Content Virtual Sky January 2010 4 IVAO Press News 5 Mondial of Simulation All kinds of inportant IVAO news Review of the biggest simulation event held on just one page. Take a look in France. This event does not only through it to be posted about the conclude Flight Sim, but other Sims as most important changes! well. 7 FSWeekend 2009 8 Commercial 10 IVAO Exclusive Lelystad report Scenery review Interview with Frans Dennis Steinfort, Mallorca is one of Broekhuijsen, organizer of divisional coordinator the most the FSWeekend event. of this event, gives you wonderfull places a brief impression on on earth. Virtual Sky how the FSWeekend reviews the scenery has been. made by Aerosoft. 15 Commercial 17 Aviosim 20 Commercial Sce- Scenery review Short report about nery review Review of Aerosofts’ Aviosim, a club of en- Last review this issue about Innsbruck. thousiast based in the Aerosoft Nice Côte d’Azur Aviodrome, Lelystad. (LFMN). 22 FSLanparty 2009 Belgium 24 NL2000 review Kenny Moens, part of the organisation Last Christmas the NL2000 team team, gives a report about the biggest released a new version of their Lan-Party of the BeNeLux, FSLanparty Photo Realistic Scenery. On page Belgium. 24 a smal review has been given. 27 Freeware Zone 30 Buyers Guide Three pages with the most won- Once in a while you need a new PC, may- derfull freeware stuff to start the be because it’s broken, maybe you would new year with. like better performance, 5 pages about do´s and don´ts for a new one. Editorial Marco Meerkerk IVAO Magazine Team Manager [email protected] Publisher: IVAO Virtual Sky International Virtual Aviation Organisation January 2010 Editor team: Vybhava Srinivasan Marco Meerkerk DDear readers, Raymond van der Ploeg Wish you a very Happy New Year. Layout and Design: IVAO Magazine Team. 2009 has been an exciting year for IVAO and flight simulation in ge- neral. There have been some exciting products and also announce- Website: www.ivao.aero/publrelat/ ments of many new players. Our magazine has also grown immen- sely during the last 12 months and we have some exciting plans for General Mail: [email protected] 2010. Hopefully during the year we should see the birth of Divisional edition of IVAO Virtual Sky. Logo and cover Design: Robert Gottwald As usual this edition of Virtual Sky has some exciting reviews of new Marco Meerkerk add-ons and also story of some of the biggest real world flight simula- tion events around the world, where IVAO participated actively. Cover screenshots by: Wikipedia Sit back and enjoy this edition of Virtual Sky. Arne Ziemer All the best and take care, Disclaimer: Any information, suggestions or illustrations published in Marco Meerkerk this magazine are exclusively for use Magazine Team Manager with computer flight simulation. Editor of Virtual Sky All views expressed in this magazine are the views of the respective authors. The publisher does not accept any responsibility for those views. Copyright None of the information in this magazine may be reproduced in any form without prior permission from the pu- blisher. Page 3 Virtual sky - January 2010 - IVAO Software Development proudly annouce new version of IvAp IVAO Softdev is proud to present you with an all new version of their pilot client IVAP (v1.4.0) for FS9. This new version includes major changes which improve the realistic experience, enhanced realtime weather support like worldwide aloft winds, new traffic interpolation and peer-to-peer traffic en- gine for smooth multiplayer environment. For more information and download, please visit http://www.ivao.aero/softdev to get your free copy. - IVAO Non-profit organisation open for applications Between January 1th and 15th the NPO is open for new applications. If you would like to be more involved into the IVAO Organisation, keep a sharp lookout on the forums. The criteria will be announced there soon. - Request for Virtual Sky Editors Letters For the next year we would like to give the Virtual Sky some more input from our readers. Do you have questions regarding the magazine or any other (virtual) aviation related things, please mail your question(s) to [email protected] and [email protected]. Your questions will be answered in one of the next issue(s). - Bert Grijmans Honorific Award Bert Grijmans, wel known as the Friendship Triple 5 (TFF555), has left us and started his last flight November 16th. Because of his contribution to IVAO BoG decided to award Bert posthumous with the Honorific Award, the highest award to be given. He will continue to live in our hearts. Page 4 Virtual sky - January 2010 ike every year, the borough in Paris. It was moved are more than one hundred Mondial of Simu- in 1975 to Le Bourget airport and fifty aircrafts. We can lation was held in following the creation of the observe during the visit, L airport of Charles-De-Gaulle, various militaries aircrafts the November’s end at releasing of space in warehou- such as the Junkers J 9 the Museum of Air and ses. Today, the Museum of Air (which had been abando- Space at Le Bourget. and Space is the largest aviati- ned at a campaign airport “From virtual to reality” on museum in France and one in 1918), La Demoiselle is the motto of the fourth of the largest in the world. The (microlight built by Alberto Mondial of Simulation. various aircrafts are exposed Santos-Dumont in 1908) in different halls; the largest and formers commercials By Maxime Esnau hall is the "Grande Galerie". aircrafts like the Concorde The most of fragile aircrafts are and the Mercury. Nowadays, Le Bourget air- kept in a reserve, where there port is open to national and international traffic like the IFR non-scheduled commer- cial flights and private flight, some VFR flights with certain restrictions. The airport has more than fifty five thousand movements for only one hundred and thirty thousand passengers who pass there each year. The museum was inaugura- An overview inside the ted in 1921 on the proposal of Museum of Air and Space at Le Bourget Albert Caquot, in the fifteenth Page 5 Virtual sky - January 2010 The Mondial of Simulation was happened during three days from 27th November to 29th November. Hundreds of visi- tors were there for this event which brings professionals, associations, passionate and students. presented as Aerosoft, Avionic Online, IVAO... This was also the opportunity to see new products for our simulators like Also other kind of simulators you can find on the ‘Mondial of Simulation’ news sceneries and news equip- ment. We had the opportunity to discover all kinds of simulators In the French division's stand, live evening when they fly or control. as simulators of boats, racing from Le Bourget, the airport of Also, divers Virtual Airlines are cars, emergency vehicles, trains Charles de Gaulle was fully staffed represented to advertising as and of course, flight simulators, and the adjacent FIRs mainly Nouvel Horizon, Britair Virtual, from a simple computer to a Bordeaux, Brest and Marseille. AIB Virtual… Finally, more than cockpit more realistic as pos- Persons on lines, was principally one hundred community's mem- sible. Renaud Emont’s cockpit French's staffs members and the bers from several divisions were exposed, was very realistic, regular controllers and some flights there. and Renaud is a member of the demonstrations online. Several French division. He has been professional controllers and pilots In conclusion, three days are interviewed by France 3, in a welcomed visitors to present the been very enjoyable for all local transmission on the televi- functioning of IVAO. Some young, passionate. Visitors remind sion, live from Le Bourget and they had the opportunity to try a us that the simulation now during this interview, explaining simulator which belonged to one of affects all sectors. See you the proceedings of his flights, he our members. It was also a good next year for the fifth edition time because we had met persons spoke about the IVAO. which is already provided !! that we often listen during every Page 6 Virtual sky - January 2010 Human cloning involves many social, moral, and ethical considerations. It may be useful to experi- ment with goat, pig, deer, rabbit, rat, cat, mule, and horse clones, but the scenario of human clo- ning chills my enthusiasm. I would like to state my position: no to commercialized human cloning, we have made enough mistakes, and I am personally not ready for such trials of my humanity. That’s why on the FS Weekend I chose to be part of ‘The Team’. Just to try another way to work together and bringing success to an event as big as this one. This weekend we had the opportunity to do things the other way. As we progressed off course I personally found out organizing an event such as this isn’t as easy as we think. Herewith my com- pliments to our predecessors. Friday started early, too early for me personally, but as we made some promises I was not going to let this event fail. While working on the project, many of us en- hanced our leadership skills. Especially getting all the staff and members available to participate the weekend was a hell of a job. Therefore we thank you all for long hours spent together, for devotion to our team work, for your generosity in sharing your skills with new and younger members. It was a great plea- sure to work with you. Saturday and Sunday were amazing. Lots of traffic, lot’s of vi- sitors in the Aviodrome.