good, nice and clear and functional, as are the sounds [...]

More Combat Planes ‘Adventures’

Combat Planes published some more of its adventires for FSX on simMarket. “…… Amphibian Adventures for FSX offers six missions flying in Canada and Alaska in Alphasim’s HU-16 Albatross, or the Microsoft Grumman Goose. A bonus mission offers a flight for the Aerosoft Catalina, and a second bonus mission for those with the [...]