Originally posted on simflight.DE, written and interview conducted by Peter Rosendahl. Anyone who has built an Airbus A320 home cockpit is probably using the “glass cockpit” software “A320 FMGS”. This software suite connects the home cockpit hardware of different manufacturers with FSX or PREPAR3D. The developer Jean-Luc gave us an…
If you have experienced issues with P3D v5, or at least to make sure you get the best improvements, you should get the new version with the HotFix 1 of the flight simulator. Lockheed Martin explains it’s necessary to uninstall first, and then install again the full product with the…
Lockheed Martin company informs the flightsim community that the latest upgrade version 4.5 for Prepar3D is out ! The main improvements are the terrain night lighting and the improved rendering performance.
Ever since its release in 2010, the Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog has been the go-to high-end joystick/HOTAS for consumers. Numerous reviews have been written about it. But I wasn’t going to back out of the opportunity to look at it myself.
Lockheed Martin posted the awaited info about the new update v4.4 for Prepar3D. Among the new features, many simmers will appreciate the drawing distance and the addition of PBR support among the various enhancements. PBR means Physically Based Rendering, and it makes textures look like in real life with accurate…
After a long development, the QualityWings Ultimate 787 Collection has been available for a while now. The 64-bit version for Prepar3D v4 has been since the end of May. That’s the version I’ll be looking at in this review.
Listen to the interview of the Engineering Project Manager at Lockheed Martin, Adam Breed at PCflight.net to learn more about the raise of Prepar3D. He has been in the development team since the beginning and he knows what’s coming in the next changes, like the version 3 for Prepar3D v4.
In June 2016, PMDG released the Douglas DC-6 Cloudmaster for X-Plane, their first foray into that platform. Early in the summer of 2017, the same classic airplane was released for FSX and P3D. Quite a bit different from the Boeing airliners PMDG released the last couple of years, so let’s…
PTA profiles are shaders mods to be used with P3D Tweak Assistant, and they enhance the global look, lights effects, shadows tones and environment colors, without impact on the framerates in P3D v3. Made by TOGA Projects team, PTAbsolute is a new freeware to recreate the most realistic environment. It…
When Precision Manual Development Group (PMDG for short) announce a new product, you can rest assured it will be very highly anticipated by the flightsim community. If said product is a remake of their almost-legendary 747, anticipation goes ballistic. The PMDG 747-400 Queen of the Skies II was released a…