LATINVFR – LAS AMERICAS – MDSD v1.1 for FSX review

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Las Américas International Airport, MDSD, is the second busiest airport in the Dominican Republic with approximately 3.4 million passengers using the facilities in 2010. Opened in 1959, it was originally the official airport of Santo Domingo. The airport was renamed in 2002 to “Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas- José Francisco Peña Gómez (AIJFPG)” but is most commonly referred to as “Las Américas International Airport”. The airport has a single runway 17/35 that is 11,002 ft long making it the largest in the country and one of the largest in the Caribbean. The runway is capable of supporting the new Airbus A380. [...]

Just Planes – Canadian North

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Enjoy Canadian splendid scenery with a Fokker 28 and a Boeing 737-200 of Canadian North airline for various flights between Ottawa, Yellowknife, Calgary, Norman Wells, Edmonton ..

You will even seen how a 737 is equipped to land on gravels strip.

New airport and enroute charts!

If you have nDac software installed, Navigraph sent us the following message to inform you all they have reached a total of 1401 airports supported.

364 of them had new or revised charts.

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PMDG 737 NGX Lighting Demo

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A difference easy to identify a top notch airliner add-on from any other product is the number of lights in the virtual cockpit.

This doesn’t mean you will control these lights all the time you’re flying, but if the developers took care to achieve such detail, there is much more to use [...]

Review: Ideal Flight 10

Ideal Flight 10 (IF10) is not your typical FSX utility. It is a simple weather system, flight planner, dispatcher, and flight analyzer all rolled into one. Is this jack of all trades application worth the price or is it an application that doesn’t live up to it’s name? It will be a [...]

Pacific Islands Simulation : Tonga

It’s an early development announcement, so you will have time to go shopping the required clothes before you land at NFTF Fua’amotu International Airport, in Kingdom of Tonga.

Another beautiful place is being developed for FSX by Pacific Islands Simulation.

FS Fuel 2 flight planning

A seriouss simmer takes advanced and precise tools to prepare his virtual flight and briefing before he jumps in the heavy iron.

For this kind of needs, FS Fuel 2 now brings live weather data feed and advanced computations to build a solid flight plan and loadsheet.

 

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Voice Control for Captain Sim B767 & B757 now available

Multi Crew Experience expands the supported add-ons aircraft list with two titles of Captain Sim.

After the PMDG and Level-D airliners, MCE will enable the voice control of the copilot, but also of the FSX native ATC and Radar Contact ATC controllers when you fly the CS 757/767.

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MS Flight screens of May

About every two months, Microsoft Games Studios drops a few work-in-progress screenshots and a short message in the news section at the official website.

This time, if we don’t have further infos about the simulator technology or add-ons compatibility and online integration, there are 5 new preview screens uploaded at least.

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Carenado – AC11 Commander 114 FSX at simMarket

Equipped of a Century III autopilot flight system, the AC11 Commander 114 for FSX by Carenado has also a “Customizable panel for controlling windows transparency and static elements such as wheel chocks, pitot cover and sights props.”

I’m used to fly a wide body, but Carenado is one of these fine GA aircraft designers to [...]