Wow, you gotta be impressed about this much heavy iron being pumped out of one company. The 747 has been around for a long time now but she still looks as impressive when you see …
1,500th 747 comes off the production line
PCAviator Virtavia discounts
If you’re into military simming with a Pacific connection and don’t already have every piece of Virtavia kit available then take a nosey at PCAviators Virtavia sale this week. Some substantial discounts with lots of …
New CLS 742/3 repaints from ARNZ
Long time modeller and expert repainter Jon Murchison of ARNZ has released a couple of lovely new repaints for the new CLS 747-2/300 for FSX. These more or less coincide with the 1.5 update recently …
Alabeo PiperSport review at AirDailyX
Kenneth Kerr has published a great review of the Alabeo PiperSport, better known down-under as the Czech Aircraft Works (CZAW) SportCruiser. Lovely looking aircraft and lots of these on the Pacific registers so this is worth …
CaptainSim 777 release v1.4
CaptainSim have a business model they’ve followed a couple of times now where custom ers are invited to buy pre release versions to fund the completion of the project. Essentially you receive a visual model …
Real Tonga leasing Chathams Convairs while MA60s out of action
Another real world item via the 3rdLevelNZ blog, this time relating to the dreaded MA60 in Tonga and an interim solution in the form of Chathams aircraft. Might be time to break out Greg Peppers …
New Aircraft for Fiji Airways
As reported on Steves 3rdLevelNZ blog this week Fiji Airways have some new machines on the way. Repaints for the A330 and B738 are already out there in the striking new livery but AFAIK there …
Alabeo progress shots : Diamond DA-40
New Alabeo progress shots of the Diamond DA-40 single seater, as usual just dripping with eye candy. With a bunch of these lovely wee machines on the NZ domestic register there’s sure to be a …
Saitek X-55 review
Nicely detailed review this week at SimFlight of what has to be the sexiest piece of Sim hardware for the combat fans. Sure you’ll need to save some pennies for awhile for this kit, or hope …
July Navigraph cycle
The July Navigraph cycle is available now… Cycle 1407 is now available for download! If you are using the FMS Data Manager, just launch it and update your addons. You may also use the old …