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In a message from Italy we learn that “…… PVI (Piloti Virtuali Italiani), the most important Italian Flight Simulation Association, to celebrate the 15° years of activity is organizing a “Flight Simulator Show” (FSS2010), that will be held in Verona (Italy) on March 6th and 7th 2010.
Our association organized this kind of events for several years; after a three years break, the Association decided to “get it back”, with the firm idea of making it a regular event for all FS enthusiasts and professionals, and not just a single show….”. Read Full Story »

Designer Cornel Grigoriu of Dreamfactorystudio is working on Mega Airport Amsterdam Schiphol and just sent the German simFlight team his ‘gold version’ of it for preview. Schiphol (for FS2004 for now) should pop up at Aerosoft’s shop within the next few days. If your curious, then have a look on the German simFlight forum here.

Sky Blue Radio reports that they are “…. presenting a very special live Flight Simulator in Focus show on Saturday February 13th, 2010 at 2200z. Join Jeff ‘JT’ Turner and special guests VATSIM Board of Governors, VP of Web Services, Mike Evans and Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Development Florian Harms as they explore the future of Flight Simulation and the place of VATSIM in the continuing development of Flight Simulation and aviation in general….”. Read Full Story »

Some things go well above my pretty little head, but I know what I see. And I know what I like. And the Outerra terrain engine definitely has potential. Check out the axel action on this Tatra truck and the landscape it is driving around in. There’s lots more to see and read on Brano’s blog here !

The guys from the German-language FlightXPress magazine report that their February 2010 issue is available now. Topics covered can be found on theor web site here.

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We’ve all been waiting for this one and now it is released! “……Flight One Software, in cooperation with Scenery Solutions, is excited to bring you a brand new type of product for FSX. Ultimate Alaska X provides a new era of scenery design that sim pilots can explore and experience in Flight Simulator X.

Alaska is one of the world’s most unique scenic locations, and it is an excellent place for flight simmers to enjoy the beauty of VFR flight. With Ultimate Alaska X, you will have the most complete rendering of Alaska to date. It provides a ground up redesign of nearly every scenery aspect in Alaska. This includes more accurate water, roads, railroads, urban modeling, mesh, detailed glaciers, repositioned airports, and more….”. Read Full Story »

X-Aviation reports that they are “…… proud to announce a new product line in conjunction with RealScenery. The new line of products will be dubbed “Enhanced,” and include many new features over our previous RealScenery releases. RealScenery is widely known amongst the X-Plane community to be the premiere product line for enhancing your X-Plane flying experience by adding aerial imagery across entire states at a time….”. Read Full Story »

At long last Carenado’s bush plane, the Cessna C-185F Skywagon is now also available from simMarket! This one is built for FSX only, supports SP2/Acceleration and DX10. Included are four different paint schemes and 4 models: with and without fairings, side windows on both sides and two & three blades prop. The Skywagon is one of the most sturdy planes used in the Alaskan bush and elsewhere in the world andhas been much anticipated by virtual bush pilots. The ideal companion to for instance FSAddon’s Tongass Fjords !

FS Dreamscapes has now started publishing their new series of mesh for FSX (high resolution elevation terrain mesh based on NEXTMap ProMesh data from Intermap Technologies). NEXTMap ProMesh is a new high-quality 4.75m terrain mesh product, aimed at providing the best quality mesh to flight simmers. Available now on simMarket for Texas, Main, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Louisiana, and many other States. Also for a range of European countries !

If you’re into hearing your models then you may want to get yourself this TSS pack featuring the sound of the Airbus. “….  TSS Airbus CFM56-5B Soundpack for FSX is an all new soundpack, with all new high quality recordings. With this soundpack,we have captured all the best soundmoments and put them together to combine a truly stunning representation of the CFM56-5B engine….”. Available on simMarket for FSX and FS2004.

Scott Philips of Just Flight reports that “…… A lot of people have been patiently waiting for us to supply the Service pack for Constellation Professional, well good news, it’s now available from our website. The Service Pack (27.5Mb) is now available and provides a number of fixes for the software. Users of both the Download and the Boxed versions should install this Service Pack. There is also a Service Pack (37.3Mb) available for Expansion Pack A and another one (65.5Mb) for Expansion Pack B. All users of the Expansion Packs should install these updates. Visit the Support section of the website for a list of all the fixes in the Pack.

In a package titled ‘Jagdgeschwader 73 Steinhoff’ (which stands for Squadron 73) you will find the Eurofighter, Mig-29 and Phantom jets. Unfortunately the description of the product page was largely lost in the translation to English, but the pictures sure help  understand what’s included. You can see them all here at simMarket. Seperate packages for FSX and FS9.

Quick Summary: This is quite a good set of powerboats (aka as speed boats) and it brings something different to FSX, in that you can now explore the scenery at sea level, and you can “fly” without ever leaving the ground (or water).  The boats are well modelled; they look very nice in the Sim and have little effect on performance.  The sounds are good, typical of a powerboat of this genre.  Although there are 3 models and 10 variants the cockpit instruments do not vary very much, but thet are comprehensive for a power boat.  They seem to have unique instruments as well as using the default GPS and GA radio stack.  The instructions on how to configure and pilot the boats are comprehensive and need to be followed to ensure success.  For something totally different you can’t go beyond these boats. Read Full Story »

And from SimAviatik in Switzerland we present you the “…… Realistic pitch lever for R22/R44. Fly your R22/R44 helictoper at your home like the real one. The high quality provides you with a very realistic feeling of flying. The lever has original dimensions, collective control friction, throttle control, governor on/off and works through USB plug & play…”. Here at simMarket’s shop.

Meant to be used by cockpit builders, running Project Magenta software for their 737 cockpits is this 6-pack software to help make things even more realistic. Please check out the list of prerequisites needed. This is NOT a software title for anyone! More information about the functions it supplies can be found on the simMarket product page here.

Halycon Media has repackaged yet another bunch of existing FS add-ons and made them available for the German market. Titles include Razbam’s EA-6B Prowler, his F-102 Delta Dagger and the Mig 29 from AFS Design. Many Halycon titles are available through the simMarket on-line shop and you can find them all here.

After Aerosoft threatening to build a whole new simulator, now Sim Giants from Israel also has plans apparently. Typing the news item I can already see the comments coming, but hey, news is news.

Dvir Cohen Julius of Sim Giants writes that “…. I am happy to announce that Sim Giants will develop a flight simulator game. We started to develop the simulator and it will be ready late 2011 (yes, it’s far) but I thought it will be nice to announce this fantastic release to your web site for the simmers community….”. Now, since we thought this was a bit flimsy, we asked some more details. Click on Read more…..

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FlightAware has released Version 2.0 of their popular on-line flight tracker and flight planner website. meanwhile 150.000 pilots (and flightsimmers) are members of FlightAware and have been giving input over the past year for improvements. Check out the free site here.

Jeff Smith of Flight1 sent us information regarding their upcoming screenshot contest. “….. To celebrate the one year anniversary of the Cessna Citation Mustang for Flight Simulator X, Flight1 will be holding a screenshot contest for Mustang pilots during the month of February.   Registered forum users can submit their best screenshot to the Flight1 Cessna Citation Mustang Screenshots and Videos forum…..”. Read Full Story »