The next helicopter in the CowanSim hangar has been released for Microsoft Flight Simulator. This time its the Airbus H125 (previously named AS350B3e). Let’s have a look! H125 ready to fly Released to the CowanSim.com website, the H125 follows on from the previously released 500E and 206B3 that CowanSim has previously released. Updates are expected…
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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…
SimWorks Studios provides update on RV-10, RV-14, and PC-12
A new weekend update from the folks at SimWorks Studios is out. This time they are talking about their recently released RV-10, fixes for the RV-14 and a status update on the PC-12. Let’s have a look! The RV update Next week, SWS will be releasing a patch for the RV-10 to bring a few…
Aircraft review of the DHC-4 Caribou for MSFS
Orbx and Asobo Studio have come together to offer us a new local legend: the DHC-4 Caribou. I was really excited to try out this aircraft, I couldn’t resist its Canadian roots after all, but unfortunately it didn’t quite meet my expectations in some ways. Let’s get into it! A bit of history Following the…
JustFlight and Black Square release analogue Bonanza for MSFS
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…
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…
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…
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…
Next generation head tracking? Tobii Eye Tracker 5 full review!
For a long time now I’ve contended that we’re living in a golden age of flight simulation. We’ve seen the hobby explode in multiple different directions over the last decade picking up from the last golden age and heading outwards into all kinds of different directions. Technologies that we’ve long taken for granted are seeing…
Stormbirds 