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IRIS Turns To GA Aircraft

francois, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 @ 14:53

IRIS reports to have had fun designing their first GA aircraft. The product is a model of the sleek Diamond Star XLS, and features “….. custom soundpack, all new 3D gauges and customized G1000 for the DA-40,Â 4 visual models covering both the twin bladed and three bladed prop variants with [...]

737 Steering Tiller

francois, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 @ 14:44

No wonder 737′s go off the runway sometimes. Imagine having to keep your car going straight ahead without a proper steering wheel in front of you !! Fun aside, CockpitSonic is offering a 737 steering tiller to enhance your home cockpit with.Â Â ”…. The part is designed to be easily installed in your cockpit. [...]

Kaltenbach Helicopter Scenery Released

francois, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 @ 14:31

On the German ‘Coptersim.de’ site an FSX scenery has been made available, depicting Heliport Kaltenbach. According to the Mannheim owner the scenery contains the SHS Station of helicopter 4 and the adjacent buildings up to the EMPL service park. You can also find a repaint of the EC135 helicopter on the site, fitting [...]

Simkits USB Gauge Kits Back

francois, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 @ 14:21

Simkits from Holland report that “…… After an absence of more than a year, the kits are back. But not all kits, just the USB Aircraft Gauge Kits. We’ve received so many requests from customers to bring back these kits, since they are very easy to construct and even easier to modify to [...]

Review: SceneryTech South America Landclass

abarter, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 @ 11:08

Landclass scenery upgrades the realism of the areas you fly in by showing ground textures that represent the real life location and shape of various vegetation and city regions. It is not to be confused with photo scenery which depicts the real area by showing satellite images of the ground. Landclass may [...]

International Air Rally 2010

francois, Monday, 15 February 2010 @ 12:57

Here’s another idea to have a GOAL to your flying in the flight simulator on your desk: the International Air Rally 2010. This is a REAL rally and this year taking place over the Caribbean. So why not visit the official site and use the information there to do your [...]

Mycockpit Podcasts

francois, Monday, 15 February 2010 @ 12:00

Vybhava SrinivasanÂ reports that “…… Mycockpit.org, the worlds largest community for home cockpit builders, is proud to announce two new Podcasts, in association with FSBreak.net.Â ’Tips And Discussions” 2nd Edition, with Ian andÂ ’Builder Of The Month’ for February 2010 withÂ Shawn LundÂ …..”. [...]

Barakoma Airfield Released

francois, Sunday, 14 February 2010 @ 16:48

Jim Haenens has released his freeware Barakoma Airfield. “….. After the capture of Henderson Field in Guadalcanal, Barakoma Airfield signaled the beginning of the end for Japanese airpower in the South Pacific. It is from Barakoma that the Black Sheep and other Marine and Navy Corsair squadrons escorted bombers to Rabaul and points [...]

Soon On simMarket Too

francois, Sunday, 14 February 2010 @ 16:41

No doubt we’ll be able to welcome SkyUnlimited’s latest titles ‘Texans Volume 2 Flight Experience Pack’ on the simMarket webshop soon. For now, suffice to repeat Jesse Lambert’s own words “….. Legacy of the Sky: Texans Volume 2 is an entire flight experience including new aircraft, vehicles, and artillery. Players can practice landing [...]

767 Flight Tutorial From CLS

francois, Saturday, 13 February 2010 @ 21:13

From the people at CLS we received word that “…. Commercial Level Simulations have just released a free Flight Tutorial for use with the Boeing 767 product. The flight tutorial can be downloaded from www.commerciallevel.com…..”. Their latest aircraft can be found here on simMarket of course.

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Review: France VFR - Bretagne X
After having reviewed this FS2004 version of this scenery package I was excited to fly the FSX version.Â For those of you who may not be familiar with this area of France, Bretagne or Brittany is a large peninsula covering almost 34,000 sq kms. It is located in the north-west ...
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Review of Aerosoft - Anchorage X for FSX
Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, ICAO: PANC is located in Anchorage Alaska. The airport is quite large and occupies 4,500 acres; it has two passenger terminals one domestic one international and several cargo terminals. The airport has three runways; 7L/25R @ 10,600ft, 7R/25L @ 10,900ft and 14/32 @ 11,582ft. It is ...
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Review: PMDG MD-11
I am a fan of older airplanes. I think they are more fun to fly. That’s also why I find it a pity that few developers have decided to develop older, or “classic” jetliners. I am now thinking of planes like the Boeing 707, 727, 737-100/200, but also the DC-8 ...
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Review: Aerosoft Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
Benjamin van Soldt writes: "There are tiny airport, small airports, medium airports, and big airports. I have done about 4 scenery reviews now: Aerosoft’s Berlin Tegel, Lisbon, Stockholm Arlanda and Brussels Zaventem. Two of these are rather big, the other two could be classified as medium airports. When I opted for ...
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Review: FlyTampa - Grenadines for FSX
Rick Desjardins flew where the sun is always shining and reports: "Anybody who has been around the MS Flightsimulator franchise is certainly familiar with the sceneries from FlyTampa.Â If you read their forums the next release is always highly anticipated; that is because they never disappoint.Â This new one "The ...
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Review: Imagine Sim - KSJC San Jose Intl, USA for FSX
Imagine Sim are renowned for their quality add-on airports and KSJC is no exception.Â It is extremely well detailed, accurately modelled and fits in exceedingly well with the default FSX scenery.Â The night visuals are stunning, and the whole package is a vast improvement on what is offered in FSX.Â ...
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Aerosoft - German Airports 1 - Stuttgart X for FSX review
Stuttgart, EDDS, is an international airport located 13kms south of the city of Stuttgart which is the capitol city of the state of Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg in south-west Germany. The airport has a single 10,974ft runway 07/25 and four terminals with a capacity of 12 million passengers. In 2009 just under 9 ...
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Review: Do you always need a plane in FSX ? Nah!
I will look at what does a model of a marine vessel have to do within the world of FSX flight simulation and flying. Adding a boat into my hanger full of planes was very new and its probably very unusual these days, but then again most real hangers have ...
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Photo-Review: FTX US 1S2 Darrington Muni V1.0
Every time when flightsimulation hits a new level I am hooked. Some people are excited when the new big 'heavymetal-thousandswitches airliner' is released or a new mega hub gets real. But there is a growing group of virtual bushpilots enjoying back country flying. For those "tough" guys every improvement of ...
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Review: Flight 1's EZdok Camera Addon
Our hobby, flightsimming, is constantly expanding. Developers throw at us; a new aircraft here, an airport there, and every one of them, better than the last one you thought was the best. The awe can sometimes become a little tedious, as it can seem to be just more of the ...
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