Grumpy Tales – Journalism or Marketing?
Not an interesting question for many of you, I am sure. Or maybe it is? Here’s my continuous dilemma, one that I face on a daily basis, and have done so ever since I started working for simFlight (and simMarket). Also one that I have so far managed to work with pretty well, supported by […]
Hong Kong Airport By Imaginesim
Imaginesim has released Hong Kong International Airport. “…. Chek Lap Kok is the main airport in Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China. It is colloquially known as Chek Lap Kok Airport (èµ¤é±²è§’æ©Ÿå ´), because it was built on the island of Chek Lap Kok by land reclamation, and also to distinguish it from its predecessor, the […]
Rise Of Flight Updated Again
Rise of Flight, the Russian WW1 air combat simulator from Neoqb, is now updated to Version 1.009. According to their press release it “…… will bring several important features. Flight recording and playback system was added to the game. It is a new instrument to record and playback in-game videos. Users can record and playback […]
AoA Blog Post
Chris Palmer, founder of Angle of Attack, also hops on the bandwagon of ‘bloggers’. His new blog is said to be set up to ‘educate’ pilots and he has posted a first (actually second) post titled ‘Staying Sharp….’. If you are interested and have time to read yet another source of information regarding aviation, then […]
Australian Photo Scenery
David Sheridan reporta that he has “…. along with some help from Ian Thatcher, now setup his own web site which specializes in photoreal scenery for Australia. To date we have managed to do Broken Hill, Alice Springs, Bathurst-Mount Panorama and today we completed Photoreal Perth. Over the next few weeks and months we plan […]
The Carenado Saratoga — The Revolutionary Review
I have several Carenado GA planes in my virtual hangar and the Saratoga makes it number 8. Carenado makes good solid basic GA planes and the Saratoga is no exception. There has been some criticism in the forums about the “sameness†of the gauges in the Carenado planes and the fact that they do not have advanced features, e.g., wearing out/damaged engines, maintenance, etc, such as in the A2A J3 Cub. However, I take a pragmatic view, when reviewing 3rd party aircraft, and write the review based on the fact that this might be the only Carenado plane that I have purchased and judged solely on its merits.
The Saratoga handles very well, the sounds are very good, but the manuals are perfunctory to say the least. It is a good, if not outstanding GA plane, and it has quite appealing visual effects. On the whole, I found it to be a reasonable GA plane, but with lots of room for improvement in several areas.