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Aerosoft – Mega Airport Barcelona X FS2004

Sebastien, Saturday, 18 September 2010 @ 9:15

Another entry in Mega Airport collection : Barcelona designed by Sim-Wings for Aerosoft.

This is an accurate scenery depicting the real airport status after its extensions. And in FS, you’ll have plenty of details, animations and docking systems for this important Spanish airport.

Spitfire Mk V – half price offer

Sebastien, Saturday, 18 September 2010 @ 9:00

“Pre-order Spitfire Mk V Legends of Flight beforeÂ it’s released by Download on the 1st October and you’ll pay justÂ half the normal price”.

This latest FSX add-on has been developed for us by Aeroplane Heaven, features a total of 13 different paint schemes across four variants: the Mk Va, Mk Vb, Mk Vb (tropical filter) and [...]

Multi Crew Experience V2.3 Update released!

Sebastien, Saturday, 18 September 2010 @ 2:53

“The FS++ team is pleased to announce the release of V2.3 of their voice control add-on to FSX & FS9 known as Multi Crew Experience. With this release, the user interface goes Multi-lingual (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese).”

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World Flight 2010

Sebastien, Saturday, 18 September 2010 @ 2:49

“WORLD FLIGHT is a worldwide event, a virtual round the world flight in “Fixed-Base Flight Simulators”.

The goal is to raise money for charity purposes.”

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FSGenesis New 19m Terrain Mesh Product Line

Sebastien, Saturday, 18 September 2010 @ 2:41

“FSGenesis has begun the release of a new international terrain mesh product line derived from the 30m ASTER GDEM dataset.

The first two countries of this new product line, Israel and Lebanon are freeware and may be downloaded from the FSGenesis store without charge.”

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Flight 1 – BN2 Islander

Sebastien, Saturday, 18 September 2010 @ 2:37

One of the latest Flight 1 products exclusively made for FSX is the Britten Norman Islander 2.

Developed by Alpnasim, the great aircraft package is now at simMarket as a direct download product : have a look here.

JustFlight – MD-81/82 Jetliner

Sebastien, Saturday, 18 September 2010 @ 2:22

Read the features list and watch the demo video at simMarket.

Iris Pro Series – T-6/A Texan II Advanced

Sebastien, Friday, 17 September 2010 @ 0:26

Iris Simulations has built from scratch their newÂ T-6/A Texan II Advanced, only for FSX.

Taking advantage of the native FSX modelling, they achieved to provide bump and specular maps, but also details in 3D as they can design more polygons than allowed in FS2004. It’s free of charge for owners of the [...]

Carenado – Mooney 201 M20J X-Plane

Sebastien, Thursday, 16 September 2010 @ 22:27

If you are using X-Plane 9.5 or higher, Carenado suggests you to welcome the Mooney 201 20J in your virtual warehouse.

The aircraft comes as complete package up to the checklists and performance tables, and yes, there are many details !

Ant’s Airplanes – Tecnam Sierra

Sebastien, Thursday, 16 September 2010 @ 22:16

Arriving from Australia, Ant’s Airplanes designed the Tecnam Sierra, categoriszed in Light Sport.

For you to enjoy, they made a native FSX model with bump and specular maps, highly detailed VC with 3D gauges, and even more.

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