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Just Flight, in partnership with Thranda Design, have produced the TB-10 Tobago & TB-20 Trinidad for X-Plane 11. The Socata TB-10 Tobago and TB-20 Trinidad are French GA aircraft with spacious and comfortable cabins. For X-Plane 11, they feature PBR materials with real-time environment reflections, 4096 x 4096 textures and more. Reviewer Nigel Porter found they plane had some flaws but he enjoyed flying it.

Scenery designer Terry Flemming has created a speciality in designing WWII RAF base scenery, as part of a group he participates in that recreates historic missions. Thus historic research is as much a part of his creations as the actual flight simulator design work. Learn more about his interest in history, scenery and aviation by reading our interview.

After four years of waiting, the TFDi Design 717 was finally released. The aircraft is compatible with FSX and Prepar3D and features an authentic exterior and interior, detailed cockpit display units, realistic flight characteristics, in-depth systems simulation and more. Was it worth the wait? Reviewer Michael Hayward offers a video and text review of his opinions, plus a recorded live stream of a complete flight.

MeshXP USA East 2 for X-Plane from Taburet is compiled using 30 m resolution elevation models. It uses highly detailed hydrological data to rebuild completely the hydrological scenery to very high detail. It can be used on its own or underneath photorealistic scenery. Paul Mort tried it and found it highly impressive either with or without photographic scenery.

For many years Bill Womack has been creating highly detailed flight simulator scenery that has drawn many fans. Just recently he rejoined the Orbx team and his products are now published there. In our interview we learn about Bill's long history of scenery creation, what tools he uses, what drives his choices of airfields and much more.

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.

Toronto Pearson International Airport (CYYZ) is the largest and busiest airport in Canada, and is now well represented in X-Plane thanks to the scenery package from Global Art. Reviewer Patrick Putland found it to be a nice recreation of the airport, with perfect night lighting, accurate textures, realistic buildings and neat details like the terminal link train that moves on rails.

Carenado created the CT210M Centurion II specifically for X-Plane 11. This big general aviation single engine plane features specially designed physics optimized for XP11. Other features include full PBR, specially designed engine dynamics, FPS friendly GNS530, five liveries and PDF documentation. Reviewer Sean McLeod found it to be a high-quality, polished package worth adding to your hangar.

France VFR has a range of products for FSX and Prepar3D that are well described by their company name. In this review, Nigel Porter looks at one of their newer offerings, Midi Pyrenees Volume 1, covering a roughly 70x70 mile region northeast of Toulouse that includes some beautiful gorges and other scenery. Overall, Nigel found it to be a solid product.