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FTS – Aircrafts panels

Sebastien, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 @ 8:00

If you install first SimAVIO from FTS for X-Plane, then you can purchase separate and detailed panel :

Cirrus SR20, SR22 and SR22 Turbo with the FTS430 and S-TEC 55X, the FTS1000 that delivers the Garmin G1000 avionics for Beechcraft Baron and Bonanza, and the Cessna single engine and twin engine analog panels with FTS430W.

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FTS – Simavio

Sebastien, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 @ 7:30

SimAVIO is the needed to load any of the seperately available add-on panel packs for X-Plane.

And it includes two aircrafts panels. Get all details here.

Taxi2Gate – Puerto Vallarta MMPR FS2004

Sebastien, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 @ 7:00

Want to add a Mexican international airport to your collection ?

Puerto Vallarta MMPR from Taxi2Gate is located at the Pacific Ocean Coast.

Aerosoft – AES V2.08

Sebastien, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 @ 9:00

AES fans, download the version 2.08 to update. What’s new ?

Oliver Pabst included some recently released airports like FlyTampa Buffalo, UK2000 Heathrow Xtrem v2, Aerosoft Paris Orly, FSDreamTeam Dallas andÂ more.

Virtavia — More products

Sebastien, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 @ 8:30

We’ll present you the 4 latest products Virtavia introduced at simMarket for FSX/FS2004.

There are Grumman F11F Tiger, Douglas F4D Skyray, Vought F7U Cutlass, McDonnel F3H-2 Demon.

Sky Blue Radio – FS in Focus

Sebastien, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 @ 8:00

“Sky Blue Radio is presenting a live Flight Simulator in Focus show on Saturday October 9th at 1800z

Join Jeff “JT” Turner and special guests IVAO Public Relations Director Vybhava Srinivasan and Events Director and Deputy US Director Eric Olsen as they explore the future of Flight Simulation and the place of IVAO.”

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Innsbruck freeware scenery

Sebastien, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 @ 7:30

Gerd Winterfeld wrote us “I haven’t found pages with some reasonable freeware scenery of the airport of Innsbruck (LOWI) for FS2004, so I made it myself.

The scenery was entirely created using images found on the Internet.”

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FlightSimPortal screenshot competition

Sebastien, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 @ 7:00

“FlightSimPortal.com would like to announce their screenshot competition open to all members.

The prize for October is a boxed copy on DVD of Flight Environment X from Flight1 which will be posted to the winner.”

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Review: Samsoft Macao X

abarter, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 @ 1:05

I first read about the airport of Macau (this is the alternate spelling) in Airliners magazine in 1995. It was under construction then and I was impressed because the runways were built on a man-made island with taxiways on concrete blocks resembling a short bridge. Samsoft has reproduced this for both FS2004 and FSX. [...]

PMDG 737 NGX

Sebastien, Monday, 4 October 2010 @ 20:40

Robert S. Randazzo presented more details of the PMDG 737 NGX.

In the past few days, he has explained their product strategy, how the project is going and published VC preview screenshots.

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Quick Summary: UK2000 are renowned for their Xtreme series of airports for FSX and Gatwick Extreme v3 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 excellent, and the whole package is a vast ...
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Review: France VFR - Strasbourg LFST for FSX
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Name one dispute in the FS community that will never, ever have a satisfactory conclusion for all those concerned. Yes, it’s the Airbus vs. Boeing discussion. Although it’s not as pronounced as, say, the Macintosh vs. Windows dispute, enter an Airbus fans’ forum and you’ll soon stumble over those hating ...
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Review: Nemeth Designs - Eurocopter AS332 L2 SuperPuma
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Review of Aerosoft – Corfu X
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Review: TropicalSim’s Congonhas X (SBSPx)
This review is on a product that’s been out since early 2008 and now that we are getting our PC’s to a point where it can handle FSX it’s worth looking at again. First, it comes with good versions for FS9 and FSX. Second, this is an impressive airport to ...
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Review: DS - FSX Powerboats
Quick Summary: This is quite a good set of powerboats (aka as speed boats) and it brings something different to FSX, in that you can now explore the scenery at sea level, and you can “fly” without ever leaving the ground (or water).Â The boats are well modelled; they look ...
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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: ImagineSim Denver KDEN
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UK2000 - London City Xtreme EGLC for FSX
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