Part II – Exclusive Interview with Espen Øijordsbakken, Coolsky
ASN is proud to offer you our part II interview with Espen Øijordsbakken from Coolsky.
As you all probably know, Coolsky is responsible for the famous Microsoft Flight Simulator Super 80, Super 80 Professional aircraft models and the POAB Fokker 50, where he integrated his Fokker panel, but now also for FSX.
This exclusive interview deals with his upcoming Douglas DC-9 Classic.
Via this interview link you’ll have direct access to part II of our Coolsky interview and when you’re done, have a look at the Coolsky website too.
Part I – Exclusive Interview with Espen Øijordsbakken, Coolsky
On behalf of Espen Øijordsbakken from Coolsky, ASN is proud to offer you another exclusive interview with the master designer/developer of McDonnell Douglas DC-9/MD80 Series airplanes.
As you all probably know, Coolsky is responsible for the famous Microsoft Flight Simulator Super 80, Super 80 Professional aircraft models and the POAB Fokker 50, where he integrated his Fokker panel, but now also for FSX.
Anyway, this exclusive interview deals with Coolsky, Espen himself but above all, his upcoming Douglas DC-9 Classic. Via this interview link you’ll have direct access to part I of this Coolsky interview and when you’re done, have a look at the Coolsky website too.
Just Flight Demo “English Electric Lightning F.6″ Released
Just Flight made available a demo for the English Electric Lightning F.6.
This demo features English Electric Lightning F6B in the markings of XS895 H 74 Sqn RAF. All avionics and control surfaces are fully working and no graphical spoilers have been added when used on the ground and during take-off.
The only limitation in this evaluation version of the English Electric Lightning is that the model and cockpit will become unusable once you reach 1000ft.
The demo can be downloaded via there dedicated product page.
In Progress … LatinVFR “SUMU Montevideo Uruguay Carrasco”
Wee’re informed that LatinVFR is currently finishing SUMU Montevideo Uruguay Carrasco International airport!
We are doing this beautiful airport which is known to have a very modern terminal with a wonderful shape, and also we are adding extra care with the buildings and the details making this scenery one of the most highly detailed ever released for South America, (we are hoping to) taking advantage of its size we are adding as much as we can of detail as the WIP screenshots for FSX.
Want to their progress pictures? Follow this forum link and you’re done.
Nemeth Designs “Eurocopter AS355″ Released
Nemeth Designs is proud to announce the immediate release of the Eurocopter AS355.
According to Nemeth Designs “Coupled with its fuel endurance of up to 3.5 hours, it is especially suited to Search & Rescue flights over the ocean.”
“With excellent handling, robustness and ease of maintenance, the AS355 incorporates twin-engine added reliability and performance, making it ideal for police and parapublic missions, as well as demanding operations over water, rugged terrain and urban areas.” “Renowned for its low operation and maintenance costs, this helicopter benefits from the reliability and safety of its two Turbomeca.”
Real News | Rolls-Royce congratulates Gulfstream with milestone
Rolls-Royce today congratulated Gulfstream on its Gulfstream V (GV) aircraft family achieving one million flying hours. The Rolls-Royce BR710 powers the GV, GV-SP, G500 and G550.
This year also marks the 15th anniversary of the BR710′s entry-into-service. More than 1,750 BR710 engines are currently in service and have accumulated more than 4 million flying hours across a range of business jet applications.
The engine has established the lowest specific fuel consumption (SFC) levels in its thrust class. The BR710 offers low noise and excellent emission characteristics, ensuring unrestricted access to airports around the world.
Announcement … FSC Weston … UK’s Biggest Flight Sim Event
Don’t forget … this weekend (May 19th and 20th 2012) it’s time for UK’s Biggest Flight Sim Weekend!
The FSC are proud to be part of The Helicopter Museum and look forward to hosting another successful convention at their fantastic venue.
For those who aren’t familiar with FSC Weston; FSC Weston is a non profit Show, every single penny that we raise from the public and exhibitors is donated to charity. We don’t charge for exhibitors to show their wares, we don’t charge for Flight Simmers to bring their own equipment and we don’t expect a huge amount of money at the door.
In Progress … TSS Boeing 767 PW
Although still Work In Progress, TSS is busy recording another aircraft sound package.
Via Turbine Sound Studios Facebook page, ASN found an interesting YouTube movie about the WIP of their Boeing 767 with Pratt & Whitney .
According to TSS “It will be a HD recorded package”.
Curious?
Just follow this YouTube link or have a look at the TSS Facebook web page.
x737 Announces New Download Area for x737 Liveries
The x737 Project is proud to announce the availability of a new download area for the aircraft liveries.
For our x737project community we have set up a new download area for x737 liveries: Instead of complete packages you can now download every livery as a single file, weighing not more than 5 to 10MB each!
You can browse through categories or through a list of all liveries available.
To check out our new area, go to the ‘Liveries’ section of our website.
Have fun, and don’t forget to report bugs!
In Progress … Oil platform from Khamsin
According to X-Plane’s official website, the next major update to X-Plane 10 will include a new oil platform.
It is created by Khamsin Studios, the developers of X-Plane 10′s fantastic default aircraft carrier.
For a sneak peek, check out the following photos -> Oil Platform I, Oil Platform II, Oil Platform III, Oil Platform IV and a video, or see Khamsin’s blog posts about it.
Flight Illusion “GSA-RMI” Available
Flight Illusion is proud top announce the availability of the GSA-RMI.
After many months of development and testing, we are proud to add the Gsa rmi to our product range. The product can be found in the navigation tab of our webshop. There will be 2 versions. The first is a simple dme, as found in GA planes and helicopters.
The second isnthe same gauge, with on top a DME range display. The GSA-RMI is modeled after the Collins RMI-30. It has a rotating compass rose and 2 handles. the navigation source can be set for each handle, by pushing buttons.
The GSA-RMI provides aircraft heading information on a compass card read against a fixed lubber line. Heading flag monitors servo error, compass valid, and instrument power.
For detailed information and ordering possibilities, visit the dedicated GSA-RMI Flight Illusion web page.
Real News | Boeing conducts first flight USAF QF-16 FSAT
Boeing has successfully completed the first QF-16 full scale aerial target (FSAT) manned flight for the US Air Force (USAF) at Cecil Field in Jacksonville, Florida, US.
During the 66-minute flight, the QF-16 aircraft climbed to an altitude of 41,000ft and demonstrated the basic performance of the newly installed modification package.
The QF-16 modification package enables it to fly in an unmanned mode under the control of a ground-based control system, such as the Gulf Range Drone Control System (GRDCS) at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, US or the Drone Formation Control System (DFCS) at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), New Mexico, US. (Source airforce-technology.Com)
Read the whole story at Airforce-Technology.Com.
Update for Aerosoft’s Frankfurt Hahn X
Aerosoft is proud to announce the update of the long awaited Frankfurt-Hahn X. The update offers the correction of the runway signs on the taxiways and some other minor bugs.
In the first years of its civilian use this airport was called “Rhine-Mosel Airport” but then its name was changed under marketing aspects to Frankfurt-Hahn although Frankfurt is more than 140km away.
The separate update can be downloaded from our support data base whereas the full version is available from the customer account history.
You can read all about Aerosoft’s Frankfurt Hahn X at their dedicated eShop web page or go straight to the update link, but be aware, you need to be a registered user.
FSAdventureSky free Mission with Beechcraft C90B
Here’s the FSAdventureSky FSX free mission to follow …. In order to try the new Carenado´s Beech 90 I contacted General Sing Bangur of the Indian Air Phenomena Directive and got a response to use the aircraft in their latest covert Mission….here it is: Ancient Machines…
The Prime Minister has ordered for you to fly Dr. Sing and his party to a Chinese Village beyond the mountains. There you will listen to the oldest Lama and proceed accordingly. …This is a super secret Mission without the authorization to use Chinese air space.
If you fly higher than indicated their radar will pick you out and a missile will sure hit you so fast you will not know what happened. Very little instructions have been provided to you by the air authorities so you must use your “detective” instincts to be successful in this quest.
Read all about this free FSX mission at FSAdventureSky dedicated web page.
Review | Flight Deck Productions “Learn Concorde”
Staff reviewer Angelique van Campen tries to understand all the ins and outs of the Aerospatiale Concorde with the help of a learning program from Flight Deck Productions, based on the Concorde-X from FlightSim Labs.
According to Angelique ” Flight Deck Productions “Learn Concorde” Ground School is a DVD set based on FlightSim Labs Aerospatiale Concorde-X.” She also finds out that “Depending on the chapter, aircraft system schematics are introduced as well as external views to highlight a particular part or describe their operation.
Furthermore, with the help of panel- and sub panel descriptions, the flight simmer is pulled into the virtual world of the Concorde-X, and match perfectly together to make it an interesting movie.” Finally she concludes ” Because systems are visualized with schematics, if applicable, external views for component location, and the link with panels, sub panel, switches, knobs, annunciators etc., the Concorde comes alive with this video.”
You can read here complete DVD review experience via this link.
In Progress … BluePrint Simulations Brasil’s Largest Airports
BluePrint Simulations is proud to announce that, as part of our South American series, we will be offering detailed and accurate sceneries for Brasil’s two largest airports.
The first installment to be published before the end of May will include Rio de Janeiro’s International airport at Galeao and, as a bonus, Rio’s domestic Santos Dumont airport.
A detailed description of the scenery and numerous screenshots will be available on this web site shortly. The second installment of this series to be published in a few months will include Sao Paulo’s International airport at Guarulhos, and as a bonus, Sao Paulo’s domestic Congonhas airport, one of the most challenging “downtown” airports anywhere.
Additional information can be found at the BluePrint Simulations website, section News!
German Railroad Announces DVD Update “10 Jahre German Railroads”
German Railroads is proud to announce another DVD update, which brings this to version 1.30.
According to German Railroads “This update contains, as usual, all previous updates”. Furthermore, some small failures in the routes are corrected and some new routes are added.
Since the overall package is ratter big, when you have any download problems, please contact us via the mail (mail@german-railroads.de). Then we’re able to offer you a DVD instead.
For more information, visit the News section of our website.
X-Aviation Celebrating 50% Discount “Take Command! CRJ-200″
X-Aviation is proud to inform you about this awesome offer .. 50% off from the Take Command! CRJ-200.
According to X-Avaition “The most sophisticated airliner simulation for X-Plane is one-year old and we’re here to celebrate with an awesome sale!”
Get your CRJ-200 for 50% off before time runs out! Our Take Command! line of products are designed to give you the very best of flight simulation immersion, and assures you this is one of the most sophisticated aircraft available for X-Plane! Real world pilots test and assist in the development of these products, and real world procedures are followed.
For more information, visit this decimated 50% discount link.
Perfect flight “Flight Service: AA503″ Released
Perfect Flight is proud to announce the release of another Flight Service mission.
This time it’s the AA503 Albany to Chicago.
It comes with two missions / adventures for FSX or / and FS2004 designed for an American Airlines Boeing 737-800 fully loaded. Experience a real gate-to-gate sheduled fligh for a really realistic flight experience in a real word ambience with new and unique features.
Two separate version are provided with the setup file so you can use the product as FSX Mission or FS2004 Abl Adventure. Both missions uses real weather for a very enjoyable simulation. Read more at the Perfect Flight web page.
openVFR Europe Italy, Sardina & Malta Released
Last week openVFR finished the development of some new Scenery AddOns for Microsoft Flightsimulator X. After the new release of openVFR Germany now you can download the new openVFR versions for Italy.
They have been created by use of some new complex rendering algorithms we developed to get the most out of the actual snapshot from Openstreetmap. Italy is one of the most beautiful holiday destination in Europe with approximately 130 airports.
It covers a surface area of 300,000 square km and includes the islands of Sardinia and Sicily. Discovering Italy can be an unforgettable experience. Explore this beautiful country by flying in mountainous areas in the north, the highest point being Mont Blanc, and areas with significant volcanic activity in the south like Etna, along with the famous Vesuvius.
Additional information can be found at the dedicated openVFR web page.
Nemeth Design “CH-47 Chinook Patch 1.01″ Released
Nemeth Design has released the first patch 1.01 for the Boeing CH-47 Chinook.
This installer is an updater only that updates the original Nemeth Designs/Milviz Boeing CH-47 for FSX v1.00 to v1.01. Note that if you downloaded the product after 12-05-2012 from nemethdesigns.com you don’t need to apply this update.
Some changes are … HSI instruments, barometric altimeters, radio altimeters, co-pilot airspeed indicator, master caution warning lights, engine starter switch, added wheel ground hit sound and more.
For more information, visit the Nemeth Designs web page or download the patch right here.
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