Cessna Citation Sovereign

Link: flightsim.com


Alex Guedes has designed this quite nice looking model of the Cessna Citation Sovereign.

Weekend Long haul flight

This weekends long haul flight went from Newark Liberty Intl, KEWR to Dusseldorf in Germany. A nice flight that I have gone on IRL and that I have done a number of times in fs9.

A nice view of New York from the west.
Shortly after taking off and making a right
turn off of runway 22R.


Another nice view of New York by night.
A lovely place to visit in real life too.


And the last one from the flight deck of my
Lufthansa Airbus 340-300.

All in all the flight took 7.3 hours and about
five of those were at night.

Waco Biplane

Link: flightsim.com

This looks like a cool repaint of the Waco Biplane, you will need the base model which can be found here.

The base model is by Lynn and Bill Lyons and the repaint is by Don Brynelsen.

Way too many flights

Link: Cyber Air VA

So I was a bit curious the other night just how many flights I had flown for the first virtual airline I joined back in 1999, Cyber Air VA. I counted my flights (which I have logged in a special binder) I had a total of 116 complete a4 pages with flights, 18 per page and 11 on the last page, this gives me a total of 2099 flights since 1999!

I am such a nerd!

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Scott Base Antarctica

Link: Flightsim.com

If you are looking for another fun place to visit this might very well be for you. It is Scott base Antarctica by Julian Avisenis. The author has also made a model of the McMurdo station which you will need for the textures. It can be found here.

Shorts Hythe

Link: flightsim.com

Jens B. Kristensen has been very productive lately and has now released the Shorts Hythe which was a civilian version of the Shorts Sunderland III. You can also find a fsx version here.

DH.91 Albatross

Link: flightsim.com

Jens B. Kristensen has created this very nice looking, original aircraft, the DH.91 Albatross from De Havilland. You can also find it for fsx here.

Pemex repaint for the Turbo Commanders

Link: flightsim.com

Hector Perez Gonzales and Cinthia Gutierrez Sanchez has created this repaint for the Veneavione't Turbo Commander. It looks quite nice.

You can find the base model here.

Greybull, Wyoming

Link: flightsim.com

News have been kind of slow both for fsx and fs9, I guess we are moving towards summer where interest for flying calms down a bit.

Alan C. Heiner however has created this nice little scenery for Greybull, Wyoming, so at least somethig new is around.

Animation of IRL traffic

Link: youtube.com

This is a really cool video of the traffic flow... man that is a lot of aircrafts it puts both vatsim and ivao to shame.

Interesting about flightplanning

Link: youtube.com

I came across this kind of interesting video on youtube about flightplanning, not very indepth but still interesting to see.

The Flightsim Toolbar

Link: flightsimtoolbar.com

Jon Coffing has created a rather cool looking toolbar for the simming community that looks great!

"All your favorite Flight Sim sites are all a click or two away! From flight planning, weather, FS communities, and over 300 Virtual Airlines are available with a simple drop-down menu system plus so much more! Customize your toolbar by adding or removing components that you don't use or don't want to see"

Another flightsimulator blog

Link: http://aflightsimblog.blogspot.com/

Just found this cool blog and wanted to give it a shoutout! Looks nice and a bit more directed towards fsx as my blog is mainly focused on fs9.

The last entry is a very interesting post with an interview with Chris Palmer from Angle Of Attack.

Dalaman senery

Link: flightsim.com

I have this old VHS movie, a documentary from a Boeing 757 going from Manchester to Dalaman in Turkey. I've made the flight a couple times myself in FS and it is a nice one.

There is a new scenery out that makes me want to do the flight again, it is made by Pilot Vaps.

Embraer 110P

Link: flightsim.com

Eduard Guinart has designed this model of the Embraer 110P. At first I did not notice it and it was not until I saw a couple of repaints, among oters the one on the left by Hector Perez Gonzales that I thought it might be interesting. Repaints can be found here, here and here.

More information on the Embraer 110 can be found here.

Evening flight

So I took the very nice Lockheed L-188 Electra II out for a spin last night from TFFF (Martinique, Fort of France) to MBSY (Salt Cay)

This is from the stand at
Fort of France airport.

Starting # 3 engine after starting the others in
the sequence #4, #1 and #2.

Climbing out of Martinique.

Aviator 90 - updated

Link: Aviator 90

Chris Palmer is up to episode 32 of the 45 he has promised to produce. The last ones contain a lot of cool information about planning, fuel and such and the next ones promises to contain 10 cross country flights which should be very interesting, the first two of those are already published and then are a treat.

Review new FS9 Lockheed L-188 Electra II

Link: flightsim.com

As promised here is a review of the just plain awsome package with an aircraft by J.R. Lucariny, sound package by W.C. Schultz and Victor Merculief and an amazing panel by Fraser McKay.

The main attraction of the package is the sound set and panel though. The sound set you just have to try out yourself but the panel I will give you a couple of examples of.

The one nice thing I like about the panel is the sub-panel-selection which is text on the glareshield that you press to open the sub-panels with. There are a bunch of panels, the deicing panel, engine start panel, electrical panel, pressurising controls, power levers, fuel panel, radio panel, autopilot panel, checklist, gps, atc, map and feather panel.
One suggestion though is to read the documentation because this panel is way more than your standard flightsim panel and if you want the aircraft to work you had better follow the checklist.

I have modified it a bit and added my favorite, the ISG gauges as it gives me a FMC, in the original package there was a nice radar gauge in the same spot.

I especially like a couple of things with the package, the interactive checklist, the vital data card, the complexity, the fact that you have to set up the panel correct in order for the aircraft to be able to work. It just feels pretty real.

Rotterdam X

Link: aerosoft

There is a new scenery out for fsx that looks really good. It is for Rotterdam's airport and you can find a bunch of screenshots here.

Looks very promising and not at all expensive.

Lockheed L188 Electra

Link: flightsim.com

As I was checking through the new additions on flightsim and I came across this complete Electra package with an aircraft by J.R. Lucariny, sound package by W.C. Schultz and Victor Merculief and an amazing panel by Fraser McKay.

The panel was a lot more realistic than many other panels so I had a heck of a time to get the engines running proparly, luckily there was a pretty good flight manual.

I am going to take this baby out for a more extensive spin and maybe put together a better review alter on.

FS Live Traffic 3

Link: airnavsystems

I've spent a lot of time adding ai flightplans, downloaded the specific airlines sets etc but this payware from Airnavsystems seem to have a nice angle that puts a lot of real aircraft in your flightsimulator.

By downloaded the real life traffic a few moments before firing up your flightsimulator you will get the real traffic, complete with real life delays.

I guess the one big reason I see for not getting this myself is the fact that it is sold as a subscription based system and the cost for wach 6 month period is kind of steep at $54.95 for the worldwide fs9 version.

Eaglesoft corporate and general aviation

Link: eaglesoft

Eaglesoft has a substantial amount of different models, both for fs9 and fsx. Their speciality are corporate jets but they also have a couple of general aviation aircraft like the Cirrus SR20G2, the Cirrus SR22GTS, the Cirrus SR22G3 Turbo etc.

The corporate jets they have in their stock is the Cessna Citation X, CJ1, CII, a couple of Beechjets and they are pretty nice.

PlanetInAction.com

Link: planetinaction.com

This is a really cool page, not that much flightsimming but it contains a lot of other simming. If you tried the google earth ship simulator this is probably where you tried it. It is really kind of cool.

C-124 Globemaster II

Link: flightsim.com

Jens B. Kristensen has designed this cool C-124 model for fs9. You can also find a bunch of repaints at flightsim.com.

Kulula flying 101

Link: Flightsim.com

Colin Lowe has repainted one of the coolest liveries around today, the Kulula flying 101 which you can find a pic of from IRL here.

This one is a repaint of the Posky 737-800.

Airtran cool livery for SGA

Link: flightsim.com

I heard a cool discussion the other week about cool liveries that are around and one planespotter mentioned the new liveries that Airtran uses.

Here is one of for the Atlanta Falcons, you can also find a Baltimore Ravens one here.

This repaint of the SGA Boeing 717 are made by Eduardo Salas ande are very nice indeed!

Not much going on

Hello everyone!

There is not a lot going on on the FS9 front so if you have any good tips for me, please do not hesitate letting me know. News, new development, new scenery freeware aircraft and so on, anything goes.

Do you think I should make a review of something?

Drop me a comment here and I'll get right on it.

Nemeth design MD 500E

Link: nemethdesigns.com

This freeware design from the Nemeth brothers is such a nice freeware helicopter. A bit touchy but very nice.

If you want to try out helicopters a good site to start at is Hovercontrol which is the flightsimulator-helicopter community to use. Very good, lots of helicopters, repaints, panels, tips and tricks.

Imaginesim releases Nassau update for fsx

Link: Imaginesim



Imaginesim has released a version 2.0 of their Nassau (MYNN) scenery for fsx. This update boosts of generating better frame rates, bug fixes and more.

From the sreenshots it makes me want to fly to Bahamas. And if you have fsx and want to try it out they have a demo version on their website.