Aerosoft – Robin DR400 X Review

With this small French aircraft, Aerosoft and Joachim Schweigler released another fine GA aircraft upon the flightsim community. Let’s take a look!

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Review: Carenado CT210M, A2A Piper Cub and various OrbX airports

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This is the second review that I have written to be in a much more personal, “first person” style. The aim of this style is to show you guys, the readers and simmers that you are, how easy it basically is to make your flights interesting and somewhat [...]

Carenado CT182T Skylane G1000 HD Series FSX Review

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Carenado, a well known developer of good looking general aviation type add-ons recently introduced their newest product for FSX and Prepar3D: The Cessna T182T Skylane with Garmin 1000 Glass Cockpit. So, let’s see how they did!

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Review: OrbX Goheen, Stark’s Twin Oaks, Walter Sutton and Sibwings Bird Dog

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This is a rather unorthodox review.

Normally when I write a scenery review, I take the Trike Ultralight, takeoff, do some low passes, take screenshots, then stop the flight. I then select several jetliners, like the PMDG 737NGX, LDS767 and PMDG 747 (if appropriate), and do some circuits with them, to check performance. I [...]

A2A Simulations – Wings of Power 3 P-40 + Accu-Sim review

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The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (aka Tomahawk in the UK and Russia) is an aircraft that stayed in production for the entire duration of the Second World War. And yet, it’s post-war reputation wasn’t very good. A2A Simulations, on the other hand, has an outspoken reputation for excellence. We’ll be taking [...]

RAZBAM T-2 “Buckeye” Review

The North American (later Rockwell) T-2 Buckeye is one of those aircraft whose beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder.

Definitely a child of its time and role, the T-2 formed the backbone of US Naval jet training through at least three generations of combat aircraft, with examples remaining in USN service up [...]

A2A P-40 gets PCPilot Platinum

The A2A Simulations “Wings of Power 3″ Curtiss P-40 with Accu-Sim continues to bring in the plaudits from users and press alike – this time winning an award from UK-published print magazine PCPilot this month.

In the March/April 2012 issue of the magazine, reviewer Adam Cotton includes as part of his summation that A2A have [...]

sF.de Reviews aerofly FS (German Language)

Over at our German language sister site simFlight.de, Stefan Benzinger has posted a review of the Swiss flight simulator aeroflyFS, which we have mentioned a couple of times recently in news articles.

We’ll try and get a good English translation of the review for you soon (I tried Google Translate earlier to read it myself [...]

Captain Sim 737 Captain Review

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It appears the flightsim community is on a 737-fever! PMDG hit a high mark with their 737 NGX this summer, as did iFly a couple of months earlier with their respective version, Wilco and Feelthere have just released their 737 Pilot in Command Evolution, covering the classic series. And to finish the [...]

PMDG – NGX ‘In Flight’ Review Part 2

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In the first part of this review, we went over aircraft selection, as well as flight planning, preflight, startup and taxi, finally culmination in the takeoff. In this second part of the review, we’ll be picking up where we left off (immediately after takeoff). I cleaned the aircraft up (retracted the gear [...]