General Flight Sim News

Faro X is one of several newly released sceneries this summer from Aerosoft..
The airport of Faro (LPFR) is located several kilometres from the city of Faro on the southern coast of Portugal.  Having a moderate climate it is an area that is popular with tourists. That has impacted the airport by making it extremely busy [...]

With the FS2004 version of Follow Me Service from DBS, you can call anytime from any airport for the ground service to guide you, from the runway to your gate, from the gate to the departure point, or to the refueling area for instance.
The FSX version is still here.

I’ve just seen a hole in your DVDs range on the shelves. Perfect for this new DVD video from JustPlanes, featuring Winair.
The Carribbean regional airline operates the Twin Otter, and you’ll fly to St Maarten, St Barth, Saba Island, St Kitts, Nevis … for 3 hours.

Lionheart Creations release their newest plane the Epic Victory, a private VLJ by Epic Aircraft in the United States. This unique, small 5 passenger jet features a single engine turbine powerplant, high mileage economy, and fast cruise at 320 Knots. The Victory features the Garmin G1000 [...]

Offering the “easiest-to-fly” but also the “most complete” Concorde aircraft simulation to be produced for a desktop flight simulator, the Concorde-X has arrived to set new standards with its amazingly accurate systems, stunning photo-realistic graphics, vigorously detailed external model and virtual cockpit, and a fully immersive three-dimensional sound experience.This [...]

Angle of Attack is proud to announce their first ever E-Book. This E-Book focuses on the Three Pillars of Communication and has been dubbed PilotSpeak. Through this powerful document you will learn the 3 most important things needed for great communication, whether you are just starting on VATSIM or you [...]

VFR Airfields volume 1, 2 and 3 are ready for download at simMarket. UK2000 Scenery designed all airports and airfields of the respective area, making of each volume a package of nearly 70-80 airports with FSX animations like birds or native jetways.
All of these are also corrected and blended to match Horizon’s photoreal sceneries.

At Flight Simulator Platform Solutions (FSPS), they thought about our needs of checklists. As we can fly a large variety of aircrafts, FSPS helps not to avoid any item for any aircraft.
It comes with 23 Aircraft manufactures and 71 different Aircraft type checklists. Of course, you can add and edit checklists with this new Ultimate [...]

In the latest Virtavia releases, we found pure military airplanes : the F-104 Starfighter, Hawker Hunter, F-105D Thunderchief, and Saab Gripen.
Note that all of them are compatible with both FSX and FS2004.

We missed publishing the following press release received from the Astrasim Expo offices two days ago: “ Astrasim Expo Summer Sim 2010 was held at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, UK, over the weekend of August 28-29.

Our first show at this world class venue lived up to everything we expected and more, with record [...]

Patience has been rewarded : Aerosoft has just released Airbus X (A320 – A321) for download.
Focused on the work of the pilot, Aerosoft presents their new airliner product as fine FSX exterior and VC models with advanced lights effects, featuring accurate automatic systems, but aiming at the pilots looking for not so complicated simulations as [...]

Made for both FSX & FS2004, the latest soundset from ArezOne features real recordings from a Pratt&Whitney PT6A-114 engine with 675 SHP.
That should be perfect for your Cessna 208 Caravan.

Christopher Guy Palmer wrote “The PMDG MD11 Training from Angle of Attack is finally here!
A limited number of trainees are now being accepted into this exclusive training course.”
“This training course is the latest in a series of airliner training courses from Angle of Attack, and is certain to be the best yet.
For the first time [...]

Gibraltar X has been made compatible with FS2004 by Aerosoft / Sim-Wings, “and it’s a near perfect swap between the two sims” says the publisher.
There’s also an update 1.01 to include now the cable car.

Dublin 2009 is a scenery for FSX and FS2004 from Eiresim.
A new update v1.3 has been released to fix various bugs, listed here.

FlightSimTools.com announced a new update for Addon Converter X.
This tool can convert your FS2004 sceneries and aircrafts for FSX. This V1.04 update can be found here.

Yesterday was not a good day at Aerosoft. They announced on their homepage that Airbus X is delayed because of a bug that came back on some of their test computers.
And their forum has been offline due to its server failure.

EZdok camera is now officially updated to version 1.15.1. There are a number of bug fixes that were still in v1.14/v1.15
And now it works with the TrackIR software. More info here.

CLS made available the MD81/82 Jetliner at simMarket. Short on systems simulation, this complete package is perfect for pilots willing to be in flight fast and easy with a nice looking body, or to start with a medium difficulty airliner add-on at a reasonable price.
Don’t forget there is also the Livery Pack Expansion to bring [...]

Fly the F18 in FSX, from Top Gun schools to actual war theaters where you fight MIGs.
Recruits must have FSX Gold or Acceleration, and then go here.