To celebrate FlightGear’s 15th birthday, the FlightGear team decided to organize a screenshot contest. Anyone can send in screenshots till the end of this month. Two weeks of public voting will follow, leading to the winners being announced on August 18 with the release of FlightGear 2.8.0. The winning screenshots will be used to promote FlightGear to the...

For those who live close-by Chicago, Minneapolis/St.Paul, Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay and other cities, don’t forget to visit the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh. EAA members and aviation enthusiasts totaling more than 500,000 from more than 60 countries attend EAA AirVenture at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where they rekindle friendships and...

LatinVFR is proud to announce their next development. Our second development team is working hard on another beautiful scenery, the entire nation of Bermuda and its airport LF Wade Int’l (TXKF). This project will be another HD airport to be added to our collection, for those who enjoyed our recent release of Cozumel, you are sure to love Bermuda. The...

Need some holiday? Enjoy yourself with this wonderful virtual trip to the Seychelles, it costs you nothing! Beautiful scenery in HD photoreal images LOD16 resolution 60cm/pixel by Diaphenous. The package includes new shorelines, a new watermask, basic autogen and night textures. You can go to the following locations: Platte Island (Version 2), Assumption Island,...

On behalf of Ben Supnik, here’s another article from his pencil. One of the changes to X-Plane 10.10: custom scenery packs now are tracked in an .ini text file called “scenery_packs.ini” that sits in the custom scenery folder.  This blog post explains how the .ini file works and what problems it was trying to solve. The Old Days Long ago, in X-Plane...