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FSPS – Ultimate Checklist

Sebastien, Saturday, 4 September 2010 @ 1:31

At Flight Simulator Platform Solutions (FSPS), they thought about our needs of checklists. As we can fly a large variety of aircrafts, FSPS helps not to avoid any item for any aircraft.

It comes with 23 Aircraft manufactures and 71 different Aircraft type checklists. Of course, you can add and edit checklists with this new [...]

Virtavia – more releases

Sebastien, Friday, 3 September 2010 @ 16:11

In the latest Virtavia releases, we found pure military airplanes : the F-104 Starfighter, Hawker Hunter, F-105D Thunderchief, and Saab Gripen.

Note that all of them are compatible with both FSX and FS2004.

Expo shows the way forward for flight sim events

Miguel Blaufuks, Friday, 3 September 2010 @ 13:12

We missed publishing the following press release received from the Astrasim Expo offices two days ago: “Â Astrasim Expo Summer Sim 2010 was held at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, UK, over the weekend of August 28-29.

Our first show at this world class venue lived up to everything we expected and more, [...]

Aerosoft – Airbus X released

Sebastien, Thursday, 2 September 2010 @ 21:54

Patience has been rewarded : Aerosoft has just released Airbus X (A320 – A321) for download.

Focused on the work of the pilot, Aerosoft presents their new airliner product as fine FSX exterior and VC models with advanced lights effects, featuring accurate automatic systems, but aiming at the pilots looking for not so complicated simulations [...]

ArezOne – Cessna Caravan 208

Sebastien, Thursday, 2 September 2010 @ 17:13

Made for both FSX & FS2004, the latest soundset from ArezOne features real recordings from a Pratt&Whitney PT6A-114 engine with 675 SHP.

That should be perfect for your Cessna 208 Caravan.

AOA: MD11 Flight Training

Sebastien, Thursday, 2 September 2010 @ 11:49

Christopher Guy Palmer wrote “The PMDG MD11 Training from Angle of Attack is finally here!

A limited number of trainees are now being accepted into this exclusive training course.”

[...]

Aerosoft — Gibraltar for FS2004

Sebastien, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 @ 23:45

Gibraltar X has been made compatible with FS2004 by Aerosoft / Sim-Wings, “and it’s a near perfect swap between the two sims” says the publisher.

There’s also an update 1.01 to include now the cable car.

Eiresim — Dublin 2009 update v1.3

Sebastien, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 @ 16:45

Dublin 2009 is a scenery for FSX and FS2004 from Eiresim.

A new update v1.3 has been released to fix various bugs, listed here.

Airbus X delayed

Sebastien, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 @ 7:00

Yesterday was not a good day at Aerosoft. They announced on their homepage that Airbus X is delayed because of a bug that came back on some of their test computers.

And their forum has been offline due to its server failure.

EZdok Camera — Update 1.15.1

Sebastien, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 @ 6:30

EZdok camera is now officially updated to version 1.15.1. There are a number of bug fixes that were still in v1.14/v1.15

And now it works with the TrackIR software. More info here.

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