New ELITE product line ALTURA

Sensing a need for high quality, lower-cost flight simulator hardware, ELITE has created the “ALTURA” line of products. These devices —  Cirrus Flight side sticks, yokes, flight consoles, and Garmin GNS530 replica — are designed for the home flight simulator market and for K-12 school programs, such as STEM. The various new ALTURA products are […]

Elite Simulations Solutions – Desktop MEL Throttle Quadrant Review

Elite Simulation Solutions appears to be a company focused on actual flight training devices. They sell both hardware, software and complete solutions. That being said, some of their products are interesting to flightsim enthusiasts who have no intention of building a full cockpit. In this review I’ll be looking at their Desktop MEL Throttle Quadrant.

Heliwest plans to integrate Elite Simulator into wider training platform

“Having had six months experience of using an Elite Simulation Solutions S623T helicopter dual pilot simulator – bought because it came well recommended, has excellent features and was competitively priced — the Heliwest Group in Australia is now planning to expand its use further.”

ELITE Navigational Database Updates

Elite Simulation Solutions of Switzerland report that they have updated their range of  Elite Visual and Navigational Databases (GenView / RealView).  “… Currently we have the following new databases available for purchase; Area: ALPS, ESPO, EUNE, EUSE, FRAC, GBIR, GBNL, ITAS, SCAA, INDIA and SwissRV (RealView). Data RUN: all runs 0909 (September 2009)…”. You can find […]

ELITE V8.5 With GNS 430 WAAS Released

Here’s yet another excited manufacturer of all-things-aviation. Our Elite friends from Switzerland report “We are very excited about the release of the GNS 430 WAAS. We appreciate the quality work and assistance of Reality XP. It will help pilots save tremendous amounts of money in gaining and maintaining GPS and WAAS proficiency……”.