Archive for November, 2008

FSX PITTS S-2B ON SALE NOW ! !

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

The Pitts Special is a light aerobatic biplane designed by Curtis Pitts. It has accumulated many competition wins since its first flight in 1944. The Pitts Special dominated world aerobatic competition in the 1960s and 1970s and, even today, remains a potent competition aircraft in the lower categories.Aerotek-built S-2B with a 260 hp (194 kW) Lycoming AEIO-540-D4A5 engine, and upper wing auxiliary fuel tank, the landing gear and upper wings were moved forward six inches, 196 built.

FSX / FSX-SP1-SP2/ FSX-Acceleration
Product Features:
FSX NATIVE SDK MODEL
New highly detailed model
Stunning dynamic virtual cockpit, complete with standard FsX features
New fully animated vintage Pilot
Specular reflectivity (dinamic shine)
Mini panel and virtual cockpiT with pop-ups for GPS and throttle lever
Customized engine sounds
Paintkit included
10 skins
1 Airshow scenery
3 flights
Virtual cockpit fully clickable
All appropriate FsX features and animations included
Documents with Installation tutorial

On sale now at the new Icarusgold Store:
Pitts S-2B at Icarusgold Store

Popularity: 100%

Xstreme prototypes major update to X-15-2/3 package

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

 

Xtreme Prototypes is proud to announce the release of version 1.1 of its X-15-2/3 add-on rocket aircraft package for Microsoft® Flight Simulator X and FS2004, featuring four fully functional 3D virtual cockpits, an automatic ignition sequence, new X-15 custom sounds, 10 new camera definitions for FSX, basic MH-96 autopilot modes (X-15-3) and 12 saved flights based on actual X-15 missions.

Available now at SIMNETWORK MARKET

X-15-2/3 FOR FLIGHT SIMULATOR WITH FULLY FUNCTIONAL VIRTUAL COCKPITS

Popularity: 88%

Blind pilot guided to land by RAF

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

A pilot who suddenly went blind while flying his plane at 5,500ft (1,676m) was guided in to land by an RAF plane.

A plane was scrambled from the RAF base at Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire to help stricken pilot Jim O’Neill, 65.

He was flying a two-seater Cessna aircraft from Glasgow Prestwick Airport to Colchester, Essex, when he suffered a stroke and lost his sight….

You can read the rest on this news here
BBC NEWS

Popularity: 84%

FSX VIDEO TUTORIAL

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

We have added to our video section here

http://www.simnetwork.com/SIMNETWORK/infusions/the_kroax/kroax.php

some interesting “HOW TO” videos about FSX, they resolve many situation with FSX…just click the link and visit, more videos will be added every weeks.

Popularity: 94%

Flight One Software Previews Ultimate Traffic II

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

From Flight One Software’s Website:

Flight One Software is excited to preview user interface pictures of our upcoming Ultimate Traffic II product, as well as provide a free Ultimate Traffic II Traffic Viewer utility that you can download to get a touch of what Ultimate Traffic II is all about.

Ultimate Traffic II is the next-generation version of Flight1’s popular air traffic simulator for Flight Simulator. This version will be for FSX, and will provide real-world airline traffic schedules that will be followed by the AI traffic in FSX. We wanted to give you a little preview of the upcoming product interface. Please note that these are beta pictures, and things can change between now and release. We can say that UTII has been in beta testing for some weeks now.

More informations here

Popularity: 52%