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MSFS has partnered with Embraer to bring its fleet to the simulator

“We are excited to announce our partnership with Embraer, one of the global leaders in the aerospace industry,” said Jorg Neumann, head of Microsoft Flight Simulator. “Embraer’s cutting-edge fleet and focus on innovation make it the perfect partner for Microsoft Flight Simulator, and our goal with this collaboration is to bring many of Embraer’s aircraft […]

FSFX Packages Lear35 Immersion: Now on simMarket

youtu.be/DZc7IaBXV_4 On simMarket, you may now find FSFX Packages latest release: Lear35 Immersion. Featuring Enhanced Volumetric rain effects, engine exhaust gas effects and also party lights and many other features, there’s lots to discover! Simply take a look at the simMarket store page to get your copy now!  

Aerosoft – A330 Overhead “99% Complete”

Over on the Aerosoft Forums, Mathijs has stated that the overhead is 99% complete excluding a few rivets and some other tiny details to be added but they want some new images for those before they’ll be completed. Not much else to say apart from the fact that it appears to be progressing tremendously well and that […]

Dovetail Games – 2 New Simulators Announced for 2016?

Since acquiring the rights to develop and publish new titles utilizing Microsoft’s genre-defining flight simulation technology back in 2014, Dovetail Games has been clear about its intent to make headlines in the flight simulation category. Today Dovetail Games have announced that they have plans to launch 2 new flight simulation titles in 2016.

simMarket adds more MSFS Airports

There are two more new airports and another on special offer for you now on simMarket. Tropicalsim have updated Trieste (LIPQ) for 2015, with install options for FS9, FSX and P3D. FS Group‘s Orumiyeh (OITR) is a rare Iranian airport, now available for FSX, FSX:SE and P3D. Finally, this week’s deal is Taxi2Gate‘s MMMX – Mexico […]

New at simMarket

It’s that round-up again… The neighbouring states of New York and New Jersey have received the Aerosoft Night Environment X treatment for FSX & P3D, while recently announced on the news page here, Blackbox Simulation‘s Widebody X-Treme ‘Prologue’ package (A330 and A340) plus REX4 Texture Direct HD with Soft Clouds are also both now available […]

simMarket Releases for Monday

Today’s round-up of releases at simMarket includes the weekend’s collection, for a total of eight new products available to you. For FSX and P3D fliers, we have RFSceneryBuilding‘s UMKK Kaliningrad Khrabrovo, in the Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania. This is joined by Real Earth X‘s DTM Italy Volume 1, with LOD12 and 13 mesh coverage […]

Friday’s simMarket Findings

January’s payday for many people brings another four new releases to the simMarket’s digital shelves, but we can’t see a theme in them this time, sorry. In terms of scenery, there are now three additional products available; the Adriatic archipelago of the Tremiti Islands and the Arabba region of the Dolomite mountains come from Real […]

simMarket New Release Round-up

Yesterday’s new releases at simMarket have a decidedly “US” theme going on. First up comes the boxed release of Aerosoft’s F-14 Tomcat US Navy fighter, while Taburet has added night lighting to the states of Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, MegaScenery Earth has covered Denver and Colorado Springs with photoreal scenery and, as per the article below, […]

New GPS for XP10.30

A Press Release received today from Laminar Research, the team behind X-Plane, announces that the sim will be getting a new GPS system, based on the popular Garmin 430 unit, with upcoming build 10.30.

FS2Crew DASH8 release date

The image says it all, really; FS2Crew have announced that the intended release date for their product to support the Majestic Dash8-Q400 product is March 28th, 2014 and, along with the announcement on their Facebook page, they have announced a competition, here, for new subscribers to their newsletter to win one of five copies of the […]

Prepar3D Version 2 due 25th November

In this news post on their site, the team from Lockheed-Martin behind the next version of Prepar3D have announced that version 2 of the simulator platform will be available for sale via their site on 25th November 2013. The much anticipated release will include numerous features and upgrades moving it away from the “FSX equivalency […]

BoBII update to version 2.12 announced

Venerable but still popular World War II simulator “Battle of Britain II: Wings of Victory” may have started life slightly awkwardly back in 2005, but in spite of being over 7 years old, not only is it still being supported, but also updated by a dedicated team of developers. Based over at the virtual hangars […]

Combat Pilot approaching launch slot

MadCatz – who you may or may not know as a publishing house and also the owner of Saitek – have issued a press release to announce the imminent release, at the start of next week, of Combat Pilot. This membership-based service takes MSFSX to a whole new level for fans of military simulation, providing […]

How’re your writing skills?

I have received a complaint! Well, two actually, but while neither of them were entirely correctly targetted, they both did highlight issues that are affecting the entire hobby and industry at present, with simFlight being no exception. There’s more ground to cover than ever before and we have fewer people able to do so than […]

Some light Sunday reading

We thought you might be interested in reading this article, which the Wall Street Journal published yesterday about home cockpit enthusiasts and their rigs. As the article says, although some home cockpit builders’ friends and family think they are mad and wasting money, others are amazed at what their partners/friends have created in their garages […]

HJG – 4th Anniversary Website Update

Mark Cranston of the Historic Jetliners Group has sent one of his elaborate site update stories. “……Celebrating its 4th anniversary of service to the international FS community …the new HJG (Historic Jetliners Group) have pleasure announcing its 1st website update for 2010… featuring new and upgraded B707, B720, B727, BAe 146, CARAVELLE, DC8, and DC9 […]

FSXI Coming From The East !!??

We think that FSXI might well be in the works, and in a place you might not expect it from ….. maybe ! In the wake of recent developments in Bend, Oregon, where the Chinese state-owned AVIC I is trying to buy the remnants of Epic Air (most likely to acquire their advanced carbon fiber […]

FS Magazin Issue 3

Bert Groner, the chief editor of (the German language) FS Magazin mentions that their next issue is due on the news stands on April 1st. FS Magazin is one of the leading publications in the Flight Simulator field for the German region and always chockfull of interesting content. Click to read what’s covered in this […]

Miss Jacy Ready For Download

Ian Thatcher writes on his ‘Kiwi website’ “…. In 1969 Cliff Tait showed the world that one Kiwi could fly. Setting out as a one-man mission to publicize New Zealand to the world, Cliff and his New Zealand made plane ended up making history. No one had ever attempted to fly solo around the world […]

Balearic Islands X

SimWings has released yet another ‘island package’. “….. Need a holiday break? Now is the time to fly to the Mediterranean! And just in time SimWings have released their absolutely new scenery of Balearic Islands X. This package features all islands with photorealistic ground textures and the airports of the islands. …..”. Published by Aerosoft […]

Flightsimmers Become Reality

Weird title, eh? What I mean is that sometimes it is nice to go from the simulated and virtual world we ‘simmers’ like to live and hide in out into the real world and actually MEET each other. That can be at big events such as the various flightsim ‘conferences’, but why not agree a […]

Angle of Attack News

Chris Palmer of Angle of Attack posted some news on his blog. If you have time to watch a 12 minute (!) video, you can get all the details here. In short it says that he is making progress on the PMDG MD11 Training (clkick on Read more for detals).  He also mentions his Aviator […]

RealityXP GPS for X-Plane

Jean-Luc Dupiot of RealityXP in Canada reports about his XP GNS 430/530 WAAS for X-Plane. “…. Leveraging the latest capabilities offered with X-Plane 9.41, the Reality XP GNS 430/530 WAAS can guide you to fly your aircraft through holding patterns, procedure turns and other position-critical IFR flight procedures, with full autopilot coupling for both lateral […]

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 […]

Where is the news? send to news@simflight.com

Dear readers! It is an honor to have you with us! but… we are out of news today. Can you help us find any? Please send news bits related to FS  to news@simflight.com anytime! Help us help you! Thank you!

You Send News To Us!

There is times where we have nothing exciting to report about….. but this does not mean that there is nothing exciting to report about, right?  If you happen to come across an interesting FS related developement, curiosity, event, etc please email it to us at news@simflight.com or send it via our feedback mask or you […]

New Podcaster fsBreak Goes Live

Eric McClintock from Cincinatti, Ohio, has launched his weekly podcast “fsBreak”. You can hear his podcasts and read resumes on the fsBreak website. In his first program he discusses, amongst other current topics, the Microsoft closure of ACES with his co-host Cam. This could be something to keep your ears open for…

Black Monday For Emma Field !!

Francois Dumas of FSAddon Publishing wrote “……. We found a news clipping in Fritz’s mailbox this morning that we want to share with you, Emma Field aficionados and potential Emma Field pilots. As you may know, Emma Field is THE place to be for relaxed GA flying in a friendly environment, on-line and off-line, and […]

SimFlight HQ Moved to France

Don’t worry, it’s only temporary (for now). Your managing editor moved to his place in France for a few weeks of vacationing. As with many things in this wonderful country, getting Internet to run took a bit more time than hoped for….. but the broadband connection is fully functional now. So NEWS will be coming […]

Did You Know……

…… that nowadays you can CLICK your mouse on the thumbnail picture to the left of our articles, and get an enlarged view of the picture? (Well, with most of them, you don’t want to see my head enlarged…..). Did you also know that all comments are emailed to us when posted? That’s a good […]