REX Game Studios doesn't make many products, but those they do make are among the most popular and widely used. So it's exciting to see a new release from them for MSFS 2020 in Real Global Airport Textures. As good as Microsoft Flight Simulator is, these photo-based, global PBR airport textures bring the realism up to a whole new level. It instantly transforms airports world-wide to a more realistic look.

This weekend only, aircraft developer Carenado is running a flash sale at the FlightSim.Com Store. All of their X-Plane aircraft will be available for 50% off the regular price. This is a great chance to stock up your hangar at only half the normal cost.

Landmarks Cape Town City Pack is the latest addition to the landmarks and cityscape series for MSFS 2020 from Orbx Cape Town is the oldest urban area in southern Africa and is framed by the iconic Table Mountain and the Atlantic Ocean. The scenery includes key features and points of interest throughout the city.

The big news is the week's update from the Microsoft Flight Simulator team is that World Update V: Nordics will be released next Thursday. These updates make significant improvements to the scenery so it's nice to see this coming to Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland.

Lockheed Martin has announced the release of Prepar3D version 5.2. This is a major update with a long list of improvements and features. Of special note is the continual improvements made to the Enhanced Atmospherics system, offering better visuals and reducing memory usage. Additional enhancements improve performance and stability to support even greater detail and scale in scenarios.

Just Flight is making good progress on their PA28-161 Warrior II for MSFS 2020 and wanted to show of their work. The full sets of images shows off the remaining liveries, various parts of the exterior and cockpit details that demonstrate some of the differences between the Warrior and their previously released Arrow.

Rolling Cumulus announces that their next add-on for MSFS 2020 will feature scenery and flights of the WWII Military Air Transport Command (ATC). Pilots will visit some of the forgotten and closed bases in the India/China Command and take part in dangerous flights and missions that were part of the daily tasks of the ATC.

Navigation and Flight Planning in MSFS 2020 is the new eBook designed to help you learn the navigation and planning skills needed to enhance your Microsoft Flight Simulator experience. Loaded with more than 150 illustrations, you'll find this to be a valuable resource that will demystify VORs and OBIs, make RNAV and ILS approaches become second nature and teach the ins and outs of flight planning.

Just Flight has announced that v1.2 of their 146 Professional for X-Plane 11 is coming soon. It will include a variety of fixes, further improvements to the TMS but most important it will include new navigation options. Included will be the custom UFMC, complete with LNAV/VNAV autopilot integration and the RealityXP GTN. It will also offer the option to not have an FMC at all, and use classic VOR/NDB navigation.

VSKYLABS continues to make progress on their "Test Pilot" CT/4E Airtrainer Project for X-Plane 11. It's now two years into the project, but release is planned for later this month if all goes as expected.

Perfect Flight for over twenty years has been well known for making add-ons for various versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Now they will be officially part of the MSFS 2020 team, as a partnership agreement has been made between them and Microsoft to create Bush Trips and Landing Challenges for future Global Updates.