Prepar3D V2 in beta
We shouldn’t have heard about it.. but too late, some developers (here and there) let escape the word spread aout a new version of the flight simulator by Lockheed Martin : Prepar3d V2. For now it’s running beta tests, and it will be very hard to get more information since the Non Disclosure Agreement has […]
REX Game Studios announces support for PMDG 777
REX Game Studios, the makers of the REX environment products for Flight Simulation have now announced their support for the recently released PMDG777 , specifically the B777^s Winds Export feature. Here is their announcement in full: “PHOENIX, AZ – REX GAME STUDIOS is pleased to announce they will support the new PMDG 777 Winds Export […]
MegaScenery Earth expands into Louisiana
Continuing their coverage of the Southern United States once more, Louisiana has now been covered with 50cm/pixel photorealistic textures by PCAviator’s MegaScenery Earth series. A little over 51,000 square miles in size and with 272 airports, the state has a wide variety of terrain to fly over, although it is all fairly low lying, with […]
TSS Triple 7 Soundpacks for FS9 and X
Recorded from aircraft belonging to Emirates, KLM and Singapore Airlines, Turbine Sound Studios‘ latest release covers the giant GE-90 turbofan powered Boeing 777 airliner. Designed for use with the package released by Overland, but as ever used with any 777 aircraft, independent packages are available for Microsoft’s Flight Simulator 2004 and Flight Simulator X packages. […]
Synchro-Soft Tomahawk sound set
The PA-38 Tomahawk may be diminishing in number as a training aircraft as airframes are retired, but it remains a popular aircraft in the hearts of many pilots. Users of Alabeo‘s aircraft as featured above, or any other PA-38 in FSX may be interested in Synchro-Soft’s latest soundset, which is available here.
FlightGear 2.12
Last weekend, the team developing Open Source Flight Simulator FlightGear released version 2.12 of their package, with the primary updated features including improved scenery rendering and updates to the Canvas rendering toolkit. The main changelog can be found on the FlightGear blog here and also lists new shader functionality, plus new animation functionality for more […]