Different people get excited by different announcements in our hobby. Seeing Aerosoft working on a Tomcat certainly got my heart racing. The product in question has been available for quite a while now, so let’s take a look and see if it’s just as iconic as its real world counterpart.
After the slight black mark of yesterday’s missed approach, the Aerosoft F-14X today got an “OK Pass” marking from the Landing Systems Officer and has entered service with pilots in FSX and P3D as a downloadable product. With very details systems, VRS TacPack integration and coming with a Kitty Hawk…
There are new pictures of the Tomcat F-14X project in Aerosoft previews forum. You can even load a screenshot of the Radar Intercepter Officer panel that will come added to the pilot panel.
Engineered and manufactured by Grumman for the US Navy, the F-14 Tomcat will get a new virtual life in our flight simulators thanks to Aerosoft F-14 X project. Have a look at the new preview screens posted this week in Aerosoft forums. Get ready for some action soon !
Yesterday, at the India Inda Alpha Foxtrot Echo blog, Dino Cattaneo announced the release of version 2.20 of his FSX +Acceleration/Prepar3D F-14D Tomcat. The headline change to the “Tom” is a complete reworking of the multi-function display system to match US Navy NATOPS manuals, although many other changes are included…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1YbISwZJoQ&feature=player_embedded Added to the above video, we found a part of the features list to expect from Aerosoft in their forum. The pilots voices have been added to the dogfight footage, but they also explained how they are working on a TacPack integration and a payload manager to be included in…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A5ackNZis4 Keeping with the Tomcat theme of Mile High’s Miramar scenery, but unfortunately for a different sim, Turbine Sound Studios have today released their HD Soundset for the Grumman F-14 Tomcat Air Superiority fighter. According to the product information, the developers have taken some existing recordings that they had of…
A total remake for FSX, that’s what Iris did to bring a new F-14 Tomcat. The product page details they developed a native FSX model with all latest effects and custom animations, but they also added 3D gauges and a new soundset. Read all about it here.
Dino Cattaneo, known from his excellent Goshawk, has now released the first version of his F-14D Tomcat for FSX. He writes on his blog “….. Ok, here we go. First public release of the Tomcat. As it is partially incomplete, the release number is 0.9. For now, it will only…
Iris simyulations have re-done their 2006 Tomcat and made a complete new model of it, for FSX SP2. As they say “…. No longer does this aircraft suffer from poor performance in Microsoft Flight Simulator X, as it is now fully FSX Native and designed with FSX in mind! In…