Since its initial release as freeware some years ago, the iFly Jets 747-400 has been a highly regarded aircraft for FSX. Its latest version offers more features and aircraft variants, including the -8i model and BCF cargo model. Reviewer Meng Yu enjoyed flying the heavy aircraft, finding the graphics stunning, the systems well documented and overall very much worthwhile for beginners and veteran flight simulator pilots alike.

REX Simulations makes utilities that let you take control of your flight simulator and change the entire world environment. Their latest is REX 5 - Environment Force for Prepar3D. It gives you the ability to change shaders mid-flight, letting you immediately see the effects of your tweaking. There's a lot more to it too, as reviewer MrYorkiesWorld explains in his text introduction and then complete video review.

The Where In The World series challenge from Ron Blehm continues as readers have stepped up with a bunch of new destinations. Last month was a tongue and brain twister that was located in the Philippines. Quite a few managed to figure it out. This month's challenge is in a quite different location. Can you figure out where?

The S550 Citation II fits in at the high end of GA aircraft produced by Carenado so for those X-Plane pilots looking for some extra speed here's a good choice. Reviewer Sean McLeod found the plane to be a great value. Carenado has applied their usual skills in making a visual work of art, with the right amount of supporting documentation and enough element of challenge to make the flying interesting.

The Saab S340 is a capable regional turboprop airliner built in the 1980's and 90's with some still flying today. Carenado has applied their usual skills in creating this plane for FSX/P3D and our reviewer Meng Yu has put it through its paces. He found it to be a nice looking plane with a good variety of liveries, with avionics and systems that are not overly challenging.

In this article we look at some of the author's favorite freeware for Prepar3D. Nirosan Pragash enjoys flying older military aircraft and was pleased to find these three aircraft created by A.F. Scrub. Included are the Grumman F9F Panther, Grumman F11F Tiger and the Ilyushin Il-4. He found these to be a great addition to his flight simulator hangar and suggests you give them a try too.

Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Quebec is one of Canada's busiest airports and now thanks to Globall Art it's a great destination for X-Plane pilots. Canadian Patrick Putlend reviews the scenery and while he finds it's not perfect he'd recommend it to other pilots as it contains a lot of unique features and is also suitable for people who don't have the latest computer.

Reviewer Shawn Weigelt is usually more comfortable in single engine GA planes, but found that he really enjoyed his left seat time in the Duchess Model 76 created for X-Plane 11 by Just Flight. Though in reality an entry level light twin, he found that Just Flight created a truly fine example of this plane, with enough wear to feel realistic and with good graphical and flight characteristics.

With the release of TrueEarth Great Britain North, along with the two previous volumes from Orbx, X-Plane pilots can fly throughout the British Isles over outstanding scenery. Reviewer Stuart McGregor is actually a native of the area under review and enjoyed visiting familiar places and seeing how accurately they have been recreated for flight simulator use.

Sidney Schwartz is a long time flightsimmer who early in his career found that he enjoyed creating objects and scenery to enhance his flight simulator. Since that time he's created many scenery objects free for others to use as well as hundreds of airport sceneries to fly into. Learn more about how he got started and how he creates all this scenery by reading our interview.