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.

Peter Watkins over the past decade has created quite an extensive set of aircraft repaints, mostly for FSX/P3D. He mainly focuses on British aircraft but isn't afraid to branch out if something appeals to him, and especially enjoys creating planes that have a historical significance. Learn more about Peter and his influences in our interview.

Flight simulator scenery of Kuching International Airport 2018 WBGG is now available for FS2004, FSX and Prepar3D from MFSG. It features a highly detailed airport, photoscenery terrain, new terrain mesh, static vehicles and more.

Now at the FS Pilot Shop from AFS Design is the Eurofighter Pro 6 for FS2004. The Eurofighter is a single-seat, twin-engine, agile combat aircraft used in the air-to-air, air-to-ground and tactical reconnaissance roles. It comes with a variety of liveries and is loaded with features.

Benoit Plamondon has just released new freeware sound packs for the Pratt & Whitney 4060 engines as used in the Boeing 747-400 and 767-200/300 jetliners. These packs for FS2004 and FSX are now available for download.

Spring has sprung along with the annual sale at the FSPilotShop. Save up to 50% on your favorite titles. Plus, be on the lookout for a couple of great deals that are even more than 50%, including FlightSoft bundles for only $45, Instructor Station 75% off and 60% Off NextGen Scenery!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! The savings at FSPilotShop.com are here for the weekend and not much longer! You won't need the luck of the Irish to save up to 50% on all titles from over a dozen publishers!

The 6th annual FlightSimCon convention announces initial sponsors, speakers, highlights and exhibitors for the 2018 event to be held in June in Dallas. For the first time, FlightSimCon is being joined by Cockpit-Fest USA, an annual event for cockpit enthusiasts with roots dating back to 1999. Top tier sponsor has been announced to be Gleim Aviation, well known for their pilot training materials.

Today we have the pleasure on interviewing Milton Shupe who over the past sixteen years has provided us with a large quantity of nice prop aircraft to fly in FS2004, FSX and Prepar3D. Milton talks about his inspirations, the tools he uses and how he works with a variety of people to create aircraft.

Internationally reknowned flightsim sound engineer Benoit Plamondon has the pleasure of releasing his latest freeware projects: P&W JT9D sound packs for the Boeing 747-100/200/300/SP and the Boeing 767-200/300. This project represents more than two years of development work and has been compiled using only the very best interior and exterior real world recordings.

FlightSim Commander 10 from Aerosoft is a professional flight planner, GPS, moving map and navigation tool for FS2004 and FSX. Use the Moving Map function to follow your aircraft's or the AI aircraft movements. FlightSim Commander can be used on a separate PC via a network link, using "WideFS".

During 2018 there will actually be two Cockpit-Fest USA events. "Warbirds On Parade 2018" will be held at the Cold War Air Museum in September. Cockpit-Fest USA will also team up with FlightSimCon which is holding their sixth annual flight simulator conference in Dallas during June.