Flight simmers enjoy making their sim cockpit more realistic, so companies like Cockpit phD are a great benefit in making this possible. Though founded only four years ago, the Cockpit phD team has created an expanding line of cockpit controls that make the home cockpit more real. Raymond Andersen interviews them about their passion for flight, how they got started, future plans and more.

Today TDS announces the release of their latest airliner for FS2004/FSX, the Boeing NMA6 Research Model 2018. The "New Mid-market Aircraft" is designed to replace the 757 on longer range routes. The Tenkuu Developers Studio version is now available for download from the FlightSim.Com file library.

Team SDB has for years specialized in scenery of WWII era British airbases. In this review, Neil Birch, a creator of British scenery himself, takes a look at their version of RAF Pocklington, a bomber base on the UK east coast. He finds many things to like about the scenery, especially the static and AI aircraft that bring it to life.

Are you ready to spend $1200 on a new video card? NVidia has just announced their latest GeForce RTX 2080 with three models ranging from $600 to $1200 and now available for pre-order. These are NVidia's fastest cards ever, based on their new Turing architecture and designed to replace their popular GTX 1080 series.

Historic Jetliners Group announces a major upgrade to their DC-10 for FS2004 and FSX. Flight simulator pilots can now enjoy improved panels (twelve versions, including standard and tape engine instrumentation). The eleven DC-10 base packs have also been updated with the FDE and some 3D model editing, and new sound packs have also been released.

Just to be clear, Flight Sim 2018 is an exciting convention for flight simulator fans and not new software! Held in October at the RAF Museum, Cosford, UK, it's the world's largest one day flight sim show, with over 1200 expected to attend. Now in its sixth year, this has become a major meeting place for serious aviation simulator fans in the UK and beyond.

VATSIM has been in the news lately, with a lot of the feedback being in regards to their outdated client software. Well, they've let it be known that an update is in the works and have posted some screen shots of the upcoming Swift Client for FS2004, FSX, X-Plane and Prepar3D.

LatinVFR has just released their scenery of Bermuda for FS2004 and FSX. It includes the complete archipelago with thousands of hand-placed objects. The L.F. Wade International Airport is a highlight of the scenery, being completely modeled with lots of details. All islands are covered with photo scenery as a base with hand-placed autogen plus things like major hotels and other landmarks.

AFS Design brings to FS2004 its flight simulator scenery enhancement package Cumulus & Cirrus. Finally perfect cumulus, stratus and cirrus clouds with beautiful water! The "Water & Clouds" scenery contains a comprehensive package of new water textures with sky mirror effects, as well as cloud and sky textures.

Today the long awaited Boeing 757-200 PAX model for FS2004 and FSX has been released by TDS - Tenkuu Developer Studio. Developer Hiroshi Igami notified us of the release and also the first repaint to show up in our file library. TDS continues to demonstrate that quality complex jetliners can be made as freeware.

OnCourse Software announces the release of the latest update v3.8.0 for their flight simulator ATC program PF3. The program works with FS2004, FSX and P3D. It can also be configured to work with X-Plane.

After a sold-out 2018 event with over 1100 attendees in Las Vegas, FlightSimExpo is bringing North America's community-driven flight simulation conference to Orlando in June 2019. FlightSimExpo is North America's community-driven flight simulation conference. It was formed by the flight simulation community and members from Boston Virtual ARTCC with years of experience in flight simulation, aviation, and event planning.

The FS Pilot Shop celebrates the American independence day season with a sale of some of your favorite flight simulator products. The sale continues today and includes many products from the companies listed in this announcement.

The Premier Aircraft Design web site, which was founded by the late Barry Blaisdell in 1995 and is now run by U.K. based Bob May, has reached the significant figure of 1,000 available repaints. All the repaints are of FS2004 and FSX PAD models, which number over 50, ranging from airliners to ultralights.

Sometimes our writers like to look at an older product that remains a favorite. In this review Felicity Smith looks at the Vickers Wellington from First Class Sim for FS2004 and FSX. The Wellington was used throughout WWII and obtained a good reputation. The flight simulator version faithfully manages to bring this aircraft to life, with four different variants of the plane plus an RAF base scenery and several missions.