Alaska Will Be Alaska Again Soon
Because Tongass Fjords for FSX will be released THIS WEEKEND. Francois Dumas writes “….. After almost two years of hard work, most of which caused by the changes brought upon us by the FSX technology, we are now finally ready to release the Ultimate scenery for Alaska. Bigger, better and even more immersive than its […]
L-4, the floating grasshopper!
Attention historical & vintage  aircraft friends, Flight Replicas have released their rendition of the L-4 GRASSHOPPER FLOATPLANE for FSX which you will want to have if you are the owner of their previous L-4 GRASSHOPPER package, reviewed on simflight earlier by Chris Brisland. The L-4 is nothing else then the military version of the J3 […]
Captain Sim SevenTwoSeven Pro Pack & Expansions
Capitano Simulatorius, aka Captain Sim, have released their 727 Pro Packs (for FSX) Â a few days ago and they have now arrived at simMarket so we would not want that to go unnoticed, would we ? <g> “The ‘727 Captain’ is a remake of the famous ‘Legendary 727’, rebuilt to meet modern Captain Sim quality […]
Tucson From Kevin Burns
Kevin Burns has released another one of his FSX/FS2004 freeware sceneries. This time he has modeled Tucson. He writes “….. It’s actually a lot bigger than Tucson, based on the 2005 USGS Pima County orthoi magery. I’ve been doing an FSX version and decided it wouldn’t be that much more work to do an FS9 […]
Flying Heritage Collection – Aotake
Although the majority of respondents to our little poll on the right seem to NOT like Facebook (and other such programs) there is more and more information being distributed via it. One of the Facebook ‘groups’ is that of the Flying Heritage Collection, posting interesting photos and titbits of information regarding our main interest: aviation! […]
De Havilland Twin Otter Is Reborn
‘Bush pilots’, whether real or ‘sim’ all know the Twin Otter aircraft series. Aerosoft made a nice rendition of one not so long ago. Unfortunately production was stopped in the late ’80’s. But now there’s good news, because Viking has bought the certification from Bombardier some time ago and has now started building NEW Twin […]
Future GPS Systems Less Precise
Via AOPA we found an article from the Wall Street Journal regarding the problems with new GPS satellites. According to the article the US Air Force says “….. a new GPS satellite built by Lockheed Martin Corp. is accurate only to about 20 feet, rather than the normal standard of two feet. The satellite’s new […]