Military Aircraft in MSFS : For What ?
I’m talking about military planes in Microsoft Flight Simulator and what they are for. Sim Skunk Works released a new version of the F-104. “But if you can’t shoot them, what are they for?”, someone will ask. That’s a valid question. Let’s think about it. If you consider real combat aviation, all those F-14s and […]
Dino posts project updates
Dino Cattaneo has today posted a general update regarding his projects to the India India Alpha Foxtrot Echo blog page, providing readers with a quick precis of progress across all of his FSX/P3D aircraft. While the MB326/339 is still on the back burner, it’s already looking pretty good. There have also been updates to the […]
SkyAviator presents Sun Valley Airpark video
Georg Liigand of SkyAviator.com has been in contact to issue the following press release: “After a long wait the new aviation blog and free aviation movies publisher SkyAviator.com has become to life again and published an almost 2 hour movie of Sun Valley Airpark – located in the Mohave Desert, Arizona. The video used to […]
A final fizzle?
The dead sim that isn’t quite dead, apparently, would like to give its users a twist in the tail of the tale. And extract some more money from them, for preference. Some of you might be aware that following the demise of Flight as a live project, Microsoft have actually appointed someone to be a […]
Another Flight article – The Seattle Times
We think we might be starting to get the idea about Microsoft’s next “aviation” release by now, but with thanks to Bert Groner of FSMagazin for the tip, here’s another article you might like to read. Published by The Seattle Times columnist Brier Dudley, this article “Q&A: Microsoft Flight Boss on ‘Rebooting Franchise’” contains little […]
X-Plane 10 ATC System notes
Whether you are used to fly or not with ATC engines (FS default, or Radar Contact expansion for instance), you may be more or less surprised by the ATC system brought by the latest X-Plane 10. On their development blog, Chris Serio explains what you cannot expect from controllers. He lists it does well for […]
Tips about display performance of X-Planes 10
The X-Plane development blog last post details step by step how to proceed to setup your display options for best performance on your machine. X-Plane 10 demo has been available since a few days, and if you have experienced bad performance, it may be just because options are not well adapted to your computer specs. […]
X-Plane scenery and mesh tools
There are new versions of scenery and mesh tools for X-Plane available for download from X-Plane development blog. The incoming X-Plane 10 may come with new versions of these utilities to support the new technologies they developed.
X-Plane 10 development blog
Enter the X-Plane 10 development blog to read their designers’ last adventures and bugs investigation. Written with a bit of humor, the blog posts have some tips to get you out of X-Plane problems and brings some news about X-Plane 10 on-going design.
Duxford In The Battle of Britain
This summer you’ll see more news about the Battle of Britain, English aviation events and museums and other related topics. Why? Because in 2010 it will be exactly 70 years ago that the Battle of Britain was fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe and there are plenty of commemorations on the topic. One interesting […]