Aer Arann has successfully taken delivery of its first ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft. The aircraft is the first of eight ATR 72-600s ordered by the airline in a contract valued at some US$ 187 million. Seven other planes are scheduled to be delivered in 2013 and 2014. These eight brand new airplanes will replace the older existing fleet of ATR 72-200s and ATR...

Oops, that seems complicated … another Airbus from Aerosoft? Aerosoft Airbus X A320/A321 (formally Airbus X Extended) version 1.10 has just been released. As this is a serious change we decided to only release a full new build, it’s best to de-install the previous version before installing. Boxed customers also can download this new complete version...

On behalf of Flight Simulation Nation, ASN would like to bring this incoming article to your attention. In light of recent chatter on the net about how the community seems to be coming apart at the seams, we would like to draw your attention to a website that is trying to re-establish that sense of community in FS. The Flight Simulation Nation (FSN) website has...

SkyHighSim would like to inform you that they have decided to drop the pirce of all of it’s sceneries. Here’s the new price list: - Belgrade LYBE 4.0 will cost you now 10,00 Euro’s - Tivat 2010 only for 8.00 Euro’s - Approaching Tivat for not more then 6,00 Euro’s - Belgrade X now only for 12,00 Euro’s If you purchase Tivat...

Air Astana, Kazakhstan’s flag carrier, has taken delivery of its first A320 aircraft equipped with Airbus’ Sharklet fuel saving wing tip devices. The airline becomes the first in the region to benefit from the new wing-tip devices. Air Astana’s A320, powered by IAE V2500 engines, features a comfortable two class cabin, seating 148 passengers with 16 in...

Majestic Software, creator of the Dash-8 Q400 is pleased to inform you that they have updated the Dash–8 Q400 to version 1.006. It’s a complete installer that can be installed over the old one (1.005). If you have added new repaints to aircraft.cfg, don’t forget to save the [fltsim.X] sections, otherwise they will be lost. What has been...

In case you’re not aware that this could happen …. a hydraulic failure that could lead to a runway incursion on final ….! Let us see what Aviation Herald has to say. An Air Inuit de Havilland Dash 8-100, registration C-FAIV performing flight 3H-809-Medevac from Kuujjuarapik,QC to Montreal,QC (Canada), was descending towards Montreal about 30nm...

The regional VATSIM group Düsseldorf is excited about another opportunity for cooperation with the fixed base simulator at YourCockpit in Cologne, right at the MediaPark. From their premisses, we will be providing 12 hours of continuous and quality ATC at Cologne Airport (EDDK), with giving VATSIM members the opportunity to conduct their flight in the...

FSXLive.com is an moving map for Flight Simulator X running inside a browser. Using the free FSXFollow.exe client you can track your flight from any browser and any place, even on the go and no entering of IP address is required. FSXLive.com provides an additional screen functionality plotting your simulated location on top of Google Maps. The product includes...

On behalf of Peter Hornfeck, ASN is prou to announce issue 5 of the freeware Flight Deck International Magazine. Issue 5 – available in the German and Chinese languages –  covers the following articles/products: - VATSIM - Flightlevel, RVSM, … - Eurocontrol, Flightplanning - Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport - Xiamen Gaoqi - Airbus X...

Found at Aviation Herald, a Cyprus airbus A320 with a tyre burst on roll out. A Cyprus Airways Airbus A320-200, registration 5B-DCH performing flight CY-343 from Beirut (Lebanon) to Larnaca (Cyprus), landed on Larnaca’s runway 04 but suffered a flat tyre during roll out. The aircraft vacated the runway and stopped on taxiway C, parallel to the runway,...

Found for you and in particular for all FS2Crew PMDG 737NGX simmers, at AVSIM, uploaded by Riccardo Mmilan, his FS2Crew PMDG 737NGX Super condensed minitutorial. This is a self explaining supercondensed mini tutorial and checklist, step by step, through all 737 NGX checklist and FS2Crew Voice Edition events. More information and download details can be found at...

Presented on the AVSIM dedicated 777 forum, Robert Randazzo from PMDG has published some latest 777 screenshots. According to Robert “Tonight we get you up close and personal with the exterior detail of the PMDG 777-200LR.  This is by far the most detailed model we have yet created (well- excepting the PMDG 747-400 v2.0 exterior model- but we aren’t...