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New pictures of PA28 Archer II for X-Plane

Sebastien, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 @ 9:00

It’s not just a feeling, things are moving around X-Plane. Great publishers with great products are getting more and more numerous.

Look at Carenado‘s website in Incoming section, they published new screenshots of the upcoming Piper PA28 Archer II for X-Plane.

OMSI Bus and Bridge! simulators boxed

Sebastien, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 @ 0:39

The boxed products sales are still enough important so the publishers have a physical product beside the download option. Actually, this can happen when the product is (or should become) popular to cover at least the production costs of the first boxes produced.

Aerosoft think it’s the case in OMSI Omnibus Simulator, and Bridge!, now [...]

CRJ-200 Release Candidate 1 for X-Plane

Sebastien, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 @ 0:15

Good news for X-Plane pilots, the CRJ-200 project of Javier RollÃ³n got suspended at the beginning of this year, but it’s now back on track.

With Philipp MÃ¼nzel teamed up, the CRJ-200 reached RC1 step. It will use the vasFMC, compatible with Navigraph updates. More information here and more aircraft of Javier RollÃ³n there.

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iFly 737NG Voice Control

Sebastien, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 @ 23:35

Soon, you will enjoy both FS2Crew in the iFly 737NG “naturally speaking” thanks to the incoming Voice Control edition.

If you don’t speak English well enough, or don’t have any microphone, the Button Control Edition already exists and will remain for sale.

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HJG 5th Anniversary Website Update

Sebastien, Monday, 11 April 2011 @ 0:10

The Historic Jetliners Group always come with more than just one item, so guess what they can bring for their 5th anniversary website update !

In the following and extensive message they sent, the classic flyers will be happy to discover a new Sud Est Caravelle 10R, an additional L1011 Tristar basepack, and new textures [...]

Aerosoft Corfu Preview

Sebastien, Sunday, 10 April 2011 @ 23:15

Corfu is one of the actual projects under development by Aerosoft, and got revealed for first time this week.

It will be compatible with FSX only because it has too many FSX unique features to be adapted for FS2004, but it will enable us to perform the spectacular approach for sure !

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Skydesigners – French Airbase 705 Tours Val-De-Loire

Sebastien, Sunday, 10 April 2011 @ 22:18

Add a military airbase to your FSX sceneries collection thanks to Skydesigners.

This one is located in the North West part of France, near Tours, where you will find photoreal day and night textures on buildings, but also autogen trees and buildings accurately placed.

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Drzewiecki Design – Polish Airports Vol.2 FSX

Sebastien, Saturday, 9 April 2011 @ 9:30

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Already existing as a FS2004 product, Drzewiecki Design presents Polish Airports Vol.2 for FSX.

Now you watched the video, I bet you consider flying to Poland to enjoy the high quality aerial and seasonal textures, plus effects, animations, Autogen and landmarks !

Review: AEROSOFT ONLINE – US CITIES X – CLEVELAND

peterhayes, Saturday, 9 April 2011 @ 8:48

AEROSOFT ONLINE – US CITIES X – CLEVELAND — The ‘Rock ‘N Roll’ or ‘Sixth City‘ Review

Quick Summary: Aerosoft are well known for their quality add-on software for FSX and this no exception being the seventh in the ‘US Cities X’ [...]

FTX — Cushman Meadows (KCMW) Preview II

Sebastien, Saturday, 9 April 2011 @ 8:30

Cushman Meadows has been raising the simmers interest, even pilots of heavy irons, because Orbx sceneries make part of those designers group that set the top notch quality standard.

There is a second preview to keep the trend on Bill Womack’s blog.

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Review of Aerosoft – German Airports 2 2012 X
Aerosoft have recently released an update to their German Airports 2 scenery calling it German Airports 2 2012 X. I did not have the original release so I can’t comment on how much of an improvement there is over the original release. Here is what you get; EDDG Munster/Osnabruck, EDDK ...
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Review: UK2000 VFR Airfields Volume 2
Fancy flying around the UK’s large and small airports? We’re going to check out UK2000’s VFR Airfields Volume 2. It’s a collection of 80 airfields, big and small, for the south central part of the UK. UK2000 has been developing scenery for FS since 2002. The year 2002 and the FS ...
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Review: FS Addon Super Cub X
Peter Hayes in depth look at FS Addon's latest product, The Super Cub X Collection by Simon Smeiman . He starts off by giving us a quick summary: "I recently reviewed the A2A J-3 Cub and it should be noted that this Super Cub collection based on the PA-18, is ...
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Review: Equinox IT - fsClimate
Real weather applications for FSX are not as commonly developed as aircraft or scenery add-ons so it's nice when we see a new one on the market. fsClimate from Equinox IT is one that was developed as a very basic weather generator and uses live data from NOAA. Let’s see ...
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Review: Sky Simulations McDonnell Douglas DC-9 for FS2004/FSX
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Aerosoft Munich X review
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Carenado CT210M Centurion II HD for FSX review
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Review: OrientalSim’s Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International
Have you ever felt like going someplace else? I did. Several months ago, I decided to take a gapyear from university, do some work and traveling, and start my master of science track later. From one came the other, and I had a trip planned to Kenya, where I’d do ...
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Review: France VFR - Strasbourg LFST for FSX
The airport known as Strasbourg, LFST is located in the Alsace region of France just outside of the small city of Entzheim and approximately 10 kms southwest of Strasbourg.Â It has a single runway 05/23 that is approximately 2400 meters long.Â In 2009 it saw just over 1 million passengers ...
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Review: DBS Studio's Follow Me Service for FSX
Recently DBS Studio has released its another add-on for MS Flight Simulator - FOLLOW ME SERVICE FOR FSX. Everyone, who has ever been at an airport, must have seen that many airplanes are escorted by a little car from the gate to the runway or back from the runway to ...
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