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Nassau Lynden From Imagine Sim

francois, Monday, 29 March 2010 @ 11:11

Imagine Sim has released its Nassau Lynden Pindling V2 Airport on the Bahama’s. This is an upgrade to their already existing offering and comes free to current customers. There’s also a demo version available and Imagine Sim recommends trying that first, before purchasing the actual product. It comes in Fs2004 [...]

Where Do You Fly? – Mexico

abarter, Monday, 29 March 2010 @ 4:07

One of the things I like about Flight Simming is that there’s no politics involved. You just get to enjoy the natural scenery, wonders of the world, challenging airports, and flying. With that in mind, this “Where Do You Fly?” article covers Mexico.

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Mycockpit.org Interviews

francois, Sunday, 28 March 2010 @ 15:41

Mycockpit.org, the worlds largest community for home cockpit builders “…..Â is proud to announce the following podcast editions of Tips And Discussions, Feature Interviews and Builder Of the Month interviews. 1. New podcasts.Â “Tips And Discussions” 3rd Edition, with Ian.Â In this Edition of “Tips And Discussions”, Vybhav again talks to the famous [...]

Review: AO Monastir X

Miguel Blaufuks, Sunday, 28 March 2010 @ 14:07

Aerosoft are well known for their quality add-on software for FSX including major airports throughout the world. In FSX Monastir (DTMB) is a very sterile place with very few features, but install Aerosoft Monastir X and watch the transformation into something that is full of accurate detail. [...]

PC Pilots Ireland featured on Irish TV

Miguel Blaufuks, Saturday, 27 March 2010 @ 10:58

We had reported before about an upcoming TV documentary on Irish simmers of PC Pilots Ireland and now the full program of Ireland’s TV RTE is up on the stations website for online viewing. the name of the program is Capital D and you can first watch a report about a bloke that keeps a [...]

FenceBuilder Pro Free Demo Available

francois, Friday, 26 March 2010 @ 22:00

Don Grovestine, author of the excellent FenceBuilder Pro package, has now provided us with a FREE demo of the utility. It will do almost everything the full package will do, with a few small limitations. FenceBuilder Pro will let you build walls, fences, hedges and just about any other (multiple) row of objects [...]

SimTouch Products Revealed

francois, Friday, 26 March 2010 @ 21:02

Now available on simMarket are the SimTouch products SimTouch Plus and SimTouch Lite. “…… Using any touch screen monitor of any size, SimTouch is an FSX add-on that allows you to control all aircraft controls in Flight Simulator X from a touch screen monitor. Basically you are bringing out the cockpit controls & [...]

SimGiants 50% Discount

francois, Friday, 26 March 2010 @ 20:54

As most of you may have seen already in the large bright orange box on the right, SimGiants is offering a 50% price reduction on all his products. SimGiant’s offerings include all of the Canary Islands in various forms and have been done for FS2004 and FSX. If you don’t know these products [...]

FSGenesis Mesh For Russia

francois, Friday, 26 March 2010 @ 20:42

Here’s some more news from Justin Tyme at FSGenesis. “….. Spring 2010 production kicks into high gear with the release of three new terrain mesh products, filling in the only missing pieces of the worldwide picture for FS2004. All three are derived from source data provided by Jonathan De Ferranti, based on Russian [...]

C-46/DC-6 On Video

francois, Friday, 26 March 2010 @ 20:22

Yet another video from Just Planes released, this one featuring the Curtiss C-46 and the Douglas DC-6 in their natural habitat. Just Planes write “…. In March 26th 2010, the Curtiss 46 celebrates its 70th Anniversary and we’re happy to welcome this great aircraft as the latest addition to the World Air Routes! [...]

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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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Where Do You Fly?
We are now into our 10th (last?) incarnation of the Microsoft Flight Simulator series. For some simmers the question as we are booting up our PC’s and loading the weather system is, “Now that I’m ready to fly… Where do I fly?” For some their VA assignments are the solution ...
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Review: Elite-Air Studios Shanghai Pudong intl. Airport
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Orbx FTX Melbourne V2 Review
Review Orbx FTX Melbourne V2 Overview: The Orbx FTX YMML Melbourne V2 airport scenery for FSX is a complete remake of Orbx’s popular first version of Melbourne for FSX, which was the first ever payware airport release by Orbx. Released late 2010, version 2 comes with all new techniques, innovations and features ...
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Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Review
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Article/Review: Ultimate City X: Chicago
Those of you that started using flight simulator before FS2004 came along, are no strangers to virtual Chicago. Indeed, until FS2004, the default flight started at Meigs airfield, just off the shore of the city of Chicago — “the windy city”. I still remember increasing the throttle on that little ...
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Review of Drzewiecki Design - Polish Airports Vol 2 for FSX
This is the second multi airport release from this group and like the first they have modelled in great detail three Polish airports; Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport (EPLL), Szczecin-Goleniów Airport (EPSC) and Zielona Góra Airport (EPZG). The package is availale for both FS2004 and FSX. My review is of the ...
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Review: AMS Cancun 2011
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