FSBreak 52: We Welcome Chris Palmer, OZx Tuscany, Captain Sim B-52, and Much More!

01/20/10 • -1 min

Hosted by Eric McClintock, Mark Stewart, Brendan Farmer, and Chris Palmer.
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Intro Chris Palmer & Aviator 90

Also, check out some of the recent announcements about Angle of Attack and Aviator 90 here.

Captain Sim – B-52 BUFF Exterior Announced

Expected Release: Jan 2010
Key Features:

Unparalleled visual quality and realism
Designed according to FSX standards
DirectX 9/10 compatible
Highly detailed and accurate Boeing B-52H Model
4x high resolution* textures of USAF Livery
Hundreds of Custom Animations
Wing Flex
Wing Vortices
Exhaust Smoke
Custom Self-shade
Custom Views
Manual
Repaint Kit (coming soon)
Growing number of Free Liveries
Exterior only**

Link with more screenshots: http://www.captainsim.com/products/b520/

OZx Tuscany Photoreal UpdatedOZx is proud to release the expected upgrade to the version 1.1 of Tuscany!

As in the previous version, where people had a sensation of full immersion in this new concept of photoreal, this upgrade wants to improve the autogen of the already covered area, adding anyway a new zone, Lucca and its environment.
The coast from Marina di Pisa to Lido di Camaiore has been fully implemented with the autogen, along as the wonderful area of Puccini lake. Inside the Apuan Alps (provided with mesh developed by Holger Sandmann), another fantastic lake, the late of Vagli, with its little city.
Beautiful landmark 3d objects have been added, we speak about the famous miracles' square in Pisa (developed by Dario Bortot) and an ancient castle, the castle of Malaspina, in Massa (developed by Loreno Venanti). The Isle of Elba and other cute islands are also availables here (developed by Antonio C.)
All the territory is perfect to be flown also at the sunset or in the night, a real experience with the well experimented true nightlights system. Fluidity and hi graphic details, a project by Maurizio G.
This release will be the base to cover the entire area with the autogen, and to develop completely in 3D the town of Lucca too (already in progress).
Download for free here. Via SimFlight.

CLS releases FSX version of their 767

Features:

The GMAX models are FS9 native, yet compatible with FSX
Highly detailed exterior models
High quality interactive 3D Virtual cockpit
2D panel with custom gauges
Highly detailed liveries
Easy to read Manual
Option for showing the wings from the interior view (wingview)
Pushback truck (can be switched on/off for FSX)
Air stairs. For passenger models
Dynamic wing-flex
Detailed flight deck when seen from the exterior
Animations abound; Passenger doors, lugage-cargo doors, flaps, rudder, elevators
Animations abound; undercarriage, engine fans, thrust reversers and spoilers
High quality sound sets for RR, GE and PW engines
Rolls Royce, Pratt and Whitney and General Electric engines modelled
Both 767-200 and 767-300 modeled

Price: € 23.95, More Information - Via FlightSimNetwork.

XP Jets B777 for X-Plane Preview

Also, check out the Internal and External gallery!!
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Hosted by Eric McClintock, Mark Stewart, Brendan Farmer, and Chris Palmer.
Listen Here:
Download Audio Here
Video

Intro Chris Palmer & Aviator 90

Also, check out some of the recent announcements about Angle of Attack and Aviator 90 here.

Captain Sim – B-52 BUFF Exterior Announced

Expected Release: Jan 2010
Key Features:

Unparalleled visual quality and realism
Designed according to FSX standards
DirectX 9/10 compatible
Highly detailed and accurate Boeing B-52H Model
4x high resolution* textures of USAF Livery
Hundreds of Custom Animations
Wing Flex
Wing Vortices
Exhaust Smoke
Custom Self-shade
Custom Views
Manual
Repaint Kit (coming soon)
Growing number of Free Liveries
Exterior only**

Link with more screenshots: http://www.captainsim.com/products/b520/

OZx Tuscany Photoreal UpdatedOZx is proud to release the expected upgrade to the version 1.1 of Tuscany!

CLS releases FSX version of their 767

Features:

The GMAX models are FS9 native, yet compatible with FSX
Highly detailed exterior models
High quality interactive 3D Virtual cockpit
2D panel with custom gauges
Highly detailed liveries
Easy to read Manual
Option for showing the wings from the interior view (wingview)
Pushback truck (can be switched on/off for FSX)
Air stairs. For passenger models
Dynamic wing-flex
Detailed flight deck when seen from the exterior
Animations abound; Passenger doors, lugage-cargo doors, flaps, rudder, elevators
Animations abound; undercarriage, engine fans, thrust reversers and spoilers
High quality sound sets for RR, GE and PW engines
Rolls Royce, Pratt and Whitney and General Electric engines modelled
Both 767-200 and 767-300 modeled

Price: € 23.95, More Information - Via FlightSimNetwork.

XP Jets B777 for X-Plane Preview

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FSBreak 51: X-Plane to the Palm Pre, 100 Dollar Kilauea Volcano Burger, and More!

Hosted by Eric McClintock, Mark Stewart, and special guest Ben Supnik.
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Wilco’s Third Airline Pack Released

The third Airlines pack for Embraer Regional Jets is now available. It features 13 new real-world airlines liveries to improve the ERJ135 and ERJ145 series for both Microsoft Flight Simulator X and 2004.
The addon texturees are created by Mcphat Studios:
With a 'out of the box', stock 90+ pixel per meter ratio, which is one of the highest ratios, you can expext textures as sharp as they can be, without being HD. This combined with our signature style, our highly acclaimed textures and our devotion to bring you the best, you may expect what you have come accustomed to from us : Textures that bring your add-on to the next level.
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RealAir Beech Duke B60 1.5 Update

You can now download the Version 1.5 Update of our Beech Duke. This update adds a number of new features to the Duke, resolves a few minor issues, and gives a slight performance improvement on most systems. The major changes are as follows:

Optimised LOD (Level Of Detail) models.
Optional medium and low polygon exterior models.
Optional mip-mapped textures.
Animated rain-drops on the windscreen glass.
Improved GPS HSI integration (using Reality-XP or default GPS).
HSI Auto or Manual DTK.
Improved ‘Cold and Dark’ function.
Improved engine starting.
More realistic generator gauges.

VATSIM Apres Ski Triangle Event

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCwS1SDaH3g
VATSIM have released details of their Apres Ski Triangle online event due to take place on the 30th January, 2010.
As the northern parts of Germany this year eperienced something like a real winter with a lot of snow and low temperatures VATSIM Germany wants to celebrate this by adopting a custom with a long tradition in the Alps and therefore invites the community to the Après-Ski-Triangle on Saturday January 30th 2010 18-22 UTC.
http://edww.org/300110/
This update also includes all of the older SP1 updates. For this reason the Duke SP1 Update is no longer available.

X-Plane comes to the Palm Pre

X-Plane for is the most powerful, flexible, and realistic flight simulator in the world for desktop and portable personal computers. It is the gold standard for accurate flight simulation, offering realism that is unmatched by any other simulator. To get the flight-modeling accuracy that leaves all the other simulators behind, X-Plane uses blade element theory to predict the airflow over each bit of the airplane, determining the forces that will act on each bit of the plane, adding them all up, and using that huge amount of information to predict what the plane will do next... about 30 times per second! THIS is how X-Plane has the most powerful and accurate flight model available for personal computers. The flight model is so accurate, in fact, that X-Plane has earned FAA certification for pilots to log flight time towards actual pilot ratings (when used with the appropriate hardware), and is used by many aircraft companies to predict how their next-generation aircraft will fly. As in the full desktop version, X-Plane for Palm lets you experiment with different times of day, weather, sky conditions, wind, turbulence, weights, aircraft configurations and centers of gravity, all while flying multiple different aircraft though many different scenery locales from the stunning terrain topography of Innsbruck, Austria, (home to some of the most challenging mountains and topography for aviation) to the deserts of the American southwest. Fly the popular Cessna 172, the sleek Columbia-400, the speedy Piper Malibu, the revolutionary Cirrus VISION very light jet, the stunning and efficient 350-mile-per-hour Piaggio Avantu, the stout and strong King-Air, or the fascinating little Eclipse-500. Fly in various weather and times of day over Austria, Hawaii, Alaska, Desert Sky in the American south-west, San-Francisco, or the hotbed of general aviation...

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FSBreak 53: FOUR PMDG Teases, Google Earth as an engine for MSFS, and who wants to built an airplane?

Hosted by Eric McClintock, Mark Stewart, Brendan Farmer, and Chris Palmer.

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B-52 From Captain Sim Released

Update on Last week's mention, the "external only" model has now been released here for € 9.99.

Mark's Secret to Improving your FSX FPS... Compress!

Website Here!

Also: TileProxy Revisited

Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer

Honolulu International From FSDreamTeam

Honolulu International is a scenery developed for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX) and Flight Simulator 2004 (FS9). It's has been created with great attention to visual quality and performance, using the latest available programming techniques, both in FSX and FS9.

The product is sold as 2 Products in One. This means, by buying one version, you will automatically get the other for free, since activation and serial codes are shared between FSX and FS9.

Features:

Fully customized ground and runways in high resolution, both in FSX and FS9
Ground terrain seamlessly integrated with Flight Simulator.
Native animated inverse-kinematics based jetways in FSX.
AES support in FS9 planned
Animated custom ground vehicles.
Use of the advanced material properties in FSX, like bump and specular mapping.
Fully 3d taxiways lighting.
Intensive use of LOD techniques in order to offer the best possible performances.
Improved Night Effects
High resolution building textures.
NEW YouControlTM feature: custom airport actions with easy on-screen menu to trigger animations, events,etc ( FSX only )
RLG Automated Guide-In System docking.

Price: 22.90 EUR, download here.

Several "teases" from PMDG

PMDG 747-400X -8i/F Product Model Extension:

Estimated Release: January 2010. (very firm)

PMDG 737-NGX:

Estimated Release: Mid 2010. (not firm)

PMDG Bombardier Dash-8

Estimated Release: Late 2010 (not firm)

PMDG 777:

Estimated Release: Late 2010/Early 2011(not firm)

X-Plane 9.42 released

X-Plane 9.42 is now available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

No extra drag for jet engine nacelles, as was always intended.
Rain, hail damage, birdstrikes, sun glare on scratches on the windshield should now cover all of the monitor, no matter the screen res... let me know if you find a case where this does not happen!
Control-s in Plane-Maker to save the plane... any time. Kind of convenient.
Fixed: Mouse won't jump when fly-by-mouse is selected.
Fixed: Draped lit orthophotos become lit all at once.
Fixed: Idle speed dataref works on turboprops.
Fixed: Landing lights start off - better for panels without lan-light switches.
Fixed: Generic text instrument works with "mechanical" lighting now.
Fixed: Key frame table works right with generic rotary push button.
French translation improved.

X-Plane's Austin Meyer wants to build a REAL plane!

X-Plane is doing well, but I want to see if I can push the current state of the art in HARDWARE forward a little bit as well. IF I can come up with a new plane that can benefit the aviation community, then I want to. To do this, I give you the "Laminar Research X-1 Cavallo" ("Cavallo" is Italian for "Horse").

The Objectives:

1: Design the plane I want to build by flying models of the above in X-Plane, submitted by multiple learned sources.
2: Build it and fly it hither and yon across the country for personal, business, evaluation, and marketing purposes, documenting it and blogging about it like hell.
3: Present the plane to the public in as much detail as possible. As I use the plane for everyday travel, document this travel for the world to see, and demonstrate the aircraft performance to as many people as possible, I will decide whether it could profitable to make more of them. Interest from other people will help drive this decision. Full documentation...