Sim-Wings – new preview of Canary Islands X

According to the latest screenshots uploaded by Mathijs Kok to the Aerosoft previews forum, Canary Islands X will look great, definitely. It’s Manfred Spatz, designer of Sim-Wings, who is putting efforts to reproduce carefully the Spanish islands settled in the Ocean Atlantic in front of Morocco.

AivlaSoft Update v1.3.6

When it’s about AivlaSoft, it almost sure you’ll read Electronic Flight Bag news. Good catch ! Their popular utility is now available in version 1.3.6 to support REX Essential Plus (weather and environment).

Ben Gurion Real Ops 2012

Bar from VATSIM Israel‘s events department has been in touch to let everyone know about their upcoming Ben Gurion Real Ops event on 13th December 2012, from 15:00 to midnight UTC. With nine hours of continuous ATC coverage, the event is, as the name suggests, designed to get as close to the real-world operations of […]

New boxed airports from Aerosoft

Neither of these are new releases, but Aerosoft have now made available their Mega Airport Helsinki and Dusseldorf airport products in boxed versions, as well as download. Both products contain installers for use with Microsoft FSX and Lockheed Martin Prepar3D, while the Dusseldorf disc also contains an installer for users of Microsoft’s Flight Simulator 9/2004. […]

Heads-up for X-Plane

The use of heads-up displays, or HUDs, used to be the realm of the military fast jet pilot, but these days their use has expanded beyond that, to helicopters, airliners, general aviation aircraft and even some high-spec cars. With the improved safety and situational awareness of not having to switch your vision between inside and […]

Review: TropicalSim Rio De Janeiro 2012

In 2016 the Olympics will be held in Rio De Janeiro. I bet there will be allot of virtual pilots in that area over the next few years so it’s only fitting that we review TropicalSim’s SBGL scenery package.

More Colombian releases from SSG/EdlA

simMarket has four new versions of software from SSG Studios and Entusiastas de la Aviacion today – one new release and two new versions plus an update of a second. The new release is El Bagre (SKEB) for FS2004/FS9, as pictured above. Located in the municipality of El Bagre, within Antioquia department, the small airport […]