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Real Earth X – Real Italy X Mesh Pack 04

Sebastien, Monday, 31 January 2011 @ 23:12

Complete your Italian mesh collection with this fourth package of Real Earth X featuring a LOD14 mesh (2.5 meters resolution).

Now for download at simMarket.com.

Scenerybox – L’Aveyron 12 and Gironde 33

Sebastien, Monday, 31 January 2011 @ 22:26

Aveyron is one of the French department in the South West of France near Pyrenees mountains. With Scenerybox installed in your FSX, you’ll fly over 8771 sq. km of photoreal textures using a custom mesh.

Gironde is the department of Bordeaux, covering in the same technics more than 10.000 sq km.

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PMDG NGX New update

Sebastien, Monday, 31 January 2011 @ 21:13

Robert S. Randazzo published a new update about PMDG 737 NGX, focused on the external model.

Out of the screenshots themselves, he explains how the ground unit will “work” and how cabin temperature sensors will be affected by the weather when you open the door. Ho, and you can open just every door controlled from [...]

Razbam – Vought A-7 Corsair II VOL II

Sebastien, Sunday, 30 January 2011 @ 17:29

Take off from a carrier flying the Vought A-7 Corsair of Razbam in FSX.

The package includes 3 models (A-7A, A-7B, and A-7P ) and 7 paintschemes.

Just Planes – Aeropostal and Air Austral

Sebastien, Sunday, 30 January 2011 @ 16:42

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Discover the Douglas DC9 in three of its versions (20, 30 and 50) plus the Boeing 727 of Aeropostal. Just Planes enables you to fly over Venezuela and Margarita with this new DVD.

Another run of sold-out Air Austral DVD is also available at simMarket, featuring Boeing 777-200, 737-300 and 737-500.

Artymowicz Aviation – Augusta Westland AW139 X-Plane Soundpack

Sebastien, Sunday, 30 January 2011 @ 0:22

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This short video introduces a new soundset released by Artymowicz Aviation for the Augusta Westland AW139 in X-Plane 9.

The full helicopter package from X-Rotors is another product found here.

Real Flight Environment – KOAK Oakland Scenery in Development

Sebastien, Sunday, 30 January 2011 @ 0:15

In the next few weeks or months, we should have Californian airports sceneries of new generation but I don’t think you know about this one.

In the FS developers forum, there’s a Oakland scenery in development for FS2004 and FSX, planned to be freeware until now, that will include the main airport and other famous [...]

Virtual Dispatch Version 0.5.0 Released

Sebastien, Sunday, 30 January 2011 @ 0:06

Be sure to follow the Virtual Dispatch development news at simFlight.com as we are reporting you each new version available.

Now that ..” Virtual Dispatch Version 0.5.0 has been released, the new key feature is the Virtual Airlines module which allows the pilot to request all necessary flight information directly from his VA (if supported) [...]

Aerosoft “Huey X” Promo-Trailer

Sebastien, Saturday, 29 January 2011 @ 23:25

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Eddy Van Gelder invited us to watch … “the new promo video from Aerosoft for the beautiful ‘Huey X’ “.

It’s now available for purchase at simMarket.com.

New Microsoft Flight pics

Sebastien, Friday, 28 January 2011 @ 22:19

The Microsoft games studios dev team put new content on Flight official website.

4 scenic screenshots can be “analyzed” and a short text confirms that you will be able to use Flight offline, since some people feared the contrary due to the mention of Games for Windows Live.

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