I have said this on numerous occasions, that FSX is a wonderful vehicle to explore the world and experience places we might never have a chance to visit otherwise and this scenery is another great example of that.
Brazil, known officially as the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and the Latin American region. Brazil also happens to be the 5th largest country in the world with a geographical area of 8,515,767kms sq and an estimated population in 2012 of 193,946,886.
To summarize just what this package gives us here is a paragraph taken from the developer’s product page at SimMarket. It is a very brief outline of what this scenery is all about.
“This scenario covers the entire city of Rio de Janeiro and SDU (SBRJ) airport, as well as the region of lakes and coastline of São Paulo, and also as a bonus the city of Natal RN (With Airport SBNT) is the capital of the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Norte and is located in the Northeast region of Eastern Brazil and in the Northeast.”
The main focus of the scenery is Rio de Janeiro which is also the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Rio, a name commonly used to refer to the city, is the second largest city in Brazil with a population of approximately 6.3 million people.
Vienna in Austria will play host to next year’s VATSIM Global Conference, announced in a Press Release issued today by the Virtual ATC organisation.
“VATSIM is proud to announce that Vienna, Austria has been selected as the venue for the next VATSIM Global Conference (W14). Scheduled to take place 9 – 11 May 2014, the organisers have been able to secure one of Vienna’s premier locations for this conference.”
Click “Read More” below for the full press release.
Carenado‘s promise to keep supporting the many users of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 is still bearing fruit, this time with the release of the C90B King Air.
The twin executive turboprop comes in six liveries (plus a blank for repainters), plus a wide array of custom gauges, animations and eye candy. 2d panel fans may want to steer clear, though, as the aircraft comes only with 2d pop-ups for some gauges – the rest is available in the VC only.
Find out more and add it to your collection via the product page here.
Along with Stansted, it may be the butt of many national jokes, but Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) is one of the busiest in the UK and is home to many budget and regional operators, as well as many business jets and charter aircraft.
As usual with UK2000‘s “Xtreme” scenery packages for FS2004 and X, Luton comes with many custom structures, full custom ground textures and a lot of extra features such as ground traffic, animations and appropriate traffic. Full details can be found here.
The two jackets that you can see on the left are the latest Aviation Blu-Ray videos launched by Just Planes :
OSAKA shows some “runway action” from different points of view in the Kansai Airports, with many heavies of a “great variety of airlines”.
Turkish Cargo A330-200F shows the flight and aircraft preparations, loading and unloading cargo, during the operations from and to Istanbul, Milan, Bangkok and even more destinations
It’s not always easy to find the flight simulator retated apps in the stores, but when we find one enough interesting to share, we don’t hesitate !
This one works with FSX on iPad 3, iPhone 4 or iPod. iFMS simulates a flight management system with LNAV / VNAV calculations in a Boeing style, with NavDATA updates for the navigation database and with a HSI display available. Another version for X-Plane is being prepared.
Among the first 200 customers of Mumbai scenery by Thai Creations, a part of them have been selected to receive a gift directly from the developers.
They will send an original white cap with the designers logo in front of it. Interested customers should confirm their actual home address to receive it. See Facebook for the people list or get in touch with an email.
Proud of their popular greek island scenery Skiathos X, 29Palms and Aerosoft present another trailer video showing other aspects of their latest product like the vehicle animations and the pilot’s view during final approach.
I will look at what does a model of a marine vessel have to do within the world of FSX flight simulation and flying. Adding a boat into my hanger full of planes was very new and its probably very unusual these days, but then again most real hangers have ...
Rotterdam The Hague airport formerly known as Zestienhoven, EHRD, is located 5.6Kms northwest of the city of Rotterdam. The original airport for the city of Rotterdam had been destroyed just prior to the second world war so when it came time to consider rebuilding it was decided to do so ...
Recently DBS Studio has released its another add-on for MS Flight Simulator - FOLLOW ME SERVICE FOR FSX. Everyone, who has ever been at an airport, must have seen that many airplanes are escorted by a little car from the gate to the runway or back from the runway to ...
The ICARUSGOLD (IG) - GRUMMAN DUCK — The Feathered or Leroy Review
Quick Summary:
IcarusGold has released a WWII Fighter ie the 'GRUMMAN DUCK, designed specifically for FSX, SP1, SP2, Acceleration or Gold. This is basically a single engined amphibious bi-plane or flying boat that was also capable of landing on conventional ...
Product Overview:
The Logitech Extreme 3D Pro was my first decent joystick. I’ve owned a very cheap, and not very good joystick before that, but it was my 3D Pro that paved the way for me to go into serious flightsimming. The Extreme 3D Pro is a simple but sturdy USB-joystick ...
We take a long flight by aircraft. Yes, people, we have left the US. We are heading to Singapore, one of those cities that probably everybody knows. It is known for being a bustling metropolis, a place where Asia can show all of its grandeur. And above all, it’s a ...
Blueprint Simulations has done an airport of which I am very familiar, Toronto International, formally known as Lester B. Pearson International, CYYZ. I live in Toronto so I thought I’d review this scenery.
First of all, I live on the flight path of runway 23 about 6nm out and I have ...
What better way to broaden your horizons than to fly to new destinations. Polish Airports Vol 1 gives you just that type of opportunity if you're one of those pilots that like to stick to familiar territory. With this offering from Drzewiecki Design you get three airports; Katowice Pyrowice (EPKT), ...
JustPlanes has released their first High Definition DVD. Air Canada's 777-200LR is covered in this DVD from Toronto to Vancouver and then a round trip from Vancouver to Sydney, Australia. This DVD is a little different for JustPlanes. It's not because it's in HD but because they cover parts of ...
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