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Vol.20 Issue 3 September 2017 Your free digital Flight Simulation magazine 2 Welcome once again. This is my favourite time of the year for Flight Simulation as October starts the annual Flight Sim events. The first is Flight Sim 2017 hosted by Just Flight and PC Pilot. Flight Sim 2017 will again be held at RAF Museum, Cosford, UK on Saturday 7th October from 9.30 to 5.00. Despite Ryanair cancelling our flight, we will be there again this year. The other event is the FS Weekend, held in the Aviation Museum Aviodrone, Lelystad Airport, Holland on Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th Published by November. The show features Flight Sim clubs, Hardware and Software The PC Pilots Ireland manufacturers, Software Publishers, Cockpit manufactures, all spread among pcpilotsireland.com the aircraft exhibits. We welcome contributions of reviews, articles etc. for the magazine. Contributors You can contact us at [email protected]. Terry McGee PC Flight is available for download from aerosoft.com, simmarket.com, [email protected] x-plained.com, http://swfsg.blogspot.ie and our own website pcpilotsireland.com. Ian Broni [email protected] The next issue will be the December issue. Brian Church Terry McGee [email protected] John Melville [email protected] John McNeely [email protected] Philip Wafer [email protected] Aerosoft www.aerosoft.com Simmarket www.simmarket.com Chillblast www.chillblast.com Contents: Page Chillblast advert 2 Flightsim Apps 38 Editorial 3 Freeware Focus FSX & P3D 39 Front Cover 4 Freeware Focus FS2004 45 Arrivals (New Products) 5 Freeware Focus X-Plane 49 My First Solo Flight 21 Little Navmap 52 Preview: Frankfurt Airport for XPlane 23 Airbus A321 FD Special Version V3 54 Cockpit Hardware 24 Aviation Gallery 55 Antigua 2017 TAPA 28 NOTAMs 56 Napoli X 31 Flight Sim 2017 Advert 57 Roma-Ciampino X 35 Aerosoft Advert 58 3 By Ciano35 https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/39821-eick-cork-airport-ultimate-business-park- xp1011/ Cork Airport for XPlane 10 and 11. This airport is intended for use with ortho4xp scenery and overlays. It should work ok without ortho4xp. Please note that I cannot redistribute the orthoscenery, I recommend using ortho4xp using at least Bing level 17. I also recommend using Chris K's Replacement Road Textures 1.1 to give roads a realistic grey look rather than the unrealistic brand-new black asphalt look the default road textures have. ### Full credit goes to Cormac Shaw at www.xpih.net for the original custom EICK layout and custom buildings in- cluding the excellent glass terminal and cargo buildings. ### 4 390 Premier 1A brings a new 64-bit ASConnect and performance. Add to that the From Carenado simulator interface, 64-bit XGauge, optimised AFCAD file with up to www.carenado.com new Air Effect enhancements, new date approach procedures as well Visibility Depiction enhancements as the compatibility to all major and more, all specifically designed traffic add-ons. Features: Fully de- for Prepar3D v4! In-Cloud Motion tailed rendition of Napoli airport Effects, Weather Scenarios Sys- and city. Selection of the most im- tem, Airborne Weather Radar, P3D portant city objects. High resolution Visibility Smoothing and Volumetric ground textures (2048x2048 pix- Fog Integration, Navigraph Data els). Photo real terrain cover- Integration, Map-based Custom ageVery realistic night lighting, Weather Editing System, Univer- based on real pilot’s point of sal Web Companion App, Mapping viewDynamic Lightning (P3D V4). Features: ProLine21 system featur- System and a High-Latitude Cloud Rendered night lighting with shad- ing: Two navigation modes: VNAV Squeeze Fix are just a few of the ows (FSX & P3D V3). Realistic and NAV. Flight plan creation based advanced features included in the shadow rendition on all 3D objects on real procedures. Weather radar core Active Sky platform. ASP4 also and on the ground (FSX & P3D V3). screen (only available for FSX). incorporates full integration Optimised AFCAD file with up to Situation awareness. Traffic. Set with Active Sky Cloud Art (ASCA), date approach procedures for FSX different altitudes for different way- our graphics add-on for both FSX and P3D. Great balance between points (VNAV). Navigraph database and P3D. ASCA includes cloud tex- quality and performance. Compati- (AIRAC cycle 1310 (October 2013) tures, sky textures, and 3D cloud ble to all major traffic add-ons. included). Load a departure proce- models to transform your skies, NavDataPro Charts client with dure (SID). Load an arrival (STAR). while also incorporated Real- charts of this airport. Load an approach (RNAV, ILS, Time Dynamic Cloud and Sky Tex- VOR, etc.). 5 liveries with HD qual- tures! This enables realis- VOX ATC version 4 ity textures (4096 x 4096). LITE tic weather-influenced texture www.voxatc.com model for better performance. Real variation that reloads throughout ground power unit (GPU) simula- your flight without needing to shut tion feature (with volts indicator). down and restart your simula- Original HQ digital 3D stereo tor. You can use any graphics add- sounds. Complete back cabin. Cus- on(s) with ASP45, but dynamic tex- tomizable panel for controlling win- ture reloads require the dows transparency, instrument re- ASP4+ASCA combination. Also VoxATC is the first ATC add-on for flections and static elements such available is ACTIVE SKY 4 P3D4 + FSX, FSX SE & Prepar3D (versions as wheel chocks and sights props. ACTIVE SKY 2016 P3D3 UPGRADE 2, 3 and 4) that has been devel- Real behaviour compared to the ONLY. oped with integrated voice recogni- real airplane. Real weight and bal- tion. Talk to the controllers using ance. Tested by real pilots. Realis- Napoli X standard ATC phraseology and tic night lights effects on panel and From MK Studios what you say will be heard. Just cockpit. NOTE: This aircraft does www.aerosoft.com like in the real world, requests not have a 2D panel. Only PFD, must be properly constructed, in- MFD, FMS, and autopilot have 2D structions complied with and read windows. Full FSX, FSX:SE, P3D back correctly. Some FS add-ons v2, v3, v4 compatible. let you talk to the computer, with VoxATC you talk to Air Traffic Con- ActiveSky 4 + ActiveSky 2016 trol. Download and try VoxATC for From HiFi Technologies yourself, free for 7 days. With its www.hifitechinc.com integrated voice recognition, the air traffic control software provided by Napoli X for FSX, FSX:SE and VoxATC goes a few steps further P3Dv3/v4 includes detailed rendi- with the new version 7.4. Main tions of not only the airport itself, Features: Works with Prepared3D but also the city of Naples, with V3 and V4. Terrain aware (no more some of the most well-known city vectors into mountains). Can be objects modelled as well. High- run on a separate system to the resolution ground textures are be- flight simulator (net server). Im- ing used throughout the scenery, proved traffic generation. Separate along with a photo-realistic terrain installers for each simulator you Active Sky for Prepar3D v4 (ASP4) coverage. When night falls, the have installed, no switching be- represents 17 years of weather pre-rendered lighting looks just as tween simulators if you have more simulation engine develop- a real pilot would see it. Despite its than one installed. ment! Building on the Active Sky detailed visuals, Napoli X strikes weather engine experience, ASP4 the right balance between quality 5 Antigua 2017 TAPA from the cockpit. This product has High quality liveries. Reworked nor- From TropicalSim been developed for the Captain mal maps. Reworked paintkit. Re- www.simmarket.com Sim and Project Opensky models worked external model textures. for FS2004 (other models will also Plug-in for normal maps. Plug-in work with this soundpackage). This for reflections (xplane10). High soundpackage includes the follow- quality detailed external model. ing: External engine sounds. Inter- Version 2.0 added: Detailed doors, nal engine sounds. Wind sounds. reworked normal maps. New livery Cockpit environment sounds. Gear effect. Reworked normal maps to sounds. Custom distance sounds. XP10. Fixed plugin. Added cabin in Custom dynamic sounds. And much our colours. LIT textures and more. more. A total of 88 soundfiles are Include liveries in EUROPE II: Antigua, the largest of the English- included. All recorded in HD and Scandinavian. Finnair. Eurowings. speaking Leeward Islands, in the compiled to meet Microsoft Flight Swiss. Air Moldova. eastern Caribbean, is about 14 Simulator specifications. miles long and 11 miles wide, en- Atolls of Tuvalu compassing 108 square miles. Its A320-X HD External Europe 1 From Pacific Islands Simulation highest point is Boggy Peak (1319 From FSCS www.simmarket.com ft.), located in the south-western www.simmarket.com corner of the island. Barbuda, a flat coral island with an area of only 68 square miles, lies approximately 30 miles due north. The nation also includes the tiny (0.6 square mile) uninhabited island of Redonda, now a nature preserve. The current population for the nation is ap- proximately 68,000 and its capital is St. John's on Antigua. Features: Highly detailed rendition of VC Bird A320-x HD Europe 1 for Xplane 10 International Airport / TAPA located & 11 features the following: Fully Atolls of Tuvalu was re-created in on the island of Antigua. The new reworked external model for the X- P3Dv4 for two fundamental rea- terminal with full 3d details. Dy- Plane JARDesign A320. Reworked sons: to "capture" the history and namic Lighting on Prepar3d v4 ver- gears, engines, fuselage, wings. current state of the atolls as we sion. Optional SODE animated jet- Added dirty, new normal maps, know it in our lifetime; and to repli- ways. Specular maps on glass ter- special plugin.