One advantage of FSX being around for so long is that even the less well-known aircraft get modeled. One example is the Handley-Page Hampden for FSX from Virtavia, a British bomber that was important in the early years of WWII. Though now an older model, reviewer Peter Watkins still found a lot to like--enough so that he even has created several repaints of his own.

In October this year, the Flight Sim Show returned to the UK, and was bigger and better than ever before. With over 1800 attendees and nearly 40 exhibitors attending, it was the largest UK show ever. In much the same way as last year's show, Michael Hayward was luckily enough to be able to interview some of the largest developers on the simulator scene, with many questions poised by you, the flightsim community.

Reviewer Paul Mort takes a quick look at some of his favorite X-Plane freeware. With so many good add-ons available he had a tough time limiting things to just three, but found some worthy candidates. Included are Airport Environment X, plus the Piper Super Cub by Alex Jenns and the Graz Airport scenery by Stefan Verjee-Lorenz.

Drzewiecki Design has enhanced the state of Washington in X-Plane with their add-on Seattle Airports XP. In this video review, Wycliffe Barrett takes us on a journey to five airports found in the Seattle metropolitan area.

Shade Tree Micro Aviation has been creating X-Plane add-on aircraft for quite a few years. Here reviewer Paul Mort examines their WWII era AT-11 Kansan. Similar to the Beech 18, this plane was often used to train bombardiers. Paul found the plane nicely detailed and both rewarding and satisfying to fly.

REX SkyForce 3D is one of those products that will literally change your world. Well, your flight simulator world anyway. Used with Prepar3D v4 as reviewer Ray Andersen did (it also works with FSX), it changes the sky around you, the weather, clouds, lightning, even the moon so that everywhere you fly things look more realistic. It offers a tremendous set of controls, something to really excite the weather geek but any flightsimmer will enjoy the improved look.

The Where In The World series challenge from Ron Blehm continues as readers have stepped up with a bunch of new destinations. Last month's location in a smaller city proved challenging though many people were up to it! This month's challenge looks scenic but without a lot of clues. How is your geography knowledge?

The F33A Bonanza was recently released for X-Plane 11 by Carenado. It features engine dynamics especially designed for XP11 and flight and ground handling also optimized for XP11. There are five HD liveries, full PDF documentation and more included. Reviewer Sean McLeod found that Carenado again met their usual standards for high quality aircraft.

In the flight simulator world we can choose our weather, time of date, season and so on and take the exact flight we want. In the real world--things happen. Real world pilots of course do plenty of flight planning but events can occur that throw off the best plans, sometimes ending up with the plane landing somewhere other than intended. Airline captain Tony Vallillo shares several "diversionary tales" from his long career.

The Hawk T1/A Advanced Trainer has been a very successful military aircraft for many years and used by a variety of countries. Just Flight recently released a version for X-Plane 11 and reviewer Shawn Weigelt was eager to try it. He found it great fun to fly low and fast, with the plane being simple enough that it was easy for a flight simulator GA pilot to transition.