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Archive for October, 2008

Flying For Charity

Press release: ".... On Monday November 2nd at 2300hrs UTC, seven FBS (fixed based simulators) will depart Sydney Australia (YSSY) on a seven day round the world fund raising flight. ... Read more..

A2A Simulations vid-speaks on Accu-Sim SP1

Watch A2A Scott Gentile's introducing Accu-Sim SP1 in a three part video they just published on YouTube: "Scott Gentile of A2A Simulations speaks, from the developer's perspective, about Accu-Sim Service ... Read more..

Three Little Letters…

CAVEAT: This missive seeks only to provoke thought and debate amongst readers and represents only the author's standpoint. Comments are invited - discuss the subject in the comments threads - ... Read more..

FS2Crew Needs a Few Good Men And Women!

Bryan York of FS2Crew writes "...... To meet the demands of its European and UK customer base, FS2Crew has appointed Kimmo Kyle of Finland as head of the ... Read more..

Flight Illusion Gauges Now X-Plane Compatible

Mark Verschaeren of Flight Illusions in Belgium reports "...... Great news for cockpit builders using X-plane as their simulator program. Flight illusion is releasing an X-Plane compatible version of their ... Read more..

Troubles With Our Host

Due to problems at our hosting company the simFlight web site and our simFlight forums suffered from outages and slowness yesterday. Our apologies for the inconvenience, but unfortunately these things ... Read more..

FSX Gold Now On simMarket

Microsoft has recently released FSX Gold. It basically is FSX Deluxe AND Acceleration Pack combined in one box. It does not add anything more to each of those previously released ... Read more..

HIS Radeon HD 4870 X2 Review

Guru3D recently tested the HIS Radeon HD 4870 X2 2048MB. "..... A graphics card with 1600 tiny little sub-processors on that X2 hauling ass on your frame rate, and that's ... Read more..

Captain Sim Boeing 757 Upgrade

Captain Sim reports that their latest and last update for the 757 for FS9 is now available. "..... The 757 Captain (-200, -300, Freighter) upgraded version 2.1 for FS9 is ... Read more..

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 260 OC Reviewed

Guru3D looks at the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 260 OC graphics card. "..... We land at the blue colored premises of Gigabyte, they just launched this particular product with the 216 ... Read more..

FlightAware’s Free Flight Planning Tool

FlightAware.com is a web site for 'real world' flying, but like many of these sites it also has its value for sim pilots. FlightAware's new (Beta) flight planning tool for ... Read more..

VACC Austria’s New Web Site

Bernard Harb of VACC Austria (ex FIR Wien) reports "...... On October, 4th VACC Austria published its latest version of its homepage, with all new features. Next to  information pages ... Read more..

En Route Charts For Yak-40

Suprunov Design has released its Yak-40 En Route charts booklet as a separate product for those interested. The pages are included in the boxed Yak-40 package as it is available ... Read more..

P-40 Kittyhawk From IRIS

IRIS have just released a new title, 'P-40 Kittyhawk: Aces of the Commonwealth'. They write "...... This conversion is more than just a simple recompile of the previous FS2004 aircraft. ... Read more..

Review: F-86 Sabre by Dudley Henriques

Dudley Henriques, well-known for his many reviews, previews and other involvements in the flightsim world, has been helping the Sabre crew with insight and expertise during their development. Dudley ALSO ... Read more..

Scotflight RAF Collection Released

Iain from Scotflight has released his "...... Scotflight RAF Collection for Microsoft Flight Simulator FS2004 and FSX. It comprises highly detailed scenery for the three RAF stations in Scotland which ... Read more..

Economic Crisis Good For Simming

Here's a thesis: I think the current crisis for many consumers, especially those double-hit in the US (bad dollar AND bad economy), may be GOOD for the Flightsim Industry. After ... Read more..

simFlight Awards 2008 Published!

Last night at the 6th German FS Conference organized by Aerosoft, simFlight presented its full set of awards for 2008 flightsim products. The final selection of products - nominees and ... Read more..

Fantastic Freeware F-86 Sabre Released Now

The Section F8 F-86E and F Sabres have been released! This package features a wonderful model and texture set designed by Jan Visser, systems simulation by Hansjorge Naegle, flight dynamics ... Read more..

Radeon HD 4830 Reviewed

Guru3D reports that "....... AMD ATI launched a sub-$150 HD 4000 series video card that will take on NVidia, in the shape of the Radeon HD 4830, which really is ... Read more..