Flying For Charity
Press release: “…. On Monday November 2nd at 2300hrs UTC, seven FBS (fixed based simulators) will depart Sydney Australia (YSSY) on a seven day round the world fund raising flight. The flights are conducted on the VATSIM network and will be handled by the World Flight ATC Centre that will provide ATC for the group […]
A2A Simulations vid-speaks on Accu-Sim SP1
Watch A2A Scott Gentile’s introducing Accu-Sim SP1 in a three part video they just published on YouTube: “Scott Gentile of A2A Simulations speaks, from the developer’s perspective, about Accu-Sim Service Pack 1 for their Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. Accu-Sim adds enhanced effects and realism to Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X and new packs are already in development. […]
Three Little Letters…
CAVEAT: This missive seeks only to provoke thought and debate amongst readers and represents only the author’s standpoint. Comments are invited – discuss the subject in the comments threads – but please beware! Abusive and unfounded comments may be edited or deleted! OK? FPS. What is it about three letters that seems to make even […]
FS2Crew Needs a Few Good Men And Women!
Bryan York of FS2Crew writes “…… To meet the demands of its European and UK customer base, FS2Crew has appointed Kimmo Kyle of Finland as head of the FS2Crew International Voice Set Development Team. Kyle’s role will be to develop, coordinate and manage the European and British voice sets for FS2Crew products, starting with the […]
Flight Illusion Gauges Now X-Plane Compatible
Mark Verschaeren of Flight Illusions in Belgium reports “…… Great news for cockpit builders using X-plane as their simulator program. Flight illusion is releasing an X-Plane compatible version of their interface, allowing all the FI gauges to be connected and tweaked. There is even better news for X-plane pilots. Compared to MS-FS the advantage is […]
Troubles With Our Host
Due to problems at our hosting company the simFlight web site and our simFlight forums suffered from outages and slowness yesterday. Our apologies for the inconvenience, but unfortunately these things happen in our modern day technological society. We contemplated changing to message pigeons, but now everything seems to be running fine again and we welcome […]
FSX Gold Now On simMarket
Microsoft has recently released FSX Gold. It basically is FSX Deluxe AND Acceleration Pack combined in one box. It does not add anything more to each of those previously released packages, but if you’re new to FSX, ths is a good box to buy. You’ll have all the goodies ready for installation in one go! […]
HIS Radeon HD 4870 X2 Review
Guru3D recently tested the HIS Radeon HD 4870 X2 2048MB. “….. A graphics card with 1600 tiny little sub-processors on that X2 hauling ass on your frame rate, and that’s the success of the Radeon HD 4870 X2 .. incredible 3D computing performance, RAW power. Obviously HIS technology jumped that bandwagon as well, and though […]