I’ll admit to having initially dismissed the work that Black Square had done for Microsoft Flight Simulator. It looked like a paid mod of an aircraft that was already available when they brought out the analogue control King Air last year but I was very wrong about the level of detail that’s gone into their…
JustFlight shows off F28 Professional systems with new video
Posted several days ago, JustFlight have released a new video showing off the details of some of the systems onboard their Fokker F28 Friendship airliner that they are currently preparing for release to Microsoft Flight Simulator. Bleed Air and Air Conditioning The update is focused on some of the start-up procedures that involve bringing on…
Flight Sim Expo announces 50+ exhibitors
The organizers of Flight Sim Expo 2023 have announced the slate of exhibitors at the upcoming show and it’s a long list of some of the best known names in flight simulation. Let’s check it out! Exhibitors you know, or might want to know Being hosted this year at the Lone Star Flight Museum in…
Rounding-up DCS community experiences with multi-threading
We’re not quite 24-hours into the DCS World open beta release that features multi-threading but its kicked up a ton of content from community and content creators and I wanted to highlight some of the responses – most of them are extremely positive but I’ve sought to highlight some challenges too. I also have my…
Fly out of the infamous UKKM Hostomel airport in MSFS
Scenery maker GazSim have a new release on the Orbx store featuring the now infamous UKKM Antonov-2 (Hostomel) airport. It looks like a great pairing with the recently released An-225 for Microsoft Flight Simulator so let’s have a look. Hostomel and the home of An-225 Known both as Antonov-2 and the Hostomel airport, UKKM is…
DCS multi-threading is here! Plus a ton of other updates!
Every so often we have these big moments in flight simming that set products off on a new course. This might be one of those moments that is potentially as big as some of the point releases for DCS World in the past. This time around its the initial introduction to multi-threading and the potential…
MSFS update: WASM, live stream date, and more!
Some weekly updates from the Microsoft Flight Simulator team come and go without much comment as they are essentially short status checks as of late, however, this one from yesterday (March 9) had quite a bit packed into it worthy of note including some big updates coming for Xbox fans, a new developer livestream, Discovery…
Polychop shows off OH-58D video
DCS World third party developers Polychop have just released a 10-minute video showing off the current state of the DCS: OH-58D Kiowa Warrior. Let’s have a look! A work in progress The OH-58D worked its way into a few different sections of the DCS World 2023 and Beyond video release at the start of the…
DCS: Hornet in 2023 full review
In the years since Eagle Dynamics released the DCS: F/A-18C Hornet, I’ve never actually written a full review of the aircraft and I thought it was long past due that I close that gap. Now that they have put most (though not quite all) of the finishing touches on the jet I figure early 2023…
Flight sim news round-up for March 4, 2023: F-15, X-Plane Ford-class, Freedom Fox price, more!
Here we are at it again rounding-up the news from the last several days with some of the stories that I haven’t yet written about. That includes lots of detailed looks at DCS: F-15E Strike Eagle, a price reduction for the Freedom Fox and Fox 2 from Parallel 42, and more! X-Plane’s Ford Class gets…
Stormbirds 