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Austin Meyers, the developer of X-plane, reports “…….  X-Plane is now here for the iPhone, and it is FUN! The iPhone is not QUITE as powerful as a Quad-Core desktop, so I had to really scale it down to a perfect little ’slice’ of X-Plane. You can choose from the Cirrus Jet, Columbia-400, Cessna 182, and Piaggo Avanti, with flight physics that are about 95% as accurate as X-Plane for desktop, so the flight modeling is really just amazing for a little device of this size…. really just stunning……”.

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Aerosoft writes “……It has taken the GA-Team more than a year to create a new dimension in german airport sceneries. This Addon includes the following airports: Cologne/Bonn, Hannover, Dortmund, Munster/Osnabruck and Leipzig…..”.

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Navigraph reports “………New and existing users are invited to download the new batch of updated aeronautical charts distributed by Navigraph via the nDAC software. Notably, enroute chart coverage has now been added for Australia, and North America is also fully covered after adding new 20 enroute charts to the database. Furthermore, almost 400 airport charts have been added, bringing the total number to 23,667 distributed over 1,211 airports worldwide……”.

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Orbx has today released a free demo version of its acclaimed FTX AU BLUE terrain addon, covering the entire state of Tasmania in Australia’s south. This area covers 16,000 square kilometres (larger than Northern Ireland) and is fully functional without any time limits, so anyone can explore this picturesque island at their leisure. The season is locked to spring only, but everything else including the 3D lights, coastlines, traffic, roads, rivers, vertical obstruction - all the FTX features are completely activated so you can experience it for yourself. Orbx has also included their YMLT Launceston airport in the installer, which is a payware quality photoreal scenery addon that makes an ideal base to explore the “Apple Isle”. You can download the FTX demo for free from http://fullterrain.com/freeware.html

Soon you can track and follow all your flight just like you can in the cabin of a real airplane.

FeelThere announces ‘MAP! by feelThere” and inflight map add-on for fs9 and fsX. The add-on will work with all default and 3rd party add-on airplane. Just load the flightplan and watch your position, your past and remaining trip (great circle for the remaining just like on the real airplane). Watch the altitude, distance to/from your departure/destination, etc. For screenshots and more information visit our forum: CLICK

‘Newport’ has released yet another photoreal scenery title, this time covering Los Angeles. “….From the rolling Hollywood Hills, to the southern industrial area of everyone’s favorite city, this scenery covers a HUGE 3,500+ square miles of clear 2 M per pixel images….”.

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What? Never heard of it? EDLP (Paderborn-Lippstadt) is the home base of Aerosoft GmbH, AND the venue of their yearly Flightsimmer’s Conference. And now the release of a dedciated FSX version of the regional airport is near (couple weeks?). You can find some preview screenshots on the Aerosoft Forum. And you can see it FOR REAL during this year’s conference on October 25th !

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 the Alphasim models you may be used to, as well.

To read on, (and, as usual, see some excellent screenshots!) please visit Nick Churchill’s screenshotartist website, here.

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 designed by Bill Womack. The series is called ‘100 Dollar Burger’, with a wink to an existing real-life chain of small airfield articles. Plum Island’s small airfield (2B2) is situated near Newburyport, some 27 miles north of Boston along the Atlantic coast. Read the rest of this entry »

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 changes include revised gauge code to provide optimal performance with Microsoft® Flight Simulator X (SP2) and Direct X 10 as well as a few fixes for some minor issues resulting from the release of Microsoft® Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1. Read the rest of this entry »

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 FSX (with optional FS2004 version). The 6 phenonomal texture sets show amazing attention to detail and are enhanced further by FSX’s bump mapping and self-shadowing features. Both the New Zealand and Australian models carry a superbly-detailed M60 machine gun AGM-65 Mavericks and a FLIR turret.

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Good Riddens! Gary Boulter, 51, of 15 Knapp Road, Thornbury in the UK was sentenced to 15 months in prison after having been found guilty to a total of 23 offenses of illegally copying for sale games, counterfeit films, music and pornography on CD’s. Police found source files worth some 50.000 British pounds. People like this are hurting the entertainment industry, and especially the games industry, more than many can imagine. Lets hope the justice departments can put away more of his kind in future! By the way, YOU can help in doing so! More info on the ELSPA web site.

Martin Leat of Vatsim reports that “…… Brian Gefrich and Joel DeYoung are pleased to announced that after a long wait, a public beta of SquawkBox 4 is now available to try on the VATSIM network. This version of SquawkBox works with Flight Simulator 2002, 2004 and FSX. It has been tested on Windows XP and Vista. Download this latest beta version and help find and resolve the last outstanding bugs.

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SAMLaunch.com is a new site that features sim news related to modern combat such as Lockon:Modern Air Combat, Armed Assault and the upcoming DCS: Blackshark. It has a similar open Wordpress system as simFlight, where users can contribute.

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Some may have trouble reaching www.simmarket.com and the simFlight sites today. The problem is actually fixed but it takes some time for the new IP settings to be propagated around the world.

What happened?: Last week we started to move simMarket to shiny new servers (quad core, 4GB Ram… all the nice things)  and we wanted to work in the background without any disruption of services, we did not want it to be noticeable to the customers. We managed to actually switch one server like this already 10 days ago and are in the process of moving the second one right now. And this is when the trouble started. Read the rest of this entry »