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Jorge at Airsim.net, aka simFlight Portugal, reports about an interesting development named outerra, a planetary engine. Sounds like a lot doesn’t it? apparently the developer Brano Kemen is creating an engine that can generate our planet so to speak, Can it be used in a future  flight simulator? See this video and feel free to [...]

It’s been a long wait, but now after extensive developement and testing Oliver Pabst has released V2.01 of AES - Airport Enhancement System. A 2007 simFligth Award winner this software makes FS come alive, read how after the jump. the commercialisation is done via credit packs that you then exhange for the airports you want [...]

Simcraft is a Marietta, GA based company specialised in motion simulators for racing games. ‘Like many others’ i hear you think… but this is where Simcraft breaks the rule with their unique approach and they describe it like this: “.. an idea …  for a balanced mass architecture to reduce the need for expensive high force [...]

No matter if your MD-11 modell is equipped with Pratt & Withney or General Electric engines, TSS serves you well today with both flavours of sounds with multiple packages for FS2004 and FSX. A taste can be had by listening to this video and you can call them your own for a small sum here: [...]

Very interesting project here…. not new, but new to us: based on Google Earth and it’s API’s and following an earlier javascript based development here comes ‘Ships’  an online Ships Simulator from PlanetInAction.com where you can be the helmsman of  a bunch of vessels, from barges to cruise ships… and to stay more inline with [...]

Francois Dumas, ‘CEO’ of FSAddon Publishing report “…. not only is our Lysander making progress, now with Chuck Jodry and Rob Young building on it, but we have some more news: Tongass Fjords X has gone Beta this weekend and is officially being scrutinized as we speak. AND…. I have been personally tinkering with Fraps [...]

Three little words only: BUY IT HERE!
(if you are into trains that is.. but this is a good occasion to give it a go!)

Visual Approach’s Flavours of Flight: Sailplanning is a new documentary available now  ”….. Sailplaning, a new documentary by Visual Approach, gives you insight into the special world of “real” or unpowered flight, from the basics to the extreme. You can learn about the history of Farkashegy (”Wolf Mountain”) Airfield in Hungary and get detailed, close-up presentations of [...]

simFlight Networks forum member “Skinny Puppy” has been occupying himself with the Vertical Reality Simulations (VRS) Superbug these past few weeks and has found it such a challenging and interesting addon aircraft that he felt moved to write a review about it.
Readers thinking about adding this plane to their hangars will find this review very [...]

Como já é do conhecimento da maioria dos nossos leitores, no passado fim de semana fomos convidados pelo canal de televisão SIC, a realizar uma simulação do curto voo da US Airways em Nova York e que acabou no com a amaragem no rio Hudson em frente a Manhattam. A reportagem foi realizada na escola [...]

This is your chance to get your hands on VSTEP’s excellent Ship Simulator 2008 Collectors Editions, because THIS WEEKEND simMarket and VSTEP are offering you a 50% discount! Ship Simulator is to boating fans what Flight Simulator and Trainz are to pilots and train drivers; the ultimate simulation on water, right there on your PC.
Be [...]

Scott Gentile from A2A Simulations has been in touch to announce that they are developing an official training package for the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation and their Boeing C97 freighter aircraft, ‘Angel of Deliverance‘. The “Accu-Simulator” training package will be based on A2A’s popular Wings of Silver Boeing 377 Stratocruiser package (available from simMarket here).
To [...]

A product for X-Plane as reached the simMarket shores, an ATG Javelin MK-20 made for X-Plane v 9.21 and above. It comes with: Full Function 3D Cockpit in pilot and copilot seats. Custom dataref, and instruments. Easy click buttons. 10 Liveries of 2048 pixels each, with night and day textures. Real HUD (one of the first planes [...]

Oliver Pabst has quietly released version 1.99 of  his award winning Airport Enhancement Services (AES), wich list of  serviced airports  sceneries is impressive, it can be seen here. It is being runored that this will be the last version for FS2004 only, hence V2.0 maybe a dual version release in the typical Aerosoft way of doing [...]

There is a teaser video release of the upcoming ‘Ship Simulator 2010 Extremes’ version by one of it’s developers Pjotr van Schothorst at Vimeo.  (It sure is extremely short!). Ship Simulator is developed and published by dutch company Vstep.

Teaser of Ship Simulator 2010 from Pjotr van Schothorst on Vimeo.

If you want to play with the actual version, [...]

Wer der Meinung ist, echte Buschpiloten gäbe es nur in Alaska, hat sich gewaltig geirrt. In Neu-Guinea fliegen die echten Helden, die von den höchsten Gipfeln mit teils unglaublich kurzen Runways in die grüne Hölle des Bergfußlandes fliegen. Kleine Lichtungen im Regenwald dienen dabei als Landebahn. Pacific Islands Simulation haben es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, nun auch diese Gegend für den FSX zu erschließen. Das erste Projekt, eine Szenerie für Papua-Neuguinea, ist nahezu fertig gestellt. Zur Einstimmung empfehle ich dieses Youtube-Video:

(Edited by Admin): As can be gleaned from Dan’s own FSPassenger forums (see this topic) the new FSPassengersX is slowly getting nearer the release date, if final testing plays well this weeked it will be here before Christmas.
Like with all complex add-on programs for FSX, development has taken a LOT of time. To kill some [...]

Starten wie ein Helikopter, fliegen wie ein Flugzeug – das ist das Motto von Wilcos neuestem Produkt, dem Tilt Rotor. Es handelt sich hierbei um die Simulation des Bell Agusta 609, entwickelt von der Bell Agusta Aerospace Company, einem Joint Venture von Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. und Agusta Westland. Erste Prototypen fliegen bereits, die Musterzulassung ist für 2010 im Visier. Insgesamt 7 verschiedene Modelle und 10 Lackierungen wurden umgesetzt. Sowohl zivile als auch militärische Varianten sind dabei, ebenso speziell auf Luftrettung ausgelegte Varianten mit jeweils angepassten Innenausstattungen und Piloten. Das Paket enthält darüber hinaus einige Missionen für den FSX, die speziell auf diesen Flugzeugtyp abgestimmt wurden. Für €36,95 kann das Produkt für FS9 und FSX als Download-Version gekauft werden, eine Box ist in Vorbereitung. Nähere Infos gibt es auf der Produktseite von Wilco sowie auf der Extra-Seite, die 6 weitere Videos zum Tilt Rotor bereit hält.

A Blu Sky Mine Productions lançou finalmente o tão esperado BAe ATP para o FS2004. O Turboprop é usado há varios anos pela companhia aérea nacional, SATA que usa este modelo nas ligações regionais inter-ilhas.  Decorre já om processo de substituição do BAe ATP na SATA mas o modelo agora lançado ainda vem a tempo [...]