A New Scenery Development Team

As their press release says, ‘although the name is new, the developers are not’, but nevertheless, a new scenery design team has been born.

FlightSim Development Group (FSDG) includes members whose past works include Maldives X, Keflavik X and Corfu X. Now they are working on the airport of Djerba in Tunisia for MS FS9 [...]

X-Plane 10 ATC System notes

Whether you are used to fly or not with ATC engines (FS default, or Radar Contact expansion for instance), you may be more or less surprised by the ATC system brought by the latest X-Plane 10.

On their development blog, Chris Serio explains what you cannot expect from controllers. He lists it does well for [...]

FS Cabin Crew Spanish set

After the English and German Editions, FS Cabin Crew will receive a Spanish set soon.

Announced on Tweeter, the next Spanish Edition should be available as a complete package if you just want Spanish announcements, or as a Spanish Pack if you want to add it to English and or German crew.

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Iris are at it too!

The pre-Christmas cheer is flowing from Iris Simulations too, with all their products on simMarket currently priced at €9.15 (€7.69 ex.VAT).

So whether you’re into Twisting through the skies in an aerobatic aircraft, hauling cargo, want to recreate a bit of more of Top Gun in FSX or are happier just flying along and observing [...]

Winter Sale of Nemeth Helicopters

There’s not a lot more to say here than what the text on the image to the left tells you… All Nemeth Designs models for Flight Simulators 9 and X are on sale at simMarket from 18th to 24th December 2011.

To see the range, visit their developer page at simMarket by clicking this link.

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Prepar3D gets AI Traffic Add-on

Over the last few weeks, there has been an ongoing discussion on the support forum for Burkhard Renk’s MyTrafficX product on how well it would work and how best to get it into, Lockheed-Martin’s Prepar3D flight simulator.

The author has now simplified the issue greatly by simply releasing a version of the package, “MyTraffic Professional [...]

Microsoft Flight Press Event

Earlier this week, simFlight were invited to a Flight event at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, USA, which was attended by Jorge Diogo from simFlight.pt.

Although the content of the presentation and the surrounding sessions is not available for publication, we do know that further news will be forthcoming early in the new year. So we’re [...]

FSCockpit MCDU Integration with Wilco Airbus

Users of FSCockpit’s Airbus panels who wish to integrate them with the systems, flight and visual models of Wilco Publishing’s Airbus series will want to take a look at the latest releases from Fabio Merlo for FSX here and FS9 here.

At present only covering the MCDU, but with support for the ECAM and Mini [...]

More Canadian Detail for MS FSX

I have to admit that the name of OryxSim’s latest Canadian airport release made me smile, having just spent time in the sim over the frozen white textures that cover most of the country by default at this time of year.

In fact, Chilliwack airport in British Columbia is a popular GA and commercial field, [...]

Outerra Beta Video

The video above was posted today on the Outerra forum, showing a recording from the software’s beta version using the internal recording feature.

Although Outerra is primarily a surface terrain rendering engine, vehicle and flight dynamics have been added to the software. It may be no competition to the established brands at [...]