FSLabs A320 Beta Test Applications

• • Aircraft, Payware
FSL-A320

An Airbus fan with a little time on your hands? You might wanna get on over to FSLabs and put in an application for their Beta test team, looks like its gonna be a great product assuming they ship it before everyone’s already bought from the competition?

It’s hard to believe that it’s now been a good four years since we started developing our A320-X for Flight Simulator – time flies! Every day that goes by, every time we check a new piece of code into our source control system, every new piece of 3d modeling that fits into place, we are a tiny step closer to finally giving you the fruits of our labor, so you can also enjoy what we believe will bring flight simulation to a new level. For that to happen, though, we need your assistance – you’ve been consistently asking for this and we believe that we are now at the point in development where it’s necessary to expand our beta test team.

see the forum post

Dovetail Games’ Licensing Deal With Microsoft Takes Flight

• • Payware
DoveTail

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 of months of speculation it turns out the mystery licensee of the MS Flight platform is DoveTail, the creators of Train Simulator. Going to be interesting to see if there are any practical synergies between the two platforms or if it’s more of an investment thing where they essentially market them as two completely separate products. Either way you’d have to say it’s a positive thing for the community to see a little life breathed back into Flight. Also of interest is their agreement to distribute FSX via Steam so going to be some pretty interesting DLC options on the horizon I expect…

The award-winning creators of the best-selling Train Simulator franchise have today announced a global licensing deal with Microsoft, granting them the rights to develop and publish all-new flight products based on Microsoft’s genre-defining flight technology. The company is currently investigating new concepts in this area and is expecting to bring a release to market in 2015.

In addition to this licensing agreement, Dovetail Games is pleased to announce that it has also acquired the rights to distribute the multi-award winning Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Gold Edition via Valve’s popular digital retail channel, Steam

see the DoveTail press release

West Coast NZ photoreal from Doug Cunniffe

• • Freeware, Scenery
DougsGreymouth

Doug Cunniffe has released two fabulous freeware photo real scenery downloads at flightsim.com this week for the Greymouth and Haast airports on the West Coast of New Zealand. I’ve been lucky to have access some of Doug’s other Beta releases of these west coast sceneries and can tell you the placement and autogen is awesome. If you’re a fan of dropping into smaller or more remote destinations then you’ll love both of these. Well worth the download.

FSX Greymouth High Resolution Photo Real Scenery. West Coast South Island New Zealand Greymouth is a high resolution photo scenery covering a small area around the Greymouth airfield…. FSX Haast High Resolution Photo Real Scenery, west coast, South Island, New Zealand. Haast VLC is high resolution photo scenery covering a small area around the Haast airfield. The aerial imagery to make this scenery was obtained from Lands Information New Zealand under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.

search for file names: “nz_greymouth_upload.zip” and “nz_haast.zip”