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VFR Airfields volume 1, 2 and 3 are ready for download at simMarket. UK2000 Scenery designed all airports and airfields of the respective area, making of each volume a package of nearly 70-80 airports with FSX animations like birds or native jetways.

All of these are also corrected and blended to match Horizon’s photoreal sceneries.

At Flight Simulator Platform Solutions (FSPS), they thought about our needs of checklists. As we can fly a large variety of aircrafts, FSPS helps not to avoid any item for any aircraft.

It comes with 23 Aircraft manufactures and 71 different Aircraft type checklists. Of course, you can add and edit checklists with this new Ultimate Checklist.

In the latest Virtavia releases, we found pure military airplanes : the F-104 Starfighter, Hawker Hunter, F-105D Thunderchief, and Saab Gripen.

Note that all of them are compatible with both FSX and FS2004.

We missed publishing the following press release received from the Astrasim Expo offices two days ago: “ Astrasim Expo Summer Sim 2010 was held at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, UK, over the weekend of August 28-29.

Our first show at this world class venue lived up to everything we expected and more, with record attendances over the two days ensuring a success for all. Official figures showed 3,831 visitors came to Summer Sim.

The events aim was to raise awareness of flight simulation by not just attracting the hard core flight sim enthusiast but also the general public who may not have seen flight simulation before on the scale it was exhibited at the show. Introducing new people to the genre is an important part of making an event like this work. It also helps build and secure a bright future for flight simulation. Read Full Story »

Patience has been rewarded : Aerosoft has just released Airbus X (A320 – A321) for download.

Focused on the work of the pilot, Aerosoft presents their new airliner product as fine FSX exterior and VC models with advanced lights effects, featuring accurate automatic systems, but aiming at the pilots looking for not so complicated simulations as some others can exist, with easy framerates. Run to simMarket to download yours.

Made for both FSX & FS2004, the latest soundset from ArezOne features real recordings from a Pratt&Whitney PT6A-114 engine with 675 SHP.

That should be perfect for your Cessna 208 Caravan.

Christopher Guy Palmer wrote “The PMDG MD11 Training from Angle of Attack is finally here!

A limited number of trainees are now being accepted into this exclusive training course.” Read Full Story »

Gibraltar X has been made compatible with FS2004 by Aerosoft / Sim-Wings, “and it’s a near perfect swap between the two sims” says the publisher.

There’s also an update 1.01 to include now the cable car.

Dublin 2009 is a scenery for FSX and FS2004 from Eiresim.

A new update v1.3 has been released to fix various bugs, listed here.

Yesterday was not a good day at Aerosoft. They announced on their homepage that Airbus X is delayed because of a bug that came back on some of their test computers.

And their forum has been offline due to its server failure.

EZdok camera is now officially updated to version 1.15.1. There are a number of bug fixes that were still in v1.14/v1.15

And now it works with the TrackIR software. More info here.

CLS made available the MD81/82 Jetliner at simMarket. Short on systems simulation, this complete package is perfect for pilots willing to be in flight fast and easy with a nice looking body, or to start with a medium difficulty airliner add-on at a reasonable price.

Don’t forget there is also the Livery Pack Expansion to bring 15 airlines liveries more.

Fly the F18 in FSX, from Top Gun schools to actual war theaters where you fight MIGs.

Recruits must have FSX Gold or Acceleration, and then go here.

Gary Summons of UK2000 scenery took care of London busy airport : many updates and enhancements have been included in Heathrow Extreme V2 for FSX / FS2004.

All buildings modifications and taxiways layout now reflect the airport actual state, but there are also new graphics like FSX ‘wet’ effect, new lighting system, improved curves and AFCAD, some new ground textures and more.

New at simMarket, Patrouille Suisse Extension has new missions for owners of Patrouille Suisse X from FlyLogic.

It’s an expansion to let you fly the full training session but also return flights, based on data recorded during the real flight of the Swiss team in October 2009.

Ship Simulator Extremes is ready after 3 years of development. The publisher wrote “Featuring a completely new and visually stunning ocean system, advanced  dynamics and weather system, more vessels and environments than ever before and full campaign missions based on real captain’s stories.”

If you are hungry of airports sceneries, Tropicalsim has two new bundles to feed you. South America includes 8 airports for FSX / FS2004 with Rio and Buenos Aires and you receive a gift if purchased before 31st August.

24 Airports FSX Bundle brings detailed airports for Europe, and all America.

TSS registered engines sounds of the Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 to produce this Rolls Royce Trent-800 soundpack.

You can now purchase it either for FSX here, or FS2004 there.

Gerd Winterfeld wrote : “I would like to announce my new scenery for FS 2004, the Betzdorf Churches airfield (EDKI), also known as Wingendorf airfield or Katzwinkel airfield.

The small airport has a grass runway 900 m long and only a few Hanger and garages, as well as a small hotel with restaurant. Read Full Story »

FlightSimTools.com is pleased to announce a new update for our Addon Converter X product. The update contains several bugfixes and improvements, and is free of charge for existing customers.

Addon Converter X is a module for FSX that allows using most aircraft and scenery add-ons designed for FS2004 with FSX SP2 and Acceleration Pack, both in DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 modes.

For more information and a free demo version, please visit http://secure.simmarket.com/flightsim-tools-addon-converter-x.phtml