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Wilco – Tower! 2011

Sebastien, Friday, 15 April 2011 @ 0:28

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Programmed from scratch, Tower! 2011 should make you forget a previous Tower sim..

Feelthere drives you to the tower controller seat to make you guide the aircraft from and to the runway, in 3 photoreal airports like Los Angeles or Miami. Get the Single player version here, or the multiplayer version there [...]

Oakland release planned

Sebastien, Thursday, 14 April 2011 @ 23:53

We linked to Oakland preview just two weeks ago, and FlightDream webpage already set its release date.

San Francisco Bay may see your landing gear on approach to KOAK on April 16th.

FSAddon — Storch project

Sebastien, Thursday, 14 April 2011 @ 23:42

FSAddon Publishing manager, Francois Dumas visited last year a real and flying Storch at Fantasy of Flight, between Tampa and Orlando, Florida, USA.

As a result, Simon Smeiman has a few screenshots to preview the Storch 3D model before it enters Beta stage.

Lionheart – WT-9 Dynamic

Sebastien, Thursday, 14 April 2011 @ 23:33

Lionheart has an impressive and future best seller here : stunning 3D model, strong Garmin equipments with numerous animations..

Discover the Dynon PFD D-100 and the AvMap GPS system, and explore every detail in 3D up to the engine. The WT-9 Dynamic is available for FSX or FS2004.

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Flight1 – Dodosim 206 FSX Reviewed

Lars, Thursday, 14 April 2011 @ 21:14

Helicopters in Microsoft Flight Simulator. It has always been a thing of controversy. The first helicopter to appear in Microsoft Flight Simulator was the Bell 206 JetRanger, in FS98. Even though it’s been there for a couple of versions, the default JetRanger was never very realistic. Dodosim managed to change that. First [...]

Greek Airport Project – Mega Corfu X

Sebastien, Thursday, 14 April 2011 @ 8:30

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Mega details have been 3D modelled and mapped of photoreal textures to produce this new Mega Corfu X.

Greek Airport Project covers the entire island, not only bringing the Kapodistrias LGKR airport but also the city, harbour, seabase and helipad.

Navigraph — AIRAC Cycle 1104

Sebastien, Thursday, 14 April 2011 @ 8:00

The latest Airac cycle 1104 is available to update your aircraft FMS and planners.

Navigraph Navdata now supports the Flight1 Aviation Technologies G1000 Student addon. Purchase credits at simMarket.com.

Airport Environment Services 2.11

Sebastien, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 @ 10:30

AES of Oliver Pabst has turned to version 2.11. Now the usual question is always, what’s new ?

The following airports can be supported : UK2000 Liverpool Xtreme, FIMP Max Kraus Mauritius (freeware), Aerosoft Larnaca X, Taxi2Gate Mexico MMMX v2, and B. Forero Guayaquil. Purchase credits and further details are found at simMarket.

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Time for Pete Dowson’s tools updates

Sebastien, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 @ 10:00

You’re too busy looking for the latest airport preview, or the latest aircraft review. So busy you didn’t think about basics, like checking for updates of Pete Dowson‘s tools and SDK like FSUIPC or WideFS.

Pete has some links to help you get sort this out.

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Aerosoft – Larnaca X

Sebastien, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 @ 9:30

Released since October 2010, Larnaca X has been available for FSX only up to now.

The airport located on Cyprus island in Mediterranean Sea is now available for FS2004 as well. FSX existing users will find it free in their order history.

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