Vol.2 Issue 8 September 2019

Your Free digital Flight Simulation magazine

2 Welcome once again. Flight Sim Show 2019 in Cosford, UK will be a two day event for the first time, which should increase attendance. This year it is dedicated to the late Bob Sidwick, who will be sadly missed. I will be there as a visitor on the Saturday only and I’m looking forward to taking my time to wander around and enjoy the exhibitors and presentations.

Microsoft recently hosted a ‘Microsoft Flight Simulator Global Preview Event’ on FS2020. You can watch two reports on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkMoZkGhIog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ppN8HjZGk You can also read a report, which includes 4K screenshots at: https://flyawaysimulation.com/news/4953/#heading01

Published by In this issue we have two reviews; the A220 Series Pack (FSX) and The PC Pilots Ireland LEAL Alicante Airport (P3D). John McNeely looks forward to the coming dark season with ’Winter is Coming’. If you would like to try something novel pcpilotsireland.com aviation related in the real world, have look page 47.

Contributors The next issue is due December 2019. Terry McGee Terry McGee [email protected]

Ian Broni [email protected]

John Melville [email protected]

John McNeely [email protected]

Brian Church [email protected]

Aerosoft www.flightsimshow.com www.aerosoft.com

Simmarket www.simmarket.com

X-Plained.com www.x-plained.com

Contents: Page Flight Sim 2019 advert 2 Flightsim Apps 29 Editorial 3 Plane Talking 30 Front Cover 4 Freeware Focus FSX & P3D 35 Arrivals (New Products) 5 Freeware Focus FS2004 39 Cockpit Hardware 17 Freeware Focus X-Plane 42 Winter is Coming 20 Aviation Gallery 47 Airbus A220 Series Pack 21 NOTAMs 48 LEAL - Alicante Airport 24 Aerosoft Advert 49

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By Fanzahn Aviation Studios www.fangzahn-productions.com

Greek Island Zakynthos Airport scenery features: PBR Textures. Dynamic Lighting. Airport Clutter. Static A321. 3D Grass. 3D Ditches. 2 Compatibility Modes. Basic custom houses and vegetation around the airport (in Photo Scenery Mode). Landclass correction.

Two Compatibility Modes: Orbx Mode Default: This changes the colours to match Orbx Global Base, it also in- cludes a landclass file to improve rendering of the surroundings. Photo Mode for Realworld Scenery Greece: This changes the colours to match Realworld Scenery Greece. You can of course use any other photo scenery but RWS is recommended. The Activator Tool activates the scenery via the XML method and copies some important files into the simulator folder. It also installs a custom GSX file for the airport.

4 Arrivals 1011 Captain II and passengers. The Yak-12A is a dows and dynamic light on head- From Captain Sim conventional monoplane with metal lights. Night lighting in the restau- www.captainsim.net braced high-wing, metal and can- rant. Optimal adaptation to Swit- vas covered fuselage, four-seats zerland professional P3D V4 and cabin, fixed landing gear with tail ORBX. wheel. Wing fitted with flaps and automatic slats. Single nine- B-45 Tornado cylinder, four-stroke, air-cooled, From Virtavia petrol-powered radial engine AI- www.simmarket.com 14R. Two-blade propeller. Fea- tures: All materials with HD specu- Captain Sim is proud to introduce lar, bump and reflection maps. 5 the new generation of the award- different liveries. Custom sounds winning ‘1011 Captain’ series: the effects for switches, knobs, levers. ‘1011 CAPTAIN II’ family of expan- Detailed and completely custom sions for Prepar3D 4..4+ The 1011 animated VC. Windshield and family includes the following two gauges reflections. Volumetric side products: 1011 BASE PACK. 1011 view prop effect. Authentic totally FREIGHTER EXPANSION. The key 3D gauges and avionics systems. product of the 1011 CAPTAIN II Accurate flight dynamics. PDF User Boeing B-45 Tornado for P3Dv3,4 & family is the 1011 BASE PACK Guide. For use on FSX and P3dv2/ 4.5. Although the design for North which delivers highly detailed and v3. American Aviation's B-45 originated accurate digital replica of the L- during WWII, the arrival of the Tor- 1011 airplane wearing retro Cap- nado in 1948 held the distinction of tain Sim House livery. Cockpit: Airport Birrfeld professional becoming the first purpose-built Functional flight deck loaded with From FlyLogic all-jet bomber in the world fitted accurate systems simulation. Ad- www.aerosoft.com with four jet engines. Features: justable flood lights New! Panels’ Two model variations with seven backlight independent from the detailed hi-res texture sets: 47th flood lights New! WXR. Improved BW, RAF Sculthorpe, England. CIVA New! Hundreds of realistic 3200th PTG. 422nd BS, Langley animations. High resolution tex- AFB, VA. 91st SRG, Barksdale AFB, tures. Aux 2D panels. Custom LA. 91st SRG, Lockbourne AFB, OH. views. Exterior: Cabin with win- 91st SRG, RAF Sculthorpe, Eng- dows, interior, pax, stewardess and land. Royal Air Force (Black Ops), pilots. Hundreds of realistic anima- RAF Sculthorpe, England. Opti- tions including wing flex. Custom With its close proximity to Zurich mised for P3D. Both B-45A bomber visual effects including volumetric and Aargau, the Birrfeld airfield is and RB-45C reconnaissance vari- lighting New! Misc Features: Fuel one of the most important Actors of ants included. Virtual cockpit with and payload manager New! Au- the "General Aviation" in Switzer- gauges and controls. Both bomber thentic engines sound set. ACE land. When creating the scenery, and recon have unique FDE's (flight (Aircraft Configuration Editor) New! the designer has not only on the dynamics/fuel etc tailored to air- Growing number of easily installa- airfield itself concentrated, but also craft). Seven stunning reflective ble free liveries. Extensive Manual. modelled the surrounding area. The metal 2048-pixel texture sets with

closeness to reality is thanks the custom spec and bump maps. Two Air Yak-12A large equipment of 3D objects, very high quality native FSX mod- From Air Design Bureau many small aircraft and the ani- els. Bomber version has 1000lb www.simmarket.com mated car traffic on approach to free-fall bomb loadout (bombs not the 08 or 26 excellently done. Fea- droppable). Animated opening tures Birrfeld P3D V4.x: Adaptation bombay doors, crew hatches and of scenery to P3D V4.x. Conversion ladder. togglable realistic crew fig- of all buildings, objects and floor ures with full harnesses and period layout. Updating the floor layout, flight gear. Virtual cockpit includes extended asphalt surfaces, rear seat with gauges and controls, changed hold-lineNew markings on walkway and bomb aimer position the grass , etc. Demolition spaces. Illustrated user manual in of old hangar and new construction PDF format. High quality soundset "Maintenance Hangar" and "Hangar by Sonic Solutions. PhotoShop This is last generation of widely 7". Supplementing the vegetation. paintkit files provided. Note: NO 2D produced soviet light multirole Site-specific 3D objects in the panel is provided. Note: installs to STOL aircraft that was introduced course area like the industrial area C: Program Files (x86) Virtavia by in late 1957 with numerous in the area West (ALSTOM, Antalis) default (path can be changed if re- changes which led to improved for more realistic approach and de- quired), so files need to be moved/ aerodynamic performances and parture. Night lighting in some win- copied to P3D. better level of comfort for the crew

5 Buenos Aires Ezeiza Saez side view prop effect. Takeoff run sula of the Greek island of Crete, From Tropicalsim and landing real rolling movement serving the city of Chania, 14 kilo- www.simmarket.com effect. Custom brakes sounds on metres (8.7 mi) from the airport. It taxi and landing run. Features: is the sixth busiest airport in Original autopilot installed. HD Greece. Features: Fully compatible quality textures (4096 x 4096). with FTX Global openLC Real S330 sounds. Customizable Europe. Shading and occlusion panel for controlling windows (texture baking) effects on terminal transparency, instrument reflec- and other airport buildings. Ground tions and static elements such as polygons made with the require- wheel chocks and sights props. ments of the SDK Prepad3D. Dy- Ministro Pistarini International Air- Real behaviour compared to the namic lighting of the apron. High port (Spanish: Aeropuerto Interna- real airplane. Real weight and bal- resolution ground textures / Cus- cional de Ezeiza Ministro Pistarini) ance. Tested by real pilots. Realis- tom runway textures. High resolu- (IATA: EZE, ICAO: SAEZ) is located tic night lights effects on panel and tion building textures. Many ani- 22 km (14 mi) south-southwest of cockpit. NOTE: This aircraft does mated custom ground vehicles. Buenos Aires the capital of Argen- not have a 2D panel. *Flight1 GTN Surrounding area with custom tina. The airport covers an area of 750 and Reality XP GTN 750 are autogen. Fully AI traffic compatible 3,475 ha (8,587 acres) and is oper- sold separately. Requirements: with accurate AFCAD file.Excellent ated by Aeropuertos Argentina FSX, FSX SE, P3Dv4/v3. night effects. 3D birds. 3D grass. 2000 S.A. Features: Highly detailed Optimized for excellent perform- rendition of Ministro Pistarini Intl' ance. Fully 3d taxiways lighting. Airport - Ezeiza, Buenos Aires Complete Automatic season change for vege- SAEZ. Optional SODE animated From PrealSoft tation, photobackground high reso- jetways. Includes the new www.simmarket.com lution. Realistic reflections on Aerolineas Argentinas Hangar 5 glass. Inclusion of manual in PDF complex. Featuring the brand new format. control tower. Specular maps on glass terminals. Semi-transparent glass on jetways. Full night illumi- DHC-3T Turbo Otter for XP11 nation. 103km² of photoscenery From Milviz with full custom autogen. Photo- www.simmarket.com scenery features full night illumina- tion and seasonal variations. Cus- Mohammed V International Air- tom animated cars on highway for port is an FS9 version. Stock animated cars serving Casablanca, . Lo- on highway and airport adjacent cated in Nouaceur Province. The roads for FSX version. Compatible airport serves as hub for Royal Air with add-on AI traffic. FSX version Maroc, Jetairfly, compatible with default and add-on and RAM Express. It is named after FSX scenery. P3D version compati- King Mohammed V of Morocco. ble with default and add-on P3D Main features Version 1.1: Highly scenery. Usage of FSX SDK for the detailed rendition of Casablanca An Iconic Bushplane now with PT6A FSX version for best performance. Mohammed V Airport GMMN. Power! Building on our experience Usage of Prepar3d SDK for the P3D Photoreal map of Casablanca city with our award winning DHC-2, version for best performance. In- GIS Data 0.5m/px. High resolution DHC-3, and DHC-3T for P3D, Milviz stallers will detect sim location and textures. 3D Grass. Autogen has partnered with vFlyteAir, to add the scenery.cfg entry for FSX, (Houses and trees). Customized 3D bring the renowned DHC-3T Turbo FSX:SE, P3Dv1, P3Dv2, P3Dv3 & Buildings. Optimized for best fram- Otter to XP11. Our turbine- P3Dv4. erates. Animated Jetways (SODE engined Otter provides a nuanced module). Misc objects, vehicles. flight model that closely replicates Carenado S330 Windows reflections. 3D Streets the real deal with top-notch model- From Carenado lights. Requires Prepar3D v4 to ling and textures, and a ton of con- www.carenado.com V4.5. figurable options! Key features:

Buttery smooth engine starts. Chania International Airport Highly authentic beta range sound From JustSim effects. Propeller wash sound ef- www.simmarket.com fects. Squealing brakes. Stall buf- feting. Audible cockpit controls (switches, levers, etc.). 3D sound positioning. Realistic distance at- tenuation. Custom weather sound Special Features: Version 1.0. Full effects. Rain & Ice effects: Included FSX, FSX-STEAM, P3D v4.4 (and is an implementation of Saso up) compatible. Flight1 GTN 750 Kiselkov's rain & ice effects. and Reality XP GTN 750* integra- Chania International Airport tion. Dynamic cockpit animations. "Daskalogiannis" (LGSA) is an in- Sequence Startup Procedure. Cold ternational airport located near and Dark start option. Volumetric Souda Bay on the Akrotiri penin-

6 EGNX East Midlands Airport Graciosa LPGR 2019 port. It is located about 5 km east From orbx From Tropicalsim of the main city centre www.orbxdirect.com www.simmarket.com of Heraklion, near the municipality of Nea Alikarnassos. It is a shared civil/military facility. Features: Fully compatible with FTX Global openLC Europe. Shading and occlusion (texture baking) effects on terminal and other airport buildings. Ground The Archipelago of the Azores is polygons were compiled using SDK composed of nine volcanic islands 4.4-PBR materials use. 3D models situated in the middle of the North now use PBR materials (SDK 4.4). Atlantic Ocean. The Portuguese Dynamic lighting of the apron. High EGNX East Midlands Airport is an archipelago is located about 1,500 resolution ground textures / Cus- international airport in the East km (930 mi) west from Lisbon and tom runway textures. High resolu- Midlands of England, close to Cas- about 3,900 km (2,400 mi) east tion building textures. Custom tle Donington, Leicestershire, be- from the east coast of North Amer- models of buildings and hotels on tween Loughborough, Derby, and ica. There are nine major Azorean the coastline. Many animated cus- Nottingham with Leicester 20 miles islands and an islet cluster, in three tom ground vehicles. Surrounding to the south. The airfield was origi- main groups. Graciosa Airport is area with custom autogen. Custom nally built as a Royal Air Force sta- located north of the island and ser- restaurants and hotels on the tion known as RAF Castle Doning- viced by SATA Air Açores which coastal line of the sea. Fully AI ton in 1943, before being redevel- operates daily fights to Lajes and traffic compatible with accurate oped as a civilian airport in 1965. Ponta Delgada. Features: Highly AFCAD file. Excellent night effects. EGNX for X-Plane 11 is a stunning detailed Graciosa Airport / LPGR. 3D birds. 3D grass. Optimized for addition to any UK scenery collec- Photoscenery surrounding the air- excellent performance. Fully 3d tion. Fully integrated with port area with night lighting and taxiways lighting. Automatic sea- TrueEarth GB South, this PBR ren- full autogen. 3-Arc terrain mesh. son change for vegetation, photo- dition of East Midlands Airport fea- Coastline remade for the whole background high resolution. Realis- tures high resolution buildings, a island. Custom landclass and tic reflections on glass. fleet of static aircraft, custom mod- roads. Full night illumination. Dy- eled cars and trucks, and HDR namic Lighting on Prepar3d v4 ver- FA50 EX for XP11 night lighting. Features: An immer- sion. Optional 3D Lights. Optional From Carenado sive rendition of EGNX East Mid- 3D Grass within airport islands and www.carenado.com lands airport including the race taxiways/runways. P3D v2/v3/v4 track west to the airport and addi- native materials custom ground tional POIs. Accurate ground ser- option. Wet ground surface effect vice cars using in the airport- buses for P3Dv2/v3/v4 (via native custom (both airport and public shuttles), ground). Compatible with add-on fire fighters, gpu and more. 2k high AI traffic. Compatible with other regulation buildings. Full PBR inte- third-party sceneries. FSX version gration with ortho (mainly as- compatible with default and add-on phalt), buildings, vehicles, ground FSX scenery. P3D version compati- Features in Version 1.1: High-end texture, etc. Interior modelling on ble with default and add-on P3D 4k PBR (Physically-based Render- the tower and the terminal. In ad- scenery. Usage of FSX SDK for the ing) graphics throughout, with ul- dition, the tower and the terminals FSX version for best performance. tra-realistic materials rendition are reflective and transparent. Re- Usage of Prepar3d SDK for the P3D (Dynamic reflections, realistic alistic static aircraft with the follow- version for best performance. In- metal and dielectric materials, ing liveries: DHL, Flybe, Thomas stallers will detect sim location and etc.). Fully customized in-depth Cook, Jet2 and . Animated add the scenery.cfg entry for FSX, annunciator logic/aural warning fire-fighter truck will go from the FSX:SE, P3Dv1, P3Dv2, P3Dv3 & logic/throttle logic with functioning station to the practice area every P3Dv4. Upgrade offer available. latches. Optimized for VR. Custom 20min. There is also a race on the Proline21 avionics system, all fea- racing track every 20 min (active Heraklion Intl. Airport from 08:00-22:00). The airport turing detachable pop-up windows. From JustSim shuttles (skyline buses) also drive Integrated FMS with detachable www.simmarket.com along the airport area. Stunning pop-up window (Laminar default). custom HDR night lighting. Dense Custom Autopilot with detachable 3D grass with minimum pop-up window. Rain effect sup- FPS impact. Incredibly detailed port*. In-depth FMOD sound de- special effects: Wind turbines and sign implementation, including dis- the smoke coming out of chimneys tance effects, realistic turbine re- react to the wind speed and direc- versal effects, etc. RealityXP tion. Ortho of 25cm/pix GTN750 support (with 3D panel which blend smoothly and seam- Heraklion International Airport display support). Custom electrical lessly with TrueEarth GB South. "Nikos Kazantzakis" (ICAO: LGIR) system/Starter Logic/Fuel System/ Royal Air Force museum is in- is the primary airport on Bleed Air System/Avionics busses/ cluded .Custom ground poly. the island of Crete, Greece, and the Hydraulic Logic. Extensive VR sup- Unique trucks, cars and other vehi- country's second busiest air- port. Extensive HDR lighting with cles feature in the airport. port after Athens International Air- gimballed 3D lights and dynami- 7 cally illuminated ice lights for ments. Complete 5 seasonal vari- territory. It is the wildest and the amazing night lighting effects. In- ants. Advanced autogen annotation one located farther north. In 1993 cludes pressurization and oxygen using the latest techniques. Exqui- Menorca was declared by UNESCO system. End-user customizable via site modelling utilizing advanced as a biosphere reserve, due to the Manifest.json file. Goodway com- materials and texturing. Animated great Mediterranean landscapes patible. Engine design optimized vehicles, GSE and PeopleFlow. and the species of animals and for XP11.30’s jet engine model. Stunning night lighting. Huge ex- plants found exclusively on the is- Support for “librain” plugin tended coverage area far beyond land, some of which are in danger (Requires separate plugin install). primary zone. Major of extinction. Menorca Airport is Librain support also includes visual suitable up to B747/A380 size air- mainly a tourist airport with a large ice effects on windows. Included in craft. Expertly optimized for best number of charter flights, has con- the package: 6 HD liveries. 1 HD performance. Designed to blend nections to the Balearic Islands, Blank livery. FA50 Emergency Pro- seamlessly with Orbx Global Base. the rest of the peninsula and also cedures PDF. FA50 Normal Proce- By acclaimed developers Rasha connectivity with European coun- dures PDF. FA50 Performance Ta- Tucakov and Misha Cajic. tries especially during the summer bles PDF. FA50 Reference PDF. RTU months. Scenery includes the inter- Manual PDF. Carenado Proline 21 Lubbock for Aerofly FS 2 national airport of Menorca (LEMH), Manual PDF. X-Plane FMS PDF. From L2S the Mahón aeroclub (LESL) and the Recommended Settings XP11 PDF. www.simmarket.com Heliport of the Matéu Orfila Univer- sity Hospital, attached to the urban LYBE Belgrade Nikola Tesla nucleus of the city of Mahón. Air- Airport P3Dv4 ports are highly detailed and opti- mized for high performance. Air- From orbx port designed to be adapted to the www.orbxdirect.com SpainUHDMesh terrain mesh that you can download for free here and with possible voluntary donation to the creators. www.spainuhd.es Welcome to Lubbock for Aerofly FS 2. Lubbock is the 11th-most popu- Mexico City Airport for XP11 lous city in the state of Texas and From Dreamflight Studios the county seat of Lubbock County. www.simmarket.com With a population of 256,042 in 2015, the city is also the 83rd- Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport is one most populous in the United of the fastest growing airports in States. The city is in the north- Europe - as the gateway to a city western part of the state, a region growing quickly in popularity known historically and geographi- amongst tourists, it receives a cally as the Llano Estacado, and huge amount of scheduled and ecologically is part of the southern charter airline traffic. We have end of the High Plains, lying at the modelled the entire airport in su- economic centre of the Lubbock perb detail using extensive real- metropolitan area. This scenery Mexico City International Airport world photography, including inte- includes 60cm/px photoscenery for (Benito Juárez International Air- rior modelling throughout the en- Lubbock and the surrounding area port) (IATA: MEX, ICAO: MMMX) is tire terminal building, making sure as well as a 10m resolution mesh. an international airport that serves you have an immersive experience There is also cultivation for Lub- Greater Mexico City. It is Mexico's no matter which gate you start bock based on the latest Open- and Latin America's busiest airport your flight at. Beyond the airport, StreetMap Data as well as night by passenger traffic and aircraft we’ve included a comprehensive lighting. There are no airports in movements. This airport is served CityScene, covering the majority of this package but you can head over by 30 domestic and international the Belgrade metro area in exqui- to fscloudport.com for their excel- passenger airlines and 17 cargo site detail - with hundreds of POIs, lent range of freeware airports. carriers. As the main hub for Mex- apartment blocks, bridges and ico's largest airline Aeroméxico landmarks modelled in high detail, Menorca Airport for XP11 (with Aeroméxico Connect), the this is one of our most detailed and From menorcaXP airport has become a SkyTeam realistic cities to date. We have www.simmarket.com hub. It is also a hub for Aeromar, created all of this with the latest Interjet, Volaris, and a focus city P3Dv4 native technologies and op- for VivaAerobus. Features: Highly timizations, making sure that you detailed objects and vehicles. High can fly here with even the most quality ground textures. Realistic resource intensive aircraft. Key Airport Surroundings. Custom City Features: Complete UHD rendition Buildings. Realistic runway/taxiway of Belgrade Airport & CityScene. lights. High resolution building tex- Animated SODE Jetways. Enormous tures. Realistic night effects. PBR PR coverage area at 50cm resolu- textures. Water puddles. World tion. Superbly crafted terminal with Menorca is one of the Balearic Is- Traffic 3 compatible. Sam compati- interior modelling. Hundreds of lands, located in the Mediterranean ble (Plugin Required). FPS friendly. custom POI, bridges and apart- Sea that belongs to the Spanish

8 Miami V5 patibility for the most popular avi- mated cars on highways and adja- From LatinVFR onics add-ons with multiple con- cent roads. Hand-placed stock www.simmarket.com figurations available to choose landclass around the airport. In- from. Compatible 3rd party avion- staller automatically activates the ics include the following (purchased addon in Prepar3D. Compiled with separately): Flight1 750 GTN, the latest v4 and v3 SDKs for opti- Flight1 650 GTN, Reality XP 530 mal performance. GNS, Reality XP 430 GNS, Navstax Radio/Navigation Suite. All func- Chicago O’Hare Version 2 tions and characteristics emulate From FSDreamteam the real-world classic turbine down www.simmarket.com to a tee. If you have experienced one in real life you will recognise The major US airport of Florida the distinctive start up, and the gets a wider coverage area of its way power, sounds, temperature surroundings. Many enhancements and internal pressures are all me- are also visible in the airport itself, ticulously co-ordinated. such as; PBR textures on the P3D4 native apron, on the buildings and Oakland International Airport for the new jetways too. LatinVFR From Cloudberry Sim Miami V5 for p3dv4.4x features: www.simmarket.com KMIA airport all buildings objects Chicago O'Hare V2 is an entirely and ground polygons made from new version of our popular Chicago native PBR materials. Surroundings scenery, fully remade from the of KMIA, and over 200 square kilo- ground up as a native Prepar3D V4 meters of photo scenery coverage. scenery, designed from scratch for City buildings, covering Miami PBR, to achieve the most realistic Beach from Bay Harbor to Key Bis- looking representation of this air- cayne with custom made PBR port to date. Features: The up- buildings. SODE animated PBR jet- dated airport layout from 2019. A ways for the best jetway animation true fully native scenery, designed possible. SODE controlled lighting, Oakland International Airport for from the ground up for Prepar3D automatically illuminating when low P3Dv4/v3 features the following: 4.4+. Fully designed for PBR, with visibility and rain conditions. SODE Complete airport built from scratch advanced materials and shaders. controlled rain effects, enabling wet with custom buildings, handcrafted. Complete Dynamic Lighting, opti- PBR surfaces whenever rain is pre- textures, photorealistic ground, and mized for speed. Completely made sent. Custom animated airport ve- hand-placed vegetation and ob- using the P3D4 SDK. Highly de- hicles. Special slippery condition for jects. Includes the expanded inter- tailed SODE Jetways. Working in- runways that would affect braking national arrivals building and the formation panels on gates. Highly action whenever it is raining. And new control. tower, and removes detailed Terminal C interior in Ava- much more. If you previously pur- the old demolished control tower. tar mode. Animated passengers chased LatinVFR – Miami Interna- Realistic parallel runway use by AI inside the terminal, visible from the tional Airport V4 FSX at simmarket, traffic, with the north runways used cockpit. Many animated custom you are entitled to the special up- by GA and the south runway by ground vehicles. Fully 3d taxiways grade price. airliners. Compatible with third- lighting. Intensive use of LOD tech- party AI traffic and includes realis- niques in order to offer the best PC-6 Turbo-Porter tic parking designations (illustrated possible performances. High reso- From Minviz in the screenshots). Compatible lution building textures. A special www.aerosoft.com with both default Prepar3D and FTX upgrade price is available for previ- Global, Vector and Open LC as well ous version owners. as other Bay Area airports such as Flightbeam KSFO. Not compatible Obstacles & VFR Landmarks— with FTX Northern California. 3D France bridges. 3D grass. 30 cm/pixel From France VFR photoscenery with realistic night www.aerosoft.com illumination. Custom taxiway, run- www.justflight.com way and apron textures and layout. Highly detailed static jetways that can easily be disabled for those All straight lines and right-angles, that wish to add a substitute with no concession to conventional (sample 'ini' file for GSX jetways aeroplane aesthetics, a first im- included). Custom approach light- pression leaves no doubt that the ing and 3D taxi lights. Realistic Porter is here to haul. A simple and parked cargo vehicles. Realistic rugged utility aircraft, the original night textures. Configuration tool concept has been proven by over that allows you to easily disable or 50 years of uninterrupted produc- enable the jetways, 3D grass, Obstacles and VFR Landmarks - tion. Milviz presents the PC-6 parked vehicles or cargo pallets. FRANCE" is an add-on for Laminar Turbo-Porter for P3D V4. For the Custom peripheral buildings around Research® X-Plane® that covers PC-6 Porter, we've bundled in com- the airport perimeter. Stock ani- 9 the entire French territory and adds GSX Level 2 Jetways (Optional). tom mesh by Maps2Xplane, while more than 500 000 obstacles and PBR Terminal (P3Dv4.4 Optional). the Paderborn region is covered by VFR landmarks objects, including an extended orthophoto. Features: almost all the obstacles officially PA-28R Turbo Arrow III/IV for Highly detailed replica of the air- identified by the SIA (Aeronautical Aerofly FS 2 port and its surroundings incl. re- Information Service), which have gional objects. Extended ortho- From Just Flight been qualified and geo-referenced. photo covering Paderborn and Del- www.justflight.com The product is designed to be com- brück City (optional). Custom Mesh patible with all types of overlays by Maps2Xplane incl. Ortho4XP including Simheaven overlay com- patch. PBR ground textures. Realis- plements. More than 4000 obsta- tic HDR lighting. HD hand placed cles identified by SIA including: vegetation. Winter version 1,000 radio and television anten- (optional). TerraMAXX seasons nas, telecommunications towers. (optional). Animated jetways/ 1,000 microwave towers and tele- marshaller (SAM Plugin required). com transmitters. 200 cooling tow- Custom animated approach lights ers, smokestacks and flares. 1,500 (SAM Plugin required). Animated water towers. 90 lighthouses. wind turbines (SAM Plugin re- Following on from the award- Churches. Thermal and nuclear quired). Animated apron vehicles. winning versions for Prepar3D and power plants. Obstacles and land- Custom static aircraft. Optimized X-Plane, this highly detailed simu- marks included: 450,000 power for FlyAgi Global Trees. lation of the PA-28R Turbo Arrow towers with red/white markings in III and Arrow IV now comes to the vicinity of airports, represent- AeroflyFS 2.The PA-28R Turbo Ar- PMDG 737 NGX Reboot Voice ing virtually all High Voltage and row III and Arrow IV are four & Button Control Extra High Voltage networks. 3,000 seater, turbocharged piston-engine From FS2Crew HV substations. 7,500 windmills. aircraft equipped with a retractable www.simmarket.com 65,000 churches, cathedrals, basili- tricycle landing gear and constant- cas, chapels and religious build- speed propeller – ideal for touring ings55,000 agricultural green- and instrument training. Just house. 23,000 castles. 11,000 wa- Flight's Turbo Arrow III/IV collec- ter towers. 5,000 agricultural silos. tion for Aerofly FS 2 includes five 12,000 industrial tanks. 14,000 paint schemes for each model and antennas. 3,500 lifts/cable car. boasts a functional IFR-capable

avionics fit in the virtual cockpits Bahrain International Airport which is complete with an Autocon- From MFSG trol IIIB autopilot unit. The electri- www.simmarket.com cal and fuel systems are custom- FS2Crew: PMDG 737 NGX Reboot coded and among the other fea- Edition for P3D V4. Without a tures are functioning alternate air doubt, the PMDG 737 NGX is and static source controls, realistic probably the most popular FS ad- landing gear system with emer- don aircraft add-on in FS history. gency release, accurate flight dy- To celebrate this, FS2Crew decided namics, different interior colour to completely overhaul its old schemes for each model, an au- FS2Crew NGX product to bring it thentic TSS sound set and HD tex- up to latest standards. This is by tures throughout. far the most sophisticated and ad- Bahrain International Airport vanced FS2Crew we've ever cre- (IATA: BAH, ICAO: OBBI) is located Paderborn XP ated. Nothing compares to this! in Muharraq, an island about 7 km From Stairport Sceneries With over three years worth of ad- northeast of the capital Manama. It www.aerosoft.com vancements over the legacy ver- serves as the hub for the national sion, Reboot truly represents the carrier Gulf Air. The airport is cur- new standard in airline crew simu- rently undergoing a $1.1 billion lations. Features: Three brand new expansion that will boost the air- airline specific SOPs in one pack- port's passenger capacity to 14 age. Each SOP set (Standard Oper- million per year by 2019. Features: ating Procedure) was designed and Highly detailed Bahrain Interna- tested by an active, real-world 737 tional Airport with New Terminal. pilot for maximum realism. Note: Ground Options: 1) Bahrain Photo- Button control is limited to a single real Terrain. 2) Groundpoly over Explore the home airport of Aero- SOP. Emergency NGX! functionality ORBX Global Vector (without soft in XPlane 11 with Paderborn (€24.95 value). Emergency NGX! photoreal terrain). Autogen trees XP! Since its foundation in 1991, adds many non-normal (failures) only over photoreal terrain. Airport Aerosoft has its headquarters right scenarios from the Boeing 737 QRH Groundpoly. FS2004 / FSX / P3D next to the airport, and for many to FS2Crew, such as engine failures version compatible with default years, it also hosted the German and various other systems scenery and ORBX Global Vector. Flight Sim Conference. The scenery faults. Works with Voice Control Compatible with add-on AI traffic. features a highly detailed recrea- only. Brand new 'FMC' style user Static vehicle. Dynamic Light tion of the airport and surroundings interface. Multiple configuration P3Dv4 (optional). Static Jetways / with regional objects using a cus- options. Over 3500 new sound

10 files! An FS2Crew first - Single En- the natural environment of rainy trols. Super Smooth Gear anima- gine Taxi! FA interaction. Cabin and stormy days to be more realis- tion. Detailed Thrust reversers with announcements and Captain Pas. tic. It has been developed using Blocker Door animations. Entry/ Works out of the box with FSPas- real sounds that were recorded, Service/Cargo Doors with CORRECT sengers with no panel.cfg edits re- digitally processed and adapted to animation (controllable by the quired. External ground/air cart be compatible with Microsoft Flight Qualitywings Controlpanel®). Real- handling. Multiple departure and Simulator 2004, FSX and Prepar3D. istic Nose Wheel SteeringAPU Door approach configurations and pro- They are in high-definition format (opens only when APU is running). files modelled. Turn-arounds/Thru- of 48000 KHz and 16 bits. Its in- Outflow Valves and RAM Air inlets. Flights. stallation is very easy and it is AOA Sensor. Wheel Chocks. Realis- done by the installer of the prod- tic Flight Model. Developed based Real New Zealand NZCH/ uct. We include installation manual on real Level-D Simulators and Christchurch P3D in both English and Spanish. mWe tested by real life Pilots. All Sounds always update our products. Our Exclusively Recorded from B757 From Godzone VF products are the result of an excel- Aircraft. www.simmarket.com lent digital editing work of high quality and adaptation with which it Self-Loading Cargo is intended to achieve the highest From Lanilogic Technology possible realism in aerial simula- Solutions tion. https://slc.lanilogic.com

The Ultimate 757 Collection From Flight1 www.flight1.com Christchurch International Airport (NZCH) is the main South Island airport, the second-biggest in New Zealand after Auckland. This scen- ery includes a large area of photo- scenery depicting the city of Christ- church, and a large section of Can- terbury between the Ashley and Rakaia rivers, including Banks Pen- insula. Features: Custom-built, QualityWings Simulations - The photographically textured Christ- Ultimate 757 Collection for Pre- church International Airport. Works par3D v4 (64-bit). Looking for a with and without Orbx NZSI. fun Entry level 757 for your han- Approx 7,000 square kilometres of gar? The Ultimate 757 Collection is photoscenery, at least 1.2 metre/ the most extensive 757 Package Self-Loading Cargo (SLC) for P3D, pixel. Christchurch City at 60cm/ ever created for Lockheed Martin's FSX, FS2004 and X-Plane simulates px. Christchurch International Air- Prepar3D. There is truly something each passenger on your aircraft port at 7cm/px. Animated jetways, for everyone. Every 757 ever to individually - so every decision or controlled by SODE. Prepar3d v4 come off the line from Boeing has action you make affects each per- version includes dynamic lights on been reproduced for your enjoy- son individually. In real life some the tarmac etc. 5 metre elevation ment. And with Lower to Mid-Level people are more anxious than oth- data for much of the photoscenery systems programming, we've sim- ers, and equally some people are area. 1 metre elevation data for plified the simming experience happier than others. They can be the airport and surrounds. GSX 'ini' while providing you the look and happy and anxious, or sad and file included to add GSX features to feel that makes the 757 such a chilled out. Or somewhere right the gates, including visual guidance special and fun airplane to fly. down the middle. If something systems. Approx 2.34GB download. Choose between 15 highly accurate goes wrong, or a passenger gets and detailed models. All variants frustrated, their happiness and Realistic Thunder Sound are available with and without anxiety levels at that point in time Winglets. Key Features: Excep- will be used to determine their re- From Vielcon Designs tional attention to detail and typical action to whatever is happening. www.simmarket.com characteristics of the B757. Over This ensures that no flight is the 100 realistic Animations, includ- same! And just as in real life, you ing:. Shock Strut Compression with could be the best pilot in the world realistic animated bogey tilt behav- - but some people will still find rea- iour, controlled by XML. Realistic son to complain. Welcome to Self- XML controlled Wingflex, reacting Loading Cargo. The Personality to turbulences. Realistic XML con- Simulator. Right from the off your trolled Flap system including simu- flight rating is determined using lated Flap Relief System. Realistic the passengers individual person- XML controlled Slat system includ- alities and feelings as a guide - Realistic Thunder Sound is a high- ing Auto Slat feature. XML con- they'll react to events on the quality sound package that im- trolled Flight/Ground Spoilers. XML ground, things you do while flying proves the sound effects of thunder controlled rudder (locks at low and how well you land - right up and lightning which completely re- speeds). All primary Flight Con- until they leave. places the default sounds. It allows

11 Airport Geneva XP building and some in the surround- real-world data. Optional custom From Aerosoft ing area. Custom platform and cus- night textures. All water areas are www.aerosoft.com tom vehicles. Custom lighting run- fully landable in an appropriate air- way. 3D light mast lighting and craft. Numerous additional custom lights on taxiing. Glass effect win- scenery objects and adjusted de- dows of buildings airport and vehi- fault landmark objects. Compatible cles. Road traffic. Large landclass. with third party airport sceneries. Colour landclass made for the col- our gamut FTX ORBX GLOBAL VFR Real Scenery NexGen 3D World textures + ORBX openLC Vol.3 Northern England Europe. Dynamic lighting in P3Dv4. From Just Flight Optional: Dynamic reflection www.justflight.com glasses in P3Dv3, P3Dv4. Atten- 4 km north of the city of Geneva tion: Scenery uses the module lies the second largest airport of "SODE" for the following objects : Switzerland from which you can fly grass. Screenshots made using FTX to 123 destinations all over the ORBX GLOBAL + Orbx FTX Trees world. With Airport Geneva this HD. Requirements: FSX, P3Dv3, international hub now finds its way P3Dv4. to XPlane 11. The detailed scenery with terminals T1 and T2 features a VFR Real Scenery NexGen 3D complete taxiway network which England & Wales Collection can be used by ATC and AI aircraft. From Just Flight The third volume in Just Flight's The surroundings of the airport are www.justflight.com new series of UK photographic rendered in high resolution and scenery for P3D and FSX uses the come with glass and pavement re- very latest 25cm and 50cm aerial flections, volumetric grass and images at 1.2m ‘in sim’ resolution, ground service vehicles. Completed rising to 60cm around airports, and by the road network with animated combines these high-resolution vehicles, they help bring this scen- photographic textures with accu- ery to life. The add-on is also com- rately placed Autogen objects and patible with World Traffic v3 and X- additional custom scenery objects Life v4. Features: Ortho imagery to give a true 3D feel to your VFR with resolution of 0.30 m. Custom flights. Features include multiple terrain mesh with 5.0 m planar & simulator support from a single 0.05 m altimetric resolution. SAM The new England & Wales collection installation, ultra-high 5m elevation passenger boarding bridges, Safe- includes all the content from the mesh, optional custom night tex- dock A-VDGSs and marshallers. first three volumes of Just Flight's tures, compatibility with third party Complete taxiway route network UK photographic scenery for P3D airport sceneries and water areas for use by ATC and AI aircraft. Na- and FSX: Vol. 1: Southern England which are all fully landable. A Scen- tive XPlane 11 ground service vehi- & South Wales. Vol. 2: Central ery Manager gives you full control cles with ground route network. England & North Wales. Vol. 3: over the scenery options and up- Static aircraft toggled on/off by the Northern England. Features in- dates are automatically installed. “Draw Parked Aircraft” checkbox. clude: Frame rate friendly - the Because the display of photo- Glass and pavement reflections. display of photo textures and indi- graphic textures and individually Volumetric grass. Road network vidually placed autogen objects is placed autogen objects is more with animated cars. World Traffic more efficient than the generic tile- efficient than the generic tile-based v3 and X-Life v4 compatibility. based system used in default scen- system used in the default P3D/

ery, so the performance of your FSX scenery, you should even no- Brindisi Papola Casale simulator(s) will actually improve tice a slight performance boost too! From RFscenerybuilding with NexGen 3D scenery! Multiple www.simmarket.com simulator support - the scenery can Thessaloniki X-Plane 11 be active in all your supported From FlyTampa simulators at the same time using www.flytampa.com a single installation. The included Scenery Manager lets you adjust scenery options and activate/ deactivate the scenery in individual simulators. Automatic updates as new or expanded data becomes Brindisi airport (ICAO:LIBR) available. 25cm/50cm aerial photos Thessaloniki Makedonia (LGTS) (Italian:Aeroporto di Brindisi), also taken from the very latest data Airport, Greece, for X-Plane 11 fea- known as Papola Casale Airport or available used as source imagery. tures the following: Complete city Aeroporto del Salento, is located in 1.2m/pixel general texture resolu- add-on with custom mesh, vegeta- southern Italy. It is so called be- tion (60cm/pixel around airports tion and lighting. Full city coverage cause it is located three kilometers and specific points of interest). 5m with custom buildings and land- north of the beautiful and pictur- (ultra-high) elevation mesh resolu- marks. Sloped airport terrain. Ani- esque Italian port city Papola tion. Comprehensive 3D autogen mated apron vehicles, road and Casole. Features: Custom airport coverage, accurately placed from ship traffic. PBR materials.

12 St. Johns P3Dv4 photo around the airport. Compati- High resolution custom textures. From Grand Island Sim ble with Orbx. Manual autogen po- Lighting of ramp textures. GSX www.simmarket.com sitioning. Customized floor textures ready. People and Grass 3D. Excel- with excellent details. High resolu- lent ground service objects. Cars tion custom textures. Lighting of with movement in approaches and ramp textures. GSX ready. Impor- surroundings Airport. tant visual references (Tamitango pueblo e Iglesia, Matituy pueblo e Chania International Airport Iglesia, Antenas). Facade New Air- ‘Daskalogiannia’ X-Plane 11 port Concession 2019. Update Ac- From JustSim cording Aerocivil, ILS, RNAV. Scen- www.simmarket.com ery tested and highly optimized for frame rates. FSX version also avail- St Johns is a small airport with able. plenty to offer. Two airlines fly nar- row bodies across the Atlantic with Soekarno Hatta the airport being closer to London From BinerSim that it is to Vancouver. YYT is also www.simmarket.com home to offshore helicopters, the Canadian air force and many air- Chania International Airport lines operating to the small airfields "Daskalogiannis" (IATA: CHQ, in and around Newfoundland. The ICAO: LGSA) is located near Souda Scenery features an updated Lay- Bay on the Akrotiri peninsula of the out, SODE Jetways, seasonal Greek island of Crete, serving the ground textures, and a modelled city of Chania, 14 kilometres (8.7 surrounding area, including the mi) away. The airport is named tourist helipad south of the airport. after Daskalogiannis, a Cretan re- Other features include: Updated bel against Ottoman rule in the ground charts. Winter overlay for Many months of meticulous re- 18th century and is a joint civil– the apron and taxiways. Terminal search and development went into military airport. It is the sixth busi- and Helicopter Hangar interior this product. The final result is a est airport in Greece. Features: (Optional). Custom runway and faithful, "as real as it gets" recrea- Detailed airport objects and vehi- approach lighting. tion of the real world Soekarno- cles. Custom textured on taxiways, Hatta International Airport, Tanger- runways and apron. Custom sur- La Nubia Airport - Manizales ang, Banten - the main gateway to roundings. Custom autogen for the whole island. Custom airport lights. From SimDesignsco Jakarta and Indonesia as a whole. Compatible with X-Plane 11 fea- www.simmarket.com Features: Detailed recreation of WIII. Custom made taxiway signs tures. Shading and occlusion and taxiway lights. Dynamic lights (texture baking) effects on terminal (P3D v4 only). SODE Jetways. Cus- and other airport buildings. High tom ground polygon. Custom auto- resolution ground textures / Cus- gen and objects for surrounding tom runway textures. High resolu- area. tion building textures. Excellent night effects. Realistic reflections Guillermo Leon Valencia on glass. World Traffic compatible. X-Life traffic compatible. Optimized Airport - Popayan for excellent performance. Requires From SimDesignsco La Nubia National Airport (IATA X-Plane 11.35+ www.simmarket.com code: MZL, ICAO code: SKMZ) is located in Manizales, Colombia. It Bremen XP has a runway of a reduced length From FSDG which prevents it from landing www.simmarket.com large airplanes. It is listed as one of the most risky airports in Colom- bia due to its constant climate change. Features: Photo real tex- tures. New Terminal. Excellent Track with Slope. Update According to Aerocivil Letter. Terminal with Guillermo León is waiting rooms. Scenario Updated to an airport serving Popayán, the 2019 with visual references (Cross capital city of the Cauca Depart- on Sarcancio Hill, Soccer Stadium). ment in Colombia. It is located next FSDG's most detailed scenery Bre- Colombia Custom Objects. Exten- to the land transport terminal and men is now available for XPlane 11. sion of the apron with new parking a short distance from the city cen- Features: Fully accurate rendition areas. Static Traffic. Excellent Set- tre. Features: Photo real textures. of Bremen Hans Koschnick Airport ting and real photo contour to the Excellent real photo around the and surroundings (EDDW). Out- Airport. Contains improved track airport. New facade 2019. Manual standing level of detail with fully updated to 2019. People and 3D autogen positioning. Customized customized airport vehicles and Grass. Hangars with static Aircraft. floor textures with excellent details. Objects in Platform. Excellent real facilities. High resolution aerial im- 13 agery and ground textures. Opti- 2W3 Swanson Airport XP-11 great day out. So treat yourself to mized for great performance and From orbx some great VFR flying in this beau- visual quality. Working jetways www.orbxdirect.com tiful part of England! Features: Im- (SAM plugin needed). Realistic CAT agery at 15 cm and 60 cm per II/III lighting. Dynamic apron ob- pixel. Custom modelled vehicles. jects. Various animations (SAM Custom modelled airport. Sur- plugin required) including animated rounded by large dense forests and Tram, approach lights, jetways, beautiful green fields. Blends marshaller. XP11 technology with seamlessly into TrueEarth GB PBR ground materials and en- South for P3D v4 and X-Plane 11. hanced lighting. AI traffic routes Custom ground poly areas. and flows. Winter version (optional). TerraMAXX seasonal Swanson Airport is a quaint and London City Airport P3D4 textures (optional). Compatible unique airfield with residents living From orbx with Ortho4XP. Manual included. in their houses on both sides of the www.orbxdirect.com NOTE: In order to use the airport runway, some of them with private you need to install the free SAM- hangars and aircraft. What a life- Plugin. style! We have painstakingly recre- ated Swanson Airport based on PA-38 Tomahawk XP11 actual photos taken onsite as well From Just Flight as from a helicopter visit and fly- www.justflight.com past. Using superb 60cm region and 15cm airfield digital imagery, we have brought Swanson Airport to life for X-Plane 11 down to the smallest detail. Key Features: London City Airport comes to life 60cm and 15cm per pixel. Airport for Prepar3Dv4! Located a stone's and houses modelled. 3D modelled throw away from Canary Wharf and groundpoly incl. runway and the financial heart of the city, Lon- aprons. Photoreal coverage incl. don City Airport is one of the last Just Flight, in partnership with Lake Ohop. Custom modelled static remaining true inner-city airfields. Thranda Design, are proud to pre- aircraft. Based on actual on-site With one of the the most exciting sent the PA-38 Tomahawk for X- photos. Entire town of Eatonville is approaches in Great Britain, flying Plane 11. The PA-38 Tomahawk is modelled. Seamless integration into EGLC takes you over the iconic a two-seater, piston-engine aircraft with TrueEarth US Washington. centre of downtown London. Com- equipped with a fixed tricycle land- Also available for FSX/P3D. bining the latest P3D PBR technol- ing gear, 112hp four-cylinder en- ogy, alongside other advanced fea- gine and fixed-pitch propeller – an EGHA Compton Abbas Airfield tures such as material scripting, ideal aircraft for touring and flight From orbx EGLC brings this famous location to training. This new addition to our www.orbxdirect.com life in amazing detail and is the expanding GA fleet for X-Plane 11 first complete PBR airport for comes in ten paint schemes and P3Dv4. This is perfect for the infa- features PBR materials with real- mous weather of London as London time environment reflections and City Airport features dynamic HD textures for the highest possi- ground textures that react to rain ble texture clarity. The Tomahawk and other adverse weather condi- is our most detailed GA model yet, tions. Designed to blend seamlessly featuring numerous animations with *TrueEarth Great Britain right down to a vibrating ignition South, the airport's coverage in- key and fully adjustable cockpit air EGHA Compton Abbas is situated cludes many important short-finals vents. Among the many authentic 800 ft above sea level, 2.7 nautical landmarks such as the Tate & Lyle features are a comprehensive IFR- miles south of Shaftesbury, Dorset, Sugar Factory and ExCeL Exhibition capable avionics fit, custom-coded England. Sitting on top of the hills centre. Of course, we have ensured electrical and fuel systems, dedi- of the village Compton Abbas, this that the product also works cated interactive engine pop-up airfield has some spectacular views (though not seasonally blended) window, functioning carburettor across some beautiful landscape with Global Base or Orbx EU Eng- and primer controls, Flight Com- and the developers have captured land (LC Region) if this better suits puter panel and a custom Weight these picturesque surroundings your simming experience. *Note: a and Balance Manager window. perfectly. It is in an area of coun- patch for TrueEarth GB South is Other features include dimmable tryside which is deemed by the UK currently in the works to improve cockpit lighting, exterior sounds government to be an Area of Out- general performance in the London spilling into the cockpit when win- standing Natural Beauty. Compton area. Key Features: The first com- dow or doors are opened, interac- Abbas is known as being one of the plete PBR airport for Prepar3Dv4! tive checklists, simulated vapour friendliest and most picturesque Immaculate HD textures through- lock and spark plug fouling, realis- airfields in the UK. This reputation out. Dynamic PBR groundpoly that tic flight dynamics and an authentic makes it a popular retreat for eve- reacts to weather and time of day. sound set generated using X- ryone; from pilots, students learn- Incredibly detailed GSE and static Plane's state-of-the-art FMOD ing to fly and general members of aircraft. Coverage area includes sound system. the public who are looking for a major landmarks on short finals.

14 60cm PR colour-matched to excellent terminal facilities, avia- Dimmable instrument lighting. TrueEarth Great Britain South. tion fuelling and a variety of air- Cockpit textures feature wear and Beautiful dynamic lighting. De- craft maintenance and related ser- tear based on reference photos signed to blend best with TrueEarth vices, including qualified flight in- taken in the real aircraft to produce Great Britain South, also works struction. Featuring exquisite de- an authentic environment. Com- with Orbx Global Base or EU Eng- tails around the airport including patibility: FSX, FSX: Steam Edition, land. Developed by the Turbulent custom modelled vehicles, tractors, P3D v4, P3D v3, P3D v2, P3D v1. Design team. refuelling stations and much more, the scenery also offers a massive, Cityscape Honolulu P3D4 GMMX Marrakech Menara tightly annotated photoreal area From orbx International Airport P3D4 with seamless integration with www.orbxdirect.com TrueEarth US Washington. We have From Mex Hight Flight also included custom animated www.simmarket.com traffic as well as custom trucks at the nearby truck testing facility. Key Features: 115sq km of anno- tated scenery. Samish and Pandilla Bay mudflats. Custom made ground polygon. Bonus WN51 Bay- view Farm Airstrip. Seamlessly in- tegrates with TrueEarth US Wash- ington. High level of object detail. Covering the entire Hawaiian island Custom animated traffic. Custom Menara Airport is an of Oahu, Cityscape Honolulu brings trucks at the nearby testing facility. international airport serving Mar- to life this stunning tropical location This version is for X-Plane 11. Also rakesh, the capital city of the Mar- with impeccable quality. From the available for FSX/P3D. rakesh-Safi region in Morocco. It postcard locations of Diamond serves several European flights as Head and Waikiki, to Pearl Harbour well as flights from Casablanca and PA-38 Tomahawk FSX/P3D and Ford Island; from bustling some of the nations. From Just Flight Downtown to suburban Pearl City, The airport served over 5.2 million www.justflight.com the entire Honolulu metro area is passengers in 2018. Features: modelled in unparalleled custom Carefully detailed 3d objects. Full detail. Far more than a regular Ci- detail Buildings. Realistic Ground tyscape, Honolulu includes a host Markings. Photoreal Background of of details and features. 20,000 the airport and airport near area unique custom buildings, hand- covered with autogen. Numerous placed vegetation, 60+ high-detail static objects. Autogen over Photo- POI (with complete PBR), road traf- scenery. Realistic AFCAD. Realistic fic, bridges, night lighting hand- ground textures. Night Lightning. coloured photoreal are just the Animal animations. Friendly Frame start. Key Features: A complete Rate. Compatibility with GSX, The PA-38 Tomahawk is a two- Cityscape and Mini-Region covering ORBX Base, FTX Gobal Vector. We seater, piston-engine aircraft Honolulu and the entire island of recommend addons from orbx, es- equipped with a fixed tricycle land- Oahu. Ultra-HD photorealistic de- pecially HD trees and Africa free ing gear, 112hp four-cylinder en- piction of Honolulu, Waikiki, Pearl Photoreal scenery. gine and fixed-pitch propeller – an Harbour and Pearl City. All eight ideal aircraft for touring and flight Oahu airports have been upgraded KBVS Skagit Regional Airport training. PBR materials (requires from default to "region standard". P3D v4.4 or later) and exception- Mixture of photoreal and custom From orbx ally detailed modelling throughout landclass textures for best balance. www.orbxdirect.com raise our Tomahawk to a whole High-quality mesh, based on high- new level. Every instrument is con- resolution LIDAR. Complete re- structed fully in 3D with smooth placement of all geodata for Oahu animations and systems include a for a much more detailed and accu- custom-coded electrical system rate landscape; shorelines, lakes, with functional circuit breakers, road/rail, traffic etc. 23,000 unique optional failures and functioning custom buildings Detailed depiction carburettor heat and primer. Ten of Pearl Harbour with all museums paint schemes are provided and and relevant historical sites. Excep- the Tomahawk features an authen- tionally detailed hand-placed vege- tic Lycoming O-235 sound set, ac- tation using local flora types. All Situated several miles west of Bur- curate flight dynamics and provi- vertical obstructions on the island; lington, KBVS offers stunning views sion for Flight1 GTN and GNS inte- wind turbines, antennae, power from the pattern of the surrounding gration. In the cockpit you’ll find a grid towers, chimneys. Stunning Skagit Valley, the Cascade Moun- truly 3D virtual cockpit right down night lighting, including dynamic tains to the east and the San Juan to accurately modelled seat belts and 3D lighting. Exhaustively opti- Islands to the west. This popular and screw heads - every instru- mized for best performance using general aviation facility serves a ment is constructed fully in 3D with unique modelling and texturing variety of users, including business, smooth animations. Authentic fuel techniques. >1500 sq km of stun- commercial and recreational avia- and RPM gauge needle 'wobble'. ning tropical terrain. tion. Available on the airfield are

15 Ultimate Ground Crew X and clarity. This pack includes: 512 Shenzhen Bao’an Intl. Airport From FS2Crew and 1024 texture options for all 3D From WF Scenery Studio www.fs2crew.com models and autogen. 2048 textures www.simmarket.com for the TerraFlora trees. Enhanced replacement and additional 3D buildings for the Seattle urban air- ports, designed to enhance the XP11 Gateway airports. A control panel so you can toggle between SD, HD and UHD textures. Bonus WA56 Israel's Farm Private Strip. Shenzhen Bao'an International Air- We recommend a PC with an i5/i7/ port (formerly Shenzhen Huangtian The most exciting, powerful and i9 class CPU clocked to at least Airport) (ICAO: ZGSZ) is the air- feature rich Ground Crew program 4.6GHz or higher and an Nvidia port serving the city of for FSX and P3D v4 is now avail- 1080 class GPU with at least 11GB Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, able! Experience the differ- OF VRAM to use the 1024 and 2048 China. It is located on the east ence! Experience something new! textures with good FPS. NOTE: bank of the Pearl River near UGCX is a long-term project that Does NOT include higher resolution Huangtian and Fuyong villages in will be frequently updated and en- ground orthoimagery, only autogen Bao'an District and is 32 km (20 hanced. Main Features: Realistic and 3D model textures. It does not mi) northwest of the city centre. It airport operations with advanced, change your HD or SD Washington is a hub for Shenzhen Airlines and never before seen User Options. ground textures at all. Shenzhen Donghai Airlines and for Voice Control and Menu Control cargo airline SF Airlines and is a interface options. Multi Language PA-38 Tomahawk Support (Menus and Voice Control) focus city for China Southern Air- From Just Flight Works with 99.9 percent of all air- lines and Hainan Airlines. It is one www.justflight.com ports and airplanes (default and of the three largest airport hubs payware) out of the box. Works serving the Pearl River Delta, side-by-side with GSX if you want alongside Hong Kong International to use GSX Catering vehicles and Airport and Guangzhou Baiyun In- animated passengers. Home cock- ternational Airport. Features: Rain pit support. Events can be trig- ground reflection. Animated Jet- gered via joystick buttons, when ways (Sode Jetways). Dynamic combined with Voice control you Lights. Manually planed vehicles in never need to touch your key- airport (animated vehicles).PBR board! Ground Support Services: Textures. Low visibility Runway Lights. Manually placed plants. Real Pushback (with Advanced Pushback The PA-38 Tomahawk is a two- Ground Markings. Requires Pre- Options). Engine Start at Stand seater, piston-engine aircraft par3d V4.5. (Pushback not required - Ideal for equipped with a fixed tricycle land-

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19 As I write, the leaves on the trees are starting to turn and the warm days of summer are waning. Summer is a hard time on flight simmers. The long days, garden- ing chores, holidays etc. can all lead to a falloff in your virtual flying.

But this winter will be different with many new en- hancements to our hobby. The biggest news in a dec- and vehicles and fully reflective static aircraft make up ade was the announcement of Microsoft Flight Simula- an awesome package. Its heavy on the fps but the art- tor 2020. This took everyone by surprise to put it work is really outstanding. Shooting an approach over mildly. When they disbanded the Aces team years ago, the City of Westminster is a challenge with the 5 De- we all thought well, that is it as far as Microsoft are gree Glideslope. I have to go there one day to see for concerned. They partially sold the FSX rights to Dove- myself. Speaking of Orbx, I see that TrueEarth Ireland tail Games and the ESP to Lockheed Martin. Both com- is still a way off. Recent discussion on their forum has panies brought the platform into the 64bit era but yielded nothing yet for the foreseeable. Dovetail legged it out of the arena a short time ago. MS then reacquired the rights from Dovetail Games These past months I have been looking at several and very quietly started developing MSFS2020. The flight sim related websites and I must say that the fo- first screenshots and videos are awesome. But beware rums on many are fairly vitriolic. Yes, we can get an- of slick teasers and marketing. In fairness to MS they noyed that a purchased product is missing some fea- say they are listening and taking note from the various ture or doesn’t display correctly but the level of abuse forums. Over the coming months we will no doubt see beggars belief. It’s a hobby for heaven’s sake! I for more screenshots beautifully shot to whet our appe- one am happy I don’t develop add-ons. This autumn I tites. They have stated that it will be using Bing satel- will be buying a new monitor. Having a 4K capable lite imagery and Azure AI and will be PC and Xbox ca- graphics card I will be on the hunt for a 28 to 30 inch pable. Will it be an old fashioned full download? I screen with a 1 millisecond response time. We will see doubt it very much. I suspect it will be streamed as a how that goes. service. How much this will cost and what delivery will be like will determine its market dominance. Each winter I set myself a flight sim related task and this winter I fancy on learning the G1000. The glass Hardcore simmers, while welcoming an updated MSFS cockpit is the way of the future and I have never really version are a fickle lot. When Microsoft dumped us the fully studied all its capabilities. I know the basics but I last time, it left a bitter taste. P3D and XP11 have want to take it to the next level. ‘Tis a small project to been the main players now for quite some time and keep the brain ticking over. are not going away anytime soon. People have in- vested heavily in these sims and will wait to see if So the coming months should be interesting to say the MSFS is the holy grail. Laminar Research has just an- least. I suspect that Microsoft may release MSFS2020 nounced that the Vulkan graphic rendering engine before Christmas as traditionally the name bears no works with complex 3rd party add-ons like the Toliss relation to the release year. For example FS2004 was A319. The standard for years was OpenGL but its limi- let loose in 2003, FS98 in late 1997. How others re- tations are near and end. Aerofly has been using Vul- spond to and play into all this will be fascinating. I kan now for over a year and runs without issue. can’t wait!

I bought Orbx London City (EGLC), the first full PBR John McNeely ¢ airport for XP11. The P3D version is now available. The rain on the runway, the reflections on the buildings

20 Airbus A220 Series Pack

As you have most likely read in our magazine. I informed Terry of rean, Swiss and Tanzanian. The aviation bulletins recently Airbus my intensions and the download reviews on the simMarket were and Bombardier have joined forces link was made available to me to mixed with the developers claiming to continue to produce the old C install in my FSX sim. The that the product was developed series Bombardier aircraft under a download process is straightfor- with friendly frames and low cost a partnership agreement. The old C- ward and two folders are created in priority. So what more to do only 100 and C-300 have been renamed the airplane folder of sim objects. start up FSX and get on with the the A220-100 and A220-300. Another folder is placed into the review. These aircraft expand the Airbus main sound folder. The two main single-aisle family to cover the folders take up a combined space I set up the A220 –100 in Dublin. 100-150 seat segment and respond of about 1127Mb. The sound folder My intention was to take a flight to a worldwide market demand for is 10Mb. The download also in- from Dublin to Cork for review pur- smaller single-aisle jetliners. The cludes a comprehensive 29 page poses. I used the airBaltic model initial A220-100 (CS100) entered manual giving an initial overview of for the review. First impressions service in July 2016 with Swiss the package followed by various from the outside view did not dis- Global Airlines and the initial A220- pages explaining the different as- appoint. The texture quality and 300 (CS300) entered service in pect of the aircraft from overhead attention to detail is superb. Very December 2016 with airBaltic. The panel to setting up a flight plan. aero dynamic lines to the aircraft aircraft are assembled in Canada, Each panel has numbers on the every angle seemed to flow rather however in August 2019 Airbus switches that are in operation. Dis- than at right angles. However, opened a second assembly line for appointingly not all switches are when I switched to the cockpit to the A220 at its facility in Mobile, active. take a detailed look, some of the Alabama. The first finished product set up was not to my liking. I much will roll off the line sometime in Q3 Both the aircraft folders have the prefer the 2D cockpit presentation of 2020, after which it will make its usual subfolders with the series rather than the virtual cockpit. I way to its customer, Delta Air 100 containing two texture subfold- know I may be a bit old school on Lines. ers for Swiss and Delta. The series this but I find the virtual cockpit 300 contains six texture subfolders, too busy at crucial times of the This package, developed by Virtual- Air Canada, Air Baltic, JetBlue, Ko- flight, especially when flying online col and distributed through Sim- market (who supplied the copy for review), is available by direct download costing approx. €26.94. In addition there is as small update available since the original release. The minimum requirements are FSX, FSX Steam and P3D v1 to v4. It comes with both 2D panel and virtual cockpit.

I converted to flying Airbus aircraft many years ago and when I discov- ered that an A220 package was launched, I was eager to take a closer look at it and do a review for

21 into a busy airport. The 2D panel screen or split between this and the plan and the various navigational on this model was very basic and engine gauges. The MFD display aids in the area. It displays as a full you are presented with the basic does show your flightplan and can screen. However, there is a split MCP panel containing the autopilot include a terrain display option if screen option to display the other switches and all the others that you required. The virtual option is much features. For instance if you hit the would expect. That being said the better and straightforward. CHKL button, it will display the overall cockpit is a very modern The PFD gives the usual informa- various check lists beside the map. presentation containing five multi- tion relating to speed, altitude etc. Further if you hit the DATA button, function screens, one of which is on There is a navigational rose at the it will display additional data below the centre pedestal. I have in- bottom of the PFD and displays the map display which includes cluded a photo of the real cockpit with distances from various way- waypoints, distance to waypoints which gives an excellent overview. points. The MFD on the other hand and also your position relative to This also saved me the time of has a variety of valuable informa- the ILS on approach. Hitting the multi adjustments to screen prints tion and each screen contains a circular reload button will bring you in FSX. I used the virtual cockpit main menu as well as sub menus. back to the full screen with the for the review and my flight to The main controls for this are to map. Pressing the SYN button dis- Cork. the left of the autopilot panel. The plays information relating to your various displays can be displayed engines, flaps and fuel quantity The 2D presentation of the PFD on the captain’s side or the first etc. There are further buttons on display is about one third of the officer’s side and also on the ped- this screen giving additional infor- total display. All the detail displays estal. Running briefly through the mation on systems on the aircraft. are pop-up giving you the full switches and starting with MAP. One of the subfolders is info which panel. Likewise the MFD display is This will display the primary map of adds additional switches for the the same. When you do pop-up this the area with or without a terrain doors. There are three buttons re- screen it can be displayed as a full feature. It also displays your flight- lating to the main exit, auxiliary exit and cargo door. When I checked these it seems that all they do is open and close the main exit; not as stated in the manual. There are two other switches on the control panel in relation to TCAS and Weather. Unfortunately they are currently inoperative.

The last two buttons, CNS and FMS, relate to setting up your flightplan. The system defaults to the FSX system for this function. This is where I nearly lost it. I have been using the FMC for both Boeing and Airbus and would consider my- self well up on the use of both but more so on Airbus as this is my current choice of aircraft. I found it so cumbersome that I gave up and

22 went back to the tried and trusted 28 at EIDW for my flight to EICK. VOR to VOR navigation for my As mentioned earlier, I didn’t set flight to Cork. up a flightplan in the FMC but chose to fly using the available The autopilot and radio panel are beacons. I set course from the standard with no surprises. The Dublin VOR and ran up the throt- overhead panel is very detailed; tles. The sound of the engines is however, all buttons knobs and terrific. Climbing out of Dublin I felt switches are explained in the man- that the aircraft was very respon- ual. There are a number of sive and handled well. I switched switches which are inoperative on on the autopilot and headed in the the overhead panel and as men- general direction of Clonmel. The tioned earlier in other display func- decent from FL180 into Cork was tions. This I find unusual in today’s very smooth. I levelled off at about packages, maybe this is price re- 3000ft and switched off the autopi- lated to this product. lot prior to capturing the ILS for runway 35. The aircraft responded Finally, time to check out how the well and performed under manual aircraft flies. I lined up on runway control very well down the ILS leading to a safe landing and a very pleasant flight.

Overall this is a good package for the cost. It’s a little disappointed in some minor points as I mentioned. I will keep the aircraft in my hanger, however, only for fun fly- ing. I feel the FMC system is cum- bersome and the cockpit can be very busy with the numerous pop up screens.

Brian Church ¢

Platform: FSX/FSXSE/P3D v1-4 Cost: €26.94 approx. Developer: Virtualcol Publisher: Virtualcol Available: www.simmarket.com

23 LEAL - Alicante Airport

Developed by PILOT’s FSG of FS 2018. The real-world airport is Atet, and dated back to 1947. Cur- Global Mesh fame (and more), based on quite a straightforward rently there is a single large “New LEAL Alicante Airport for P3D4 plan, but what it lacks in complex- Terminal” of over 3.6 million represents a very welcome addition ity of layout, it makes up for in so- square feet in size, which replaces to commercially available add-ons phisticated and attractive terminal its older terminal 1 and 2 predeces- for that platform. The most recent design, and PILOT’s have gone all sors. I remember from my last preceding version of this airport the way in replicating this to an time passing through, that the produced was that very worthy extreme and painstaking degree in modern terminal is very spacious, rendition for FSX/FS2004 by Eire- the quality and detail of scenery bright, clean and pleasant. The fact sim, as far back as 2010. Although package, as we shall see. LEAL cur- that everything is under one roof there is a great choice of commer- rently handles around 14 million, for the passenger, and not least cial airports available for flying in mostly international passengers, being that the 40 gates (16 with Spain on the P3D4 platform, pro- annually. From Ireland, it is served jetways – SODE operated in the duced by a number of different de- by both Ryanair and Aer Lingus, scenery) are easily reached without velopers, the wait for LEAL has but most passengers originate in extended walks, makes for a pleas- been a long one, and this despite the UK, Germany, The Netherlands ant and comfortable travelling ex- the importance of the airport as the and Scandinavia. The airport is a perience. fifth busiest in Spain. hub for Norwegian, Ryanair, Vuel- ing, Air Nostrum and Evelop Air- The airfield, at 141 ft. elevation, LEAL is in the region of Murcia in lines (which has been running char- has a single 9842ft. east-west run- Southeast Spain on the Costa ters for Norwegian from Dublin to way 10/28 (ILS 110.30), with the Blanca, and is closer to the North North America this year due to the westerly approach coming in over African coast at Algeria (150 miles) 737max problem), and many other the Mediterranean, whilst the east- than Madrid (220 miles). Addition- airlines fly here also from many erly approach (low altitude Alicante ally, it is 100 miles west of Ibiza, European and some more distant ATE VOR DME 114.65 just west of 100 miles South of Valencia, 240 points in Russia and Ukraine. The the 3D approach lights) passes miles from Malaga, just over 300 original airport was known as El over the industrial areas of Elche, miles from Gibraltar, and just over 1000 miles from Dublin, useful per- haps to know when planning your virtual flights. Locally, it is located 5.5 miles southwest of the city of Alicante (modelled in the scenery) and just over 6 miles east of the city of Elche (also modelled), from which the current airport gets its name.

Released earlier this year, this is only the second airport to be mod- elled by this developer, after a highly rated rendition of Almeria (further along the coast towards the Southwest) was released in

24 with higher ground and eventually stalled by default, together with air Going back again to installed files, mountains further out towards the stairs, attendant ground services, the bulk of these (6.88Gb-worth) west. A second (high altitude) VOR and embarking passengers), manu- are located in the P3D4 ALTET ALT 113.80 is located just ally activate parking gates for AI “Ecosystem” folder, within a Pilots south of the field. The general air- airliners if you use them in your sub-folder containing separate air- field layout consists of the runway scenery (by placing the right AF- port and city scenery and texture along the southern half of the com- CAD file in the correct folder loca- files. It is to the airport scenery plex, and the extensive apron (with tion), or manually remove virtual folder here that you need to go to its many remote stands), terminal, people in the scenery that are also move and/or activate/deactivate and associated landside infrastruc- placed by default both inside and the necessary files in order to ture along the northern half of the outside the terminal, careful study make the installed LEAL compatible complex; all-in-all a compact foot- of the instructions in the manual is with Orbx Global Vector or not, de- print. needed. It would have been nice to pending on whether it is on your have had a scenery configurator system or not, and to activate or Installation of the scenery package tool that would automate these deactivate the necessary AFCAD is reasonably straightforward. The slightly tedious tweaks, but that file for AI aircraft using the airport. download zip file is just under being said, the steps are clearly Beginning our assessment of the 3.5Gb and following unpacking, described in the manual and not installed LEAL, my immediate first activation of the Pilots.Setup ex- complicated to follow. The manual impression was how convincingly ecutable is followed by the usual also assures us that the scenery is realistic the photoreal ground tex- prompt for serial number input and fully compatible with FSGlobal tures of the greater and local scen- placement of the scenery files onto mesh and with Orbx FS Global, ery area look. They have a very my hard drive. which I can confirm as I have both “south of Spain” appearance, what installed and there were no con- with various hues of yellow and Within the P3D4 directory, a 16Mb flicts in evidence. Demanding- green in the parched-looking land- PILOTS Software folder is created looking configuration settings are scape both within the airport wherein are located 21 high-quality also recommended, some of which boundary and in the 750 square PDF charts in colour, the scenery looked set to provoke a commen- kilometres of surrounding fields, manual, an uninstall executable, surate decrease in performance hills and countryside. Indeed, a and links to the Pilots website and e.g. ground mesh resolution set to downside for me was that they further LEAL Charts. The brief 8- 2M, Texture resolution to Ultra, make the Orbx landclass Europe page manual covers system re- scenery complexity and autogen beyond the LEAL scenery boundary quirements, installation, and rec- very dense etc. With my default now look noticeably less realistic! ommended settings. There are F22 Raptor aligned for take-off on Another slight downside, is that some nuanced aspects of the in- runway 28 at these recommended there are no seasonal textures in- stallation process that need to be settings (plus Rex Environment cluded, so that parched-scenery read carefully as they relate to how Force, ActiveSky, and AI traffic look is equally in evidence in the to adapt your installed LEAL to the 100%), I was relieved to see that I winter. That being said, the photo- particular setup of your P3D4 plat- had a good frame rate from the scenery scenery and the hand- form such as whether Orbx Global cockpit of 26, but with my PMDG placed 3D scenery layered above is Vector is installed or not. Moreover, 777 loaded this fell somewhat to simply beautiful – including exten- if you prefer to manually make a around 18, though still quite ac- sive variety which is enhanced fur- static Boeing 757 and ATR72 disap- ceptable. ther by inclusion of highways and pear from the scenery (both in- roads, custom autogen trees and

25 buildings, detailed hand-made air car parks in the immediate vi- as well as a variety of dynamic mesh, and good detail of the city of cinity of the airport (the car parks people and static (only) cars and Alicante and its port (e.g. elevated further out do not get the same buses. Look even closer and you castles, train station, sports sta- treatment). Any aerial view down- will see that the bus stop shelters dium, and port infrastructure with wards towards the various building even have very legible bus timeta- docked ferries and reefer vessels). infrastructure roofs reveals abun- bles! An extensive section of the Costa dant and varied gross and subtle Blanca coast adjacent to Alicante is detail including e.g. ventilation and One part of the ground car park in also represented in the scenery. air conditioning units and solar the vicinity of the airport tower in- panels, as well as weathered and cludes a nicely detailed yellow Focussing in on the airport and air- shaded concrete surfaces on the Chipmunk aeroplane and tractor on field proper, the use of high defini- older infrastructure and the curved public display, and this brings us to tion 4K resolution textures is in reflective shapes atop the modern another superb feature of the scen- evidence throughout the scenery. terminal building. ery. The control tower sits atop a Runways, roadways, taxiways, support infrastructure at 270ft and grass and earth surfaces, roofs, The rise and dip of the terminal alongside a twin tower which is building facades etc. look highly approach roads are particularly well very obviously an additional access realistic. Tire skid marks abound on and accurately done, which I think stairwell as the internal staircases the runway touchdown zones and is difficult to achieve given the are well-detailed and visible. Be- centreline, at taxiway turning poorer results we see in some tween the two there are also two points, and in the lead-up to park- other commercial add-ons. Even connecting covered metal gang- ing stands, but are not overdone. more impressive is the 3D multi- ways, and on the topmost, again The airside ground surfaces include storey car park immediately behind also two animated controllers en- asphalt and concrete and these the main terminal; this is one of gaged in conversation. The control look convincingly weathered, worn, the best such representations I room has transparent windows and stained, and in places cracked, as have seen with superb modelling is decked out with all the required you would see in real life. Airside and texturing, including the cap- air traffic control hardware as well ground markings are both accurate ture of depth for example with the as a number of vigilant animated and crisp, and are complimented access ramps disappearing down- controllers. Above the office at the by 3D direction signs. There is also wards to the lower floors from the very top of the structure are vari- very good rendition of the exten- roof. The airport ground-level park- ous communication aerials. This is sive 3D approach lighting at both ing includes a multitude of marked one of the most detailed control ends of the runway. parking spaces which have sun towers you will witness in any add- shades overhead to protect the on scenery and is another major Landside, the ground infrastructure static cars parked here from the plus. of the airport is placed upon a pho- strong rays of the Costa Blanca. toscenery layer but this has been There are lots and lots of road di- Towards the western landside end, beautifully enhanced by the place- rection signs and advertising plac- further high-level details abound ment over this of a complex of tex- ards, lighting pylons and vegeta- including a fuel farm, various ware- tured and marked approach and tion, and at the highly detailed ter- houses, and a compact cargo and access roads both to the terminal minal passenger drop-off points the ground support infrastructure building, between the service infra- details include road markings with (DHL, Swissport, Groundforce). The structure beyond, and on the open- wheelchair spaces and taxi-points cargo terminals landside have de-

26 tailed flat and ramped cargo bays gate in the security fence. The the first instance as well, leading to complete with stained surfaces, closer you look the more you see me not having any jetways at the detailed static trucks, and you’ll (a theme throughout this scenery). remaining gates of the terminal also see painstaking further details building (I am in the process of a such as coloured wheelie bins, As we move back along the south full reinstall of P3D4 but that is an damage to loading bays, and worn apron towards the Alicante main entirely different and ongoing logos and signage. Airside, this in- terminal scenery centre point, we story). As is the consistent theme frastructure is even more detailed pass small Ryanair and Jet2.com of this scenery, the entire apron and includes cargo hold pallets, warehouses, what looks like the and all the airliner gates and infra- stacked wooden pallets, and in one VIP reception area next to the structure are hugely enhanced with location there are even tall card- tower, and then the five-bay west- additional scenery elements includ- board boxes bearing the very clear ern extension of the main terminal. ing multitudes of extremely well- and legible name of a well-known The first of these has a static Jet2 detailed static ground vehicles and real-world producer of electronic 757 in place together with ground equipment of every type, lighting equipment! Lots of static ground equipment, and static and ani- pylons, bollards and cones (some vehicles and equipment are in evi- mated personnel and passengers fallen over), wheel chocks awaiting dence, and at the very western end about – you can manually remove use, the odd tuft of grass peeking of this segment of the airport, the all this as mentioned above, if you through pavement cracks, and scenery developer has placed his prefer to have your animated airlin- warning and direction signs of vari- discrete signature in the form of a ers parking here. None of these ous types. There are also many sign at an elevated point bearing five gates have full jetways, which animated passengers and ground the “Pilots” logo and a number of I hope reflects the fact that they staff, and the outer apron areas large boxes bearing the legend are still under construction and not also include some animated ground “Pilots Alicante” – I wonder what that there is something amiss with traffic. The Lat-Long of each termi- they contain! my SODE jetways. Moreover, when nal parking bay is individually rep- I first installed LEAL I overlooked resented on an elevated screen Nearby and adjacent to taxiway ensuring that SODE was installed in facing parking airliner cockpits. Alpha1 is the fire station, and yes, yet again, the attention to detail is painstaking. It includes the 3D fire- tender garage with several of the vehicles parked partially within, further fire vehicles outside, and a tiny hard-surface fenced-in football field (5-a-side?) to alleviate the boredom of the crews (long may they continue to be bored). Behind the fire station building is a small enclosed wash bay with a sinuous hose left sitting on the ground. In the other direction, a group of Jet2.com airside buses sit parked and just beyond them a yellow 4 x4 security vehicle is on vigil at a 27 Finally, the main terminal itself is a inside and outside, and with a and submitted an unreasonably major success as a work of scenery gathering of solar panels at the large number of these to Terry (!). add-on excellence. Architecturally, centre point of each dome on the This is simply because there are so this has very extensive glass fa- Sunny side. many visual treats in this incredibly cades rendering the interior very highly-detailed airport and environs bright and cheerful. In the scenery, It’s perhaps a worn cliché, and not that it’s very hard to stop the shut- this glass is both reflective and very descriptive of me to say that ter. Performance might be a little transparent, and thoroughly con- night lighting is superb. Except to challenged but only if flying here in vincing. Its interior detail is already say that the transparent terminal a resource-demanding airliner and apparent from outside, and once (especially), apron, and landside if you have for example (as I had inside the extent of this detail be- approach roads and infrastructure during the review) a high density of comes very impressive; animated really do impress well beyond the AI traffic active and a weather gen- passengers walking along wide and ordinary. I can give no better com- eration package activated, together bright floors, seating next to pliment to this aspect of the scen- with all the display sliders set to marked boarding gates (with static ery than to say that if you want to the recommended settings, or passengers seated), shops, bars see what is meant by (and as ad- higher; even under those demand- and eateries of various and well- vertised by the vendor), “Special ing settings I found performance known brands, airline desks, esca- night light shadows textures” and more than satisfying. One other lators, and direction signs of all “Dynamic lights” in P3D4, this observation I would make would be sorts. Adding to the atmosphere scenery shows you how good it to re-state the suggestion for a are the effects of the environ- really can be. scenery configuration tool to ease mental sound package which in- the work of making scenery tweaks clude interior ambient terminal In summing up my impression of and maybe adding/removing ele- sounds. I’m not qualified to de- Pilot’s rendition of Alicante, one of ments corresponding to your hard- scribe the unique-looking architec- the biggest difficulties I had with ware configuration and capabilities. tural design of the huge terminal my review was putting an upper Notwithstanding these points, this roof, suffice to say its complex, limit on the number of screenshots is a scenery that sits very com- multi-domed, and flamboyant both I took; in the end I failed miserably fortably and indisputably in the premier league of the best scenery developers. I hope Pilots continue in their scenery development work and produce even more airports and regions of this superb level of quality.

John Melville ¢

Platform: P3Dv4 Cost: €29.95 approx. Developer: PILOT’S Publisher: PILOT’S Available: www.pilots.shop www.simmarket.com

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29 As we head towards autumn once more its time again for flightsims to be dusted down and our love affair with them rekindled – thankfully my only exposure to them these days is finally flying again as Terry’s sim finally got a new COA (Certificate of Airworthiness) after several months of being grounded. My summer holidays this year took my wife and I for a week in the Lake District and a week in the Scottish Borders – thankfully visits to Dumfries & Galloway Aviation be some utilisation of the new turned in early 2021. In the mean- Museum, Soloway Aviation Museum A321N’s on the Dublin to LHR route time, the airline has commenced a at Carlisle and a visit to the Na- commencing on the 1st of October new Dublin to Minneapolis/St Paul tional Museum of Flight at East For- with the aircraft operating the with a daily service using one of tune just outside Edinburgh made EIN154/155 route on Monday’s, the ASL Boeing 757’s. The airline the trip even better along with Wednesday’s and Friday’s and the hopes to attract a lot of business quick visits to both Glasgow and EIN156/157 on Tuesday’s, Thurs- class customers from the UK and Prestwick Airports – two Avro Vul- day’s, Saturday’s and Sunday’s. On Europe on this new route. cans and a Concorde noted be- the 18th of June, at the Paris Air tween the three museums. So, Show, Aer Lingus parent, IAG, an- In late July the European Commis- staying with real world aviation…. nounced that it was placing an or- sion announced that it had ap- der with Airbus for 14 Airbus proved the creation of a joint ven- Aer Lingus have taken delivery of A321XLR’s with 6 of these aircraft ture between Air Investment Valen- their first Airbus A321LR (Neo), going to be allocated to Aer Lingus cia and Fortress Investment Group registered EI-LRA, which was deliv- and 8 going to . It is under- from New York which will result in ered on the evening of the 26th of stood that IAG also placed an addi- the merger of activities of both July. It was immediately towed into tional 14 as options. Deliveries are Cityjet and Air Nostrum (above). Hangar Six and stayed there a few expected to commence in 2023 Fortress Investments is the ulti- days whilst pre-service modifica- with these new aircraft being used mate parent company of UK based tions were carried out. Its first to expand both airlines long-haul Falko Regional Aircraft which cur- revenue flight was on the 2nd of fleets. The commonality with its rently has in the region of 100 re- August on the Dublin to Bradley existing Airbus fleet and the re- gional aircraft based with several Windsor Locks Airport, near Hart- cently delivered A321LR makes the European clients. It is understood ford Connecticut. Interestingly, the newer XLR version an obvious that the merger will combine the aircraft only had its first flight on choice with a range of 4,700 nauti- two airlines activities given the the 20th of July – six days before cal miles and improved fuel burn. commonality in fleet (CRJ900’s) its hand-over to the airline. The The six new XLR’s bring the total and the overlap in wet leasing of aircraft is configured in a 16-seat A321 Neo’s on order to fourteen aircraft and charter flights. Hiber- executive and 168 economy seats aircraft with one delivered to date. nian Airlines is a joint venture set with all the seats coming from two Currently it is expected that with up by both airlines and currently different companies based in the delivery of the new Airbus A321 operates a single CRJ900, EI-HBA, Northern Ireland. The second Neo’s that the four ASl leased Boe- but it is not known as yet if the A321N is due for delivery in Octo- ing 757’s will be gradually returned merger will mean both airlines ber. It is understood that there will with the last one due to be re- merging into this or if they will con- tinue as two separate entities for the moment. Cityjet has signed a deal with to lease one of its RJ85’s to operate a route of Brussels – Frankfurt - Milan Mal- pensa – Frankfurt – Brussels – Frankfurt – Leipzig – Frankfurt – Brussels.

The future of Belfast based Bom- bardier Aerospace is still in the bal-

30 Icelandic airline, Icelandair which currently operates a daily service ance following the sale by Bombar- stood the type of aircraft will be the to Dublin using Boeing 757’s is re- dier of its CRJ Jet programme to Beechcraft 350 Super King Air of placing these two days a week with Japanese based Mitsubishi Heavy which the RAAF have eight in op- an Air Iceland Connect DHC Dash 8 Industries, with them taking over eration for various roles. It is un- – Thursday and Saturday flights the maintenance, support, market- derstood that the cost of training will operate with Dash 8’s which is ing and sales activities of the CRJ the two pilots has been waived by a hell of difference from a 757 in Regional jet series aircraft. The the RAAF. The Reims (France) built both capacity and flight times. It is deal will not be finalised until the Cessna FR172H Rockets that have understood that this will only apply current order backlog of 42 aircraft been in operation with the Air during the months of July, August is completed which is expected to Corps since 1972 (a staggering 47 & September. be towards the end of 2020 at years of service) have been stood which point production will be ter- down following a ceremony held at Loganair have commenced services minated. Currently the Belfast op- Baldonnel on the 21st of June but from the newly revamped Carlisle eration (above) builds the central interestingly, two of the aircraft, Airport with flights operating to/ fuselage for the CRJ’s, so this will 208 and 210 have since been noted from Dublin, Southend and Belfast impact on its operation from the operating. Initially the Air Corps City using leased in Saab 340’s end of 2020. The sale of the CRJ took delivery of eight aircraft which from Latvian airline Nyx Air. The ends Bombardier’s involvement in was subsequently followed by one Dublin route is served five days a regional aircraft having sold its C- additional aircraft to replace the week and the airports first com- Series Aircraft to Airbus (now aircraft written off. In the end only mercial flight in 26 years took place known as the Airbus 220) and sold five aircraft were operational. The on the morning of the 4th July to its Dash 8 programme to US based replacement for the 172’s, the PC- Dublin. I had an opportunity to visit Longview Capital who have agreed 12, of which there are currently Carlisle on a recent holiday in the to continue the Dash 8 production three on order have not yet been Lake District, to see the aircraft under the original De Havilland delivered, although it is understood stored outside at the museum and Canada branding. This will leave at least one will be delivered to the also the new terminal. We arrived Bombardier with just its business/ Air Corps this year. The Italian Air at 09.25 on a Saturday morning corporate aircraft range including Force sent one of their P-72A’s but there was no one around at all the Learjet 70/75 series, the Chal- (ATR-72) to Baldonnel at the end of – a brand new terminal and car lenger 350/650 series and the June for five days. The aircraft is a parks with all the barriers up but Global Express series. The Belfast military version of the commercial not a sinner to be seen. The airport and Moroccan operations are still ATR-72-600 series and the Italian is owned and operated by Stobart currently owned by Bombardier, Air Force currently has a fleet of who have a large distribution depot but they are actively looking for a four, operating as maritime patrol located here as well. There were buyer of both operations. aircraft. It is understood that the three aircraft on the ramp, includ- aircraft operated several demo ing one of the Saab 340’s operating The Irish Air Corps have recently flights with the Air Corps who are for Loganair and noted outside of signed a deal with the Royal Aus- currently looking to replace the two the Soloway Aviation Museum were tralian Air Force (RAAF) where the Casa CN235’s which have been op- ten aircraft including an Avro Vul- RAAF will train two of Air Corps erating with them since 1994. I can. pilots in Victoria with a four month understand the Air Corps favours initial training period followed up the newer Casa CN295, given the The sale of Flybe to Connect Air- by a further fifteen months of commonality with their current ways has been given the green building hours on type. It is under- CN235’s. light by the European Union com-

31 petition regulators. Connect is a ICAO of “EJU” and currently has a their aging A310’s operating on the consortium of Virgin Atlantic and fleet of 92 x Airbus A320’s and 45 route from the 13th to the 27th of Stobart Air. The EU regulators had x A319’s, whilst the UK registered April 2020 but from the 1st of May raised concerns over the possible aircraft number 91 x A320’s, 73 x 2020 it will operate the A321LR. monopoly on the Amsterdam A319’s and 6 x A321’s – this is routes as /KLM already what is called “having a foot in ASL Airlines Ireland recently an- own Virgin Atlantic together with both camps”. An interesting story nounced an order for ten Boeing Delta Air Lines and the Virgin circulated recently was of an inci- 737NG-800 freighters with the op- Group, so Connect have agreed to dent with a scheduled EasyJet flight tion on another ten aircraft. The release five daily slots at Amster- from Manchester to Alicante when aircraft are known as BCF’s (Boeing dam Schiphol and some slots at the flight was delayed as the pilot Converted Freighters). The airline Paris Charles De Gaulle. In the rostered to fly the aircraft failed to currently operates two of the type meantime Flybe have announced report for duty. The airline was from its Belgian subsidiary, al- significant reductions in its net- frantically trying to organise a re- though the aircraft are actually work, commencing this month with placement pilot when they received registered in Austria – OE-IMC & the dropping of a considerable a phone call from one of the de- IMD. The BCF’s have a larger number of routes from Cardiff, layed passengers on the flight. It freight capacity of up to 23.9 tons Doncaster, Manchester, Norwich, turns out he was an off-duty cap- over a longer distance of approxi- Exeter and Southampton (not tain with the airline going on holi- mately 2,000 nautical miles com- much left is there!). The only Dub- day with his wife and young son pared to the rest of the airlines lin route affected is the Doncaster and was sitting in the terminal fleet of Boeing 737 Classic series to Dublin route which will cease on along with the rest of the passen- aircraft 737-400’s. The BCF’s are the 25th of October. gers casually dressed, including Boeing approved conversions of shorts. He offered to captain the previously owned aircraft with both Finally, after several months of de- outbound leg for the airline who Austrian registered aircraft having lays the first Irish based Helicopter thought about it for about five min- operated as passenger aircraft for Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) utes and then rang him back to say at least three other airlines before commenced in early August with they accepted his offer despite his being converted to freighters. the Irish Community Rapid Re- lack of uniform. With that, the cap- Whilst we don’t see the NG freight- sponse (ICRR) based at Millstreet tain stood up from amongst the ers in Dublin currently as they use Co. Cork using a single Agusta passengers and calmly walked over the Classic series freighters, it is A109E registered G-SHLE. It is ex- to the departure gate intercom and expected the NG BCF’s will make pected that the service will respond announced to the passengers that appearances in Dublin once deliv- up to 500 calls a year. Currently it despite his unorthodox clothing ered. will operate from Co. Cork covering that he was going to fly the aircraft the southern half of Ireland and will to Alicante and avoid any further The Authority (DAA) operate in conjunction with the delay, much to the delight of the have commenced installing a new Irish Air Corps Emergency passengers. It has not transpired automatic visual docking guidance Aeromedical Service which cur- yet as to how the airline managed system (AVDGS) on parking stands rently operates out of Athlone us- to sort out the return leg. I doubt at Dublin Airport. The new elec- ing one of their Agusta AW139’s. they waited a week for the captain tronic system is installed above to fly the return leg after his holi- aircraft parking stands and displays EasyJet, in preparation for Brexit day :-). real time information for pilots, (or whatever happens on the 31st including high definition cameras of October) has been splitting its Canadian based airline, Air Transat, allowing the crew to see if any fleet between UK registered aircraft have announced that next year ground equipment will interfere and Austrian registered aircraft. they plan to operate their Airbus with the aircraft arriving on stand The Austrian aircraft operate for 321LR (Neo) on their seasonal To- or during push-back. Work on the EasyJet Europe Airline under their ronto to Dublin service with one of new parallel runway 28/10 contin-

32 ues at a pace with extensive knock-on effect of requiring fewer fleet. Passenger confidence in the ground works taking place right pilots and cabin crew as a result. In Max series following the two major along the length of the new run- one recent communication the air- crashes is also an issue which is way. Unfortunately some of these line was quoted as saying it would not helped by the on-going delays works entails moving larges have an excess of 500 pilots and and uncertainties as to when the amounts of earth from the location 600 cabin crew. This could be a aircraft will enter service. In some of the new runway and dumping it winter of discontent for both Ry- attempt to soften the impact/image in large mounds right in front of anair staff and passengers alike. I of these new aircraft when they do the viewing area on the northern just hope nothing happens before eventually get released by aviation side of the airport perimeter block- my trip to Hamburg in late Octo- authorities around the world to fly, ing the view of the northern ramp ber. In the meantime the airline Ryanair have quietly gone about where all the executive jets park. I continues some growth with June renaming their aircraft currently am really hoping that this is just a showing 13.6 million passengers stored at the Boeing plant in the temporary measure until such time carried which was an increase of US as “Boeing 737-8200”’s thus as they are removed. Dublin airport 8% over June 2018. July shows removing the word “Max” from recorded a passenger figure of just 14.2 million passengers carried them. I am really not sure that fare shy of 3 million for the month of which is again an 8% increase on paying passengers will not notice May with an increase of 4% on May July 2018 with a load factor of 96% the change! 2018, bringing the total for the first in June and 97% for July. In the five months of 2019 to an incredi- meantime, in order to improve Shannon Airport passenger num- ble 12.3 million which is a 7% in- turnarounds times and no doubt bers continue to decline with a crease for the same period in 2018. save money, the airline has started 2.6% decrease for the first quarter Fingal County Council has been to self-handle with Stansted com- of 2019 and whilst not necessarily officially confirmed as the new mencing in February after it setup related, the US Air Force is under noise regulator for Dublin Airport a company called Blue Handling in some pressure to explain its use by which means they will have to deal partnership with Omniserv. This crews of Trumps hotel close to with any changes to the current was followed by a deal in Spain Prestwick in Scotland where some planning conditions which the DAA where 25 airports were transferred of the larger transport types transit are looking to do. Some of these to its new handling arm, Azul Han- and also more recently Vice Presi- conditions/restrictions will have a dling with similar moves being dent Pence’s visit to Ireland where major negative impact on the new made in Poland. The move sees the he too used a hotel belong to Presi- runway infrastructure. However, airline removing the previous dent Trump. The airport has suf- local residents may have a different ground handling agents’ fees and fered somewhat from the Boeing view on that. profit margins being re-invested 737max series grounding with the whilst giving it more control of its cancelling of flights by Norwegian Ryanair have been making a lot of own efficiencies. from Shannon to the US as it was announcements of late in relation using the Max series aircraft and to the impact of a No-Deal Brexit The delays in deliveries of the new also Air Canada had planned to and also the delays relating to the Boeing 737Max series aircraft is commence a Toronto to Shannon late delivery of the new 737Max having a major impact on any ex- service this summer but was can- series aircraft. The impact will be pansion plans Ryanair might have celled due to the grounding of the reduced schedules or closure of had and at the same time replacing MAX series. The airport recently routes/bases completely with the older/higher hours aircraft in its celebrating its 80th Anniversary on

737MAX Aircraft parked at Boeing Field

33 the 11th July 2019. Eighty years cover that this was his first lesson pacitated pilot leaning on you while ago, a Savoia Marchetti S- in a Cessna, although he had two trying to figure out how to keep the 73 with eight passengers onboard previous lessons in different air- aircraft in the air, never mind try- landed at Rineanna, as it was craft but no experience in landings. ing to get your head around mak- called then, following a flight from Local ATC began advising the stu- ing a landing – but a perfect land- Brussels via Croydon in the UK. dent of how to control the aircraft ing he did make with a cool head The Sabena flight was linking up and helped him make a number of and help over the radio of the local with a transatlantic Pan American practice approaches to the airport air traffic controllers. You can sea plane using the nearby Foynes before he finally took the plunge download the recording of the inci- sea plane base. The airport re- and landed the aircraft on his first dent on forums.liveatc.net cently took delivery of two state of go. With emergency crews standing the art fire tenders – HRET, High by, the incapacitated pilot was im- On that note I will sign off. For Reach Extendable Turret which are mediately removed from the air- those going to the show Cosford equipped with thermal imaging craft following the landing and was have a great time and I am sorry equipment to allow fire crews to taken to a local hospital. The stu- but due to work commitments I identify quickly the hottest part of dent’s wife and children were at the cannot be there, but Terry will be an aircraft allowing for quick deci- airport at the time and were aware there on the Saturday only. sions to suppress and extinguish of what was happening. An amaz- fires or potential fires. The new ing feat considering the pressure of Ian Broni ¢ HRET tenders allows fire crews to being in small aircraft with an inca- work directly from the cab of the tender to direct fire suppressants at the point of a fire without the need to leave the tender and place themselves in the danger zone. Shannon is the first airport in Ire- land to take delivery of these new types of fire tenders.

Finally, in the news recently was an incident involving a student pilot in Western Australia who was on his first flying lesson on a Cessna 152, from Jandakot Airport near Perth when his instructor collapsed at the controls. They had been flying for about an hour when the pilot just collapsed and left the student pilot alone at the controls. The student pilot calmly contacted local ATC and advised them of the developing situation, who were amazed to dis-

34 Terry McGee selects from some of the latest Freeware files

AG6219 - Derryogue Airport, Kilkeel, FSFO V3 Northern Ireland Flightsimaddons By David Vega fsfov3.zip ag6219.zip www.flightsim.com www.avsim.com

A "Better Than Default" scenery for FSX and FSX:SE of Derryogue Airport in Northern Ireland. See the RE- ADME.txt file for details.

Yakutia Boeing 737-800NGX Repaint by Sergey Gleba aka serg09 pmdg738ngx_yakutia.zip www.flightsim.com

FS2004/FSX/P3D/X-Plane FSFO V3. Flight Simulator First Officer V3 is a generic copilot designed to work with aircraft that conform to X-Plane (via XPUIPC), FS2004, FSX and P3D SDK; in short, it adds a touch of realism while providing a co-pilot to share cockpit re- FSX/Prepar3D Yakutia Boeing 737-800NGX. The pay- sponsibilities. FSFO V3 does not require strict adher- ware PMDG B737-800 NGX in Yakutia Airlines livery. ence to Standard Operating Procedures (i.e. scripts), Textures in UHD format only PMDG model. reading lengthy manuals or precise speech. To that

end, it can be as complex or simple as you want; for PMDG 747 QOTSIII Sound Fixes example, FSFO can complete the entire Before Start By Nick McCamis Checklist, or only those functions you chose not to ac- 744v3_sound_improvements.zip complish. Regardless, he will check every switch to en- www.flightsim.com sure it's placed in the correct position. Just hit connect FSX/P3D PMDG 747 QOTSIII Sound Fixes. A simple and fly with confidence that your First Officer is helping sound fixes pack for the PMDG V3 including you fly this complicated aircraft. improved aircraft sounds and engine sounds for the - 400 and for the -8.

35 Adam A500 and A700 Ilo Airport Peru By Simon Smeiman By Jhon Cristian gfa_adam_a500_and_a700.zip splo_v1_p3d.zip www.flightsim.com www.flightsim.com

FSX/P3D Adam A500 and A700. Very little information about the Adam Aircraft is available from the internet so the development of the virtual models are not 100% Prepar3D v4.5 Scenery--Ilo Airport Peru. Ilo Airport, renditions especially as far as the cockpit and instru- IATA: ILQ, ICAO: SPLO, is in the Moquegua Region of ment panels are concerned. There may also be some Peru serving the city of Ilo. The runway is on the Pacific deviations to the rest of the interior and exterior mod- shoreline 4 km south of the city. Includes third termi- els. I modelled both the A500 piston engine and the nal. A700 Jet so you can have the best of two worlds with these two aircraft. Works with FSX SP2/Accelleration, FSX: Steam and Prepar3D. Meigs Field By Andy Johnston PMDG 737-600/700/800/900NGX newmeigs-1.zip www.flightsim.com Sound Fixes P3D v4 Scenery--Meigs Field, Chicago, Illinois (IL), By Nick McCamis USA. Almost twenty years after Chicago's Meigs Field 737ngx_sound_improvements.zip www.flightsim.com FSX/P3D PMDG 737-600/-700/-800/-900NGX Sound Fixes. Some simple sound fixes for the PMDG Boeing 737NGX to make it more realistic. It works on both FSX and P3D versions.

PMDG 777X Sound Fixes By Nick McCamis 777x_sound_improvements.zip www.flightsim.com FSX/P3D PMDG 777X Sound Fixes. A simple package of was destroyed, a group of entrepreneurs have built a sound fixes for the PMDG Boeing 777 X's aircraft new (fictional) New Meigs Field. Tested only in P3Dv4, sounds. may also work in other versions of P3D and FSX.

36 North American T-39 Sabreliner It shows, without internet access, the world map with t-37_sabreliner.zip mountains, airports, navigation aids and aircraft. In www.flightsim.com addition to the mouse pointer, the surface elevation is displayed. The app is an integrated module for the simulator and can be activated by pressing Ctrl+F12. Use the context menu to move the aircraft to any point in the world.

LGAV - FlyTampa Athens By Vladislav Polovinka ath919.zip www.avsim.com

Updated ADE file for P3D Athens airport scenery by Fly- tampa. September2019. Correct parking codes and cor- rect terminals are used for the current airlines flying to Athens as per autumn 2019. Info from Flightradar24, wiki and Athens airport website. Correct terminals for Schengen and non-Schengen airlines, A380 gates, etc. including fully operational satellite terminal since 2017.

LSZH - Mega Airport Zurich By Vladislav Polovinka zrh919.zip www.avsim.com FSX/P3D v3, v4 North American T-39 Sabreliner. The North American Sabreliner, later sold as the Rockwell Sabreliner, is an American mid-sized business jet devel- oped by North American Aviation. It was offered to the United States Air Force (USAF) in response to its Utility Trainer Experimental (UTX) program. It was named "Sabreliner" due to the similarity of the wing and tail to North American's F-86 Sabre jet fighter. Military vari- ants, designated T39 Sabreliner, were used by the USAF, United States Navy (USN) and United States Ma- rine Corps (USMC) after the USAF placed an initial order Updated ADE file for P3D Mega airport Zurich scenery in 1959. The Sabreliner was also developed into a com- by Aerosoft. September 2019. Correct parking codes mercial variant. FSX/P3Dv3, v4 native upgrade by A.F. and correct terminals are used for the current airlines Scrub. (See also SABRELINER_TEXTUREFIX.ZIP) flying to Zurich as per autumn 2019. Info from Flightra- dar24, wiki and zurich-airport.com. Correct terminals FSTramp Free 7.26 for Schengen and non-Schengen airlines, including fstramp726free.zip Dock E (Midfield terminal). www.flightsim.com UUDD - MDesign - Moscow Domodedovo By Vladislav Polovinka dme919.zip www.avsim.com

FSX/Prepar3D/X-Plane FSTrampFree 7.26 for P3D, FSX, Updated ADE file for P3D UUDD - Moscow Domodedovo FSX-SE, X-Plane 11. FSTrampFree is a moving map and by MDesign. September 2019. Correct parking codes derived from the flight management system FSTramp.

37 and correct terminals are used for the current airlines FsXPand 8.1 Basic/FMS Network Panels flying to Moscow Domodedovo Airport as per autumn By Gert Heijnis 2019. Info from Flightradar24, wiki and Domodedovo fsxpand8.zip airport website. Correct terminals for international and www.flightsim.com domestic airlines, A380 gate for Emirates, etc.

Transglobal Airways Douglas C-9-30-N930TG By Joerg Zeitschel / SGA sga_dc-9-30_transglobal_fsx.zip www.avsim.com

FsXPand 8.1 Basic/FMS Network panels for FSX-FS2k4- Prepar3D-XPlane. Features Mooney TM20 Bravo, Kingair 350 & 200, Dash-8 100, Beechcraft Baron 58, Cessna 172, C208 Caravan - Glass panels for 737, also includes EICAS for 747, Fokker 100 FsXPand/FsClient is a server-client application sending your flight simulator data to other computers where your set of FsXPand gauges is shown. Any combination is possible. Easy in- terface, no scripting, install and run right away. Online feature: You can now track your flight by switching the feature on in FsXpand. The Basic version is capable of loading an FS9 or FSX flightplan, showing it in the Navi- gational Display. Key commands are available to simu- late the EFIS control panel. These can easily be exe- cuted when using a USB card capable of sending key- strokes to the screen. The FMS (FMC) version is suitable for a 737NG flightdeck, featuring an FMS system inde- pendent of the actual aircraft type. Create your flight- plan using keyboard commands (a CDU is essentially a keyboard) and fly the flightplan using keyboard MCP/ EFIS commands, if you have a suitable device, or the compatible CPFlight MCP. The FsXPand FMS is com- pletely independent of other software or built-in logic of third party aircraft models. Read back your MCP state from FSUIPC. .

Turkmenistan Airlines Boeing 737-800 By Sergey Gleba ifly738_turkmenistan.zip www.flightsim.com

This is a new fictional retro repaint on the DC9-30 model by Stewart Global Aircraft. The model was mean- while converted to native FSX. So it's usable in FSX and P3D. I added a modern and a retro panel. So it's up to you, to choose which one you like. Textures are saved in 32-bit. This is a complete package. Ready-to-fly. For more of my repaints visit my website: https:// www.airmedia4you.de/aircraft1.html FS2004/FSX Turkmenistan Airlines Boeing 737-800. The payware iFly Jets B737-800 in Turkmenistan Airlines livery. Repaint by Sergey Gleba aka serg09. Paint kit by Denis Minaev. ¢

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Air Fokker 50 OO-VLS EDDT– Aerosoft German Airports 3 By Project AI team - The DFW group - Stellweg Airlines Berlin Tegel fokker_-_f-50_fsp_air_antwerp_oo-vls.zip By Vladislav Polovinka www.flightsim.com tegel.zip www.avsim.com

FS2004/FSX Air Antwerp Fokker 50 OO-VLS. Thank you for downloading this FS2004 version, works also in FSX, of the new Air Antwerp airline Fokker 50. Soon this air- craft does a daily three times hop from Antwerp Bel- Updated AFCAD file for EDDT - German Airports 3 – gium to London City airport and back. In this package Berlin-Tegel by Aerosoft. August 2019. Correct parking you will find this Fokker 50 OO-VLS in 32 bit textures. codes and correct terminals are used for the current Added several pictures allowing first glance in the -view airlines flying to Berlin Tegel Airport as per summer section- of this zip-file. This is a complete and perfect 2019. Info from Flightradar24, wiki and Tegel airport flyable aircraft with panel and sounds. This shiny Fokker website. Correct terminals for Schengen and non- 50 aircraft features extra bright navigation lights and Schengen airlines, low cost airlines, etc. realistic engine exhaust smoke. Includes an up to date specially made customized lightmap. The -Tell-Tail- EHEH-ORYXSIM Eindhoven lights illuminate the vertical stabilizer and the special By Vladislav Polovinka lightspots illuminate the engines. Many camera views eheh_376241.zip have been added too. Smart looking engines complete www.avsim.com the exterior highlights. Please read the Please readme file for the simple installation instructions.

Air Transat Airbus A330-342 Repaint by Phillip Hughes posky_tsc_a333_new_colors_livery.zip www.flightsim.com

Updated AFCAD file for EHEH - Eindhoven by ORYXSIM. August 2019. Correct parking codes and correct termi- nals are used for the current airlines flying to Eindhoven as per summer 2019. Info from Flightradar24, wiki and website. Correct parking allocation for commercial airlines in front of the terminal. Airport is mostly used by low cost airlines - Ryanair, , Wizzair, etc.

Pitcairn Islands—Complete Scenery By Leonardo Santos pitcairnislands.zip www.avsim.com FS2004/FSX Air Transat Airbus A330-342, registration This project is a complete & much more accurate scen- C-GCTS, fin #002. Air Transat's new livery painted on ery rendition of the Pitcairn Islands archipelago than the Project Open Sky A330v2 paint kit with RR engines. the default scenery in FS2004. The scenery includes all Model features high resolution detailed textures includ- 4 islands redesigned, with detailed coastlines, Landclass ing full night lighting. Textures only. with the only settlement, Adamstown represented, and accurate Waterclass representing the shallow reef

39 for this iconic plane so they commemorate their 50 an- niversaries with this just out of Seattle. UPS Boeing 747-8F model features include fully animated control surfaces, fully independent suspension, main gear steering, trim animation, opening passenger doors, opening cargo doors, dynamic flexing wings, animated tilting bogies, rolling wheels, animated thrust reversers, fully reflective textures (each part has different degree of reflection based on material), accurate flight dynam- ics (accurate FDE with full profiles for wheels, tires, struts, leading/trialing struts, engine types; tested by banks bright colors. A fictional AFCAD for each island real pilots), newly re-defined individual part damage was also made, with all 4 having a water landing area profiles, accurate spoiler animation, detailed textures, either along the coast or inside the lagoons. Ducie Is- full night lighting, visible landing lights from the cockpit, land has a small sand strip as well. Some scenery ob- reflective cockpit windows, crash effects, transparent jects were added, mostly on Pitcairn Island, to recreate nav light lenses, newly re-defined individual part dam- both the island's jetty & the Old Radio/Weather station. age profiles. Enjoy everyone! UUDD-MDesign Moscow Domodedovo Air New Zealand ATR 72-600 ZK-MVA By Vladislav Polovinka Repaint by Britney Ren PFSG domodedovo.zip isdtatrairnewzealandzk-mva.zip www.avsim.com www.flightsim.com

FS2004/FSX Air New Zealand ATR 72-600 ZK-MVA All Black. Complete model of the ISDT ATR72-600 includ- ing panel and sound with an all black livery of Air New Zealand. Updated AFCAD file for UUDD - Moscow Domodedovo by MDesign. August 2019. Correct parking codes and UPS Boeing 747-8F 50th Anniversary correct terminals are used for the current airlines flying Model, dynamics by Project Open Sky, to Moscow Domodedovo Airport as per summer 2019. repaint by Miguel Pena Info from Flightradar24, wiki and Domodedovo airport ups748f50thanniversary747.zip website. Correct terminals for international and domes- www.flightsim.com tic airlines, A380 gate for Emirates, etc.

SBGL-Tropicalsim—Rio de Janeiro By Vladislav Polovinka sbgl_376264.zip www.avsim.com

Updated AFCAD file for GIG SBGL Rio de Janeiro Galeao 2016 by Tropicalsim. August 2019. Correct parking codes and correct terminals are used for the current airlines flying to Rio de Janeiro Galeao Airport as per summer 2019. Info from Flightradar24, wiki and Rio de FS2004/FSX UPS Boeing 747-8F 50th Anniversary. Boe- Janeiro Galeao airport website. Correct terminals for all ing 747 reaches its 50 years and UPS placed 14 orders airlines, low cost airlines, etc. Since November 2016,

40 the check-in and baggage claim areas of Terminal 1 are lines livery, registration VP-BOG. Model included. The not in use. All passengers must use Terminal 2 to ac- textures are saved in 32 bit format for quality graphics. cess the boarding gates of any terminal. Shine effect. Wonderful night textures by Adam Hamada. Contains accurate model with details such as: Singapore Airlines B787-10 9V-SCC opening passenger and cargo doors, animated pack By HT Repaints inlets and outflow valves, all operable control surfaces, singapore_airlines_boeing_787-10_9v-scc.zip detailed flap tracks and slat rails, hydraulics modelled www.avsim.com on spoilers, landing gear doors and many more.

LIRF—Mega Airport Rome By Vladislav Polovinka rome_376110.zip www.avsim.com

Singapore Airlines livery for TDS' Boeing 787-10 RR model painted by HT Repaints, model not included.

MMMX—Taxi2Gate– Mexico City International Airport By Vladislav Polovinka mmmx_new2.zip www.avsim.com Updated AFCAD file for LIRF - Mega airport Rome by Aerosoft. August 2019. Correct parking codes and cor- rect terminals are used for the current airlines flying to Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport as per summer 2019. Info from Flightradar24, wiki and Rome airport website. Correct terminals for Schengen and non- Schengen airlines, A380 gates, etc.

LEMD—Aerosoft Madrid Barajas By Vladislav Polovinka lemd_376109.zip www.avsim.com

Version 2. Please update!!! New AFCAD file for Mexico City International Airport MEX MMMX by Taxi2Gate. Au- gust 2019. Correct parking codes and correct terminals are used for the current airlines flying to Mexico City International Airport as per summer 2019. Info from Flightradar24, wiki and Mexico City International airport website. Correct airlines for Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, Satellite building and remote stands to cope with over- flow AI traffic.

S7 Airlines Airbus A320-214 By Stefan Bree airbus_a320-214_s7airlines_vp-bog.zip www.flightsim.com Updated AFCAD file for LEMD Madrid Barajas by Aero- soft. August 2019. Correct parking codes and correct terminals are used for the current airlines flying to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas as per summer 2019. Info from Flightradar24, wiki and AENA website. Correct terminals for all airlines, airline alliances, A380 gates, etc. ¢

FS2004/FSX S7 Airlines Airbus A320-214. This is a re- paint of the Project Airbus A320-214 (WL), in S7 Air-

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Aerospatiale Alouette III 1.0 Boeing 737-800F Delta Cargo 1.0.1 By John Bray By James Lambe alo3.zip jdr_delta_cargo.zip www.flightsim.com www.flightsim.com

X-Plane 11 Boeing 737-800F Delta Cargo N212DC 1.0.1. This is a Delta Cargo paint of a 737 cargo air- craft. The re-paint is for the default X-Plane 11 B737- 800. Download and unzip the file. Place the unzipped file named "JDR Delta Cargo" into your X-Plane 11 Air- craft 737-800 liveries folder.

Comprehensive Checklist Laminar MD82 By Robin Tannahill clist.zip www.flightsim.com

X-Plane 11 Aerospatiale Alouette III 1.0. The Aerospa- tiale Alouette III is a single-engine, light utility helicop- ter developed by French aircraft company Sud Aviation. During its production life, it proved to be a relatively X-Plane 11 Comprehensive Checklist Laminar MD82 popular rotorcraft; including multiple licensed manufac- 1.0. This is a checklist I made for Laminar's default turers, in excess of 2,000 units were constructed. McDonnell Douglas MD-82, an often overlooked but Plenty of room for improvement on this model, but still awesome feeware aircraft. In my opinion far more fea- probably the best Alouette III for X-Plane 11 at the mo- tured than the 738 and it also has it own quirks, espe- ment. It's open source/GPL so please feel free to do cially with the autopilot, which you have to learn. This more work on it. Credits: Braddock, brett s, Daikan, checklist started off as a fairly comprehensive one by David, friwo2, Gerard Robin, John Bray, Josh, Pedro an author that I haven't traced, but thanks to him or Miguel Calderia, Rosscopeeko, Sergio Costa, Thorsten her for the base work. But it had no datarefs associated Renk, Timi Hietanen. with the commands, so I added these wherever possi- ble. I then started adding additional lines of my own and also compared the checklist against the one con- tained in the aircraft's 90 page POH. So, thanks to all those who contributed one or more lines from the vari-

42 ous checklists I studied. This checklist takes you from If you enjoy the author's work, please consider donat- cold and dark to overnight shutdown, and I hope it ing (link contained in the included Readme file). Dona- helps you enjoy this amazing freeware aircraft. tions are 100% optional, but greatly appreciated and encourage the author to create additional sceneries. EGJJ Jersey Airport 1.0 By TDG FSFO V3 egjj_xp11_tdg.zip Flightsimaddons www.flightsim.com fsfov3.zip www.flightsim.com FS2004/FSX/P3D/X-Plane FSFO V3. Flight Simulator First Officer V3 is a generic copilot designed to work with aircraft that conform to X-Plane (via XPUIPC), FS2004, FSX and P3D SDK; in short, it adds a touch of realism while providing a co-pilot to share cockpit re- sponsibilities. FSFO V3 does not require strict adher- ence to Standard Operating Procedures (i.e. scripts), reading lengthy manuals or precise speech. To that end, it can be as complex or simple as you want; for example, FSFO can complete the entire Before Start Checklist, or only those functions you chose not to ac- complish. Regardless, he will check every switch to en- sure it's placed in the correct position. Just hit connect and fly with confidence that your First Officer is helping you fly this complicated aircraft.

EHRD Rotterdam The Hagus Airport 1.0 By TDG ehrd_xp11_tdg.zip www.flightsim.com

X-Plane 11 Scenery--EGJJ Jersey Airport 1.0. Jersey Airport is an international airport located in the parish of Saint Peter, 4 NM west northwest of Saint Helier in Jersey, in the Channel Islands. Requires the following libraries: 3D People Library (3D_PEOPLE_LIBRARY.ZIP), BS2001 Object Library (BS2001_OPEN_ME.ZIP), CDB library (CDB_LIBRARY.ZIP), The-Fruit-Stand Aircraft Library X-Plane 10 And 11 Scenery--EHRD Rotterdam The (THE_FRUIT_STAND_AIRCRAFT_LIBRARY.ZIP), Hague Airport 1.0. Rotterdam The Hague Airport, lo- Ground Textures Library (GT_LIBRARY.ZIP), The Handy cated 3 NM north northwest of Rotterdam, is the third Object Library (THE_HANDY_OBJECTS_LIBRARY.ZIP), largest airport in the Netherlands. It serves the cities of FF Library (extended version) Rotterdam and The Hague and their regions. If you en- (FF_LIBRARY_EXTENDED_LOD.ZIP), Flags of the World joy the author's work, please consider donating (link (FLAGS_OF_THE_WORLD.ZIP), MisterX Library contained in the included Readme file). Donations are (MISTERX_LIBRARY.ZIP), World Model Library 100% optional, but greatly appreciated and encourage (WORLD2XPLANE.ZIP), OpenSceneryX the author to create additional sceneries. (OPENSCENERYX.ZIP), R2 Library (R2_LIBRARY.ZIP), RE Library (RE_LIBRARY.ZIP) and RuScenery (RUSCENERY.ZIP).

43 LEAL Alicante Airport Spain 1.0.2 LROP Bucharest Otopeni Intl. Airport By TDG By TDG leal_tdg.zip lrop_xp11_tdg.zip www.flightsim.com www.flightsim.com

X-Plane 10 And 11 Scenery--LEAL Alicante Airport Spain 1.0.2. Alicante–Elche Airport, originally named El Altet, is, as of 2017, the fifth-busiest airport in Spain based on passenger numbers, and the main airport serving the Valencian Community and the Region of Murcia. Requires certain libraries (please keep up to date).

Propeller Animation Carenado C172SP By Leen de Jager carenado_c172sp_g1000_prop.zip www.flightsim.com

X-Plane Propeller Animation Carenado C172SP G1000. X-Plane 11 Scenery--LROP Bucharest Otopeni Interna- This is a propeller animation for the Carenado C172SP tional Airport 1.0. Bucharest Henri Coanda International G1000 and results in a propeller which is much closer to Airport is Romania's busiest international airport, lo- the real thing. It is not a complete repaint, just the side cated in Otopeni, 16.5 km north of Bucharest's city cen- view. The propeller has a tapered shape and is now as tre. Requires certain libraries. If you enjoy the author's big as it shows in the frontal view (no longer looks like work, please consider donating (link contained in the a baby-propeller). Back-up your original file if present included Readme file). Donations are 100% optional, (handy in case you want to restore the default one), but greatly appreciated and encourage the author to and simply replace the file in the main directory of the create additional sceneries. aircraft.

44 LEZL 1.0 LGRP Rhodes Intl. Airport “Diagoras” By TDG By TDG lezl_xp11_tdg.zip lgrp_xp11_tdg.zip www.flightsim.com www.flightsim.com

X-Plane 11 Scenery--LEZL Seville Airport Spain 1.0. X-Plane 11 Scenery--LGRP Rhodes International Airport Seville Airport is the sixth busiest inland airport in "Diagoras" 1.0. Rhodes International Airport "Diagoras", Spain. It is the main international airport serving West- or Diagoras International Airport, is located on the West ern Andalusia in southern Spain, and neighbouring side of the island of Rhodes in Greece. Requires the provinces. Requires certain libraries (please keep up to following libraries (please keep up to date). date).

45 LIRN Naples Intl. Airport Italy 1.0 Sikorsky S-38 By TDG By Billy Bargagliotti lirn_xp11_tdg.zip s-38_folder.zip www.flightsim.com www.flightsim.com

X-Plane 11.35+ Sikorsky S-38. The Sikorsky S38 was an American twin-engined eight-seat sesquiplane am- phibious aircraft. It was sometimes called "The Ex- plorer's Air Yacht" and was Sikorsky's first widely pro- duced amphibious flying boat which in addition to serv- ing successfully for Pan American Airways and the U.S. Army, also had numerous private owners who received notoriety for their exploits. There are two models in this package; a 1928 version with appropriate panel, plus a 2019 replica, complete with modern instruments. Docu- mentation included in the package.

ENGM Oslo Airport 1.0 By TDG engm_xp11_tdg.zip www.flightsim.com

X-Plane 11 Scenery--LIRN Naples International Airport Italy 1.0. Naples International Airport is the interna- tional airport serving Naples and Campania. It is located 3.2 NM north-northeast of the city in the Capodichino district of Naples. Requires the following libraries X-Plane 11 Scenery--ENGM Oslo Airport 1.0. Oslo Air- (please keep up to date). port is the main international airport serving Oslo, Nor- way, the capital and most populous city in the country. Requires the following libraries (please keep up to date). ¢

46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaqQa6-zlEQ TWA Hotel - The Ultimate Airport Hotel

In this video, join Sam Chui for a stay at the iconic TWA Hotel and explore all the amazing features in this Av- Geek friendly hotel. It has some of the coolest aviation features including the best JFK airport spotting location. TWA Hotel is a hotel at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York that opened on May 15, 2019. It util- izes the headhouse of the TWA Flight Centre airline terminal, designed in 1962 by the architect Eero Saarinen.

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