Archive for February, 2010

Dublin From FWI

Flying Wonderful Islands, the developer from France, has released Dublin Airport for FSX. Well, yes, Ireland is an island too, of course. He states himself “……Using up-to-date 3d files for many structures, include even the newest (and some in real life still under construction) layout, buildings, Terminal 2. Check out what EIDW will be like [...]

Philippines Airfield Released

Gert Winterfeld reports that he has released Caticlan Airport (RPVE) based on the Philippines. The runway on Caticlan is only 900 meters long, but it still is one of the busiest airports in the region. The island of Boracay near to it is one of the Philippines favorite tourist attractions and Caticlan airport is the [...]

Summary for week ending 28th February 2010

Howdy simmers,
I thought I’d send out another Newsletter summary for this week, as I can see a place for a weekly summary in addition to the new “on demand” Newsletter. Let [...]

Summary for week ending 28th February 2010

Howdy simmers,
I thought I’d send out another Newsletter summary for this week, as I can see a place for a weekly summary in addition to the new “on demand” Newsletter. Let [...]

Massive sale at FlightStore

FlightStore are having a 10th Anniversary Sale where you can get some fantastic flightsim hardware and software at up to 30% off.
The Sale only runs for one week, so be sure [...]

FSWIdgets updates AirView

FSWidgets have updated their AirView utility for FSX and X-Plane.
AirView technology provides the pilot with detailed awareness and environmental information, including industry first 3D Terrain Visualization with Dynamic Elevation Color [...]

Active Sky Evolution released

Active Sky Evolution has been released! This next installment in the Active Sky series brings further refinement and accuracy in weather synthesis and depiction, improved smoothing, increased high-fidelity aircraft compatibility, a [...]

Wilco P180 Avanti II

Wilco Publishing have released their P180 Avanti II for FSX and FS2004.Features

Highly realistic replicas of the Piaggio P180 Avanti II 
Wx500 Weather Radar powered by RealityXP 
Fully digital avionic system 
Jet-like performances with a [...]

Review: TropicalSim’s Congonhas X (SBSPx)

This review is on a product that’s been out since early 2008 and now that we are getting our PC’s to a point where it can handle FSX it’s worth looking at again. First, it comes with good versions for FS9 and FSX. Second, this is an impressive airport to fly in and out of [...]

New Version of Active Sky

Damian Clark of HiFi Sim sent us the following press release: “…… Active Sky Evolution has been released!  This next installment in the Active Sky series brings further refinement and accuracy in weather synthesis and depiction, improved smoothing, increased high-fidelity aircraft compatibility, a new graphical look and many other behind-the-scenes improvements to further increase your [...]

FranceVFR Discounts

France VFR is “…. happy to announce its sales promotion for this week-end until end 28 February 2010, as the continuity of our sales offer for those who could not visit us at Expo of “Mondial Simu Expo” at the Bourget Airport. Discounts are offered on the entire product range of FranceVFR,  except NextMesh and [...]

‘Sweet’ Airport Sucre Released

LatinVFR has released the airport at ‘Sucre’, which is a city in Bolivia. The product is said to be for both FS2004 and FSX and is now available. Interesting quote about the runway in that place “….. For landing usually on runway 05, its quite a challenge because once touchdown the runway starts to downward [...]

Update Of FS2Crew Maddog

Bryan York reports that “…… SP1 is now available for the Leonardo Maddog 2008 version of the FS2Crew Voice Commander series. This is an important update, and all FS2Crew Maddog owners should install it.  SP1 is NOT built into the main installer. SP1 is available for download on the FS2Crew web site. The Maddog version [...]

IVAO FLy-in Luxembourg

IVAO reports that “…… IVAO and Aerosoft jointly present another breathtaking online event. Tonight from 17:00z onwards the skies of Luxembourg will be buzzing with air traffic on the IVAO network. The Luxembourg-Findel Intl. Airport is one of the biggest cargo hubs in Europe and is home of  CargoLux, serving more  than 50 destinations across [...]

Boeing, Airbus Commit to Re-engining Decisions by Year-end

All the speculation and chatter over the prospects of re-engining the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737s families will finally end this year, judging by statements from senior Airbus and Boeing executives this month. In fact, John Leahy, Airbus COO for customers, went so far as to say that his company would like to decide whether [...]

Fourth Superjet 100 Flies on Borrowed Powerjet Engines

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) managed to fly the fourth prototype of the Superjet 100 this month, no thanks to Russian engine maker NPO Saturn, which partners with Snecma in building the Superjet’s Powerjet engines. Clearly feeling desperate after the Saturn-Snecma partnership failed to deliver the program’s seventh and eighth Powerjet SaM146 turbofans in due course, [...]

Koito Industries Seat Fraud Not News to Boeing, Airbus

Boeing discovered from its field representatives in Japan that Yokohama-based Koito Industries had falsified records related to flammability testing of its aircraft passengers seats more than a year ago, but subsequent tests concluded that no safety “issues” existed, a Boeing spokesperson told AIN. “We started working with Koito last January [2009], and we thought this [...]

Westland Lysander Hollywood Star

Here’s another great little movie for you to check out. This one is made by Jaggyroad Films of Cody Bergland and featuring the recently released and already very popular ‘Lysander Special Operations’ product, published here on simMarket by FSAddon Publishing. “… Lysander Special Operations includes 2 types of the model with various liveries, scenery of [...]

WXR in the 727

CS Weather Radar is included in the 727 Captain version 2.4 as a free bonus.
For details please visit http://www.captainsim.com

Tags: 727, CS, WXR

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Fly Ocean Virtual Spanish Airlines Seeking New Vice-CEO

Fly Ocean virtual Spanish Airlines is looking for a new Vice-CEO.
If you’re interested, we would like to welcome you in our team. Please ensure, that you fulfill the following criteria:

You are at least 16 years old
You’re able to speak English
You already have two years VA-experience
You have fun on planning and calculating
You’re able to work [...]