Asobo and the Microsoft Flight Simulator team have to be lauded for ensuring that we have a steady supply of relatively inexpensive aircraft available to purchase in the marketplace. Even better, they have done a great job of covering a wide variety of types and giving us a whole lot of aviation history all at…
Tag: An-2
Flight Journal: Talkeetna to Denali in the An-2
In preparing my review of the recently released An-2 for Microsoft Flight Simulator, I’ve taken the aircraft out to several different locations putting the type through its paces and getting a good close feel for the airplane. For this flight journal I took the ski equipped variant out on a beautifully scenic flight north of…
MSFS Sim Update 12 has arrived, An-2 released, WASM for Xbox and An-225 update!
We have a bumper crop of news coming our way today for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The release of Sim Update 12 is a significant shift for the sim that brings WASM support for Xbox players and opens the door to more complex modules on that platform. Meanwhile the An-2 has released to the marketplace and…
An overview of the MSFS February Q&A stream
Hosted yesterday and made available for replay today, Microsoft and Asobo held their first Developer Stream of 2023. It packed in a ton of news and information about the sim itself as well as content that is coming down the pipeline. Content including the New Zealand World Update, the AN-2 and DHC-4, as well as…
News round-up for April 17th
There’s been a lot of news this week and here’s the bite sized round-up of everything that I saw come up this week that I haven’t already covered. From a new An-2 bi-plane for MSFS, a new DCS: MiG-17F project, to the official stable release of FlyByWire’s A32nx v0.6, there’s a lot happening. Here are…
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