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Airfield Canada announces the release of CYHZ - Halifax Stanfield International Airport for X-Plane 11. The scenery features over 150 highly detailed buildings and objects, built from the ground up over two years from pure passion. It looks and feels like the real thing, with painstaking attention to details.

Scenery developer Axonos has announced the release of their latest scenery for X-Plane 11, KMEM Memphis International Airport. An airport developed to the highest standards, Memphis International Airport combines the latest X-Plane 11 technologies while balancing visual eye candy and excellent performance.

The typical flightsim pilot probably has little idea the amount of work that goes into the aircraft that they fly. In this feature, Ray Hill tries to give you some idea of how the various 3D components are assembled to create a complete aircraft. For his example he's chosen the Hawker Hunter, one of the most technically demanding models he has built.

Sky Blue Radio announces the The FS Flying School Giveaway coming this Sunday. Join them this Sunday, 28th February on the Haggis and Poutine show for a chat with Jeff Preston, creator of FS Flying School. While Jeff talks about his amazing add-on for Flight Simulator, X-Plane, P3D and FSX they will be giving away 4 free licences for FS Flying School.

Sometimes people do pretty amazing things with just stock scenery objects, such as this recent addition to the X-Plane scenery gateway. Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (LFPG) by "Litjan" looks remarkably realistic and is a nice addition to the X-Plane 11 scenery.

Gaya Simulations announces an update to their X-Plane scenery for Vienna Airport (LOWW). The north pier terminal now has interior modelling. Also improvements include better ground service equipment, new model static A320, additional buildings and a number of fixes.

Laminar Research announces an update to X-Plane. X-Plane 11.52 is an incremental bug-fix patch. This release includes a fix for a crash in networking code, and a command line workaround for users unable to access settings without a crash.

VSKYLABS has been working on the Robinson family of helicopters for X-Plane for some time, with the larger members, R44 and R66, having been released. So what happened to the R22, the two-seat version? This news flash explains the delay and what future plans are for this project.

Stairport Sceneries offers an update on their upcoming shadeX plug-in for X-Plane. Initially designed to be a screen shot tool it turned out that the effects could be useful for X-Plane in general. So it became an effect tuning plug-in with some unique effects, most notable the depth of field blur.

Bluegrass and WestWind Airlines are running the 20th Annual Great Australian Air Rally in March. The rally consists of ten daily legs. Flight information will be made available for FS2004, FSX, P3D and X-Plane. Details of the flights and weather are provided so that anyone with a different simulator can make up their own flight plans.

Verticalsim has released an updated version 1.2 for their X-Plane scenery of Sarasota-Bradenton Airport (KSRQ). The improvements include a new ortho from a better source, more light poles, new grass textures and taxi lighting, updated ground routes and more.

The Cirrus SR22 is now available in early access for Professional Subscribers in X-Plane Mobile. This brings a modern, high performance light plane to the collection of aircraft available in this app.

Aerosoft brings the "Capital of Dalmatia" to X-Plane 11 with the release of Airport Split. X-Plane pilots can now fly into the biggest city in southern Croatia. In addition to the airport, the adjacent Resnik Seaport Croatia and military base of Divujle are included.

Runway 26 Simulations has announced that updates are in the works for two of their X-Plane 11 airports. MWCR (George Town/Owen Roberts Airport, Cayman Islands) to feature all new remodeling and texturing. MKJP (Kingston-Norman Manley Airport, Jamaica) will receive all new remodeling and texturing from the ground up.

Fly X Simulations announces that their next X-Plane scenery project will be Zakynthos Airport. The Ioanian island is a popular tourist destination. The scenery is mostly complete, just needing the finishing touches with things such as ground clutter, dirt and damage on the ground and more vegetation.