The folks at Flying Iron Simulations have updated two of their warbirds for MSFS with an impressive list of features. Let’s have a look! Two warbirds get CFD treatment Microsoft Flight Simulator’s CFD (computational fluid dynamics) flight model is a further update to the sim’s flight model system. CFD in my brief experience with their…
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News round-up for June 11, 2022: MSFS Spit IX, MB-339 start-up, FLIR and more!
Another weekend is here and with it a bunch of flight sim news that I didn’t get to report on through the week. As usual there are updates all over the place. Flying Iron Simulations updated their Spitfire to version 1.2.1, IndiaFoxtEcho has done a DCS: MB-339 start-up training video, RedKite compares old and new…
Flying Iron introduces major update for MSFS Spitfire Mark IX
It feels like ages ago when I reviewed Flying Iron Simulations Spitfire IX for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Since that time, the team over there have been busy introducing a series of updates for the aircraft and this latest version has quite a list. Major update The news starts off with word that the team at…
Flying Iron Simulations provides early 2022 update on DCS: A-7, MSFS projects
The folks at Flying Iron Simulations are busy working on a series of projects for DCS World and Microsoft Flight Simulator and they have just provided a status update on their work. Let’s dig into it and see what they have been up to! The A-7E Corsair II There’s great news coming from the team…
Flying Iron Simulations provide DCS: A-7E Corsair II Q4 dev update
The Q4 developer update from Flying Iron Simulations is a juicy one coming packed with new details about their ongoing DCS project as well as laying out their next steps which will bring the A-7 closer to that all important initial release. Let’s see how the project is panning out! Corsair II begins to take…
Review of the Spitfire IX from Flying Iron Simulations for MSFS
The first of the warbirds are arriving in Microsoft Flight Simulator and Flying Iron Simulations’ Spitfire IX is the first payware warbird to be released for the sim. Being first doesn’t always mean being the best, but from outside appearances it looks like Flying Iron Simulations have put their prior warbird expertise in other simulations…
Flight Journal: A first look at Flying Iron Simulation’s Spitfire IX for MSFS
I’m no stranger to the Spitfire. My bookshelf is overflowing with books about the legendary British fighter. That, together with what is surely thousands of hours of flight sim time over the years on various versions of the Spitfire from the days of Aces Over Europe in the early 1990’s to the most modern renditions…
FlyingIron’s Spitfire IX for MSFS is now available
Aircraft developer FlyingIron has experience developing aircraft for multiple flight simulators with Spitfire IX, P-38L, P-47N and Grob G109B for X-Plane 11, an in-development A-7 for DCS World, and now a Spitfire IX for Microsoft Flight Simulator. As of today, their Spitfire IX for MSFS has been released. Here are the details! Features FlyingIron already…
FlyingIron updates on latest DCS: A-7 model, texture, EFM work
There’s a growing collection of Cold War era jet aircraft being worked on by third party developers including Flying Iron Simulations who have just posted new updates on their developer blog. Much of the update is focused on three areas of progress including the 3D model, early texturing efforts, their flight model efforts, and a…
Flying Iron provides an update on their DCS: A-7E Corsair II module
Flying Iron Simulations doesn’t often post but when they do its often filled with information on what they are working on and what they are doing next. In this latest update we see the high detail A-7 3D model that they are doing along with some status updates on the various aspects of the A-7…
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