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Epic Victory From Lionheart Creations
Lionheart Creations release their newest plane the Epic Victory, a private VLJ by Epic Aircraft in the United States. This unique, small 5 passenger jet features a single engine turbine powerplant, high mileage economy, and fast cruise at 320 Knots.
The Victory features the Garmin G1000 full screen panel system and a plush, luxurious, leather clad interior. Featuring an all carbon fiber airframe, this is one very liteweight, very fast, economical jet for todays jetset pilots.
This Flight Sim X addon package features full FSX models, FSX DX10 format DDS textures, all in base DXT-5 format for high performance. There are '12' different paint schemes in this package as well as many different interior color theme combinations and 5 different panel variants, ranging from wood veneers to metal and Carbon Fiber.
The instrument panel features the famous Garmin G1000 glass screen system, an MVP-50 engine monitoring screen complete with 2 pages of data and built in Annunciator warning system, a new built in MFD screen checklist center with 10 pages of data, and a 40 page Pilots Manual in PDF format (downloadable for free), and countless other features.
Read more and see screenshots of the Epic Victory at Lionheart Creations Product Information Page.
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FlightSim Labs Releases Concorde X
Offering the "easiest-to-fly" but also the "most complete" Concorde aircraft simulation to be produced for a desktop flight simulator, the Concorde-X has arrived to set new standards with its amazingly accurate systems, stunning photo-realistic graphics, vigorously detailed external model and virtual cockpit, and a fully immersive three-dimensional sound experience.
This FSX version of Concorde is brand new, built from the ground up for Flight Simulator X. Concorde-X is ready to challenge the most experienced armchair pilot with stunning new graphics, features, upgraded functionality and systems modelling.
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Another FlightSim E-Book
Angle of Attack is proud to announce their first ever E-Book. This E-Book focuses on the Three Pillars of Communication and has been dubbed PilotSpeak. Through this powerful document you will learn the 3 most important things needed for great communication, whether you are just starting on VATSIM or you have an interest in the subject. Conquer 'Mic Fright' and head over to Angle of Attack and checkout a free sample.
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Announcing Microsoft Flight
Microsoft have now announced their next release of Flight Simulator and it's to be called "Microsoft Flight". They seem to have removed the "Simulator" title. Fly Away Simulation have covered this update in detail. You can view more information on Microsoft Flight using the following links:
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Microsoft Flight Trailer Video
The guys at Fly Away Simulation have got their hands on the official Microsoft Flight preview video showing only 50 seconds of footage from the next simulator to be released by Microsoft. This is the HD version of the video. Microsoft Flight does not currently have an official release date, however some users speculate that it could either be released before Christmas or maybe the new year.
Microsoft Flight is destined to become the next greatest simulator released by Microsoft. This should bring a whole new fan circle to the community, with younger users now old enough to get their hands on a copy of MF.
Watch the video here.
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SSM2007 Free Mission Pack v5.20
Exciting Simulations has released a new free Mission Pack for the Space Shuttle Mission 2007 simulator and a new, updated manuals set.
The v5.20 Mission Pack includes the latest NASA Space Shuttle Mission -STS-130 - which has just returned after installing the final modules on the ISS, STS-130 was carried out by Endeavour on February 8, 2009. The first launch attempt was scrubbed due to weather concerns. This 13-days mission delivered and assembled Node 3, also known as Tranquility, which provides additional room for crew members and many of the ISS life support and environmental control systems.
Also included with the v5.20 Mission Pack, an OBSS camera video link has been added to enable the crew to visually examine the thermal shield tiles and a Cupola crew station (when docked to the ISS and after the Cupola has been installed) to enjoy the breathtaking views of Earth from the best place inside the ISS.
The latest Mission and updated Demo can be downloaded freely at the official SSM2007 website.
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Sea Fury Racing Aircraft Released
SimFlight3D released the Spirit of Texas (NX24SF) racing plane with a Wright 3350-26WD 18-cylinder radial engine with 3,100 hp and a four-blade propeller. This Sea Fury aircraft has raced in the Reno Air Races since 1997.
In addition to racing, this aircraft has been used in military applications, with the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy, and by Holland and Australia. A total of 75 Sea Furies served with the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) between 1948 and 1956.
SimFlight3D creates highly detailed 3D aircraft for use in flight simulation with detailed virtual cockpits, fully animated control surfaces in state-of-the-art 3D graphics. The Spirit of Texas was created with a fully functioning 3D panel, complete with a working tail wheel lock.
Also available from SimFlight3D are the 1958 C172 (straight tail) aircraft in FSX and FS 2004 versions and the 1947 C140 (tail dragger).
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AirNav RadarBox 3D Released
AirNav Systems, the world's most trusted and accepted provider of ADS-B real-time global flight tracking solutions and the owner of the only existing global ADS-B flight tracking network is announcing the release of AirNav RadarBox 3D, the world's first tri-dimensional worldwide flight tracking software.
Based on the world's most popular virtual radar software, AirNav RadarBox 2010, the new software offers users the possibility of tracking flights in real-time and display them on a 3D graphical interface powered by Google Earth and embedded in the application. Over 600 aircraft models / airline liveries are included making it as realistic as possible. Features include Pilot's View and 3D Approach Views. More details and screenshots can be found on the AirNav Systems website.
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Eos Single Cockpit
Eos has developed a fully integrated procedure trainer for flying schools as well for individuals wanting to improve their flying skills.
It includes double linked controls based on real aircraft mechanism. The elevator and rudder trims are mechanical and center the controls (yokes and rudder pedals) for a Zero Force resistance when the aircraft is properly trimmed. Instructor can even teach basic stick and rudder skills. This trainer is intended to automate the actions and to learn to move, to locate and scan the instruments.
A fully functional instrument panel and a complete radiostack perfectly replicate a real trainer aircraft instrumentation.
Seats and fibreglass shell come as standard with the package. Complete details and a list of features can be found on the Eos Sim website.
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Guadalajara International Airport For FS9
Taxi2Gate have released Guadalajara International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional de Guadalajara) for FS 2004.
MMGL opened in 1966 and is located 16 km from the city centre of Guadalajara, in 2008 the airport handled 7,193,200 passengers, making it is Mexico's third busiest airport.
Visit Taxi2Gate for a look at this release.
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RailSim/Railworks A4 Pacific Class
Just Trains announces, "you can now put Sir Nigel Gresley's awesome A4 Pacific Class locomotives through their paces in RailWorks and Rail Simulator."
First run in 1935, the 4-6-2 A4 Pacific Class of streamlined locomotives were designed by Sir Nigel Gresley and represent the pinnacle of British steam trains. The record breaking Mallard is probably the best known steam train in the world and it is joined by the Bittern, Silver Link, Sir Nigel Gresley and Union of South Africa in this fantastic package.
A4 Pacific Class is officially licensed by the National Railway Museum and features four classic locomotives in six different liveries along with six scenarios. Enjoy superb animations, an accurate sound package, working lights, accurately animated running gear and much more. Get behind the controls Some of the most beautiful steam locomotives ever built!
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EZdok Camera (EZCA) for FSX
Flight One Software, in partnership with EZdok Software, is excited to announce the wide availability of EZdok Camera for Microsoft Flight Simulator X.
EZdok Camera (EZCA) is a camera and effects system and manager that greatly enhances the pilot experience in FSX. One of the main and most exciting features of EZCA are the effects exerted on the pilot, immersing the virtual pilot in a more realistic physical simulation of aviation.
EZCA incorporates effects that are exerted on both the pilot and the virtual camera. The effects can be caused by varying aircraft accelerations, ground surfaces, and air turbulence. This technology makes flying in Flight Simulator more immersive and realistic due to the fact that instead of a stationary computer in front of you, your desktop comes alive with realistic representations of being in the flying environment. EZCA also provides an all new, greatly enhanced view control system for easy navigation throughout the virtual cockpit and cabin, around the aircraft, and around the Flight Simulator world, giving the aviator the ability to experience their flying from almost every viewpoint imaginable. This is all handled through aircraft presets, or through the main EZCA tool that allows pilots to create their own views and save them for quick access during their flights.
EZCA is also a great tool that can be used by flight sim movie making enthusiasts to make their videos more exciting, for complete details visit the EZCA Product Page .
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Contrails Pro V 1.02
A new update for Contrails Pro is now available from FlightSimTools.com. The update improves corrects a few problems and offers more customization options. Contrails Pro is a module for FSX and FS9 that adds realistic contrails to AI aircraft. It allows displaying contrails in unprecedented detail while keeping high frame rates. Just like in the real world, contrails will slowly dissipate in the air and will glow in red during sunrise or sunset. There are excellent customization options allowing you to specify the contrail length, density, dispersion and a few other settings. For more information and a free demo version, please visit their Product Page .
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UK Flight Simulator Convention
The Weston Flight Simulator Convention will be held on the 15th, 16th of May at The Helicopter Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, UK. The Museum is a fantastic venue and last year the FSC WESTON 2009, had 902 people come through the doors, and with this years theme of the Battle of Britain, it will be another amazing event. The FSC is for all flight sim and real world aviation enthusiasts, everyone is welcome to exhibit, or pop along to visit. All proceeds go to our local Air Ambulance's. More info can be found at the The FSC WESTON 2010 Homepage
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Flight of the Kiwi
Kiwis are a bird that can't fly - - - but in 1969 Cliff Tait showed the world that one Kiwi could fly. Setting out as a one-man mission to publicize New Zealand to the world, Cliff and his New Zealand made plane ended up making history. No one had ever attempted to fly solo around the world in such a tiny one-engine plane before. Cliffs book "Flight of the Kiwi" recounts every detail of the flight that captured the attention of the whole world. On the human side, it tells of the warm generosity of those that helped Cliff, especially the world-wide brotherhood of radio "hams" operators and of the maddening obstruction of others particularly the Russian officials who denied Cliff permission to land forcing him to break his flight. Above all, this is a stirring story of one mans bravery facing immense odds and winning. Visit Cliffs Website and read his history making book... and now you can also download the Aircraft Miss Jacy .
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LHS Pécs Pogány LHPP For FS9
LHPP for FS2004 Pécs Pogány LHPP is one of the five international airports in Hungary, located 10 km from Pécs the fifth largest city in Hungary and is located on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the south-west of the country.
LHSimulations contacted the management of the aiport and they allowed them to visit the airport and take as many Photos as needed to create a very detailed scenery with absolute fidelity, LHPP for FS2004 is the second freeware production from LHS and they plan to continue with versions for FSX and X plane.
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Challenges Over The Rockies
Just Flight has released a new pack of nine missions for FSX available by download. Put your flying skills to the test saving lives in a Search & Rescue mission, race against the clock in timed events, and execute difficult landings in challenging weather conditions.
The nine missions include many custom features, dozens of voiceover recordings, ATC and custom scenery objects such as aircraft, helicopters, fuel trucks and emergency vehicles. For complete details visit the Just Flight's Challenge over the Rockies product page and while you're there, you can try out the Demo (5.2Mb) for this latest release.
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Meigs Field Released
Flyscenery releases their long awaited Meigs Field Airport. The legendary airport, where it all started, has been recreated with high level of detail and consists of two scenery version eras, 1999 version and 2003 version, a first in FS.
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Pacific Northwest Demo
Orbx is pleased to announce the immediate availability of its free demo of FTX Pacific Northwest. The demo area covers over 7,000 square miles of the Olympic Peninsula during spring season and includes all the FTX features from the full version, including upgraded default airports, roads, rivers, coastlines, 3D night lighting, photoreal mountain peaks, custom autogen, the FTX Central tool and much more. The demo is completely time-unlimited and obligation free.
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Ultimate Traffic 2 - Power Pack Released
Flight1 announces the official release of the Ultimate Traffic 2 Power Pack: a FREE add-on to Flight1's Ultimate Traffic 2 product for FSX. The Power Pack is an easy to use tool to that allows you to compile and import add-on schedules, create new schedules from scratch, modify or create airport identifiers, plus much more. Below you will find a few highlights of what the UT2 Power Pack provides:
Create Add-on Schedules Manually - The UT2 Power Pack includes the ability for users to manually create their own schedules from the ground up, one flight at a time. Users will be able to add smaller airlines that are not available on popular flight sim sites, special event schedules such as special military flights, charter airlines, virtual airlines, and/or use it to schedule GA traffic at your local airport. Virtual Airlines will especially find the tool to be a great utility because they can add their complete schedules to the FSX world.
Import Download Schedules - UT2 Power Pack users can import classic BGL style schedules, with the help of AIFPC or TTools, to create schedules and AI aircraft activity that is not already included with the software.
Airport Modification - UT2 Power Pack features an airport modification tool that will allow users, who have add-on airports that were not included originally with the FSX release, to add/modify these airports so UT2 can handle the AI Traffic scheduled to them.
Share Add-on Schedules - The UT2 Power Pack enables users in the Ultimate Traffic 2 community to share newly created schedules with others.
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British Airways Virtual General Conference Meeting
2010, sees one of the Internet's Premier Virtual Airlines, British Airways Virtual , celebrate 10 years in existence! The only UK virtual airline to be formally ratified by it's real world counterpart, British Airways Virtual are holding their first General Conference Meeting (GCM) in late May .
Members are attending from as far away as Lima in Peru, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, Spain and Finland, and at least three attending are serving line pilots with their respective real world airlines, all meeting face-to-face with the pilot members over three-course banquet dinner and an after-dinner entertainment event, including an awards ceremony and speeches from some very Special Guests invited to speak at the event.
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Ultra Light Challenge from Roussillon Aero
Roussillon Aero Simulation, presents its latest Ultra Light challenge. Fly onboard the Aircreation ultra-light from Millau to Carcassonne in Southern France. The top three pilots stand to win a prize.
For more information on this challenge visit Roussillon Aero Simulation's website.
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Instant Mission Maker Update
Flight 1 is pleased to announce an update for Instant Mission Maker to version 1.03. The update contains several new features and bugfixes. Instant Mission Maker is an easy to use tool for making Flight Simulator X missions. It offers a very intuitive GUI, live preview and editing of many mission objects directly in FSX, and can also instantly generate random missions.
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Falco For X-Plane Released
X-Aviation is proud to announce the release of the most complete GA single simulation in X-Plane and we believe you will find it to be an enjoyable and immersive experience. If you enjoy GA flying or need a good GA to practice scanning skills on while working the radios and other controls, then this Falco needs to be in your flight sim folder.
Their version of the Falco is on the cutting edge of X-Plane technology, offering the first 100% fully interactive cockpit in 3D. Every knob, button and switch is manipulatable in 3D and 98% of the aircraft functions exactly as it does in reality....even the circuit breakers might trip under certain circumstances! Also included is another x-plane first, a simulation of the Garmin GTX330 transponder to make your online flying experiences more realistic than could be done previously. You can even download the manual from the Garmin website to learn to operate it...it's that realistic. There is a full complement of IFR instrumentation and a full-featured autopilot to make things easier on those long cross-country flights.
Most x-plane users have gotten so used to the inaccurate idiosyncracies of X-Plane, that they do not even know what they're missing....well it's time to get things right! We've highlighted a lot of these features in a tour video. If you're looking to just get started with X-Plane, this it the plane to do it with.
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Flight1 Software Ultimate Traffic 2 – Boxed Edition
Ultimate Traffic 2 is now boarding..., Re-designed from the ground up, Ultimate Traffic 2 provides Microsoft Flight Simulator X users the definitive AI-traffic upgrade, and still is the only package out there that provides computer traffic based on real airlines, flying on real schedules and now using realistic routings too!
There are over 1 million flight hours of commercial traffic and a further 2.5 million flight hours of general aviation flights– with vast flexibility and customisation on what you see and where. The all-new DX10 aircraft models give unparalleled frame-rates compared to other packages and you can even select a flight from the departure board and fly it yourself if you want!
So now you don’t just have to watch out for traffic, you can BE the traffic!
Ultimate Traffic 2 boxed edition is available from all good retailers, from the local hobby shop to high street chain stores.
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December 30, 2009
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