Joakim Holmström Zenk has made this repaint of Posky's Airbus 319 which I thought was cool. I have always been kind of fond of the older style Scandinavian livery.The picture on the left is one of the screenshots in the file.
Joakim Holmström Zenk has made this repaint of Posky's Airbus 319 which I thought was cool. I have always been kind of fond of the older style Scandinavian livery.
Coffs Harbour Regional airport is located between Sydney and Brisbane and gets quite a bit of traffic each year with 200 000 passengers moving through the airport.
Well I can only say one thing, this scenery looks absolutely awesome! At least from the screenshots on aerosofts website. But check it out yourself, look at the screenshots and decide for yourself what to think.
Isn't it strange how you sometimes forget things FSEconomy was one of those things. Years ago I regestered with the service which is free, flew a couple of flights and then completely forgot about it.
There are a few really nice panels around, like Bill's ERJ panel I tipped you about the other day this one is also a freeware must. Samuli Sutinen has developed this awsome panel for the MD80. It has most things you could ever want in a freeware panel and before I started using the payware Maddog 2006 this was my first choice of panel. It has an overhead panel, a main panel, pedestal, it exists in both a analogue and a digital version.
remember the same problem being around for PMDG's 737NG before they patched it. But as long as you keep an eye on the fuel and shut the center pump off before it runs dry (it will keep feeding from all tanks including the center but when the center tank pumps are on it only feeds from the center tank) you'll be safe.
This panel has a been around for a bunch of years, the version in the link above was uploaded to the fsnordic file library in march of 2004. But still it is in my opionion by far the best freeware panel around for the ERJ series. It was way ahead of its time when it came around all those years ago and it can still hold its own.
As i have actually spent time in Hawaii as my brother decided to travel halfway around the world to study and I got to be there for his graduation I downloaded the new FSdreamteam scenery for Honolulu as soon as i heard about it and was glad to see that there was a trial version that works for five minutes before everything goes gray.
rate killer for my poor computer and fs9. It was not! It worked smooth as silk, the only thing being that sometimes when I changed views it stopped for a short second and loaded but the frame rates didn't drop at all, I have them locked at 25 and they stayed there.
Captain sim, has released their new B52 model. It is only the exterior model for FSX. The model, from the screenshots, looks really nice but it has no panel or sound. I am guessing those will pop up in the future and be sold separately.
Don Grovestine has released his scenery for Victoria, British Columbia, Canada recently. It looks very interesting but I haven't had the time to try it out. But rather then sit on it I thought I'd let you know and let you give it a try.
A while ago I wrote about the Aerodesign Commander model and the same theme goes on as the Veneaviones model of the turboprop version of that aircraft has been reuploaded to the avsim file directory.
r model. It is definitely worth the short download.
If you like me have a romantic idea about flying in the older days this scenery might be for you. Mike Stevens and Tom Gibson has put together a nice package modeling the 1963 southwestern scenery for USA.
A new version for Treviso airport in Italy is available at avsim. It is quite basic as the author Daan S even says in the description file but it seems quite nice to me.
After flying a bunch of years for different virtual airlines I needed some diversifying in my virtual aviation career. I guess it's the kind of diversifying you can only get flying virtual as the pilots I know who have spent a career flying for real can count their type ratings on one hand. One nice gentleman I talked to a bit started out flying smaller Cessnas, then moved to the Convair 440, next flew the Fokker F-28 for a bunch of years and finished flying the Boeing 737-500 for a few years and that was his entire career.
is not going anywhere but last night I got to start a longer flight from Long Beach to Louisville. I took it in the 727 from HJG which I have talked about here before, not exactly the correct paint job since I used a old european DHL paint but that I guess is another nice thing about flightsimming, anything goes!
Paro airport is the only international airport in Bhutan and by now you might be wondering where Bhutan is? It is one of the most isolated nations in the world, located at the eastern end of the Himalaya mountain range. With a population of 691 thousand it is hardly one biggest countries around. But if you are looking for an unusual place to fly to then this scenery by David Cuvillier might be for you.
So I saw a piece of news at avsim about a new fsx scenery for a l'Alpe d'Huez scenery that has just come out. It looked spectacular but as I don't have fsx I couldn't buy it and use it. The thing I liked about it the most was the cool looking sloping runway along the side of the mountain but I remember reading something about that not being available in fs9. Anyway, I got interested in the scenery and wondered if there was any freeware version around for fs9.
ee the runway coming closer at an angle and it is interesting to land at them for sure.
Blu-Sky Mine Productions have a couple of nice freeware aircraft availiable, the SAAB 2000 and the BAe ATP. The panels have gotten some criticism and I agree that they are not the best but it does work and the visual model is really nice. They are working on a Metro III but it has been in the works for quite some time. Hopefully it will be released too sometime soon.
The freeware scenery of Toronto Pearson International airport by Dennis Di Franco is highly recommended. I see absolutely no reason why spend money on a payware scenery when you can find a freeware scenery of this magnitude. So buy something else for that money and download this scenery and enjoy the crisp graphics, the good frame rates and excellent build.
Three more great freeware scenery that are available to all of us that love to fly in and around the states. Alla three share the same maker, namely Shehryar Ansari. He has done a great job on them and if you download them I promise you that you will be impressed.
remarkable New York La Guardia airport right in between of Newark and JFK.
A short while ago I gave you a tip about the scenery for Managua 2010 which I thought was nice but I had a bit of trouble with the frame rates for that one.
I know it is a funky looking aircraft but I hold it dear to my heart as it is the type I did my first six skydives out of. Massive, loud, windy, slow and just great! There have been a few fs models out there but this one is the best I've found so far.
CLS has just released its Boeing 767 which from the screenshots looks kind of nice. It will set you back some 23.95 euros for the fs9 version.
When I first downloaded George Grimshaw's freeware scenery of Boston Logan International airport the incredible quality of the package struck me as amazing. Also that the frame rate hit on my system was pretty small, making it a great experience going into and out of Boston. I still to this day thinks this is just as good of an alternative to the payware version out there and I stick with it.
The picture is from Honolulu and the Diamond Head crater and it is actually one place I've been to in my life. It was quite an effort to climb the bloody thing but it led to a very nice view of Waikiki and Honolulu.
The last couple of years there has been an explosion with good, high quality addons for flightsimulator 9 and now X. And the Beechcraft 200 King Air from Aeroworx is one of the best around. The model, panel, sound makes this a true pleasure to fly and I'v spent some 200 hours flying around in it.
If you installed Glacier Bay version 2 (part 1 and part 2) there are a couple of airports with amazing detail. One is Skagway which is definately worth a visit. Another is the Wood Lake Research Station. It takes some flying to find it but when you do it is definitely worth the troubles of getting there. The Hangars, the way it's laid out on the ground, the small details such as the light poles with their lines or the fire place. It is worth a visit.
I stumbled across this site while looking at the new files at flightsim.com as there was a repaint of the Antonov 148 and the repaint was for a model by Samdesign. I've seen some pics of the An-148 at airliners.net adn found it somewhat fascinating although I would probably never log many hours in it but when I found a model for it for fs9 I was intrigued.
Apart from the An-148 we can find the Tupolev Tu-128, the Ilyushin Il-96 and IL-86, the Antonov An-22, Tupolev Tu-95MS and Tu-142M, the Mudry CAP-10B, the Airbus 320 family, the Antonov An-24, Yakovlev Yak-42, the Tupolev Tu-124, the Tupolev Tu-116 and Tu-126.
Here is an old model that I tried out a bit and would also like to recommend. It is the Project Tupolev's TU-154 model.
russian is good. Considering it was released back in 2005 it is really nice. Good plane with both VC and 2D panels. Nice model and sound. The learning curve is of course very steep but I am pretty sure it is worth the effort you put into it.
I've used skyvectors for years and always found it quite good but after the last update it is nothing short of spectacular with the overview function the flightplanning function and much more.
arenado, the kings of General Aviation aircraft for flightsimulator has released their version of the Piper PA32 Saratoga for fs9. Like most other Carenado aircraft it looks like to be a beauty.
Glacier Bay version 2 for fs9 consists of two rather large files at 60 and 90 megabytes each. They are well worth the download time though as they will make the scenery for a part of Alaska a much nicer area to explore after installing the files. I had to remove the ai-ship but otherwise the scenery runs pretty smooth on my system.
If you just like me have to look up where Managua (my apologizes to all the people who actually knows where it is) then you probably won't fly that often into Managua International. But if you are interested in this pearl by the Lago de Managua then Managua 2010 by Mike Sharon might just very well be for you.
For a long time I resisted downloading and using the Aero Commander model as I thought that it was too amateuristic, I didn't think I would like it so I avoided it. I was an idiot to say the least. After finally giving in I couldn't stop flying it and I got a good 60 hours in it during the course of a month and a half. The original aircraft was conceived by Ted Smith at Douglas but since Douglas wasn't interested in it a new company was set up that in 1946 presented the L3805, the predecessor of the commanders. A large number of different models have been designed, built and produced. The flightsim model by Milton Shupe, Scott Thomas and André Folkers has a number of these simulated.
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I found this one among the new files at avsim and thought it was just so beautiful. It is by Johnny Lawrence and it is for PMDG's Queen of the skies, the Boeing 747-400.
Vasil Madjarov has made a new beta 2 of his Bourgas (LBBG) airport. Bourgas is situated on the Bulgarian coast by the Black Sea and is famous for its tourist status. I loaded it up in fs9 and looked at it and at first glance it looks really nice.
The 1AZ0 scenery from Flyscenery.org's has the interesting comment about being Lufthansa's secret airport, not sure why and I couldn't find any more information about that in the package. I did however give it a fast look-over and it looks really nice. Interesting and good real-life-looking textures makes this a nice all be it simple scenery addon.
A happy new year to you all!
