Boeing have ruffled a few feathers so to speak at the Farnborough International Air-show this week performing some truly impressive manoeuvres in pre-show rehearsals that resulted in the show organisers blocking other operators from performing touch-n-go’s. …
X-Plane now available via Steam
As first seen by me at SimStop this week we see X-Plane is now available via Steam. This is a sensible move from the Laminar guys, the product has always been up against the popularity …
Flight Replicas DeHavilland DH 114 Heron
A lovely 1950’s retro airliner released this week by Flight Replicas in the shape of the Flight Replicas DeHavilland DH 114 Heron. This machine has connections in NZ Australia having been operated by NAC and others, …
Review: A2A Piper Cherokee
You can never have enough reviews of payware aircraft especially when they’re of models that are detailed, sophisticated, and as a result a little pricier than the average garden publication. Anything from a vendor like …
VOZ repaint for Aerosoft A320
Repaint of the Aerosoft A320 released at Avsim today by Alex from First Class Repaints in the livery of Virgin Australia. I didn’t realise VOZ operated the 320 so will definately be taking this bad …
Flight Simulator First Officer V2.2
Interesting looking tool release on avsim this week by Matthew King. A first officer GUI tool that performs check-list readings and various callouts. Looks to be nicely configurable, well worth a play, be very interesting to …
Easter Island scenery for FSX
It really doesn’t get much more remote than Easter Island, and now you’ve got no excuse not to fly there with this funky looking scenery release from Carlyle Sharpe at avsim.com this week. Looks great, downloading …
Dovetail Games’ Licensing Deal With Microsoft Takes Flight
Well I guess I couldn’t not post something about this story, even if it really is splattered all over the simming communities so be surprised if you don’t know about it already. After a couple …
KLAX AFCAD tweak for FSDT scenery
If you’re running the awesome FSDreamTeam Los Angeles for your long haul trans Pacific destinations, you might want to take a look at this AFCAD tweak from Sebastian Szucs that he’s just posted at Avsim. Apparently …
Airbus X Extended in new Aircalin livery
Last repaint for the week (I promise) from Avsim.com. This time the fabulous new Aircalin livery for the Aerosoft Airbus X, just the part for some Pacific flying our of Noumea this weekend. This paint …