What Is RonTom? The authors are two "Old Timers" with a passion for aviation and a penchant for telling stories. The result is some aviation / flightsim storytelling based on some real world locations that they think are fun and interesting. This time they take on a great adventure...the famous Silk Road. This includes a large area and many possible places to visit, so each of them offer a different way to explore.
In this video shared with us by Laurie Doering, join him for a Flight Simulator Memory Lane experience and enjoy the visual comparisons between Flight Simulator and the real world during the final approach at five different southern Ontario airports.
iniScene have released a Version 2 of their London Heathrow Airport (EGLL) scenery. In this video, FilbertFlies goes back over the things he criticised in their initial release and sees which of them have been improved. He found a significant performance improvement with V2.
With the Darkstar for MSFS 2020 you can fly at Mach 10, or ten times the speed of sound. This is so much faster than any plane we're more familiar with it's hard to envision just what this kind of speed is like. Well, imagine no more as thecorporatepilotdad has created this video of the Darkstare at Mach 10 from a variety of angles.
It's always nice to find a reviewer who actually has familiarity with the real-world subject involved. Reviewer Foxtrot Ostrich here provides a short video review of what was at one time his local airport, Exeter International Airport (EGTE), in the southwest UK. This scenery is created by Stairport and published by Aerosoft.
Regular contributor thecorporatepilotdad usually presents serious fly tutorials or detailed products reviews. In a change of pace, here is a just for fun quick video recreating the famous F-14 tower fly-by from the movie "Top Gun", use the DC Designs aircraft in MSFS 2020.
FlyByWire announces that the development version of their A32NX now has a new payload management feature as part of their flyPadOS 3. You can now customize your passenger placement, weights and cargo distribution.
Though summer may be approaching its end, M'M Simulations is running their Summer Sale now through the end of August. They make scenery for MSFS 2020 and X-Plane, covering a wide variety of airports. Most scenery is now available at the FlightSim.Com Store at 50% off the regular price.
Scenery developer SimNord has announced that their next project for MSFS 2020 will be Herning Airport (EKHG), located in central Denmark. It is a medium size airport with two runways. A number of screen shots are offered but no further details.
When Just Flight announced their new RJ Professional a few days ago, they promised to keep us updated with development news. The first dev update has now been published. It's mostly a series of screen shots, showing both the plane's exterior with a sample of the liveries to be available, as well as the cockpit.
FlightSim Studio (FSS) has posted to their web site a progress update on their SeaRey Elite amphibian for MSFS 2020. Development has reached the point where the plane is now in beta testing. The announcement includes a detailed feature list and details on some of the plane's special features.
A few days ago developer Milviz hosted a live stream in which they talked about their current and future projects, a rebranding as Blackbird Simulations and more. This has now been posted as a Youtube video. Included are details on their ATR and Huey project and additional updates and teases.
Just Flight has a new development update on their work in progress Fokker F28 for MSFS 2020. They have regularly provided updates and this new one is focused on the 8K cockpit textures, showing lots of little details all around the cockpit.
The Virtual Red Arrows is a flightsim team that aims to match the real world Red Arrows as closely as possible. Founded in 2005, they are now recruiting pilots for the upcoming season in which they will fly their full nine ship formation.
Rolling Cumulus announces a new package of adventures now available for MSFS 2020. Flying over the Pacific - The Solomon Campaign 1943 Episode I takes you back to WWII in the Pacific and re-creates the wonderful and heroic work these pilots did with enemy fighters hunting for them day and night.
FlyByWire Simulations, well known for their A32NX for MSFS 2020, are known to be woorking on the Airbus A380 as a follow-up. Today we have a new video revealing their latest development progress on this project.
In this new video, Stay Level Avionix provides a first look at the latest expansion of their flight simulation avionics panels, adding compatibility for the RealSimGear G500 hardware bezel, as well as VirtualFlyVideos SWITCHO product lineup.
New from Pointsoft for MSFS 2020, Prepar3D v5 and FSX is PRO-ATC/SR. Pro-ATC/SR is the most complete Air Traffic Control (ATC) add-on. SR stands for 'Speech Recognition'. Now you can communicate with ATC and your virtual co-pilot by speech via a standard headset mike.
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Finally got my very own Constellation!
Thread Starter: Downwind66Been a long time, but I now have two of them! This is the Sabena; I also kept the L 'Air Azur! So far, very fun to fly! Rick :cool:
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