Flight Sim News

OZx 3.2 Upgrade

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:18:16 +0000

From the steamy tropics of North Queensland to the cool temperates of Tassie - we bring you 10 more strips to test
your navigation and landing prowess. Prof has authored a string of "pearlers" across the Cape - just use the
Google Earth kmz's in OZx\User_Docs\Maps in your FSX folder to plan a tour. Mitch and Ed have a couple of rippers for the
Sandgropers, too. So for those of you who loved what we did before, here's more of the same but even better.
Ken and Prof have invented new grass and weeds to infest their fields and they're spreading them on their muddy boots.
Tony's done a beautiful little special request in NSW and we've called in the fence builders and retro-fitted fences to
some old strips with more to follow. So make a plan on a piece of paper, climb into your favourite bugsmasher
and head off to some weedy godforsaken little widowmaker of a scratch-in-the-bush airstrip.
Pit your wits and courage against the elements and bask in the satisfied glow of a well-executed plan and skilful landing.
Fly on Gamespy if you want to brag to your mates!

OZx NA 1.0

What a difference to Australia! In PNW, if you fall out of the sky you have a 40% chance of hitting a strip.
In populated areas they're only 1-2NM apart and even in the boonies they're often only separated by about 6NM.
But wow! Spectacular snow-covered mountains separated by abysses of dense evergreen forests, wild rivers and wild life.
Island hideaways for the wealthy, hunting lodges, logging camps... and how do you get to all these places? Bush aircraft!
So, in the tradition of OZx_AUS we offer you OZx North America. Select a taildragger or floatplane, preferably with
turbo for the altitude, and go bush. Beware the locals: bears, mountain lions, wolves, etc as they can be dangerous.
Always do a flyover to check for terrain, obstacles and animals. Our new skills, new utilities and new models make
OZx_NA our best yet. Get out there into the Wilds and have a ball!

For more information please visit http://aussiex.org

OZx 3.2 For Australia --> http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=1254
OZx NA 1.0 For North America --> http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=1256
OZx Libraries 1.0 (MUST INSTALL!)--> http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=1255

Captain Sim's 707

Thu, 27 May 2010 13:23:02 +0000

Got their newsletter:

We are pleased to announce very first preview of the upcoming 707 Captain. Details and screenshots are at http://www.captainsim.com

screenshotworld.com back online

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:31:49 +0000

The screenshotworld and simartists team is glad to announce that they now reopened their new website.

ScreenshotWorld has been designed and is run for the enjoyment of taking and sharing screenshots from you favourite simulator or Game.
We have forums covering everything from Flight Simulators to motor racing and much more.
We welcome everyone from seasoned veterans of taking screenshots to those just starting out. No matter what you level you will find our staff and members helpful, friendly and willing to share their knowledge with others. We have a large section of tutorials, a selection of downloads and galleries of pictures by our members. If you prefer, you are welcome to simply enjoy looking at the work produced by our members.We do require you to register, but this is a simple process and it's Free.

http://www.screenshotworld.com/joomla/

Earth Simulations

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:41:19 +0000

Earth simulations has finally released its Isles of Scilly, and what a delight the islands are too! This photographic scenery is pretty unlike anything thats gone before it, raising the standard still further after the excellent work Earth Simulations did on Alderney last year.

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The Isles of Scilly has now overtaken Alderney as Earth Simulations proudest achievement. It is the result of our wish to create the most realistic scenery experience possible using today's technology in Flight Simulator X. The Isles of Scilly form an archipelago off the south-western tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain. The Islands have an almost tropical feel to them, comprising some of the most beautiful scenery to be found in this Island of Islands that we call Great Britain. The entire area has been modelled in the most painstaking of detail, and has been brought to life by the innovative design techniques employed here at Earth Simulations.
We sincerely hope you will be tempted to take a closer look at this scenery and that those of you that do will enjoy what we believe is the most advanced Flight Simulation scenery available today. We also think its a really very beautiful part of the world.

The feature list is pretty good too:

For purchase info: http://www.earthsimu...ormation-1.html

For more screenies, see the Earth Simulations forum: http://www.earthsimu...wforum.php?f=13

Instant Mission Maker Update

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:05:07 +0000

Instant Mission Maker Update

Flight1 is pleased to announce an update for Instant Mission Maker to version 1.03. The update contains several new features and bugfixes.

Instant Mission Maker is an easy to use tool for making Flight Simulator X missions. It offers a very intuitive GUI, live preview and editing of many mission objects directly in FSX, and can also instantly generate random missions. For more details, please visit the product page:
http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=instmiss

Flight1 Releases Ultimate Traffic 2 - Power Pack

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:02:46 +0000

Flight1 Releases Ultimate Traffic 2 - Power Pack

Flight1 is today announcing the official release of the Ultimate Traffic 2 Power Pack: a FREE addon to Flight1's Ultimate Traffic 2 product for FSX. The Power Pack is an easy to use tool to that allows you to compile and import add-on schedules, create new schedules from scratch, modify or create airport identifiers, plus much more. Below you will find a few highlights of what the UT2 Power Pack provides:

Create Add-on Schedules Manually - The UT2 Power Pack includes the ability for users to manually create their own schedules from the ground up, one flight at a time. Users will be able to add smaller airlines that are not available on popular flight sim sites, special event schedules such as special military flights, charter airlines, virtual airlines, and/or use it to schedule GA traffic at your local airport. Virtual Airlines will especially find the tool to be a great utility because they can add their complete schedules to the FSX world.

Import Download Schedules - UT2 Power Pack users can import classic BGL style schedules, with the help of AIFPC or TTools, to create schedules and AI aircraft activity that is not already included with the software.

Airport Modification - UT2 Power Pack features an airport modification tool that will allow users, who have add-on airports that were not included originally with the FSX release, to add/modify these airports so UT2 can handle the AI Traffic scheduled to them.

Share Add-on Schedules - The UT2 Power Pack enables users in the Ultimate Traffic 2 community to share newly created schedules with others.

For more information on obtaining the Power Pack, please visit http://ut2.flight1.net/index.php/downloads/ut2-power-pack.html, or to read more about Ultimate Traffic 2, please visit http://www.flight1.com.

Flight1 Software release Ultimate Traffic 2 – Boxed Edition!

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:40:05 +0000

Ultimate Traffic 2 is now boarding...

It’s been a long time coming, in fact over three years of development, but we think it’s been worth the wait.

Re-designed from the ground up, Ultimate Traffic 2 provides Microsoft Flight Simulator X users the definitive AI-traffic upgrade, and still is the only package out there that provides computer traffic based on real airlines, flying on real schedules and now using realistic routings too!

There are over 1 million flight hours of commercial traffic and a further 2.5 million flight hours of general aviation flights– with vast flexibility and customisation on what you see and where. The all-new DX10 aircraft models give unparalleled frame-rates compared to other packages and you can even select a flight from the departure board and fly it yourself if you want!

So now you don’t just have to watch out for traffic, you can BE the traffic!

Ultimate Traffic 2 boxed edition is available from all good retailers, from the local hobby shop to high street chain stores. The boxed version and the download version (using Flight1’s popular e-commerce system) are also both available direct from Flight1 here: http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?search=true&filter=all&txtsearch=ut2list

Orbx Simulation Systems releases FTX NA BLUE - USA Canada Pacific Northwest

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:36:23 +0000

Welcome to North America, and Orbx's most ambitious project to date. Over fourteen months in the making and led by veteran developers Holger Sandmann and Matt Tomkins, the FTX Pacific Northwest region is truly a stunning achievement which combines all the elements of the much celebrated FTX AU region series, but goes much further. With PNW, Orbx has amped the quality of the ground textures to the next level, and sourced them from pristine imagery to create beautifully crisp terrain even at ground level. There is over 2.5GB of fully seasonal and annotated photoreal for landmark mountain and wilderness areas above the tree line, glaciers, lava flows, as well as including photoreal Seattle CBD, the ports of Tacoma and Olympia, KPAE, Bonneville Dam and many other points of interest. Additionally Orbx has created brand new autogen textures, hand-crafted every square mile of landclass, added full moving traffic, 3D night lighting and much more! Finally, over 450 default airports in the region have been upgraded with custom buildings and objects, elevation corrections and other details. FTX Pacfic Northwest is available now as an instant download addon and soon on DVD from resellers worldwide.

More information at http://fullterrain.com

Angle of Attack's Aviator 90 Series

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:04:50 +0000

For anyone unaware of the recent work from Angle of Attack, you've got to check out what these guys are doing..

Aviator 90 is a 90 day complete (and FREE) flight training tutorial that will span over 45 episodes. We're currently at episode 11, Pattern work and the series is continuing every other day.

You can find the entire series here, and episode 11 here!

Two New Releases from Captain Sim

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:21:27 +0000

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Two good news from Captain Sim:
1. The B-52 BUFF Repaint Kit is available.
2. The 767 Captain Free Demo is available.
For details please visit http://www.captainsim.com

"AS" flights with Level-D 767 by super_koshihikariCera Bell 212 RAN N29-161914

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:28:43 +0000

Fictional textures for the cera bell 212

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De Havilland Tiger Moth DH-82A

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:25:09 +0000

Freeware FSX SP2 model of the popular De Havilland Tiger Moth trainer aircraft. This is a modern representation of the Australian built models as you may find flying today therefore it includes a few extra features not found on the original.

If you wish to download the file from

or

please click HERE

If you wish to download from our normal download servers please scroll down further until you see the red arrow like this and click on it, the main server is a CDN server so it will grab your best download from whatever server will give you the best speed, if you have ANY dramas whatsoever, PM me and I will help you out ASAP!

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Plan-G v0.9 now available

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:07:02 +0000

It just got cooler, with 0.9...

* ILS support
* Intersections
* Vertical Route Profiling (requires extra download of free mesh)
* Post-flight track vertical profile
* Grid lines (graticule)
* More user waypoint types
* Bug fixes
* Totally new web site

Heck, I even heard somewhere you can use it with X-Plane. Oh, wait, that was on FSBreak.....

Available free from http://www.tasoftware.co.uk

"Mexsim- Acapulco Intl Airport"

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:10:31 +0000

Mexsim is proud to present General Juan N. Álvarez International Airport or also known as Acapulco Intl Airport. Because Acapulco has always been considered an important resort and recreation area, Juan Álvarez International Airport has long been important in the development of tourism in southern Mexico. It is the largest international airport in the country's southern Pacific region, and one of the largest air facilities in Mexico.

This international airport is one of the top 15 airports in Mexico in terms of passengers and operations, receiving many international charter flights.

Airport Features:

Custom Buildings
High Quality Ground Textures
Terminal Replica as Real Life!
FRIENDLY FPS!
Custom jetways, car’s, trees, taxilights, and much more!
Realistic Night Lightning!
Accurate Afcad
Recommended computer specs for FS2004:

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004
Windows XP / Vista
2 Ghz Processor
1024 MB RAM
3D graphics card with 128 MB

www.mexsim.com

or

http://secure.simmarket.com/mexsim-acapulco-mmaa.phtml

Captain Sim 757 and 767 Updates

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:20:14 +0000

Read more about Captain Sim's latest updates for it's 757 and 767 series.

757 Version 4.4: http://www.captainsim.com/products/x757/sp44.html
767 Version 1.4: http://www.captainsim.com/products/b767/sp4.html

QualityWings 757 Series Released

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:24:14 +0000

More information at their website here: http://qwsim.com/index.php/home

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The Ultimate 757 Collection is the most extensive 757 Package ever created for Microsoft Flight Simulator. There is truly something for everyone. Every 757 ever to come off the line from Boeing has been reproduced for your enjoyment. And with Mid-Level systems programming, we've simplified the simming experience while providing you the look and feel that makes the Boeing 757 such a special airplane to fly

*Image is sourced from QualityWing's website.

Flight1 P-51D Mustang Updated!

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:42:53 +0000

Flight1 is pleased to announce that they have updated their recently released simulation of the P-51D Mustang. Following feedback and requests from customers, they have incorporated the following improvements:

-Greatly improved textures across all models with significantly improved blending and reflective properties.
-Inclusion of an additional NEW paint scheme: LOUIV now sports a classic wartime, ‘RAF Green’ in addition to the blue schemes seen on current restored aircraft
-The magneto switches have been altered so it’s not now possible to fly with the mags in the wrong position, no matter whether the aircraft was started automatically (CTRL-E) or from the checklist.
-The default FSX radio panel can now be switched on/off using the VHF Radio unit on/off switch in the aircraft. [/list]

The update is free to all existing owners who should follow the instructions on the product page.

The Flight1 P-51D Mustang has been developed on the real-life ‘Marinell’ and ‘Janie’ aircraft owned and operated by Maurice Hammond and with considerable input from P51 pilots. It now comes with a total 13 liveries plus a paint kit and comprehensive documentation, including actual performance charts and check-lists.

Priced at only $34.95 you can find out more here: http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=p51dmustang

More Captain Sim News

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:55:39 +0000

We got got these new items from Captain Sim:

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1. The KC-767 Tanker Expansion Model has been released.
2. The 767 Captain manual part I updated.
3. The 727 Captain Repaint Kit is available.
4. The E-767AWACS Expansion Model is coming soon.
Details at http://www.captainsim.com

Flight1 release the P51 Mustang!

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:40:05 +0000

With extensive research and help from a P51D owner-pilot, this is probably the most realistic development yet of the iconic WWII fighter.

Specifically developed from the ground up for Flight Simulator X, Aeroplane Heaven has made no compromises with the modelling of this wonderful warbird, which represents the actual aircraft ‘factory-fresh’ as in 1945.

Real-life pilots have been involved from the start of the development to ensure accuracy inside and out. WWII-era flight manuals have been followed to ensure that everything works as it should, from start-up to shut down.

Once in the air the help of restorer and experienced P51D owner-pilot Maurice Hammond has ensured this P51 flies just as good as she looks. Choose to fly Maurice’s own aircraft – ‘Marinell’ and ‘Janie’ – and you’ll even get to see Maurice in his distinctive helmet at the controls. Don’t forget to give him a wave when he taxis past!

Available to download now at http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=p51dmustang for just $34.95, see for yourself what it is like to take to the air in this magnificent aircraft.

Inaugural Flight1 open day a resounding success!

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:38:11 +0000

Flight1 celebrated it’s inaugural open day last month and it is clear from all of the feedback we have had that it was well received by everyone. The day itself was a perfect blend of real and virtual aviation, and the format of the day gave it a very much community orientated feel which was warmly received by all.

A full write up can be found here http://www.flight1.com/openday/ and photo’s of the event can be seen here http://galleries.flight1.net/openday.

Flight1 would like to thank everyone who came for making the day as successful as it was and we look forward to seeing you all again next year.