Thursday, June 30, 2011

Tropicalsim Releases Azores 1

Tropicalsim has released there long awaited Azores 1 for FS9.  
The FSX version should be released within the next 2 weeks. 
Only available at Simmarket.


Azores 1 contains three airfields:  
  • Corvo Airport LPCR
  • Pico Airport LPPI
  • Santa Maria Airport LPAZ





Carenado Newest Release

Carenado has just released the CT210M CENTURION II HD SERIES for FSX. This product is available from the Carenado website for $34.95 (USD). Normally I would only post one image of the product, but I could not make up my mind which image to use. So, this release gets one external image, and one internal image.







An update from Addicted to Airspace

Jonathan over at Addicted to Airspace has updated his site, and the progress on CVYR.




Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Golden Age Simulations Lockheed Model 12A Released

Golden Age Simulations has released the Lockheed Model 12A for FSX.







New Screenshots of the Area 51 Sim C-17

Area 51 Simulations has released several new screenshots of the C-17. There are several shots of the outside of the aircraft, and of the flight deck. This product is in the late stages of Beta.


Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Looking to fly to Laos?? Here it is.

Wattay International Airport (VLVT) is one of the few international airports in Laos.. It is located 3 km (2 mi) outside its capital Vientiane. This scenery is only available for FS2004.




The latest release from Pacific Island Sim

Pacific Island Sim has released FuaŹ»amotu International Airport (NFTF) for FSX.
Fuaʻamotu International Airport (NFTF) is an international airport on the main Tongan island of Tongatapu, Kingdom of Tonga. It is located on the south side of the main island, 35 km from the capital, Nuku'alofa. It was originally built with coral surface runways during World War 2 (WWII) as heavy bomber field.




Piracy from a developer

The whole battle between LatinVFR and Internsim is known through out the flight sim community. At first, I was on the side of LatinVFR. I have seen the products that they can produce, and have yet to see anything of real quality out of Intersim. Junior at Intersim has posted a video that shows some additional information that makes it hard to dispute.

At First, I thought this was something that Junior just needed to let go of, and except the fact that Intersim didn't provide a product that usable to LatinVFR. 
After reading the latest from FlyTampa, I have no choice but begin to rethink what I was thinking about Intersim, and LatinVFR.  George from FlyTampa has posted some interesting information about LatinVFRs recent release Key West International Airport. Here is a qoute from the FlyTampa forum.
"This is an unfortunate post I'd rather not have to deal with publicly. This afternoon a customer emailed me some texture samples from LatinVFRs latest Key west scenery which seemed to be using Flytampa texture assets." 
 The posting does continue on with examples, and another time that this had happened with LatinVFR. Read more and decide for yourself. To buy or not to buy LatinVFR is the question?

Monday, June 27, 2011

FTX / ORBX to no longer make International Airports

From the Forum of FTX, and the post by John Venema (CEO) 


"We decided to not do larger international airports anymore, a while back. They take far too long to make, cost us far too much, and are just not fun to make for the developers anymore. We also won't dumb them down and compromise on our design and authentic detail, that's just not what we do. 

So no KSEA or KPDX, and I doubt other developers will tackle them either given the baseline performance of those two cities.

I should have updated the roadmap page sooner, sorry about that.

Perhaps poll FlyTampa to port their FS9 KSEA using a low-geometry approach? We still plan to revamp downtown Seattle with new building models, and that is a necessary precursor to any large airports going into the area. "


This is very sad news indeed. I am happy for them that they feel FTX can survive with just building cities, and general aviation airfields. At least for some of us long haulers we got YBBN and YMML from them. It is really to bad we never got YSSY from them. Good luck FTX.
And yes, this does mean that they are not going to be making Portland International Airport

Friday, June 24, 2011

FSDreamteam preview of KLAX

FSDreamteam has given us more images to look at from the soon to be released KLAX. In this update we finally get to see how they handled all the constructions at the airport's Tom Bradley International Terminal. Just like all FSDT sceneries, this is looking like it will be worth the wait.


LatinVFR Key West Airport (KEYW) released for FS2004 & FSX

LatinVFR has released there latest scenery, Key West International Airport (KEYW).  This scenery is the one that has created a lot of hostility between Intersim and LatinVFR. With this release, LatinVFR has again stepped up there quality, and dedication to providing the sceneries that most flight simmers want from the Caribbean, South & Central America Regions.



This product is available from Sim-Market.

Vilnius International X Released from Aerosoft

Aerosoft had released Vilnius International Airport for both FSX and FS9. This airfield is the largest civil airport in Lithuania. 




FlyTampa Athens Airport Preview

FlyTampa's George has posted a couple more images of his work in progress at LGAV. It doesn't look like there is much left to do, and hopefully we will have another high quality scenery in our collects soon. Keep up the great work George and Martin!