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Archive for August, 2008

Alphasim Rutan review at Screenshotartist

Screenshotartist.co.uk have just posted their latest review, this time of Alphasim's Rutan "LongEZ" - very much a GA cruiser with a difference and with a few changes in content from ... Read more..

Adobe May Be Threatening Your FS Installation

Here's a message we received tonight from Mike at PCGameControls.com, about a bit of Adobe software that may harm FS installations. Mike writes: ".........FlightSim.com member Ocala has identified a serious ... Read more..

Goshawk, ready for catapult launch

Today we got word from the legendary Dino Cattaneo, creator of a very successful F14 Tomcat freeware add-on, that his latest project, a freeware Boeing/Bae T-45C Goshawk, has been released ... Read more..

Taburet and Newport Battle It Out

Taburet and Newport vie for your dollars on simMarket, dumping one photoscenery title after the other onto us. Today saw two new titles from Newport, 'Photoreal Chicago', and 'Photoreal San ... Read more..

Washington DC Satellite Scenery

Newport has put yet another 'photoreal' title up on simMarket, now portraying Washington DC. "..... Photo Real Washington DC X is 2 m per pixel satellite image ground textures for ... Read more..

NAV Gauges From Flight Illusion

Flight Illusion "....... proudly presents the new range of navigational instruments for use with flight simulator. To celebrate our 3rd anniversary, the developers at Flight illusion have closed the gap ... Read more..

A2A Releases Patch For P-47

A2A Simulations reports they have "....... released a patch for our Wings of POWER II: P47 “Thunderbolt” for Microsoft Flight Simulator X.  We also released the Thunderbolt under our new ... Read more..

FSLabs Releases Engravity/PMDG CDU Driver

Francois Dumas, PR officier for FSLabs, reports "....... Flight Sim Labs, Inc., (FSLabs), announces the release of yet another one of our specialized driver applications, this time to provide an ... Read more..

FSAddon’s Plum Island for FSX Released

FSAddon Publishing announces the release of a new add-on for Flight Simulator X called Plum Island. It is the first of a new series of very highly detailed small sceneries ... Read more..

Are you using Internet Explorer 8?

If you are, you might have noticed that the menu bar with the drop down menus is not working like it should. To overcome this, simply press "Alt"-"T"on your keyboard ... Read more..

Vulcan To Appear At Goodwood Revival!

Janet Bradley of the Goodwood organization in the UK reports "...... With just three weeks to go until the 2008 Goodwood Revival meeting (19-21 September), the nostalgic appeal of the ... Read more..

Behind the maps of Microsoft Virtual Earth

Have you ever wondered how Microsoft gets all the data and images they need for Virtual Earth? Mark Brown, a Senior Product Manager in the Search Business Group  at Microsoft ... Read more..

Service Release 3 for SimFlyer Series X

SimFlyer® has just released SP3 for the Series X line of products. The release is FREE to all customers that have a valid version of the Series X products installed. The ... Read more..

Seasprite from AlphaSim

Today AlphaSim anounced the release of their latest product, The Kaman SH-2 Seasprite helicopter. Both versions of Kaman's utility helicopter (the F and G) feature in this extensive package for ... Read more..

More AirUtopia DVD’s

SimMarket added a another bunch of aviation DVD's by AirUtopia to their shelves. Tiltes added include Emergency Landing, Crash Recovery, Concordes at Kai Tak, Chep Lak Kok, F-14 Cockpit, Frankfurt ... Read more..