francois, Thursday, 21 January 2010 @ 11:19 SimAviatik AG from Switzerland sent us a picture of their new helicopter controls that include a pitch lever and pedals. It so happens we’ve seen them built into a very nice helicopter simulator at their offices, and these look really good. The pitch lever sells for 351 Euros and the pedals for Euro [...]
Miguel Blaufuks, Thursday, 21 January 2010 @ 10:49 For those of you not familiar with Embraer the name is derived from Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica. It was created in 1969 by the Ministry of Aeronautics in Brazil. Starting out modestly with about 500 employees and a single hanger they have steadily grown over four decades to be one of the major forces in [...]
francois, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 @ 17:58 Gold Medal Sim Parts from Brasil has discounted all its products today. They make (mostly) MDF milled cokpit parts that allow you to build entire airliner cockpits, ready to paint and receive instruments. With a 50% discount on the products, maybe getting more interesting for would-be builders now! You can see the entire [...]
francois, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 @ 14:39 A brand new, on-line, commercial ‘web-zine’ has been born. Conceived, designed and ultimately produced and launched by some friends (Glenn Norman and Michelle Goodeve) and people many of us know (Hal Bryan and Mike Singer, both fromer MSFS gurus)! It is called Why Fly and is all about WHY we/you love FLYING (and [...]
francois, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 @ 15:29 Ochiai have released their “Japanese scenery – FSX Tokyo”. This is phototexture scnery of the Tokyo area, with a resolution of the photos of 4.8m/pix. The scenery has day and night textures and is for the Summer only. Available here from simMarket.
francois, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 @ 15:23 Roussillon Aero Simulation has released more glider missions. Australian Challenge (part 1 & 2) has you fly a DG808S glider over the desert continent. “….. You will have to fly from Perth ( Australia western coast) to Alice Springs in 8 stages. You will have to fly over the western Australia coast and [...]
francois, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 @ 14:46 Captain Sim reports they have now released their B-52 ‘Buff’ that was announced last week. Mind you, it is an ‘exterior model only’ product that uses a default 747 cockpit. More info on the Captain Sim website here.
francois, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 @ 11:32 Neoqb, the developers of WW1 combat sim Rise of Flight, have put out yet a new aircraft for it, the Fokker D.VIII. “….. WW1 This is the first monoplane fighter presented in the simulator. It was even more maneuverable than the legendary Fokker D.VII. Pilots called it “The Flying Razor” due to its [...]
francois, Monday, 18 January 2010 @ 21:24 Eric Majeraz aka LLH Creations has released LLH7 in his series of altiports (mountain airfields in France). LLH7 shows you the field at Alpe d’Huez, Henri Giraud, named after the famous French pilot and pioneer. Alpe d’Huez may be more familiar to you as one of the famous ‘etappes’ in the Tour de [...]
francois, Monday, 18 January 2010 @ 21:12 Picked up on some of the forums out there is news on what PMDG is currently working on. Products that are expected include an enhancement or expansion of their 747-400X product with a 747-8i/F model. Somewhere halfway 2010 they want to produce yet another 737 NG for FSX followed by a Dash-8 by [...]
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