September 2017

Vol.20 Issue 3 September 2017

Your free digital Flight Simulation magazine

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

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 including 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 shading: 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 approximately 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. Special plugin for cate the splendour and essence of minals. Full night illumination. reflections, normal maps, chrome flying in the fourth smallest country Baked textures with ambient occlu- for X-Plane 10, for X-Plane 11 only in the world within P3Dv4. Al- sion. Optional 3D Lights. Optional for normal maps, chrome. Special though there are 9 atolls and is- 3D Grass within airport islands and plugin by ddenn, liveries and exter- lands forming the country Tuvalu, taxiways/runways. P3D v2/v3/v4 nal kit by mskflyer. Note! BlueFX or the software package - "Atolls of native materials custom ground MAXXFX may distort colours. Set Tuvalu" - only covers the northern option. Wet ground surface effect saturation 1.45 for normal. Version 7 atolls/islands. Features: 7 air- for P3Dv2/v3/v4 (via native custom 2.0 added: Detailed doors, re- ports: Funafuti International ground). Stock animated cars on worked normal maps. New livery (NGFU), Nukufetau (NGNA), Vai- highway and airport adjacent roads effect. Reworked normal maps to tupu (NGPF), Nui (NGFT), Nanu- for FSX and Prepar3d versions. XP10. Fixed plugin. Added cabin in manga (NGMG), Niutao (NGTO), Compatible with add-on AI traffic. our colours. LIT textures and more. and Nanumea (NGME). The longest FSX version compatible with default Included liveries in Europe I: strip is at NGFU and is nearly and add-on FSX scenery. P3D ver- Iberia. AirFrance. BMI. EasyJet. 6,000ft long which can handle me- sion compatible with default and Lufthansa (Fanhansa). British Air- dium type aircraft such as B737, add-on P3D scenery. Usage of FSX ways. WizzAir. A320, etc, flying international SDK for the FSX version for best routes. The shortest runway is over performance. Usage of Prepar3d A320-X HD External Europe II SDK for the P3D version for best 2,700ft which caters for regional From FSCS performance. Installers will detect freight and tourism/sightseeing www.simmarket.com sim location and add the scen- hops. Combination of over 10 sea- ery.cfg entry for FSX, FSX:SE, plane docks and heliports including P3Dv1, P3Dv2, P3Dv3 & P3Dv4. helipads on cruiseliners and cargo ship. All helipads are lighted for Boeing 777-GE90-115B night operations. Combination of photoreal landclass/waterclass and Soundpack for FS2004 vector polygons hand-drawn and From Turbine Sound Studio customized to replicate white sandy www.simmarket.com beaches and vegetation textures. Turbine Sound Studios proudly pre- Sequential wave crash effects sents the Boeing 777 GE-90-115B (cascades) more pronounced at A320-x HD Europe II for Xplane 10 Pilot Edition soundpackage for coral reef outlines replicating real & 11 features the following: fully FS2004 recorded in HD High defini- world. Customized vegetation typi- reworked external model for X- tion. This Pilot Edition is as heard cal of the region. Modern and tradi- Plane JARDesign A320. Features: 6 tional buildings such as primitive the airport boundary area. Custom the operation of those in the real grass and coconut thatched dwell- Aircraft Marshaller (Autogate plug- aircraft, and include: De-icing, ings. Multitude of objects and eye in required). Highly detailed clutter Electrical, Engines, Fuel, Hydraulic, candies to discover. Various ani- objects. Custom animated wind- Oil, Pressurization, Propellers and mals (crows, parrots, gulls, eagles, sock model. Water Injection. Realistic Fuel Sys- whales, dolphins, etc) with anima- tem – The fuel system has been tion, including distinct sounds of Douglas DC-6 Cloudmaster accurately modelled, and includes nature from birds to waves crash- From PMDG the 8-tank main and alternate fuel ing ashore. Night light effects on www.precissionmanuals.com system with cross-feed, realistic aprons, buildings and villages. fuel pressure system and the fuel Map/Chart for the region. Airstrip dump system with accurate dump Facilities Directory. Friendly frame rates. AC/DC Electrical Bus System rates but recommend a decent me- – The electrical bus system in- dium to high-end system to run cludes realistic amp draw and volt- scenery at very high settings for an age, as well as battery drain and enjoyable experience. charging. Add-on Liveries - As is always the case at PMDG, numer- Airport Bonaire Flamingo XP ous free add-on liveries are avail- From Jo Erlend Sund able for a variety of real-world DC- www.aerosoft.com After being in development for 2 6 operators. Flight Model – The DC- years, PMDG's award winning de- 6 flight model has been tested and velopment team is proud to release given the thumbs up by several this faithfully reproduced aircraft in type rated pilots who are current two separate packages: FSX and on type. If they say she flies like a P3D. In traditional PMDG style, no DC-6, we’re not going to argue. effort was spared during this extensive development process and CLUJ Napoca Airport we are certain the DC-6 will quickly From AlfOSim become your favourite classic prop- www.simmarket.com liner simulation! Features: External Bonaire is a small island in the Model - The external model has Southern Caribbean and is a popu- been accurately modelled using lar holiday destination among surf- high resolution 3-view drawings of ers and divers, thanks to its clear the actual airplane, and painted in water and magnificent coral reefs. exquisite detail with high resolution This scenery for XPlane 10/11 of- photo real textures. Fully Interac- fers a highly detailed recreation of tive, Dynamic Virtual Cockpit - De- Flamingo International Airport signed and animated using the (BON / TNCB) near the city of Kral- same proprietary techniques devel- endijk on Bonaire. The developer oped for previous PMDG award- Located within the city limits of took thousands of photos at the winning product lines. Ramp Man- Cluj-Napoca, the Avram Iancu Cluj location and used those to create ager - External objects can be dis- International Airport is the most the accurate building models and played/hidden using the Ramp important airport in the historical high-resolution textures. Highly Manager, adding to the realism and region of Transylvania, and in 2012 detailed night effects, custom run- immersion – Tow Bar & Tractor, became the second busiest in Ro- way and approach lighting, ani- Wheel Chocks, Pitot Covers, Engine mania (due to the conversion of mated palm trees and clutter on Oil Pans, Mechanic Stands. Fuel LRBS into a business airport). The the apron down to the smallest de- and Loadout Manager – Realisti- scenery features various anima- tails bring this airport to a virtual cally fuel the airplane’s 8 fuel tions like birds, apron vehicles and life. Thanks to latest technology, tanks, load the desired number of even people. With the Afl0Sim optimal visuals and performance passengers and amount of cargo LRCL Utility you can control the are possible. Features: Highly de- for your next flight. Artificial Flight runway and taxiway lights, improve tailed and realistic recreation of Engineer (AFE) – The AFE can be the FPS of the scenery, disable an- Flamingo International Airport used to assist you through various imations etc. Requirements: (TNCB). Fully compatible with X- phases of flight. Maintenance Man- FSX,FSX:SE, PED V4 or lower. Plane 10 and XPlane 11. Highly ager – Allows you to keep track of detailed 3D models of Terminal and and manage your airplane’s engine Boeing 777-GE90-115B other airport buildings. High resolu- health, propeller hours, engine oil Soundpack for FSX/P3D tion textures based on thousands quantities and related fluids such From Turbine Sound SYstems of images taken at the airport. as water/alcohol, auxiliary oil and www.simmarket.com High resolution runway and taxi- anti-ice fluids. You will also be able Boeing 777 GE-90-115B Pilot Edi- way textures. Photo real ground to see the total airframe hours action soundpackage for FSX / P3D images covering airport and sur- cumulate. Realism Options – Adjust (all versions) in High definition. roundings. Highly realistic night the airplane’s realism settings to This Pilot Edition is as heard from time effects. Custom runway and your preference, such as Engine the cockpit. This product has been approach light systems. Ambient Damage, Realistic Start, Carb Ic- developed for the PMDG Boeing palm tree animations. Interior ing, and CB Failures. Airplane Sys- 777 models for FSX/P3D (other model included for Terminal build- tems and Equipment - The DC-6’s models will also work with this ing. Custom terrain mesh covering systems were reproduced to match soundpackage). This soundpackage

7 includes the following: External Advantage weather radar. The 737NG. The 737NG flight systems engine sounds. Internal engine presence of this weather radar unit have been updated to give you bet- sounds. Wind sounds. Cockpit envi- in the panel is completely optional - ter performance in the 64-bit environment sounds (Locked out for you can fly with or without it! ronment. We have also added new PMDG). Gear sounds (Locked out dynamic lighting and HDR reflec- for PMDG). Custom distance DHC-2 Spray N’ Play tions to the airframe, ground, and sounds. Custom dynamic sounds. Expansion Pack surrounding objects to provide our And much more. A total of 71 users with stunning visuals both From Milviz soundfiles are included. All re- inside and out. The iFly Jets: The www.simmarket.com corded in HD and compiled to meet 737NG is a super sophisticated and Microsoft Flight Simulator specifica- complete 737NG addon for Lock- tions. heed Martin's Prepar3D. High accuracy simulation of the cockpit and DHC-2 Beaver systems, along with features such From Milviz as ground support and push back, www.simmarket.com make this a premier expansion for P3D. The product has been tested by real NG pilots to help maintain the accuracy required for this simulation. This product offers quite an Our expansion pack for the Milviz extensive fleet covering the NG DHC-2 Beaver includes a purpose- range. This includes the 737NG built Beaver with crop dusting 600, 700, 700ER, 800, and 900, equipment installed. The crop 900ER, plus the BBJ, BBJ2, and duster is fully functional: Aircraft BBJ3. There are several variations weight is dynamically altered while among this fleet that you can cus- the dusting equipment is in opera- tomize via the configuration man- Created for FSX, FSX:SE, P3Dv2/ tion, meaning that you can take off ager, including jet engine types, v3/v4, our Beaver combines cus- fully loaded and return to base and wingtips. tom programming with a nuanced empty once you're finished in the flight model, a wealth of configur- fields. All standard liveries are usable options including wheels, skis, able on the crop duster however FS-FlightControl Instructor amphibious floats and tundra tires, we've also included a new livery Station as well as top-tier modelling and just for this version. Included with From AB-Tools design to produce an add-on that the 6 new versions of the aircraft www.simmarket.com will truly take you anywhere you this package adds, are all the same want to go. Our DHC-2 features the outstanding features present in the quality workmanship that we're base aircraft: Configurable fuselage known for. High resolution, profes- styles, different propellers, select- sional textures with extremely de- able visual options, navigation op- tailed 3D modelling brings to life tions, in-depth systems modelling, both the inside and the outside of custom start-up routine, icing fail- the aircraft. All gauges, switches ures, WX Advantage weather radar, and controls are smoothly ani- and most recently added - an accu- mated and usable, to the extent rately simulated custom KAP 140 that we've even included a func- autopilot. tioning throw-over ability on the yoke. Also included is a hefty iFly-737NG for P3Dv4 (64--bit) amount of eye-candy, such as From iFly and Flight1 FS-FlightControl is a touch opti- chocks, tie-downs, cold cover and www.flight1.com mized instructor station for Lock- control locks. Whether you prefer heed Martin Prepar3D® 1.x, 2.x, your bush flying to be by the seat 3.x and 4.x, Microsoft FSX includ- of your pants or fully informed, ing Steam Edition and Dovetail we've allowed for an extremely Flight Sim World (FSW). X-Plane wide variety of options for avionics support is now available as public and third party GPS units. With this beta version. Besides the Windows package, an extensive amount of application an Android and iOS app compatibility for popular third party is available as well. Features: gauges and avionics is available. Easy aircraft positioning on ap- Built-in configuration support from proaches and other custom loca- within our MVAMS application is tions. Real-time moving map with included for the following: MFlight1 detailed overlays and VATSIM, GTN 650 (Single). Flight1 GTN 750 iFly and Flight1 are pleased to an- IVAO and PilotEdge support. (Single). Flight1 GTN 650 & 750 nounce that our award-winning ProSim, Project Magenta, FSLabs, (Combo). Reality XP GNS 737NG is now available for Pre- Aerosoft and Wilco enabled flight 430/530W XP (Combo). Mindstar par3d v4 (64-bit). The new version planning. Weather condition con- GNS 430/530 (Combo). MilViz GNS is not a simple “port over” from trol including real-time-weather 430/530 (Combo). Or, standard P3Dv3, but a new version compiled and Active Sky 16 support. Full radios only! Also included is a copy through the P3Dv4 SDK and com- aircraft pushback control. A fuel of the innovative MilViz / REX WX piled as a 64-bit version of the and load manager. Control over

8 aircraft views and slew mode. plane of your choice (instead of the cording feature that it allows to A failure system with random fail- plane included). Also you can edit record also your voice. When you ures, also for ProSim, AST, JeeHell time, date and season for each play a flight situation previously and Project Magenta. Exten- mission without any external pro- recorded you can choose if play sive aircraft overview with all your gram. PES - (Passengers Entertain- only flight situation or flight situa- aircraft data and TCAS feature. Air- ment System) - Missions also fea- tion synchronized with your re- craft and approach statistics and tures the exclusive PES corded voice. graphs including Google Earth ex- (Passengers Entertainment Sys- port. Detailed remote control op- tem), now fully customizable with Airport Bali XP tions for all your network com- your own sound tracks. Complete From A-Flight/Caipiriha Games puters. Operate and moni- documentation. Product includes www.aerosoft.com tor motion and control loading de- Airport info and charts for all desti- vices. You can use the very de- nation and a useful User Guide. tailed settings to customize everything to your specific needs. The Flight Control Replay Pro v3.5 connection to the Flight Simulator From Fabio Merlo is established directly via SimCon- www.simmarket.com nect for best performance - no additional tools like FSUIPC needed. You can try FS-FlightControl for free now. The international airport of Bali has FSX Missions Easyjet been modelled for XPlane 11 based From Perfect Flight on recent aerial imagery with a www.simmarket.com resolution of 0.4 m/pixel. The custom airport environment with Flight Control Replay Professional highly detailed airport buildings Edition is one of the most complete and high-resolution textures con- software that it permits to record veys the true Bali look and feel and play flight situation. FlightCon- which you can see in the surround- trolReplay Professional v3.5 version ings of this holiday destination. include last version of SimFrame- The international airport Ngurah work internal engine that adds a lot Rai is the airport of Denpasar, the of useful features: Lockheed Martin capital of the province Cali. A daily Prepar3d v4 full compatibility. Ez- service of 40 national and 40 inter- This is a complete simulation of Dok Camera v2/2.5 compatible. national flights with 30,000 pas- another well known low cost Euro- PlayAsAI(Play as Traffic) User can sengers make this a busy airport. pean Airline. Product comes for choose and play his preferred Re- The extension of the runway reach- Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX corded Flight as AITraffic. You have ing right into the sea, now sees big Steam Edition included) and for all options available that you al- airliners such as the Airbus A330, Lockheed Martin Prepar3D (all Ver- ready have in standard playing Boeing 747 and 777 fly to this sions) and offers you two planes in mode, change simulation rate dream destination. Features: easyJet colours, a set of realistic onthefly or use User Interface Yel- 0.40m/pixel aerial imagery for the missions choices from the real low Slider for choose exactly where airport and immediate surround- timetable. Amsterdam, Prague, your AI Traffic can start his ings. High detailed custom ground London, Belfast, Faro, Berlin, Ven- flight. You can manage more than polygons. High detailed airport ice, Madeira and more for a total of one recorded flight as AI Traffic buildings with high resolution tex- more than 40 different destina- using more than one instance of tures. Custom modelled surround- tions. Product features: easyJet FCR addon at the same time. NEW ing area of the airport for a true Fleet - Complete and improved with v3.5. PlayMode Simulation Bali look and feel. Boeing 737-800 and Airbus A321 Rate. User can modify Simulation- package with free FMC, iPad Radar, Rate (during the PlayMode) using 4 C-46 Commando extra options and high resolution buttons in main User Interface (2x, From Just Flight textures for the VC panel. The P3D 4x, Slow and Fast). This permits for www.justflight.com version only includes the Airbus example to compose a video or A321 but has full mission pack. analyze in a better way a flight. Mission Pack - includes a mission NEW with v3.5. Multi Instances. pack as well to fly in different Thanks to the system architecture weather conditions. Missions fea- renewed now you can manage tures Flight briefing, Cabin prepa- more than one instance of FCR at ration, Step by step Check Lists the same time. NEW with v3.5. Procedures (pre-start, taxi, before This new version Professional v3.5 t/o, after t/o, descend, landing, also have all very useful features of parking) with prompt menu. Crew v3 like Record FrameRate custom- announcements, speed calls and izable, Start Record via custom Just Flight's C-46 package for FSX restriction, Captain speaking, User Altitude trigger. Voice Com- and P3D includes 19 paint schemes GPWS and much more! Custom mand Recognition feature that it and provides military, cargo and Settings - You can install a special allows to speech commands to civilian passenger variants of this feature that allows you to use any Flight Control Replay. Voice re- classic cargo/transport aircraft with

9 both military and civilian cockpit price is available at simMarket if Roma—Ciampino X configurations. Modelled using real- you purchased a previous version. From Italian Airports Developers world plans, the aircraft feature www.aerosoft.com multiple animations and highly de- PA-28-161 Warrior II tailed engines. The faithfully recre- From Just Flight ated virtual cockpit features 3D www.justflight.com instrumentation, wear and tear, and realistic systems functionality. 19 military and civilian liveries (including the famous Buffalo Air- ways), realistic flight dynamics and an authentic R2800 twin-row radial sound set complete this extensive package. Features include realistic Aeroporto di Roma-Ciampino systems functionality including en- ‘Giovan Battista Pastine is the sec- gine start and fuel tank selection, The PA-28-161 Warrior II is a four- ond international airport serving 3D instruments, authentic gear seater, piston-engine aircraft the Eternal City, Italy’s capital. The operation, choice of civilian or mili- equipped with a fixed tricycle land- scenery includes the airport itself, tary pilot, highly detailed engines ing gear, 160hp four-cylinder en- the industrial area around it and with unique start-stutter effects, gine and fixed-pitch propeller. This the town of Ciampino – all mod- volumetric props and R2800 radial PA-28-161 Warrior II for P3D from elled using a custom mesh and sound set, HD textures and realistic Just Flight's in-house development seasonal variations for the right flight dynamics. Compatibility: team comes in seven paint atmosphere. Lots of 3D objects and Flight Simulator X, FSX: Steam schemes and features a truly 3D night textures with ambient occlu- Edition, P3D v4, P3D v3, P3D v2, virtual cockpit with a fully func- sion add the final touch to the P3D v1. tional and comprehensive IFR- scenery. SODE, in turn, brings the capable avionics fit, custom-coded location to life, thanks to its rain Durban International Airport fuel and electrical systems, flight and light effects, 3D approach From NMG Simulations computer panel and a custom lights, and much more. These de- www.simmarket.com sound set from TSS. Other features tails can be configured to get the include HD textures, failures, op- best performance out of Roma- tional wheel fairings, interactive Ciampino X on every system. Fea- checklists for every stage of flight, tures: 3D gPoly (light effects and save/reload panel option, accurate rain effect) (P3D only). Custom flight dynamics and functioning meshes. Ciampino Town repro- carburettor and primer controls. duced using autogen with opti- Numerous animations, including mized textures. Industrial area passenger door, baggage door, around the airport. 3D cars in park- cockpit window and sun visors. ing lot, custom trees and 3D grass. Ground equipment including chocks 3D custom apron vehicles and air- Durban International Airport and tie-downs. 4096 x 4096 tex- craft. Animated windsock variation (FADN) was opened in 1951, re- tures are used to produce the high- reflecting the wind (SODE). Night placing the Stamford Hill Aero- est possible texture clarity. Bump textures developed using ambient drome. Durban International Air- and specular mapping used occlusion modelling. Night lights port was the smallest of South Af- throughout the aircraft to produce effects using SODE. Unaligned left rica’s international airport gate- a truly 3D feel. Wheel fairings PAPI lights on RWY 33 (as real ways with a single north-south run- which can be toggled on/off. Fully ones) made using SODE. Configu- way. The airport is 16km from Dur- functional and comprehensive IFR- ration program to set the 3D object ban Central and accessible from capable avionics fit including: KMA density. Seasonal variations. both the N2 and the M4 free- 20 audio selector unit - KX 170B NavDataPro Charts client with ways. Durban International Airport COM 1 / NAV 1 radio - KX 175B charts of this airport. handled its final flight on 30 April COM 2 / NAV 2 radio - KN 62 DME 2010. All flights where transferred unit which can display information SWS F-4B/N Phantom II to the new King Shaka Interna- from NAV 1, NAV 2 or its own in- From SimWorks Studios tional Airport (FALE), 35 kilometres built receiver (NAV 3) - Century 21 www.simmarket.com North of Durban in a single, over- autopilot with lateral hold modes night move. Durban International (HDG, NAV, APR, REV) - KT 76A Airport is closed and it is currently transponder unit - KR 85 ADF unit unclear as to what the future usage with ADF/ANT/BFO modes - GPS of the airport site will be. Features: 100 unit. Flight computer panel Detailed Airport Buildings. Accurate with useful information such as fuel Runway/Apron Lighting. Corrected burn, endurance, speed and wind layout with accurate road network speed/direction. Yoke-mounted and added vehicle traffic. Fully con- flight timer/clock. Flight1 GTN and figurable installer. No computer GNS integration in the virtual cock- experience needed to install. Also pit (Flight1 GTN/GNS sold sepa- Feel the thrill of operating from an available for FSX, P3Dv2/3/4, X- rately). Compatibility: P3D v4, P3D aircraft carrier, learn the intricacies Plane 10. NOTE: A special upgrade v3, P3D v2, P3D v1. This product is of your aircraft and use your weap- also available for FSX. ons against enemies in the air and

10 on the ground! The SWS F-4B/N NavDataPro and Navigraph). Com- ing textures. PBR materials on air- Phantom II is the definitive simula- plete MCDU with full keyboard con- port buildings. X-Plane 11 features. tion of the iconic F-4B Phantom II! trol option. All displays available as World Traffic compatible. X-Life This exciting rendition contains: high resolution 2D windows. Highly traffic compatible. Optimized for Detailed models of the F-4B and F- accurate flight model. Panel State excellent performance. 4N. Multiple variants and two cock- saving/loading. Standard Sound set pits covering different eras. Sleek done by Turbine Sounds Systems, FS2Crew NGX Reboot for loadout manager. Customizable additional Virtual Cockpit sounds Prepar3D V4 exteriors. Deep flight and systems provide by Aerosoft. Heads-up From FS2Crew modelling, different for each air- Guidance system. Includes Frank, www.fs2crew.com craft. USS Coral Sea with custom- our avatar to walk around the air- izable deck and elevator operation. craft and airports (Prepar3D only). TacPack ready out-of-the-box. The Fully functional (though linked to product is compatible with Flight this aircraft) RAAS provided by Simulator X:Gold, Acceleration, FS2Crew. Complete management Steam Edition and Prepar3Dv2, v3. tool to load fuel, passengers, and A single installer is provided cover- baggage. This tool also allows you ing all versions. A free update to to tweak the simulation to your Prepar3Dv4 will be issued to cus- hardware. Livery manager with tomers when it is ready. The F-4B/ drag and drop functionality. Fully N comes with TacPack-ready out prepared for AES, Chaseplane, of-the-box. If you own a license of PFPX. Many new options to tweak TacPack you will be able to use the the product to your likings and F-4’s RADAR and weapons to at- your hardware, for example to link The aim of the FS2Crew series is to tack air and ground targets in FSX a hardware control to the nose let users simulate multi-crew flying and P3D. Non-TacPack users are wheel steering. Our Virtual Cockpit in a SOP driven airline environ- also provided with a special version tool (DAVE) has checklists, fuel and ment. We achieve this end by em- of the payload manager enabling passenger loading, change set- bedding a virtual flight, cabin and them to load the Phantom with any tings, etc. Five manuals, including ground crew into the host aircraft store combination they wish. detailed step-by-step documenta- who behave in much the same way tion. Fully Prepar3D V4 compatible as they would in the real-world. with dynamic lights and several CRJ 700/900 X This product includes 2 products: other adaptations to use the new- From Digital Aviation FS2Crew for the PMDG 737 NGX est technology. www.aerosoft.com Reboot (Voice and Button Control -

P3D V4+ Version). Free Bo- LOWS Salzburg for XPlane 11 nus! FS2Crew: 737 Global FO From Digital Design Voice Set (Note: The FO Voice set www.simmarket.com is built directly into the software. It does not require a separate install). Product Requirements: PMDG 737 NGX aircraft P3D Ver- sion. Prepar3D Version 4 and above (Latest version).

The Bombardier CRJ 700 and 900 Düsseldorf Airport series are some of the most often From JustSim used regional airliners today – www.simmarket.com every 10 seconds, one of them Austria s largest regional airport takes off. Pilots like to fly them be- (LOWS) is situated in the heart of cause they are powerful, agile, and the Alps near the city centre of a joy to fly manually. It is often Salzburg, the fourth-largest Aus- described as ‘sporty’. They also trian city. The airport is named af- demand more flying skill than a ter Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and modern Airbus or Boeing because is located 1.7 NM west-southwest the flight management systems are from the centre of Salzburg and 2 limited, for example: no auto throt- km from the Austrian-German bor- tle and only advisory vertical navi- der. Wedged between the Alps, Düsseldorf airport is a hub for Air gation. As with all internal aircraft Salzburg is a very scenic airport to Berlin and Eurowings and has Luf- projects, the Aerosoft/Digital Avia- fly to. Features: Shading and occlu- thansa's only long-haul route (to tion CRJ for FSX, FSX:SE, P3Dv3/4 sion (texture baking) effects on Newark) outside of its hubs in was created with the job of the pi- terminal and other airport build- Frankfurt and Munich. It features lot in mind. Highlights: Exquisite ings. High resolution photo scenery three passenger terminals and two modelling with many animations near airport and city. All autogen runways and is able to handle with up-to-date standards. VAS objects are manually placed. New wide-body aircraft up to the Airbus and FPS friendly because we love High resolution ground textures / A380. This scenery features the complex airports as much as you Custom runway textures. New Run- following: Fully compatible with do. Extended Flight Management way and taxiways reflection effect. FSX and Prepar3D V2.5/V3/V4, System delivered with August 2017 Custom apron, taxiway and run- ORBX Germany North and FTX nav data (compatible with ways lights. High resolution build- Global Vector (photo file back-

11 grounds included). Fully compatible Compatible with FSX. Our most the new features of XPlane 11. with FTX Global openLC Europe detailed airport yet and highly opti- Some of the many features in- (additional photo file backgrounds mized for best performance. Stun- clude: Sound system using FMOD included). Ground polygons made ning 2048x2048 High Definition Studio and Xplane 11’s new sound with the requirements of the SDK textures throughout airport. Cus- engine. Physical Based Rendering Prepar3D. Dynamic lighting of the tom animated vehicles. 3d volu- (PBR) textures for exterior and in- apron - only Prepar3D V4. Shading metric grass throughout airport. terior objects. Interactive menu and occlusion (texture baking) ef- Special environmental effects such system with intelligent Check Lists, fects on terminal and other airport as water puddles and lamp glows. interactive Weight & Balance calcu- buildings. High resolution ground lator, Pre- Flight Options menu and textures / Custom runway textures. Ultra HD Texture Pack for pop-up Power Settings table. Dy- High resolution building textures. Wilco Airbus A340-300 namic pilot and passengers – go to Animated SODE Jetways. Sur- the Weight & Balance menu to add From PaintSim rounding area with custom auto- passengers and cargo for your www.simmarket.com gen. Fully AI traffic compatible with flight. Accurate Avidyne AXP340 accurat AFCAD file. Excellent night Transponder with power-on boot effects. 3D birds. Optimized for screen, Pressure Altimeter display, excellent performance. Inclusion of Flight ID display, Altitude Monitor manual in PDF format. Fully 3d function, simulated ADS-B OUT, taxiways lighting. Automatic sea- Flight Timer, Stop Watch Timer, son change for vegetation, photo- and poweroff count-down timer. background high resolution. Realis- Accurate Fuel System: Optional tip tic reflections on glass (Prepar3D tanks are selectable from the Pre- Ultra HD (4096 px resolution) re- V3&4). Inclusion of manual in PDF Flight menu. On-Screen Warnings paints for 4 of world-known airlines format. and Notifications: 13 different for the Wilco Airbus A340-300 FSX warnings and notification messages model on a completely new Paint will appear on the screen, depend- KMSP-HD Minneapolis St. Paul Kit. Features: Included liveries for ing on conditions and triggers. Pop- International Iberia. LAN Airlines. LAN Chile Air- Out” Instruments and Gauges. From Flightbeam Studios lines. Scandinavian Airlines – SAS. Compatible with the RealityXP www.simmarket.com A completely new paint kit was cre- GNS530 (sold separately by Real- ated in the highest resolution. I ity- XP.com) - we included a completely painted the textures of “RealityXP.GNS.ini” file that makes the fuselage, engines, wings and the Twin Comanche ready for the other external parts of the aircraft. RealityXP gns 530W plugin. Textures of the fuselage, wings and

engines are now at a resolution of 4096 px. Added new night textures Linz Austria Blue Danube of the fuselage and tail lighting. Airport for XPlane 11 Also, the textures of the stabilizer, From JustSim chassis and many other details www.simmarket.com Welcome to Minneapolis–Saint Paul were completely repainted. In the International Airport, the largest new paint kit, realistic portholes, and busiest airport in the six-state reflections and volumetric rivet tex- Upper Midwest region of the United tures were added. The position of States. KMSPHD is a venture into a the portholes in the fuselage plane new level of immersion and real- of the aircraft became more realis- ism. Easily eclipsing the detail level tic than before. I added 2 differ- of previous products, KMSPHD was ent types of chassis in high quality handcrafted after an extensive on- and increased their resolution by 4 site photo survey in conjunction times, also paid attention to many Linz Airport - Also known as Blue with the official assistance of air- other details of the aircraft. Danube Airport - is an international port officials (MAC). This product, airport in Austria. Features: Shad- coupled with our brand new Flight- Piper PA30 Twin Comanche ing and occlusion (texture baking) beam Manager, is aimed to bring From vFlyteAir Simulations Inc effects on terminal and other air- you a high level of airport immer- www.simmarket.com port buildings. High resolution sion with a user-friendly interface. photo scenery near airport and KMSP is compatible with FSX, city. All autogen objects are manu- FSX:SE, Prepar3D v3, Prepar3d v4. ally placed. High resolution ground Features: The all-new Flightbeam textures / Custom runway textures. Manager system (no Addon Man- Runway and taxiways reflection ager/Couatl required). Configura- effect. Custom apron, taxiway and tion Manager allows you to quickly runways lights. High resolution customize KMSP to your liking. building textures. PBR materials on Over 100 highly detailed, optimized airport buildings. X-Plane 11 fea- SODE dynamic jetways. Static pas- tures. World Traffic compatible. X- sengers, vehicles, aircraft and The Piper PA30 Twin Comanche is Life traffic compatible. Optimized much more. Dynamic lighting op- 100% X-Plane 11 compatible. We for excellent performance. tional for P3Dv4. Specially de- purpose-built this model from the signed for P3D v4 and P3D v3. ground up to take advantage of all

12 Norman Manley Intl. Airport Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall Partial modelling of the terminal From RWY2 Simulations Textures. SODE Animated Jetways. interior. HDR effect of interior of www.simmarket.com Highly optimized for great perform- the Terminals and Jetways illumi- ance. Apron vehicles. Volumetric nation. HDR lighting with custom grass. Night Lighting. Realistic night textures. Custom textures Ground Poly of the airport. Night with ambient occlusion. Ground textures. For use on FSX/P3Dv3/ service for aircraft and traffic v4. (default). Custom Approach Lights (ALS) systems. Halim Perdanakusuma Airport From BinerSim MeshXP-Hawaii-Puerto Rico- www.simmarket.com Guam for XPlane 11 From Taburet www.simmarket.com Norman Manley International Air- port, Kingston Jamaica designed for P3dv4. However, scenery will work in FSX, FSX:SE, P3Dv1, P3Dv2 or P3Dv3. Expect missing features i.e. Dynamic Lighting etc. Features: High detailed representa- Halim Perdanakusuma Airport tion of Norman Manley Interna- (WIHH) is located in East Jakarta in tional Airport (NMIA). High resolu- the Indonesian capital Jakarta. This tion textures (2048/4096). Static airport is also used for military, AI. Static Jetways. Glass reflec- MeshXP is compiled from 10m private and presidential purposes. tions. 3d volumetric grass. Anima- resolution data to make High Reso- Government officials are also al- tions including road traffic and lution terrain mesh for XPlane 11. lowed to use it. On January 10, birds in the vicinity of NMIA. Dy- MeshXP function is to add eleva- 2014, Halim Perdanakusuma began namic Lighting (P3Dv4 Only). Opti- tions points to the terrain to further to serve domestic scheduled com- mized for good FPS performance increase precision; shaping valleys mercial flights to ease the over- and low VAS usage. and mountains as real as it gets. loaded Soekarno-Hatta Interna- This Mesh can be used on its own tional Airport. Features: High reso- or underneath photorealistic scen- Quebec City Airport CYQB lution textures. Detailed buildings, ery of any kind. It uses XPlane 11 From FSimStudios ground, etc. FPS friendly. Custom default Vectors i.e. roads; streams; www.simmarket.com ground polygon. Custom made tax- rivers; lakes; landclass. This is an isigns and taxilights. For use on XP11 terrain mesh. Coverage: Ha- FSX. waii - Puerto Rico -Guam. This

scenery adds elevation points every Salvador Intl. Airport SBSV 10 m; No decrease of frames rates. From Richard G Nunes All MeshXP terrain packages made www.simmarket.com by us are designed to provide continuous coverage fitting into each other.

Québec City Jean Lesage Interna- Tonga Domestic for P3D v4 tional Airport, also known as Jean From Pacific Islands Simulation Lesage International Airport www.simmarket.com (CYQB) is an international airport located 6 nautical miles (11 km) west southwest of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It is the second- Included in this scenery package busiest passenger airport in Que- for XPlane 10/11 is; BR-SBSV Sal- bec after Montréal–Trudeau. On 10 vador International Airport v1.0. March 2016, Prime Minister Justin BR-SBSV HD Mesh 1.0. Real Taxi Trudeau announced the addition of lines library. Salvador Norte Shop- the airport to the list of Canadian ping. Airport Charts. Instructions. airports containing U.S. border pre- Features: Accurate replica of Sal- clearance facilities. Features: High Tonga Domestic comprises three vador International Airport, up- detailed representation of Quebec domestic Tongan airports. The dated as of 2017. Modelled from City International Airport. 20 sq. three airports vary in size and cater the original airport plans. Custom- KM of High Resolution (LOD17) for small to medium type aircraft ized runways, pavement and taxi- Photoscenery of the airport and ferrying local passengers and ways, with ambient occlusion in- surrounding areas. Terminal with freight between local Tongan is- cluded in the textures. Finger Auto interior modelled and new interna- lands and neighbouring Fiji, Sa- Gate with marshals. Static objects, tional terminal expansion. Hangars moa, Niue and Cook Islands. Chat- vehicles and aircraft. Avenues and and FBO’s modelled and texturized ham Pacific and Peau-Vava'u (until streets with personalized vehicle with great attention to detail. High recently) are the only two active traffic. 2D Grass. mAirport and ad- Resolution textures. Static Planes. domestic airlines operating the jacent áreas Mesh personalized.

13 Kingdom's north to south islands. son change for vegetation, photo- prefer to fly the mid-Atlantic re- Features: 3 realistic local airports background. Realistic reflections gion. As the product title suggests, Ha'Apai-Lifuka Airport (ICAO: during rain. Realistic reflections on our aim was to recreate real-world NFTL), VAVA'U International Airport glass. Fully compatible with FTX airports in P3Dv4 for those who (ICAO: NFTV), Niuatoputapu Global openLC Europe and FTX prefer low and slow short hops be- (ICAO: NFTP). Accurate terminal Global Vector. NOTE: A special up- tween airports. The eight airports buildings for all 3 airports. Photo- grade price is available at simMar- in this series were developed from real coverage of all three islands. ket if you purchased the previous our on-site visits and birds-eye- Custom runway and ground/apron version. view shots from our pilot - Jay, so textured polygons. Custom vegeta- what is rendered in P3Dv4 is what tion and objects. 3D grass. Up- Xiamen Gaoqi International was captured realistically from graded terrain mesh for the airport From Pacific Islands Simulation real-world. VFR Appalachia com- area. Complete hand-textured col- www.simmarket.com prises of: Eastern West Virginia oration of land and waterclass. Regional Airport/Shepherd Field Night lighting and effects. (KMRB), West Virginia. Cheat River 15/30/60cm/pixel photoreal tex- (WV31), West Virginia. Front Royal tures. Framerate-friendly (including (KFRR), Virginia. New Market full autogen enhancements for (8W2), Virginia. Moran Field framerate fluidity using SDK anno- (MD99), Maryland. Seven Springs tator). This means all sliders to the Borough (7SP), Pennsylvania. Ne- right with very minimal fps impact. macolin Resort (PA88), Pennsyl- Runway and apron/tarmac mark- vania. Ingalls Field (KHSP), Vir- ings. 76m or higher resolution ter- Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport ginia. Product features: 30/15cm rain mesh compatible...and more. (IATA: XMN, ICAO: ZSAM) is the photoreal ground textures. Custom airport serving the city of Xiamen runway/apron ground poly. Volumi- Girona Costa-Brava P3Dv4 in Fujian Province, China. It is the nous 3d grass. Multitude of custom From JustSim main base of Xiamen Airlines and 3d objects (eye candies) pertinent www.simmarket.com TAECO Engineering, an aircraft and regional to each airport. Land- maintenance company. The airport class/waterclass seasonal textures is located on the north side of Xia- with added/readjusted custom col- men Island. Features: For use on oration typical of east coast re- P3Dv4. Accurate airport terminal gion's 4 seasons. Night textures buildings, hangars (Taeco Engi- and lighting effects. Airport charts neering and Xiamen Airlines) and with facilities directory where appli- freight warehouses. Haicang Bridge cable. Animations. Sounds/nature and Wu Yuan Bridge. Custom vege- ambience and more. NOTE: If you tation. Volumetric grass. Realistic previously purchased PIS - VFR night lighting ambiance. 15cm/ Appalachia at simMarket, you are Girona-Costa Brava (Cat Aeroport pixel photoreal landclass. Season entitled to a free upgrade. de Girona - Costa Brava, Spanish coloration typical of the region. Aeropuerto de Gerona-Costa Framerate-friendly. Static vehicles NY Airports V2 X Brava) (IATA: GRO, ICAO: LEGE) and airplanes. AI boats and road From Drzewiecki Design international airport is in the north- traffic. Weathered runway and www.simmarket.com east of Catalonia (Spain), 12 km apron markings. Custom high-rise from the Girona city. Girona Airport buildings correctly placed along is often used as an alternative to approach paths....and more. NOTE: the airport of Barcelona, because it If you previously purchased PIS - is located 92 km north of Barce- Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport lona. Barcelona can be reached FSX or PIS - Xiamen Gaoqi Interna- directly by bus or taxi or train from tional Airport Prepar3D at simMar- the train station of Girona. Fea- ket, you are entitled to a free up- tures: Shading and occlusion grade. (texture baking) effects on terminal and other airport buildings. More VFR Appalachia P3Dv4 NY Airports v2 X is a package of than 150 square km of photo scen- From Pacific Islands Simulation 3+3 airports located in New York ery. More than 5,500 objects www.simmarket.com metropolitan area (Tri-State Area) manually placed autogen. High in the United States of America. resolution ground textures / Cus- The package is divided into 2 parts tom runway textures. High resolu- available for separate purchase: NY tion building textures. Ground poly- Airports v2 X: KJFK, KLGA, KTEB gons made with the requirements (J.F Kennedy, LaGuardia and Teter- of the SDK Prepar3D. Dynamic boro) • NY Airports v2 X: KEWR, lighting of the apron. Fully AI traffic KLDJ, KCDW (Newark, Linden and compatible. Excellent night effects. Caldwell/Essex). Features: The Optimized for excellent perform- most complete, affordable and per- ance. Inclusion of manual in PDF formance-friendly package ever format. Many animated custom VFR Appalachia is the first in our created for New York metropolitan ground vehicles. 3D grass. Fully 3d series of highly detailed east coast area and the largest airport system taxiways lighting. Automatic sea- USA airports meant for pilots who in the world. High quality perform-

14 ance-wise optimized airports with and STB V4 for Prepar3D V4. STB More new content is in production the most up-to-date layouts. Ad- supports the following third party and slated for release by the end of vanced lighting (user controlled at products and includes ready to go summer to complement the work wish) including Canarsie visual ap- configurations for them: Burkhard already completed. Ground Envi- proach. SODE jetways and auto- Renk’s MyTrafficX; Just Flight Traf- ronment Prepar3D updates are al- matic seasonal switching. HQ static ficX and TrafficX 360; ORBX Full ways free. aircraft, custom reflections, ani- Terrain Experience (FTX) AI; World mated vehicles, 3D people, custom of AI; Ultimate Traffic Live (limited Diamond DA40 Immersion mesh. Futuristic version of KLGA support and functionality, see be- Soundpack HD LaGuardia. Compatibility: NY Air- low for details and for Prepare3D From Immersive Audio ports v2 X is compatible with New V4 Only). www.simmarket.com York City X by Drzewiecki Design (v2.3 and higher), Manhattan X by Ground Environment P3D Aerosoft, all ORBX products, all World Edition PILOT’S products and all Mega- From Flight1 scenery products. Requirements: www.flight1.com FSX/FSX:SE/P3Dv1/P3Dv2/P3Dv3/ P3Dv4. NOTE: A special upgrade price is available at simMarket if you previously purchased either or both packages. The Diamond DA40 is probably one

of the best options for all your Super Traffic Board V3 short hops, cross-country or VFR/ From Flying W Simulation sightseeing flights thanks to the www.simmarket.com fantastic cockpit visibility and performance. With its world wide Flight1's award winning scenery popularity, we think that Diamond product Ground Environment Pre- DA40 is a great choice for any par3D (GEP3D) has been updated flight simmer that prefer to fly light to provide full Prepar3D v4 com- aircrafts. This soundpack was de- patibility as well as supply a large veloped for the Alabeo DA40, but content update. The product now of course you can adapt the sound- supports all versions of Prepar3D. pack for DA40 models from other GEP3D takes full advantage of the developers. We carefully recorded advancements made with Prepar3D and processed the sounds of Ly- with respect to lighting and cloud coming IO-360 engine in highest shadows. This version adds a major quality possible, providing clear, content update as well as full Pre- high fidelity, high-definition audio par3D v4 support. GEP3D can be representation of this iconic engine. used for any version of Prepar3D Authentic sounds included: High version 1 through version 4. GEP3D definition Lycoming IO-360 engine comes with Ultimate Terrain Pre- sounds. Flaps. Gyro. Fuel pump. SuperTrafficBoard (STB) is an in- par3D support for all current and Autopilot disconnect. Stall warning. teractive airport style flight infor- future supported Ultimate Terrain Ground roll noise. Wind. Touch- mation display, connecting to Pre- Prepar3D region products. The down sounds including tire screech. par3D to show you what’s happen- product will work in all versions of Door opening/closing sounds. False ing with your AI flights in real time Prepar3D. This development cycle start, starter and startup. Shut- both now and into the future. The includes changes to textures in down with realistic hot engine pop- interactive nature means you can Europe and many other locations. ping sounds. Wind noise with send commands to your AI aircraft, Additionally thousands of textures opened windows. Stall vibration such as “View AI”, “Depart and Ar- have been updated for colour and noise. Custom switch sounds. Full rive Now”, “Pause” and “Delete”. tone. This is a large update. external sounds with multi-angle STB also includes a number of fa- Ground Environment Prepar3D (or sound cones. cilities to manage traffic in Pre- GEP3D for short) greatly improves par3D, helping to avoid go-arounds the Prepar3D simulation world with C208B Grand Caravan XP11 on busy approaches, recovering detailed texture sets which include From Carenado “stuck” aircraft and providing tools a complete set of matching night www.simmarket.com for optimising your AI experi- lighting maps. Autogen has been ence. Running on either the same meticulously placed and done so computer as Prepar3D or a sepa- with reasonable virtual address rate computer, STB includes con- space (VAS) consumption and figuration wizards to get you up overhead in mind. A secure backup and running in no time. Purchasing is established by the product for STB for Prepar3D gets you two ver- easy and quick restore at any time. sions of the software, both of which From Kabul to Kathmandu, from can be installed on the same com- Cape Town to Anchorage Ground puter at the same time (just like Environment strives to make the Carenado has released their C208B multiple versions of Prepar3D world look like the world and not Grand Caravan for X-PLANE 11. can): STB V3 for Prepar3D V3 sacrifice one part of it for another. Features: Only for X-Plane 11. Two

15 models included: Grand Caravan lock (3,488 ft), Saddle Ball Moun- SDK, using new material options and Super Cargomaster. Full PBR tain, Mt Fitch, Mt Williams, Crum and being performance optimised (Superb material shines and reflec- Hill and 50 other peaks above 2000 to the new engine. All objects opti- tions). Get two FedEx and DHL free ft. State Parks & National For- mised for new shadow technology. liveries for the Super Cargomaster ests: Wendell, Savoy Mt Forest, Ground layout including detailed after you buy it. Specially designed October Mt Forest, Warwick, Peru aerial image following P3DV4 SDK. engine dynamics for XP11. Flight State Forest... and many more. Automatic seasonal changes of physics designed for XP11 stan- Major Rivers: Charles, Connecticut, relevant 3D objects based on V4 dards. Ground handling adapted for Blackstone, Merrimack, Wesfield, scripting variables, also for snowfall XP11 ground physics. Physically Housatonic. Other High- outside winter season. New, indi- Based Rendering materials and lights: Martha's Vineyard, Nan- vidual ground adaptations to pre- textures. PBR materials authored tucket Island, Cape Cod. As an vent steps at airport borders when with industry-standard software added bonus, we now provide all using different meshes (e.g. de- used by the film and gaming indus- the VFR and IFR charts in digital fault/FTX Global). New, optimised tries. X-Plane GNS430 (FPS PDF format to enable you to get 3D runway lighting with activation/ friendly). Ice and rain effects. VR the most out of your scenery. This deactivation based on time of day compatible click spots. Goodway includes TACs and Sectionals, IFR and weather conditions. Apron Compatible. Realistic behaviour enroute charts and 250 page book lamps with new effects and dy- compared to the real airplane. Re- of Instrument Approach plates, Air- namic light. Changed AFCAD ap- alistic weight and balance. Tested port Diagrams, SIDs and STARs. proaches at Airac 1708. A special by several pilots for maximum ac- The charts are downloadable along discounted upgrade price is avail- curacy. Dynamic loading/unloading with your scenery files. Require- able. of 3D parts and plugin logic for FPS ments: FSX FSX:SE P3D V1.X P3D optimization. Included in the pack- V2.X P3D V3.X P3D V4.X Mega Airport Frankfurt V2 age: 5 HD Liveries. 1 HD Blank Liv- professional for P3Dv4 ery. 2 models: Grand Caravan (GC) German Airports—Stuttgart From Aerosoft and Super Cargomaster (SC). professional for P3Dv4 www.aerosoft.com C208B GC Normal and Emergency From Aerosoft Procedures PDF. C208B SC Normal www.aerosoft.com and Emergency Procedures PDF. C208B GC Reference document PDF. C208B SC Reference document PDF. KFC150 Autopilot PDF. Recommended Settings XP11 PDF.

MegaScenery Earth V3 Massachusetts The busiest airport in Germany, From MegaSceneryEarth Frankfurt Airport, is now available www.simmarket.com for Prepar3D V4. This stunning German Airports - Stuttgart profes- scenery created by the award- sional by the award winning Ger- winning German Airports Team man Airports team and Peter Hier- conveys the ultimate Mega Airport meier brings the international air- feeling. Owners of Mega Airport port of the German state of Baden- Frankfurt V2.0 are eligible for a Württemberg into the flight simula- discounted upgrade price of 5.94€ tor Prepar3D V4. The buildings, the when purchasing Mega Airport layout of the runways and taxiways Frankfurt V2.0 professional. New in as well as the navaids are exactly the P3D V4 version: All code as they are in reality. Numerous (BLGs) compiled with P3D V4 SDK, The New MegaSceneryEarth Massa- new buildings and the newly built using new material options and chusetts V3 features unsurpassed exhibition centre right next to the being performance optimised to the image sharpness, scenery colour airport have also been included. A new engine. All objects optimised and clarity, improved scenery fea- photo real ground texture has been for new shadow technology. tures with accurate additional wa- used for the base of the scenery to Ground layout including detailed ter bodies and topographical data ensure a real life feeling of the air- aerial image following P3DV4 SDK. and the latest aerial imagery avail- port. Seasonal variations are in- Automatic seasonal changes of able taken in 2016. Massachu- cluded as well, which will be auto- relevant 3D objects based on V4. setts is 10,555 square miles in size matically applied by the sim. One scripting variables, also for snowfall and has 101 airports. You'll see of many highlights of this scenery outside winter season. New, indi- everything that you see are the Dynamic Airport Enhance- vidual ground adaptations to pre- in Massachusetts in real life in the ment Services AESLite which brings vent steps at airport borders when scenery. Some of the cities and a near to life virtual reality into the using different meshes (e.g. de- landmarks you'll get to enjoy as scenery with its vehicles on the fault/FTX Global). New, optimised you explore Massachusetts include: apron and on the near motorways. 3D runway lighting with activation/ Cities: Boston, Worcester, Spring- New in version P3D V4: New park- deactivation based on time of day field, Lowell, Cambridge, New Bed- ing and taxiway layout based in and weather conditions. Apron ford, Brockton. Lakes: Quibbin Res, AIPS from March 2016. Moving jet- lamps with new effects and dy- Assawompset, Wachusett, Long ways using CTRL+J. 3D PAPIS. All namic light. Changed AFCAD ap- Pond. Mountains & Hills: Mt Grey- code (BLGs) compiled with P3D V4 proaches at AirDac 1708.

16 Ultra HD Texture Pack 4 for High resolution building textures. German Airports— Wilco Airbus A330-300 Surrounding area with custom Friedrichshafen professional autogen. Fully AI traffic compatible From PaintSim From German Airports Team with accurate AFCAD file. Excellent www.simmarket.com www.aerosoft.com night effects. 3D birds. Optimized for excellent performance. Inclu- sion of manual in PDF format. Fully 3d taxiways lighting. Automatic season change for vegetation, photobackground high resolution. Ground polygons made with the requirements of the SDK Prepar3D. Realistic reflections on glass. Inclu- Ultra HD (4096 px resolution) re- sion of manual in PDF format. paints of 4 world-known airlines for The airport Friedrichshafen is now the FSX Wilco Airbus A330-300 Reality Expansion Pack for "ready for departure" in Prepar3D model. Included liveries are; Fin- Laminar Cessna 172SP for V4. In good tradition, the award nair, Iberia, Qantas and Eva Air. A XPlane 11 winning German Airports and Peter completely new paint kit was cre- Hiermeier team provide this scen- From SimCoders ated in the highest resolution. I ery of Friedrichshafen in a stunning www.simmarket.com completely painted the textures of quality. This scenery represents the the fuselage, engines, wings and latest status of development of the other external parts of the aircraft. real airport. The buildings, the lay- Textures of the fuselage, wings and out of the runways and taxiways as engines are now at a resolution of well as the Navaids are exactly as 4096 px. Added new night textures they are in reality. Features: De- of the fuselage and tail lighting. tailed representation of the airport Also, the textures of the stabilizer, and close surroundings, incl. im- chassis and many other details portant objects. High resolution were completely repainted. In the photorealistic ground textures, new paint kit, realistic portholes, based on aerial images. Authentic reflections and volumetric rivet tex- 3D models of all airport buildings The Reality Expansion Pack (REP) tures were added. The position of and facilities. Including all navaids the Laminar Cessna 172SP – ver- the portholes in the fuselage plane (ILS,VOR/DME,NDB,ATIS). Amaz- sion 3.1.0 for X-Plane 11 is an add- of the aircraft became more realis- ing night effects. Fully accurate on that replaces some inter- tic than before. I added 2 different runway and taxiway lights. Dy- nal parts of the sim with custom types of chassis in high quality and namic vehicles on the aprons and ones, greatly enhancing the real- increased their resolution by 4 motorways by AESLite. Many scen- ism. It replaces and enhances the times, also paid attention to many ery effects. Seasonal ground tex- flight and ground dynamics, the other details of the aircraft. tures. Complete manual (German, default piston engine, the electrical English) with additional information system, the landing gear and many Jerez LEJR P3Dv4 about the airport. New in version other aspects of the airplane, add- From JustSim P3D V4: All code (BLGs) compiled ing things such as real world phys- www.simmarket.com with P3D V4 SDK, using new mate- ics, new stereo sounds and extra rial options and being performance 3D elements. REP also provides a optimised to the new engine. All damages system, a maintenance objects optimised for new shadow hangar and the interactive ground technology. Ground layout includ- checks. You learn how o use it ing detailed aerial image following and become a better pilot thanks to P3DV4 SDK. Automatic seasonal the in-flight tips: a simple and not changes of relevant 3D objects invasive way to let you know when based on V4 scripting variables, you’re doing something wrong to also for snowfall outside winter Jerez Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto the airplane and how to fix the season. New, individual ground de Jerez) (IATA: XRY, ICAO: LEJR), problem. The add-on must be in- adaptations to prevent steps at also known as La Parra Airport, is stalled inside the aircraft you want airport borders when using differ- located 8 km (5.0 mi) northeast of to enhance. Once the installation is ent meshes (e.g. default/FTX Jerez de la Frontera in Southern done, it will replace the default X- Global). New, optimised 3D runway Spain, about 28.1 mi (45.2 km) Plane systems with more complex lighting with activation/deactivation from Cadiz. This scenery is for and realistic ones. You can always based on time of day and weather P3Dv4 and features the following: rollback to the default airplane by conditions. Apron lamps with new Fully compatible with FTX Global disabling the package. Some of the effects and dynamic light. Changed openLC Europe. Shading and occlu- features are: Interactive Wal- AFCAD approaches at Airac 1708. sion (texture baking) effects on karound. Interactive Towing. Animated Zeppelin NT flying over terminal and other airport build- Weight and Balance Tool. Realistic Lake Constance between spring ings. Ground polygons made with Onboard Systems. Realistic Com- and autumn. the requirements of the SDK Pre- plex Engine Logic. Stunning par3D. Dynamic lighting of the Sounds. Pop Up Kneeboard. Simu- apron. High resolution ground tex- lation State Saving. tures / Custom runway textures.

17 PA-28R Arrow III for FSW ranked 15th of all European air- proach procedures and more with From Justflight ports. The product comes with ex- Pixel by Pixel Accuracy to the Real www.justflight.com tremely high-resolution textures World Avionics counterpart. The and with thousands of small de- GNS Avionics Series from Flight1 is tails. Despite a very large number a step up above other avionics of these details in 3D, the frame packages in that it doesn't use rate stays absolutely stable and FSX/P3D internal processes to hin- excellent. Features: All buildings der simulation performance. All and installations at and around the avionics data structures, calcula- airport. High quality models and tions, and processes are done on photo real textures. High resolution its own using external processes runways and taxiways. Highly real- that are separate from the sim. istic night time effects. High resolu- This allows your simulation experi- This highly detailed simulation of tion textures. New in version 2.0: ence to run smoother and have the PA-28R Arrow III has been cre- Entirely XPlane 11 compatible. minimal frame rate or VAS impact ated by Just Flight's in-house de- Uses advanced X-Plane features overall. The GNS Complete avionics velopment team and will integrate such as 3D spill lights and glass suite includes Built-in terrain and seamlessly into Flight Sim World, reflections. Complete taxiway net- navigation databases provide a allowing you to enjoy the fully in- work for use by ATC and AI air- clear, concise picture of where you teractive Cold and Dark checklist, craft. Animated service vehicles. are and where you're heading. The populate your aircraft with passen- Volumetric grass. Animated road navigation database contains loca- gers and share Arrow-specific mis- traffic. Animated jetways and mar- tion reference for airports, VORs, sions and flight plans via Steam shallers (AutoGate plugin re- NDBs, Intersections, Special Use Workshop. The Arrow III comes in quired). Compatible with X-Life. Airspace and more. 11 paint schemes and has been Added 249 road segments for X- modelled with the latest rendering Plane’s road traffic. Added 1,198 La Palma professional P3D v4 techniques to take full advantage new HDR lights. Replaced all 7,176 From Sim-wings of the advanced visual fidelity old parked cars with better X-Plane www.aerosoft.com which FSW provides, resulting in an default cars. Added 9,834 addi- accurate reproduction of the PA- tional parked cars and 136 semi- 28R down to the smallest screw trailers. Added 30 missing build- head. Just Flight's Arrow III cockpit ings. Fixed blurry ortho textures. features custom-coded avionics as well as full fuel and electrical sys- Flight1 GNS Complete Edition tems and a wonderfully rich and From Flight1 authentic audio experience from www.flight1.com Turbine Sound Studios. The highly detailed Just Flight PA-28R Arrow III for FSW takes full advantage of La Palma, nick named the “Green the advanced visual fidelity FSW Island”, features high-resolution provides and features custom- ground textures, a stunning 3D coded avionics as well as full fuel ground mesh and an absolutely and electrical systems, a complete realistic virtual Airport. Enjoy the set of failure scenarios and check- very special approach to the airport lists, and an authentic sound set located right next to the Atlantic from Turbine Sound Studios. Enjoy Ocean that charms with its the fully interactive Cold and Dark uniquely beautiful mood at night or checklist, populate your aircraft dusk – now even more atmospheric with passengers and share Arrow- thanks to Prepar3D V4’s advanced specific FSW missions and flight lighting features! AESLite com- plans via Steam Workshop. pletes the package with dynamic airport traffic and ships at the air- Airport Dublin V2.0 XP port feeder. Features: High resolu- From Aerosoft tion ground textures based on an aerial image 25cm/pixel for the www.aerosoft.com The GNS Complete Edition includes immediate surroundings of the air- BOTH the GNS 430 and 530 avion- port and 0.50 cm for the rest of the ics that used to be sold separately, island. Custom 3D Mesh in the air- in one package. This new version port area with an underpass, includes updates allow the avionics bridges, roads and a sloped coast package to work with FSX/FSX line; all buildings and roads on cor- Steam, Prepar3D v3 and the newly rect levels. Seamless transition released Prepar3D v4. The Flight1 from 3D height model to mesh due GNS series 430 and 530 gauges to modelled banana plantations. All feature a high-contrast color dis- buildings/installations of the airport play that makes it easy to read and The capital airport of Ireland for surroundings included in high de- interpret pilot-critical information. XPlane 11. With up to 20 million tail. Also included are the major Quickly and easily see your position passengers per year Dublin´s In- port facilities, sightseeing spots in relative to ground features, ternational Airport is of course the Santa Cruz, the telescopes on the navaids, flight plan routings, ap- number one in Ireland and also Roque de los Muchachos as well as 18 the apartment complex on ap- piled into one object, added day 787 ushers in the future in aircraft proach of the RWY 19. Excellent switches and corrected Mat and Ani design. You can now experience atmosphere at night and dusk due (Flashes). Corrected parking posi- this airliner in FSX (soon to be to rendered night lighting. Ani- tions. Fixed Terrain errors. Opti- available in P3D variants). This mated jetways (Ctrl+J). Autogen mised AGNIS, lighter and more product is an officially licensed and vegetation covering the whole precise. Optimised AESLite for P3D product from Boeing™, and Quali- island of La Palma with more than V4 (shadow support, etc.). Ex- tyWings has left almost no stone 62,000 autogen buildings. New in tended Config tool "EDDT Traffic". unturned in covering the vast array the P3D V4 version: All code of features of the 787. This product (BLGs) compiled with P3D V4 SDK, Air CP-80 Racer is very complete, and it covers all using new material options and From Air Design Bureau areas of the 787, along with other being performance optimised to the www.simmarket.com features to help you enjoy the new engine. All objects optimised simulation. Choose between three for new shadow technology. highly accurate and detailed mod- Ground layout including detailed els: Boeing™ 787-8, Boeing™ 787- aerial image following P3DV4 SDK. 9, Boeing™ 787-10 (Release TBD). New, optimised 3D runway lighting Based on hundreds of drawings, with activation/deactivation based photos and videos, the exterior on time of day and weather condi- models replicate every small detail tions. Apron lamps with new effects of the real airplane. Differences and dynamic light. Changed AFCAD between each variant - such as for approaches at Airac 1706. Dynamic the main landing gear - are mod- car/ship traffic on the airport The CP-80 Racer is the homebuild elled in great detail. In addition we feeder and surroundings (AESLite). version of the classic, single-seat, made sure that material reflectiv- Aircraft Parking and Information single-engine, racing aircraft with ity, aircraft lights and animations System (APIS). fixed conventional landing gear closely resemble the real aircraft. developed in France in 1972. The There are over 100 Custom anima- Berlin-Tegel professional for aircraft uses all-wood construction tions on the exterior models includ- P3D4 with some composite parts such as ing, but not limited to: Realistic Wing Flex. 787-9 HLFC System. From PAD-Labs wheel pants, cowling, propeller Environmental Control System www.aerosoft.com spinner. Powered by a 100 HP Con- tinental O-200 air-cooled, horizon- inlets & outlets. 787-specific tally opposed, four-cylinder, direct- "Autodrag" function. 787-specific drive aircraft engine. Features: Full Maneuver Load Alleviation. All FSX/FSX:SE and Prepar3D v2/v3/ Flight Controls. APU Inlet Door. v4 compatible. High definition tex- Landing gear incl. Shock Strut tures - all with specular, bump and Compression. Passenger & Cargo reflection maps. 6 different liveries. Doors with correct animation. Custom sounds on cockpit switches, knobs, levers. Completely Airport & City 3 for FS2004 custom animated VC. All gauges From AFS Design This add-on for Prepar3D V4 offers are developed with 3D parts. Wind- www.simmarket.com a very accurate and realistic rec- shield and gauges reflections. Ac- reation of the airport with high- curate flight dynamics. Volumetric detailed models and textures. Opti- side view prop effect. PDF User mized to guarantee an astonishing Guide. graphical appearance with an outstanding performance, the airport QualityWings Ultimate 787 makes for a superb flight destina- Collection for FSX tion. The 3D runway-lightning in From QualityWings combination with the animated ra- www.flight1.com dar and windsocks as well as static people and animated vehicle traffic create a lifelike rendition of the New Airport & City v3: Brighter airport Berlin-Tegel. The add-on contrast 500 new 1024 px. building includes seasonal changes that in textures. "Airport & City" scenery combination with the baked tex- contains a comprehensive package tures enable realistic light effects of new textures for autogenous and authentic shadows resulting in building, such as shelter or sky- a very authentic atmosphere. Fea- scrapers. It will be the default tures: AFD optimised, frequencies autogen textures replaced with new improved textures and adapted to and approaches adapted based on QualityWings, one of the industry the respective world area. The new recent chartsJetways are now mov- leaders in flight simulation now textures awaken all your cities and able via CTRL+J. Reworked ground brings you the The Ultimate 787™ airports throughout the world stan- layout. Buildings and objects opti- Collection for FSX. The Boeing™ dard for new life. The term mised for Prepar3D V4 for in- 787 Dreamliner™ is a tech marvel "Texture" Mapping (about German creased performance. Improved of aviation. Using advanced com- design) refers to a method of 3D Lighting and added dynamic lights. posites, fuel efficiency, new electri- computer graphics. It is used with Runway and taxiway lights com- cal designs, new engine types, the

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John McNeely On the 22/23 July of this year the by now annual Bray His club at that time was located at Dublin Airport. So Air show in Ireland took place. Many of the participat- off we headed north of the airport for an hour and then ing vintage aircraft were based out of Weston Airport back. It was mind blowing for me. I was able to take (EIWT) for the weekend event. As I only live a 10 min- control for a bit and more importantly I was neither ute drive from the airport I decided on the Sunday afraid or air sick. morning to go there to see what was on display. It was an interesting collection of vintage birds, most notably However, at that time I was seriously busy with work a DC3 in Aer Lingus colours of the 1940’s and 2 Spit- and family. Long hours and the usual demands cur- fires. There were a lot of people there and it was great tailed my virtual flying. I had looked at the cost of real to see so many people interested in these aircraft. On flying but it was bloody expensive. I could not justify exiting the ramp where the DC3 was parked I bumped my ambition. But life can throw some right hammers into to my first flying instructor with his wife and two at you and a personal tragedy turned my thoughts kids and we chatted for a few minutes. I said to Terry completely. I decided that with enough time and sav- did he realise it was 10 years to the month since he ing I might realise my dream. You only live once! So set me on my first solo? He couldn’t believe it and around autumn 2006 my journey began. I asked my frankly neither could I. In the intervening years I have then employer if I could take 2 hours off on Thursday been asked several times, what was it like, what was mornings and make up the time elsewhere. This they involved etc. So I shall set out below my personal od- kindly agreed to. So every Thursday morning at 9am yssey with aviation as I recall it. would see me at Weston, raring to go. I chose this particular time as the airport wasn’t busy and I could I was born and reared in Castlebar, County Mayo in learn in a less daunting environment. Terry, my in- the west of Ireland. Our town had a small airport on structor, whom I had met while being seconded to a the outskirts and as a child growing up there was al- large engineering firm, led the way in all things. He ways the sound of planes buzzing around. As the crow had a laptop with all the briefings in Powerpoint for- flies the airport was only about 3KM away. The runway mat. So for example he had a briefing on steep turns, was sandwiched between a main road and a railroad. or Angle of Attack and would instruct as such in these There was a small hill that had a perfect view of this dark arts. Then we would take off and do the briefing airport and on summer days I would go there and in the air and afterwards he would fill in my log book. watch these small planes coming and going. We were a Let me digress a little here. Before anything else I first post war generation well versed in Battle of Britain he- did a thorough medical exam and applied to the Irish roes thanks to comic books and films or hearing from Aviation Authority for a student license. Then we relatives who actually took part in WW2. What really started by examining the plane I was assigned to for got me at that time was, how in the name of science the day and how to check it out. Is it out of mainte- do they stay up there? Overhead, high in the sky, the nance hours, any unusual marks on the fuselage, 747’s were heading out across the Atlantic, going to or checking fuel for water contamination? Ice on the from the US. One day I promised myself, I am going to wings on a winter’s morning and how to remove it etc. learn how to fly. How to safely refuel it and what to look for with the tyres. The planes I flew were Cessna 152’s. Once we Well as they say life took over and diverted me as used a Cessna 172, bigger and more comfortable. I felt much as it could. One has to live. The usual challenges sorry for Terry as he is a big guy, well over 6ft and the of family and career took over but I always had this C152 cockpit is small. hankering. My wife just couldn’t get my obsession with all things aerial and frankly I was beginning to wonder So after the briefing, checking out the airplane, it was myself! Along came computers and with them the first time to start her up. You’d call to the Tower for Start iterations of flight simulation. Ah there is a God! I Approval and when it cleared you’d start her up, spent endless hours learning and TWEAKING to my checklist on knee, followed religiously and don’t skimp heart’s content. I was able to combine my day job, at on it. Next call the Tower with your intentions, either that stage IT, and aviation (In a manner of speaking). circuits or off to the west to the training area. Then One time I did a job for a guy who was a flying instructor and rather than being paid he gave me a lesson.

21 ject. You had to do these calculations quickly because if you diverted from your intended course for any rea- start taxiing. Now this is a real skill to align that nose son you had to be able to calculate in the air while fly- wheel on the centre line. Remember it’s a plane not a ing the plane. Well the easiest way told to me was to car. Steering with your feet felt odd to me. I drive/ practice while holding a cup of tea! About two weeks drove a lot for my job so it took some getting used to. after the month of weekend schooling the exams took It was explained to me to keep the centre line under place at a hotel in central Dublin. These IAA exams are your bum and you won’t be far off! Then while taxiing, of the multiple choice variety and took up the whole turn into wind and do the run up checks as per the day. Within a few days I got the results. Much to the checklist then off to the holding point and never cross chagrin of some instructors I passed. Whew. that line. Line up and take off when cleared to do so. Weston is a bit odd in that it’s a dog leg circuit. Noise So back I went to my training flights and it was not abatement, Baldonnel the military airport is to the always with the same instructor. My own wasn’t always south east and Dublin Airport airspace is to the north. available or too busy at work. One aerobatic instructor Both of these boundaries never to be crossed or gave me some great advice when pre-flighting the else!!!! Learning how to do the circuit, staying at cor- plan: bang on the fuselage in case there’s something rect circuit altitude, landmarks for turning and radio like a forgotten tool rattling around. Then he got me to calls/chatter all amount to a daunting workload. There fly, once levelled off using only the rudder pedals. were many times when I thought I would never get this. Especially the radio! It drove me nuts! I was con- Towards the summer of 2007 I had accumulated centrating on flying the damn airplane and then Tower around 20 hours in the air. I had done all sorts of land- would issue “Extend downwind, helicopter inbound for ings: with partial and full flaps, flapless and my least landing!” Extend where, if I do I will cross the forbid- favourite, a glide approach. Gliding can be tricky to den boundaries. It took me ages to not panic with all judge. Set the engine to idle and adjust the plane’s this going on. There were days my mouth was so dry nose for best gliding speed, usually 60 knots and aim you would think I was hiking in the desert. for the runway, bearing in mind that when turning you lose height. To get it spot on takes practice and judge- One factor that really killed me was the weather. The ment. unpredictability of Irish weather! I’d be there at 9, low cloud and raining. At 11 the sun was shining. There And so one sunny July morning after doing two circuits were times I wish I was living in Spain or Miami where in EI-BMN, a trusty steed, Terry my brave instructor the weather is a bit more sunny and stable. Anyway told me to pull up near the tower and hopped out, lit- this kind of training went on all through the winter and erally. “You’re ready to go solo, remember the routine spring. Some weeks I flew and others not. In February and you’ll be fine”. He had told the tower earlier it was I spent 4 full weekends doing instructor led classes in going to be my first solo. Sweating like a bull, I called aviation law, the mechanics of the airplane and naviga- the tower and mentally prepared myself. Off I went, tion in preparation for the PPL exams. They were inter- ran through the numbers and routine (BUMFITCH any- esting until we got to navigation and the use of the one) and did a perfect landing. It all happened so flight calculator or euphemistically flight computer. quickly. I parked up and shut down and Terry greeted me with a big smile and shook my hand. The owner of Navigation is a science in itself. It was explained to us the National Flight Centre, Kieran O’Connor, a legen- how to use the flight computer, think old fashioned dary figure in Irish aviation, congratulated me and told slide rule here. VFR, as well as looking out for land- me I was now a pilot and no one could take that away marks and other clues as to where you are also in- from me! I was bursting with joy. I rang first my wife volves flight planning. To get from A to B, how much then my mother. My dear mother gave me such a fuel is needed, at what height and speed and bearing roasting. What was I doing, are you crazy etc. with a must all be calculated. So you can predict on your few expletives thrown in. The Irish Mammy is an insti- flight plan or PLOG as it was called, that I will be at A tution in itself. But do you know, the second solo was at a certain time and from there will be at B a certain more frightening as I was really alone now. I was so time as well. nervous I was sick. I eventually got over this state and completed the mandatory 5 hours of solo flying needed Now me and mathematics were never the best of as part of the PPL. It was one of the proudest mo- friends and to this day I still am not a lover of the sub- ments of my life and I had realised a dream. n

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TAPA, V. C. Bird International Air- selected all of these. A "Readme" mention, in the "ReadMe" of how port Antigua started life as an and uninstall items were automati- much scenery coverage is included American Air Base (Coolidge Air- cally inserted into the Windows so I had to do "before & after" field) in 1941. It was part of the US menu system. The product page on screenshots and compare them. It East Coast Defence Strategy during SimMarket shows screenshots from looks like TropicalSim have done World War 2. It had 2 non-crossing both FSX and P3Dv4. the top third of the island from the runways 07/23 and 10/28. 10/28 is town of St. John, North to the coast currently out of operation and is I checked to see what I got, in and East to the coast - quite a big used for parking etc. It was re- comparison to the screenshots area. It's blended in quite well with named as Coolidge Air Force Base (mentioned above) and found that the Orbx default scenery and, of in 1948 and closed and handed there was a clash with a freeware course, TAPA blends in perfectly over to the Antiguan Government version I had forgotten about. I with the supplied TropicalSim cov- in 1949, whereby it became a civil removed this and cleaned up en- erage. It certainly puts more detail airport and renamed Coolidge In- tries in the scenery.cfg and ran the close to the airport, for instance, ternational Airport that began com- Orbx Airport Elevations Correction the NASA Tracking Station at the mercial operation in 1952. In 1985 utility etc. That looks better! I did South East corner of the Airport it was renamed V. C. Bird Interna- my usual checks with Ultimate and the Coolidge Cricket Ground tional after Antiguas' first Prime Traffic for missing airline paints. I next to the Airport Car parks. Minister. Rwy 07/25 was extended noticed quite a lot of Tradewind There are some static aircraft in from 5700 feet to 7500 feet to Caribbean Airlines traffic (the Vir- various parts of the airport, includ- 9000 feet in the Sixties and early tual Airline I fly for) in the airport ing some in hangers. Plenty of Seventies. 2005 saw the building of as well. I added "FlyMontserrat" via static airport equipment, stairs, a new Terminal with a second in a traffic BGL file. The SODE jet- pushback trucks, baggage carts, 2012. All passengers now go ways didn't operate for small stuff trucks, cars in the car parks etc, through the newest Terminal, parked at the gates, but that's to can be seen in various places which has four JetWays/AirBridges. be expected. A BAW B777 was around the airport. There are no TAPA is the largest Leeward Islands parked at Gate1; the SODE jetway animated airside vehicles other airport and handles over 850,000 operated for this ok. There's no than FSX default and AI Aircraft. passengers annually and accommo- dates over 10 airlines. WikiPedia lists 23! Local airlines include LIAT, Winair and FlyMontserrat. Global airlines include Air Canada, Ameri- can Airlines and British Airways.

There appears to be 3 separate install executables available, one for FSX/FSX-SE, one for P3D V1-2- 3 and one for P3Dv4. This review is for FSX/FSX-SE. This install execu- table is about 101Mb and expands to around 260Mb on your HDD. Options include 3D lighting, merg- ing autogen and SODE jetways. I

28 Road traffic (default) is included on ing half way down the south side of sentation of the area - some land- nearby roads, including some the closed runway 10/28. There are mark buildings (Power Stations through the car park. cars and aircraft parked close by etc), clusters of buildings repre- this building. Maybe it's an office or senting townships; trees, shrubs, Looking at Google Maps/Earth, the Flying Club building. One could cer- coastline, shoals, reefs, coral, and rendition in FSX is very good. The tainly have fun exploring the air- Long Island off the end of Rwy07. western end of the airport contains port environs. Outside the airport, One could spend quite a while ex- what appears to be a large area of within the apparent coverage, ploring using the MicroLight! Back Solar Panels. As far as I can see all things become a bit more to the airport itself - as far as I can the buildings within the airport "representative" rather than tell it's a very well executed exact grounds are represented. Obviously "exact". Roads are a bit of a blur replica of the real thing. After all, a fair bit of work went into making (but there's vehicle traffic running) this is FLIGHT simulator, not TOUR- the 3D buildings look like they are and around NDB ZDX. Camp Bliz- IST simulator!! The most important in real life. Their advertising places zard is to the East of it containing part is the airport itself. great emphasis on the new Termi- some representative 3D buildings, nal 2 which looks fabulous. If you but to the West should be The After sunset the night lighting is look around, some of them beg the American University of Antigua good with 3D lights used for major question "What's that for? as it Caribbean Medical School buildings roads – a fabulous effect when on looks like it could be a theme – which is not there in FSX. Over- approach and final. In the airport cafe!". I'm talking about the build- all, though, you get a good repre- itself there are floodlights and

29 floodlight splash textures used more-or-less in line with it, and Runway! I noticed the AFX also has around the aprons and buildings, ZDX NDB (369KHz) North of the AI aircraft turning a 180° correctly taxiway and runway edge lights, airport near Camp Blizzard. So the for runway 07 takeoffs. The charts runway end lights - all seems well charts list VOR and NDB ap- also limit the weight bearing capa- covered, without being overblown. proaches plus one RNAV approach. bility of Parallel Taxiway G to air- The ReadMe is actually Looking at the ADE/AFX file for craft weights of less than 65000lbs! "tapa2017_fsx.pdf", of 9 pages and TAPA in the TropicalSim TAPA scen- Ah well, you can't have everything. contains basic info about the soft- ery folder I notice that there are no Taxiway G is used by all AI aircraft! ware - a short history, "QuickFacts" approaches built in. The original I don't know what TropicalSims' airport data, 3D lights, SODE, FSX default TAPA contains the previous versions were like, but I'd Autogen Configuration Merger util- navaids and approaches. Since imagine this iteration was about ity and TropicalSim contact info. that's 2005 data, it's minus the including the new Terminal2 (which There are no charts included for RNAV approach. So if you're using became operational in late 2015), the airport, but they're easily the FSX GPS there's no RNAV ap- among other things. I have other sourced on the internet. There's no proach available. If you're using sceneries by TropicalSim - Provi- ILS, but the runway does have recent Navigraph/NavdataPro Navi- denciales, the Azores, Oporto. All PAPI lights. Nearby Navaids are gation Databases it is. So all's (including TAPA) add detail to ANU VOR (114.50MHz), which is good. I did a flight with the RNAV breath life to the Airport. close to the beginning of RWY07 on Approach to Runway07 using the Piggots Hill, ANU NDB (351KHz) is Aerosoft Airbus 320 and I had Lat- This scenery is available from Sim- a little West of the runway and eral and Vertical guidance to the market.com for €20.79. There’s an upgrade price of €12.30 if you bought a previous versions from SimMarket.

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Platform: FSX/P3Dv2,3,4 Cost: €20.79 Download Developer: TropicalSim Publisher: TropicalSim Available: www.simmarket.com

30 You might have noticed that the Installation into FSX involved crea- straightforward; a single runway, number of Flight Simulator add-on tion of Napoli X and Napoli X city with main terminal and associated scenery packages for Italy has sub-folders within the FSX Aerosoft car parks, large Atitech hangar, been growing very appreciably in folder; space thus consumed was in Aero Club Di Napoli, control tower, recent times, to the extent that the order of 650Mb+ for the airport fire station, small fuel farm, and almost every significant airport and and just under 200MB for the city. military infrastructure and ware- region is now represented. Happily, In the Windows start menu you can housing to the south of the run- with the release of Napoli X by MK access an "AESlite LIRN Configura- way, and Alenia Aermacchi hangars Studios and published by Aerosoft, tion" screen which allows you to and associated infrastructure, Po- this coverage now also includes activate or de-activate airport lizia Di Stato hangar, and general Naples Airport LIRN (Aeroporto di apron traffic and Naples Port ship aviation apron to the north of the Napoli-Capodichino) as well as the traffic, but nothing else. The airport runway. To the southeast of the city and port of Naples too. The animated traffic is custom-built airport itself looms the dormant yet scenery can be installed to FSX with this package, and you should imposing Vesuvius volcano which (including the STEAM version) and, set airport vehicle density to zero last erupted during the Second as with many new sceneries being within the simulator itself to avoid World War, and as anyone who has released now, Lockheed Martin Pre- traffic jams. The scenery package done the tourist trip to the summit par3D V3/V4. Indeed, word on the also comes with NavDataPro Charts will know, it still rather ominously grapevine has it that some of the client with associated LIRN charts. emits some smoke and steam to- major scenery developers are plan- This might not be of great interest day, though thankfully in small vol- ning to abandon FSX altogether in if you have other sources for charts umes. the future and focus on Prepar3D. already, such as Navigraph. The This prompts me to seriously con- scenery manual is a brief 8-page Commercial traffic commenced sider packing my bags and finally summary of the product Aerosoft from the airport in 1950, it having making the move from FSX to Pre- standard bilingual German-English. been used as a military base by the par3D for the sake of progress, Unlike some other Aerosoft scenery US air force in 1944 during the improvements, escape from out of add-on manuals, sadly this manual campaign to run the Nazis out of memory torment, and overall a includes no printed charts. Italy. The airport's single southwest better flight simulation experience; to northeast oriented runway 06 given the consistent praise being Naples Airport LIRN is located in (ILS - 110.15)/24 (ILS-109.50) is heaped upon Prepar3D it would the Capodichino district of Naples 8622ft long. At both extreme ends now seem the logical way to go. city, being just north of the main of the physical runway you'll notice This review, however, is of the FSX metropolitan area, and the port a large "X" which is not there to installation, which might be my last and bay of Naples. The basic layout forbid landing, but to alert you to on that platform. of the airport is modest and the fact that the two runway

31 thresholds are notably displaced. any way. The greater Naples area (which includes volumetric grass) is The associated VOR beacon (POM - and the regions beyond including realistically textured to look re- 117.85) and NDB (POM - 351) are Vesuvius, the Bay of Naples, the cently mown; switching to seasons located to the northeast of the field islands of Ischia and Capri to the other than summer makes no dif- on the runway 24 approach path west, and the Sorrento peninsula ference to this so the textures are (not physically represented in the to the south, make for a superb unchanging throughout the year. scenery). There is a single taxiway surrounding panorama whether Approach lighting to both runways parallel to the main runway, which approaching LIRN towards runway is in place, with that on the ap- continues to Terminal 1 and associ- 06 or 24 and these look even bet- proach to runway 24 extending ated aprons located adjacent to the ter should you have the Orbx en- beyond the airport perimeter and runway 06 end and at the south- hancement in your scenery library. surrounded by its own separate west quadrant of the field. Cur- At time of writing, sadly the inhabi- boundary. An abundance of dy- rently the airport handles just in tants of Ischia had endured a sig- namic birds swoop over the field, excess of 6 million passengers per nificant earthquake with some un- which might prove somewhat wor- annum, and the biggest carriers fortunate loss of life, thus demon- risome when considering the risk of are Ryanair, Easyjet and troubled strating once again how unstable virtual bird strike they are posing! Alitalia, but with many other, the subterranean environment is in The main terminal (which is Termi- mainly European, carriers also pro- this region. nal 1) is a very nicely detailed low- viding services, including Aer Lin- rise (three-storey) structure with gus. The perimeter of the field itself is excellent landside and airside fea- delineated from the surrounding tures. There are transparent win- Looking first beyond LIRN itself and lands and districts by a continuous dows, and the internal features what this package delivers, the city solid wall, with a secondary mesh rendered are visible both from your both to the north and south to the fence in places. These form an al- cockpit as you taxi to stand, or as port is nicely represented with most continuous perimeter, except you drive up to the terminal land- photo real terrain coverage as well where the approach roads extend side. I always like when such build- as custom autogen buildings. The to the main terminal; this might ings include roof details, as is the buildings include some landmark well reflect the military origin and case with this scenery, and indeed constructs such as city-centre high- pedigree of this airport. The acres this aspect of detailing is also evi- rise office blocks and a huge me- of grassy terrain of the airfield dent on the top floor of a couple of dieval fort on a prominent hill some distance away to the southwest - this fortress does not quite blend perfectly into the contoured terrain upon which it sits. The lines and contours of the port and the coast are rendered in detail and some very tall dock cranes are in situ, along with numerous ships up to the size of large holiday cruiser types. As would be expected, the photo-real textures look most im- pressive at higher altitude, and include a multitude of red-roofed city buildings, as well as railways and associated yards, city streets, squares, parks, sports stadiums, and surrounding motorways with interchanges. I have Orbx Open Land Class Europe installed and with this there were no scenery conflict issues that I could detect in

32 high rise car-parks nearby, which Terminal 2 (for charter passengers) bonus. Detail is attended to both include marked parking spaces and a little to the southeast of the main airside and landside and examples parked 3D cars, and on the roofs of terminal which strangely seems to of nice features include reflective various other facilities including have no airside access, however I glass panes, external stairwells, hangar and service buildings. The could find no representation of this air-conditioning units, canopies approach and access roadways to building in the scenery, which is over entry/exit ways, finely- the terminal include ground mark- not significant as it seems a some- detailed signs, guard rails, as well ings, street pylons, static 3D cars, what minor piece of the overall air- passenger seating, eateries and detailed and colourful adjacent port infrastructure. shops indoors. The immediate signage and advertising, as well as (within the photo real-ground tex- autogen trees and palms. The di- The main terminal has no jet ways ture boundary) landside approach viding line between photo-real tex- (though there are three elevated to the terminal is particularly well ture surrounding the airport, and enclosed corridors extending onto done, with some of the more finely the ground texture detail placed the apron). This might not be such detailed roadway signs, airport over the confines of the airport it- a disadvantage in the hot and dry signs, and advertising billboards I self is somewhat stark and abrupt climate of this region (at least in have seen in a scenery add-on in places when examining up close summer). There are about ten (though these are limited in num- - for example on the approaches to stands sited in front of the building, ber given the small size of the air- the terminal building the photo real and around a further ten more are port). A nice distribution of autogen textures change all too sharply remotely located further out. The trees, coupled with the large trans- from blurry to high-definition; less terminal is well-detailed with lots of parent window-panes of the main noticeable where this interface cor- nice design and architectural detail terminal departures' entrance adds responds to the perimeter fence. A which looks close to pictures of the to the effect. glance at various maps of airport real thing - inclusion of internal layout on the net shows a small details is an attractive additional Airside, there is a good overall level

33 of detail achieved with the various liked the fact that the dynamic more drastically, AI traffic, when buildings and infrastructure ground vehicles look realistic, and flying resource-demanding airliners through accurate modelling and are driven on their dynamic pat- such as PMDG types. This was be- inclusion of effective and convinc- terns at equally realistic speeds. cause I immediately ran into out of ing texturing. This is particularly so memory (OOM) warnings following with the fire station, within which Night-lighting deserves special loading up my PMDG 737; if I ne- several fire tenders are parked in mention. For example, the main glected to scale down detail set- waiting. I did notice some strange terminal which looks well in day- tings significantly. Although I could but limited effects with some of the light looks even better during the take off in the 737 at fairly high hangars on the north side of the night hours, with the attention to detail settings without an actual runway, whereby some elements of internal details already alluded to OOM crash, completing a circuit of scenery such as autogen trees as above yielding yet an even clearer LIRN and setting up for an ap- well as distant clouds beyond, were and more vivid appearance when proach led to the inevitable, and visible through the buildings them- the lights come on. Many signs and well before the threshold. I reckon selves when viewing from some billboards in the vicinity of the ter- that precipitation of memory issues angles, as though the buildings minal, and on sides of hangar for me was exacerbated by the fact were partially transparent. There buildings get special night-lighting that my installed ORBX landclass of are high-definition ground textures treatment, a very good example of Europe affords particular attention throughout aprons, runways and which is the multi-storey car-park to detailing of nearby Vesuvius. taxiways, a level of detail which to the left of the main terminal re- Happily, the OOM issues did not we've grown to expect by default splendent with large red occur with adherence to more mod- with payware add-on sceneries "Ferrarelle" sign stating "Italians' est settings. Notwithstanding the nowadays - certainly this scenery is sparkling water since 1893". Look- limitations of performance with consistent with such standards. ing out towards the aprons beyond memory-demanding aircraft, I had Abundant ground direction mark- during the night-time hours, the no other problems at all with this ings, stand markings, taxiway subtle and diffuse lighting effects scenery and enjoyed its mostly im- markings and runway markings, achieved with the apron pylon pressive looks and good balance coupled with weathering and lighting is very pleasing indeed, between detail and performance ground staining enhance the over- and this is enhanced further by the overall. The authors have achieved all achievement of a very good static and dynamic vehicles having a very nice representation of a sense realism. A good distribution visible headlights. modest medium-sized airport, in an of custom ground equipment and area which by contrast, presents a vehicles, both static and dynamic, Performance-wise this scenery be- dramatic, outstanding, and unique adds to the sense of a busy airport haved well when flying less de- landscape over which to fly. with lots of ground activity in the manding aeroplanes. However, I vicinity of the terminal and its adja- had to be particularly careful to John Melville cent parking stands. I particularly reduce back the detail sliders and,

Platform: FSX/FSX:SE/P3Dv3/v4 Download Cost: €25.79 Developer: MK Studios Publisher: Aerosoft www.aerosoft.com

34 Roma-Ciampino X

I have visited Rome on many occa- Ciampino G. B. Pastine Interna- lacks in aircraft movements and sions in the past and over the last tional Airport or simply Rome larger modern terminal buildings it number of years I have increased Ciampino is located about 12 km more than makes up in the detail my visits due to the relocation of a south east of the centre of Rome. of the package. You will discover very good friend of mine to the The airport serves as a base for something new every time you go city. As you are probably aware Ryanair and general aviation traf- into the scenery area. from previous reviews of scenery, I fic. It also hosts a fleet of Bombar- do most, if not all my flying on- dier 415 aerial fire-fighters. Download size comes in at about line. Italy would be one of my cho- 1.1Gb. The download will locate sen countries. Some time ago I The airport dates back to 1916 and your Aerosoft folder or create a reviewed the larger Fiumicino air- is one of the oldest airports still in new one if this is your first port also produced and updated by operation. It was used extensively download. The folder contains Aerosoft. So I was delighted that by the military and was Rome’s three subfolders; images, scenery they recently published their first main airport up to 1960. However and textures. It also has a very edition of Roma-Ciampino by Ital- with the development of Fiumicino comprehensive manual in German ian Airports Developers. Here to Airport, passenger numbers and English giving lots of ideas on fore we had some very good free- dropped and it was used for mainly tweaking your system and also a ware sceneries. However the de- charter and executive operations. background on the airport itself. light expressed on different forums However, terminal facilities were There is also a config tool which by the Italian simmers on the re- extended in 2007 to cater for the allows you tweak various sections lease of the scenery was well pub- growing number of low cost opera- in the scenery. This should be use- lished. tors. Ryanair has a base here al- ful to those readers that as yet though it also uses Fiumicino. The have not caught up with the ever In late August while I was finalising airport is a single runway operation growing need to increase the power this article I flew on-line from orientated 15/33 which is 2,208 of our systems. I have a 2Gb LOWW (Vienna) to LIRA Ciampino) metres. It also has a single termi- graphics card with my frame rates to get a good look at the night time nal handling both arrivals and de- set at 20 and throughout the re- set up of the scenery. On finals to partures. It also handles flights for view I had no difficulties with jitters LIRA as I was the only one on the the Italian Government and other in the scenery. Having reviewed frequency I commented to the visiting dignitaries. It has a small the system requirements they do tower controller that I had the new general aviation terminal. Passen- say a 1Gb card but recommend a package installed and was doing a ger numbers for 2015 were 5.8m. 2Gb one. Surprisingly no charts are review for our magazine, and how The scenery is the first commercial included for the airport which by well the presentation looked. As it rendition of Ciampino (I stand cor- now has become a feature of most happened, the controller Fabrizio rected on this) and has been devel- scenery packages. They are avail- Pascucci, is a member of the Italian oped by Italian Scenery Designers able through Vatita at Scenery Designers team who de- and is published by Aerosoft. The http://forum.vatita.net/index.php/ velopered of the scenery. I re- scenery not only covers the airport topic,4824.0.html or vau.aero/ marked on what a great job they but also the surrounding areas and navdb/chart/LIRA.pdf. had done. More on those details the town of Ciampino. This is a later. small airport compared to its bigger Advertised features are: 3D gPoly brother at Fiumicino, but what this (light effects and rain effect) (P3D

35 only). Custom meshes. Ciampino including all correct markings for jets and a large fleet of Bombardier Town reproduced using autogen the gates and taxiways. The airport 415 fire-fighters. Some of these with optimized textures. Industrial is alive with vehicles such as the are present as static aircraft and area around the airport. 3D cars in usual tugs and buses. To my left is are also on the eastern side of the parking lot, custom trees and 3D the control tower and fire station airport on a smaller apron at the grass. 3D custom apron vehicles complete with a fire tender on 15 end of the airport. Some very and aircraft. Animated windsock standby. The terminal has a dis- interesting YouTube videos of the variation reflecting the wind tinctive blue colour canopy which CL 415 at Ciampino are available (SODE). Night textures developed runs all the way around the termi- on line. Opposite the CL 415’s at using ambient occlusion modelling. nal. To my right is the main apron the 15 end of the runway is the Night lights effects using SODE. which I believe was the main mili- military apron. Again as with the Unaligned left PAPI lights on RWY tary apron in the past. This is now rest of the airport, no detail has 33 (as real ones) made using occupied by mainly Ryanair aircraft been left out. There is a large SODE. 3D approach lights using with the odd Wizz Air airbus. easy- hanger on this apron with a small SODE. Configuration program to Jet used to be based here but building with a square rusty looking set the 3D object density. Seasonal moved some years ago to Fium- roof. Beyond this is a large car park variations. NavDataPro Charts cli- icino. There are lots of detail on the full of 3D vehicles and an oval ent with charts of this airport. apron with a good scattering of shaped park which is tree lined as stairways and airport truck and at the real location. In addition the Once installed I fired up FSX to see tugs. All taxiways are correctly logistics firm DHL also use the air- what is on offer. The airport as marked and in accordance with my port. Going landside there is as mentioned already, is small in com- Navigraph charts. much detail here as on airside with parison to Fiumicino. It consists of all the buildings and the terminal one main terminal which is located Moving south past the fire station, replicated exactly to real standards on the west side of the runway just you come to an open apron space and verified on Google earth. The north of the centre point. The main known as area Golf. This is a large car parks are dotted with various district of Ciampino is located just space stretching to the 33 end of vehicles all in 3D format. The sur- east of the airport which is shown the runway and houses business rounding buildings are a true rep- in great detail in the scenery as is all the surrounding business parks and commercial buildings. A quick reference to Google earth con- firmed that this package is an exact replica of the real world airport. It even includes a building site to the south west of the airport just outside the perimeter which again can be seen on Google earth.

I parked at gate 201 at the main Terminal. This was the gate assigned to me while flying on-line. The scenery is certainly of the highest quality with super details

36 lica of the real life version and buildings included, such as apart- money. I did the review with the placed in the correct positions with ment blocks on the Ciampino side, HD textures on and frame rates set all real life colourings. to churches and prominent build- at 20. My system is relatively new ings, including the large railway with a 2Gb graphics card and 16Gb Finally, I switched to night time station. There are numerous build- RAM. I won’t say that it was perfect and found the effects to be superb. ings on all sides representing in- but frame rates stayed at about 17 The lighting is very subtle without dustrial areas and business parks, to 20 for most of the scenery and the full on glare. All the taxiways along with a number of buildings not dropping any lower than 15. I and signs are lit up giving a very under construction. All in all, add- will probably revert to normal tex- realistic feeling. As mentioned ear- ing to the feel of the area and giv- tures for my regular on-line flying. lier, I used the opportunity to fly ing the true impression of a re- Some systems may not be able to into Ciampino at night and was gional airport as opposed to the handle all the detail; however I taken aback by the lighting and larger ones. The detail in all areas would not be put off by this. detail of the airport and surround- is superb. Tweaking your system will get you ing areas. the desired results. However at the The surrounding areas of the air- Overall, I found the scenery to be risk of repeating myself, the detail port are almost complete with all excellent and good value for at the airport is one of the best I have seen given the size and area covered. Having visited the airport on a number of occasions I can safely say that this is as real as it gets.

Brian Church

Platform: FSX/FSX:SE/P3D v3/v4 Download Cost: €23.72 Developer: Italian Airports Developers Publisher: Aerosoft www.aerosoft.com

37 VatMap by wkberg for iPhone/iPad VatMap provides an online view of the VATSIM® Network on you iPhone or iPad! Now even use VatMap as your Electronic Flight Bag for charts! Now plan, see, watch and track VATSIM® flights with your own smartphone or tablet! VatMap is based on the built-in map of your iDevice. It plots the online pilots and controllers on your map right in the palm of your hand!

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38 Terry McGee selects from some of the latest Freeware files

Capitol Airlines Douglas DC-10-10 FSX/P3D Boeing 737/777 Style Glass Instruments for By Kevin Alexander FSX, FSX Steam, and Prepar3D. A 737 style EICAS for capitoldc10.zip the default FSX 737 and 777 style PFD, Nav, Clock, and www.flightsim.com EICAS glass instruments. This release includes a second annunciator display and stability and cosmetic improvements. Use these glass instruments with many FSX default aircraft. The PFD, EICAS, and Nav Display work fine even with the Ultralight trike (as well as altitude call outs on descent). The instrument displays require DirectX10 and Vista, Win7, Win8, or W10. The instruments are designed to run on a second FSX screen or on separate computers connected to a local net. This is CrgSim release 0.083.

Boeing 787 2D Panel Version 2.1 By G. Munro b787v21.zip www.flightsim.com FSX/P3D Capitol Airlines Douglas DC-10-10. This is a realistic texture of the N916CL. First flight with Capitol Airways 01/05/1982. Textures only for the payware Just Flight CLS DC10-10 HD model.

Air France Airbus A320-14 By Stefan Bree. Night textures by Adam Hamada. airbus_a320-214_airfrance_f-hepi.zip www.flightsim.com

FS2004/FSX Air France Airbus A320-214. This is a repaint of the Project Airbus A320-214 (WL), in Air France "Skyteam" livery, registration F-HEPI. Model included. The textures are saved in 32 bit format for quality graphics. Shine effect. Contains accurate model with details such as opening passenger and cargo doors, animated pack inlets and outflow valves, all operable con- FSX Boeing 787 2D Panel Version 2.1. Apologies to all trol surfaces, detailed flap tracks and slat rails, hydrau- who downloaded my Version 2 of the Boeing 787. I lics modelled on spoilers, landing gear doors and many completely forgot to include the GPS module. This is the more. whole package again with the GPS module and manual and also a couple of small bug fixes - fuel flow not work Boeing 737/777 Style Glass Instruments and auto mach. Please replace the original B787V2.cab By Kapock Cavanaugh and copy the additional gpsnew.cab. No change to any crgsim-0_083.zip functions except installation. www.flightsim.com FS Announcement Panel v2.0 harrier_fsap2_0.zip www.flightsim.com FS2004/FSX FS Announcement Panel v2.0. The panel will serve as a virtual cabin crew for your aircraft. It is based on Marcus Thompson's FDSFX panel. Includes a Russian Tupolev aircraft style skin and Ukrainian airlines crewpack. (c) 2017 Harrier Panels.

39 Boeing 777 2D Half Panel V4 By Alan M Harvey amhb777hpfs9fsxp3dv4.zip www.flightsim.com

P3Dv4 and FSW by Dovetail. This product is a fully functional DEMO version of the commercial payware product. It features same airport layout as in the full version but with limited 3D objects and low resolution textures. Using this free demo ensures no problems with online (VATSIM, IVAO, multiplayer etc.) flying in FS2004/FSX/P3D Boeing 777 2D Half Panel V4. This case some users use the payware scenery and some panel is for use with freeware aircraft. This update con- don't. tains reworked main panel and pedestal. A multi function MFD switch panel has been added to the main panel. The HDG/TRK and IAS/MAC switches are multi- Flysimware Lear Alternative Darker Gray functional. Please take time to read the 'read me' file as Cockpit Textures it contains important information on how to set up and By Paul Grubich use the panels. Includes panels and all gauges. fsw_alternate_cockpit_lear.zip www.flightsim.com Boeing 777 Panel for Multiple Monitors V4 By Alan M Harvey amhb777dmfs9fsxp3dv4.zip www.flightsim.com

FSX/P3D Flysimware Lear Alternate Darker Gray Cock- pit Textures. These textures are for the Flightsimware FS2004/FSX/P3D Boeing 777 Panel for Multiple Monitors Learjet only. They change the light gray cockpit interior V4. This panel is for use with freeware aircraft, com- to a darker gray. puter operating systems and video cards / graphic ex- pander hardware that can horizontally span the display Eurowings Airbus A320-14 across two or more monitors. This update contains re- By Stefan Bree. Night textures by Adam Hamada worked main panel and pedestal. A multi function MFD airbus_a320-214_eurowings_d-abdp.zip switch panel has been added to the main panel. The www.flightsim.com HDG/TRK and IAS/MAC switches are multifunctional. Please take time to read the 'read me' file as it contains important information on how to use the panels. In- cludes panels and all gauges.

FSX/P3D/FSW Scenery-EPWA Warsaw Chopin Airport X Demo By Drzewiecki Design epwa_warsaw_chopin_airport_x_demo.zip www.flightsim.com FSX/P3D/FSW Scenery--EPWA Warsaw Chopin Airport X Demo. This demo features an extremely detailed scen- FS2004/FSX Eurowings Airbus A320-214. This is a re- ery of EPWA Chopin airport in Warsaw, Poland, fully paint of the Project Airbus A320-214, in Eurowings compatible with FSX/FSX:SE/P3Dv1/P3Dv2/P3Dv3/ "Croatia sticker" livery, registration D-ABDP. Model in-

40 cluded. The textures are saved in 32 bit format for Alouette 3 ÖAMTC quality graphics. Shine effect. Contains accurate model By Dirk Hueschelrath with details such as opening passenger and cargo alouette_3_msk_Öamtc.zip doors, animated pack inlets and outflow valves, all op- www.avsim.com erable control surfaces, detailed flap tracks and slat rails, hydraulics modelled on spoilers, landing gear doors and many more.

Komatsu Airport for FSX By FS Scenery Atelier https://fsscenery.net/en/fsx-scenery/31-komatsu- airport-for-fsx

Repaint for the MSK Productions Alouette 3 Helicopter. The Austrian Automobile Club (ÖAMTC) use this Heli- copter Type for Air Rescue- and Ambulance Missions.

2MO—Princeton KY Airport By Shannan Landreth 2m0.zip www.avsim.com

2M0 is a small publicly owned, single runway airport located 2 miles NE of Princeton, KY, a small town in FS Scenery Atelier has just released the Japanese local Western Kentucky. It has a single asphalt runway airport Komatsu Airport. This airport RJNK is also measuring 4099 x 76 feet. 100LL fuel is available at a known as The Japan Air Self-Defence Force Komatsu self-service pump and tiedowns are available. No other Base shares the runway. services are available at this airport

41 Bombardier C-Series CS100 and CS300 LKPR Ruzyne Airport—Prague callsign files for FSX Czech Republic By Mario Kassmann By Ray Smith bombardier_c_series.zip fsx_lkpr_rs.zip www.avsim.com www.avsim.com Callsign files for Bombardier C-Series CS100 and CS300 for use with EditVoicepack X

Douglas DC 8-62 Updated All updates by Michael Pook fsx_dc8_62_updated.zip www.flightsim.com

This scenery is made only for FSX: one file with the Crosswind runway activated and in full operation where both runways will be used for takeoff/landing and one file as the default airport runway operation: Assigned parking as per their website with extra parking, taxiways and taxi signs updated to the latest charts, runway 13/31 now corrected to 12/30 and the approaches updated for it, ILS added to runway 12, runway 4/22 closed as in real life, extra fuel trucks, support vehicle roads rebuilt and many other scenery improvements and objects added, airport views are from the roof of the control tower (when in tower view) please view the readme before installation. FSX Douglas DC 8-62 Updated. This is an FSX update of the legendary Douglas DC 8-62 jetliner, originally de- SiocBoeing Application for Boeing Add- signed by Capt. Italo D'Attomo. To my knowledge this ons and SIOC/IOC hardware modules is the only freeware DC8 with functioning VC available By Marc Buset anywhere. The model utilizes the photo-realistic 2D siocboeing.zip panel by Sid Star with now FSX compatible gauges. The www.avsim.com VC has been entirely remodelled and enhanced as well SiocBoeing allows simple communication between as the whole interior. I've added smoke and burner ef- OpenCockpits hardware modules and Boeing airplanes fects too. As there is only this Alitalia livery available, addons PMDG 737, 777, 747, Level-D 767. It's quite other repaints would be very welcome. The aircraft very simple to use and there is a little quick reference guide likely runs in FS2004 and P3D/3. The panels utilize in the download. It works on my FSX-SE version. I have many of the great gauges by Philippe Wallaert. Thanks no other version for testing it. Feel free to post your to Capt. D' Attomo for the original model and to Phil- feedbacks or questions. This is a free application with ippe Wallaert for his phantastic gauges. no pro support but I’ll try to answer.

42 Etihad Airways Boeing 777-300ER Jetblue Airways “Blue Finest” By Torsten Märtke Airbus A320 (N531JL) sms_b773_etihad.zip By Torsten Märtke www.avsim.com sms_a320_bluefinest.zip www.avsim.com

Etihad Airways A6-ETA for the payware Overland/ Simmer Sky B777-300ER model. This package is painted in 32-bit textures, and is compatible with FSX Jetblue Airways N531JL for the payware Overland/ and FS9. Textures only! Base aircraft model and tex- Simmer Sky A320 model. This package is painted in 32- tures by Overland/Simmer Sky, Repaint by Torsten bit textures, and is compatible with FSX and FS9. Tex- Märtke. Visit me on Facebook: tures only! Base aircraft model and textures by Over- www.facebook.com/martke.torsten.3 land/Simmer Sky, Repaint by Torsten Märtke. Visit me

on Facebook Gulfstream G550 2D Panel www.facebook.com/martke.torsten.3 By G. Munro g550.zip LOGK—Airport www.flightsim.com By Karl Malle logk.zip www.avsim.com

FSX Gulfstream G550 2D Panel. The Gulfstream G550 is a large long range executive jet which can carry up to 22 passengers. Although this panel is only a 2D panel it includes most of the features of the real flight deck including fully comprehensive synoptic displays, HUD to Gulfstream specs, authentic cockpit sounds, complete working overhead panel, complete Normal checklists, large set of CAS messages, and my latest GPS. Some of the artwork is not great but the functionality is not bad. The airfield Kapfenberg is 26 NM north of the airport This is a very complex panel not suited to the beginner. Graz Thalerhof and 2 NM east of Kapfenberg and is a It is ESSENTIAL to study the included manual. (See also popular approach destination in the sport aviation I G550SOUND.ZIP) transferred this FSX Version from my x-plane Version

with ADE.

43 Boeing 707-420 Panel Sonderflugplatz EDGP Oppenheim By Pasquale Rinaldi By Frank Seifert 707-420-fsx.zip http://www.bahrometrix.de/downloads/sonderflugplatz- www.avsim.com edgp-oppenheim/

FSX Boeing 707-420 Panel. A truly realistic panel, extremely elaborate, for The Legendary Boeing B707.

LOKL—Airport By Karl Malle lokl.zip www.avsim.com

Sonderflugplatz (special Airfield), Oppenheim, Germany by Frank Seifert. Featuring stunning high quality detail, The airfield Lienz-Nikolsdorf is an Austrian airfield near 3D animated people, AI ship traffic and dynamic lights, the capital district Lienz East- Tyrol in the community it’s perfect for use on P3D V4, and FSX. Nikolsdorf. It is the only airfield (with the exception of two heliports in Lienz and Matrei) in East-Tyrol. This airfield is transferred with kind permission from Mr. Gerhard Scholz, from his X-Plane Version to FSX

Air France Airbus A320-214 China Southern ERJ145 By Stefan Bree. Night textures by Adam Hamada By Alan Merry airbus_a320-214_airfrance_f-hepi.zip b3062.zip www.flightsim.com www.flightsim.com

FS2004 China Southern Embraer ERJ145. Textures for the Project Open Sky Embraer ERJ 145. The type was operated by China Southern between 2002 and 2013. Textures only, the whole aircraft is at HOP_POSKY_ERJ- 145.ZIP.

FedEx Boeing 727-200F Repainted by Pablo Rivero tds_b722f_fedex_fs9.zip www.flightsim.com FS2004/FSX Air France Airbus A320-214. This is a repaint of the Project Airbus A320-214 (WL), in Air France "Skyteam" livery, registration F-HEPI. Model included. The textures are saved in 32 bit format for quality graphics. Shine effect. Contains accurate model with details such as opening passenger and cargo doors, animated pack inlets and outflow valves, all operable control surfaces, detailed flap tracks and slat rails, hydraulics modelled on spoilers, landing gear doors and many more.

Condor Boeing 767 By Andreas Meyer - www.afs-design.de afs_b767_9_co.zip www.flightsim.com

FS2004 FedEx Boeing 727-200F. This is a repaint of the TDS (Tenkuu Developers Studio) B727-200F model in FedEx livery, registration N493FE 'Gabrielle'. Texture only, you must have the TDS B727-200 freighter base package. The textures are saved in 32 bit format for quality graphics. Model developed by Tenkuu Develop- ers Studio, features high resolution textures, shine effect, dynamic flexing wings, nose gear steering, rudder lock, ground spoilers, low speed aileron locks at high speed, fully animated control surfaces, fully independ- ent suspension, trim animation, opening passenger doors, rolling wheels, animated thrust reverse with re- verser block doors, detailed textures, full night lighting, ground service vehicles and more. Model design by Hi- FS2004 Condor Boeing 767. The B767 is a twin-engine roshi Igami. Flight dynamics design by Nick Wilkinson. aircraft of the U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing. The XML Programmer, Engine Smoke Effects Creator by economically very successful low-wing monoplane was David Biggar. Master textures and paint kit by Kyle the first long-haul Boeing aircraft with only two engines Schurb. TDS member painter are Carlos Eduardo Salas, and is produced today. The Boeing 767 has until today Luiz Antonio Perina, AJ Nikoley, Stian Svensen and Yo- more transatlantic flights performed than any other suke Ube. passenger airplane. The development of the Boeing 767 as a widebody aircraft began on 6 July 1979. The first flight took place on 26 Of September 1981. Without virtual cockpit. Free for private use.

45 FeelThere/Wilco Boeing 737 Five Nunavut Airfields Panel Modification By Roger Wensley By Andrzej Glowacki nunavut_76m_mesh_fields_01.zip feeltherewilco_737-3-4-5.zip www.flightsim.com www.flightsim.com

FS2004 Scenery--Five Nunavut Airfields adapted for 76m Canada terrain mesh. These are replacement bgl's to convert five northern Canada fields for use with the FS2004 Feelthere/Wilco Boeing 737 Panel Modification. FSGenesis 76m terrain mesh for northern Canada. The This archive contains a panel modification for FeelThere five are Byron Bay CWBB, Cape Dyer CWFD, Cape Wilco Boeing 737-3/4/5. With this mod you can fly the Hooper CWFH, Dewar Lakes CWFL, and Durban Island B737 happily again without being worried about your CWFB. These are not stand-alone, and the presumption frame rates. The merge is a mix of two payware add is that you have already downloaded and installed the ons: Friendly Panels (http://www.friendlypanels.com/), previously posted sceneries. Installation consists solely Integrated Simavionics (http://www.isgsim.com/) some of replacing the existing scenery bgl's with the new. freeware gauges (attached in this archive), freeware There will be further posts of northern airfields in ANTK Tupolev Tu-204/214 gauges (available on Flight- groups of five, alphabetically, and observations regard- Sim.Com) and my modification of sound panels (a stand ing the amendments and any further corrections that alone mod for ANTK Tupolev - also available on Flight- are required would be welcomed. Sim.Com). Installation instructions in the readme.

Hawaiian Airlines Douglas DC-9-51 British Airways Embraer ERJ145 By Alan Merry ha_dc951_pack.zip gembfo.zip www.flightsim.com www.flightsim.com

FS2004 British Airways Embraer ERJ145. Two textures for the Project Open Sky Embraer ERJ 145. G-EMBF British Airways, World Tails, Grand Union (1997-2005) and G-EMBO British Airways, Union Flag, (2004-2007) Textures only, the whole aircraft is at HOP_POSKY_ERJ- 145.ZIP. FS2004 Hawaiian Airlines Douglas DC-9-51 multi-pack.

Textures only for SGA's Douglas DC-9 series release; requires SGA950.ZIP. These aircraft served with Hawai- ian between 1975-2001. Master textures by Erick Cantu and Frank Idone. Hawaiian Airlines repaints by James

Kremmel.

46 Airbus A400M Repaint Package Pulau Langkawi International Airport By Christian Winkel / Wilco By Zurib Aerospace wilcoa400m.zip wmkl_pulau_langkawi_2017.zip www.avsim.com www.flightsim.com

This is a Repaint Package for the Wilco A400M. Included are: Royal Air Force ZM400,ZM406 and ZM409, German Air Force 54+01,54+04 and 54+12, Spanish Air Force T.23-01, and Airbus Defence & Space EC406

Tropicana, Western Australia YTRA By Stuart John Gilbert II ytra.zip www.avsim.com Pulau Langkawi International Airport (WMKL) located in Kedah, Malaysia.

easyJet Airbus A321 By Steve Colley a321easyjet2018.zip www.flightsim.com

FS2004/FSX easyJet Airbus A321 (due 2018).Textures Tropicana Western Australia has coal mining and a only, requires the Project Airbus A321 CFM sharklet flight schedule from Perth. The airport is missing in model. FS2004.

47 LIME Bergamo Orio al Serio 2017 Virtualcol CRJ-900 Panel Merge and By Andrea Nardi Flight Dynamics lime_bergamo_orio_al_serio_2017.zip By Andrzej Glowacki www.avsim.com vcol_crj900.zip www.flightsim.com

FS2004 VirtualCol CRJ-900 Panel Merge And Flight Dy- namics. This is a panel merge between VirtualCol and FeelThere CRJ package. Modification includes merge of FeelThere panel into Vcol CRJ900 model with and without TCAS by ISG option. Archive also includes flight dynamics modification for Vcol CRJ900. Both Vcol and FeelThere are payware and are needed for this modification to work. (Also available for the CRJ-1000 vcol_crj1000.zip)

JETSMART Airbus A320 Repaint by Santiago Spears costaricasim_texture_jetsmart_a320.zip Bergamo Orio al Serio airport scenery for FS2004 users. www.flightsim.com In particular, attention was paid throughout the airport surface (taxiway, taxi signs, parking and runway) using satellite photos and the latest existing documentation from ENAV website to make the airport comply with the current situation (13/04/2017). This is a revised and corrected version of the scenery replacing the previous (2016) one. For the proper display of all the objects included in this scenery you need to have previously installed the following libraries: EZ Scenery Library by David Grindele [ez_1.zip] (https://www.flightsim.com) Rwy12 lib1, lib2, lib3 (http://flyawaysimulation.com/) Small Airstrip Objects SS V1+ [small_airstrip_objects_ss_v1+.zip by Sidney Schwartz] FS2004/FSX JETSMART Airbus A320, registration CC- (AVSIM Library) AWC. A repaint of the new Chilean airline JETSMART A320-200, Texture for Airbus Project model.

OR23 Karpens Airport 1.0 get down to less than 500 feet and go to full flaps after By Richard Nilsson turning final. Slow to just above stall just prior to or23_karpens_apt_100.zip touchdown and raise flaps immediately, feathering the www.flightsim.com prop and braking heavy. If you go over the hump you will probably not be able to stop. Requires: OpenScen- eryX (OPENSCENERYX.ZIP).

EGMJ Little Gransden Airfield 1.0 By Paul Mort egmj_-_little_gransden_airfield_v1_0.zip www.flightsim.com

X-Plane 9.70+ Scenery--OR23 Karpens Airport 1.0. Karpens Airport is a short and narrow (1900x75 feet) dirt/turf strip 10 miles east of KAST Warrenton (Astoria), Oregon that the author uses as an initial point to descend into KAST from the east (KAST_ASTORIA_REGIONAL_130.ZIP). The owner ap- parently shares the airport with neighbors, as there are several hangars about with access to the strip. XP9.7. X-Plane 10 And 11 Scenery--EGMJ Little Gransden Air- Ortho is from the USGS. The author of this scenery has field 1.0 UK. Little Gransden Airfield is an unlicensed used OpensceneryX objects, plus his own custom ones. airfield located near the village of Little Gransden, 5 NM Grasses are by Simon W. Other objects are from Stuart southeast of St Neots, Cambridgeshire, England. This McGregor and Jaques Brault. The whole scenery has X-Plane version of the airfield is highly animated and been moved about 1/8 of a mile east to match up with includes a variety of moving objects. You will of course XP9 roads, and to convert the un-level strip from a dip need the following the libraries to see it in its full glory: to a bit of a hump. Pattern traffic is right. With 'follow 3D People Library (3D_PEOPLE_LIBRARY.ZIP), CDB li- terrain' on, landing requires good short-field technique. brary (CDB_LIBRARY.ZIP), Ground Textures Library Your best bet is to approach downwind from the west,

49 (GT_LIBRARY.ZIP), The Handy Object Library X-Plane 11 Avro York 1.0. This is a conversion of (THE_HANDY_OBJECTS_LIBRARY.ZIP), Jacques Brault's Avro York for XP8 and XP9, into X- MisterX Library (MISTERX_LIBRARY.ZIP), Plane 11. The Avro York was a British transport aircraft World Model Library (WORLD2XPLANE.ZIP), derived from the Second World War Avro Lancaster OpenSceneryX (OPENSCENERYX.ZIP), bomber that was used in both military and airliner roles PM Object Library (PM_LIBRARY.ZIP between 1943 and 1964. Designated the Avro type 685, RuScenery (RUSCENERY.ZIP). development began in 1941. The design paired a new "squared-off" fuselage with the wings, tail and under- C-133 Cargomaster 1.0.1 carriage of the Lancaster bomber. Production was un- By Sean McLeod (Aerostarsim) dertaken by Avro with the hopes of sales to both the c-133_cargomaster_xp1105_1.zip RAF and in the postwar civil airliner market. Thanks to www.flightsim.com Dataroots for the sound files, Scooter for the pilot fig- ures, Ho-Hun for the custom instruments and to URF for the Dan-air London livery added to this file upload. Thank you to Jacques Brault for creating this aircraft for X-Plane.

KPHX– Phoenix Sky Harbor Intl. 1.01 By MisterX6 https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/26819- kphx-phoenix-sky-harbor-international/

X-Plane 11 Douglas C-133 Cargomaster 1.0.1. This is Robert Pearson's Cargomaster, converted for X-Plane 11. The Douglas C133 Cargomaster was a large turboprop cargo aircraft built between 1956 and 1961 by the Douglas Aircraft Company for use with the United States Air Force. The C-133 was the USAF's only production turboprop-powered strategic airlifter, entering service shortly after the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, which was known as a tactical airlifter. It provided airlift services in a wide range of applications, being replaced by the C-5 Galaxy in the early 1970s. Thank you to Robert Pearson for creating this aircraft for X-Plane.

Avro York 1.0 By Sean McLeod (Aerostarsim) avro_york_xp1105.zip www.flightsim.com

Features: For X-Plane 10. Accurate 3D models for all major buildings. Accurate airport layout. Photoreal scenery for the airport area. Animated airport vehicles and SkyTrain. Animated 3D people. Animated Jetways and Marshallers. HDR night lighting. Static aircraft.

50 Airbus A380-800 2.0 British airways, China southern, Korean air, Lufthansa, By riviere Malaysia airlines, Quantas, Singapore airlines, Thai. https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/20141- Landing 137 kts (full flaps). New in version 2: The en- airbus-a380-800/ gine nacelles. Added an aircraft plugin "wingflex": 1) makes the wings flexibility more soft. 2) simulates the swing wings when the air turbulence level is important (4, 5 and more).

5WA8 Hogans Corner 1.11 By Richard Nilsson 5wa8_hogans_corner_apt_110.zip

X-Plane 9.70+ 5WA8 Hogans Corner 1.11. Mr. Hogan's private airport is at the north end of the Ocean Shores peninsula on the coast of Washington State (WA), USA. What started out as a little country strip above Grays Harbor turned out to be a significant project when it was discovered that the unique Quinault Resort and Casino is right under the western approach to the un- marked asphalt runway from the sea coast. A few Jacques Brault hangars were used, and a Shell station and fences from FlyByGuy, Simon W's grasses and OpensceneryX objects to populate the little town. Also Features: For X-Plane 10+. 3D model (fuselage, cock- includes a few custom homes, sheds, a church, water pit, cabin partial). My thanks to SkyCycle for its excel- tank, business and farm buildings. Orthographics are lent 2D panel (agreement with its). To start and stop from the USGS Map Viewer. Requires OpenSceneryX engines use overhead 2D panel. Do not forget to visit (OPENSCENERYX.ZIP). Version 1.10 - Added beach the business class cabin at lower deck and the first decorations and ramp start, waves, night textures for class at upper deck. 10 liveries: Emirates, Air France, casino.

51 By Alexander Barthel www.avsim.com littlenavmap-win-1.4.3.zip Supported Simulators: All FSX versions from SP2 up, Flight Simulator - Steam Edition, Prepar3D v2, v3 and v4. Little Navmap is a free open source flight planner, navi- Drag and drop flight plan editing functionality on the gation tool, moving map, airport search and airport in- map allows to easily create and edit plans. * Several formation system for Flight Simulator X and Prepar3D. fast automatic flight plan calculation modes are avail- All is based purely on flight simulator stock or add-on able to create plans following airways or simply from data, no third party data needed. All stock and add-on radio navaid to radio navaid within a split second. No airports are loaded in a few minutes. Navigation data- online service is needed for flight plan calculation. Op- base updates by fsAerodata and FSX/P3D Navaids up- tion to calculate flight plan fragments between any two date are supported. It features a detail rich navigation waypoints of a present flight plan. Flight plan route map that partially uses symbols from real VFR maps descriptions can be read which allows to convert flight thus transporting a large amount of information. Multi- plans from and to ATS routes as can be retrieved from ple offline maps, online map themes (OpenStreetMap, the various online services like RouteFinder. This in- OpenTopoMap, OpenMapSurfer and more) and two map cludes SIDs, STARs and information for cruise speed projections are available. Several map themes provide and altitude. A profile window shows the ground eleva- hill shading. tion along the flight plan including the minimum safe altitude for the whole plan or each segment. The map The map shows user and AI aircraft as well as ships, and flight plans including all related information at de- airports, airport maps (runway details, overrun areas, parture and destination can be printed. A fast airport displaced thresholds, taxiways and more), VOR, VOR- and navaid search allows you to look for objects by an TAC, TACAN, NDB, ILS, waypoints, airways, airspaces, unimaginable amount of options also featuring a spatial approach and departure procedures and more. Plenty of search. Information windows display numerous details information is available in tooltips or information win- about airports, runways, COM frequencies, approach dows for each map object. Flight plans and flight plan and departure procedures, navaids, the user aircraft, AI fragments can be loaded, saved and merged all using or multiplayer aircraft as well as ships, decoded the common Flight Simulator PLN files. Additionally weather from multiple sources like AS16, Active Sky flight plans can be exported to the GFP format used by Next, NOAA and Vatsim. The map display and the the Flight1 GTN 650/750. More export formats are GPX measurement units (nautical, metric, imperial) can be (GPS Exchange Format, including flown track), PMDG customized by the user. All settings, search parame- RTE, Aerosoft Airbus FLP and X-Plane FMS. ters, current flight plan, map positions and much more are saved between sessions. Little Navmap can con-

52 nect directly to the flight simulator and can also be run manual is included with the program. Help buttons in stand-alone or in networked configuration. An auto- dialogs link to corresponding online help chapter. Note matic reconnect option makes the start order of pro- that VORTAC, TACAN, SID and STAR need a navdata grams irrelevant. Running a networked setup needs the update by https://www.fsaerodata.com. Supported included Little Navconnect program which eases setup platforms: Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10, across two or more computers. The program does not Linux and macOS. Supported Flight Simulators: All FSX consume a lot of resources and can be run on low end versions from SP2 up, Flight Simulator - Steam Edition, computers. Help is available online (can be downloaded Prepar3D v2, v3 and v4. n as PDF, ePub or Mobi). A PDF file with the complete

By Francois Dore www.flightsim.com pa321fd_v3_cfm.zip FSX Airbus A321 FD Special Version V3 CFM. This is a special version of the Project Airbus A321 with all working virtual cockpit, based on the Stefan Liebes panel with many new features like enhanced PFD and ND screens (TCS, flight plan page, destination airport page with runways, ILS frequencies...). By Francois Dore. See also UPDATED_PANEL_3_05_FOR_AIRBBUS_A321_SPECIAL_VERSION_V3.ZIP

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