X-PLANE FREEWARE

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.

Orbx announces that the second installment of the TrueEarth Great Britain series for X-Plane 11 is coming soon: Great Britain Central. TrueEarth GB Central covers a massive area of 59,383 km2 of hand corrected imagery covering the entire central region. Of particular note are metropolitan areas such as Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle.

Just Flight is the latest vendor to be featured in the new FlightSim.Com Store. Today we are busy adding their many products, with the latest ones now in place and more to come. Just Flight has served the flightsim community for many years and offers a wide variety of add-on products for all popular flight simulators.

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.

On their Facebook page DreamFoil Creations has offered an early sneak peak of their upcoming MD-500 helicopter for X-Plane. This model has been in development for some time wanted to show some images uses new features in X-Plane 11.30.

The SIAI-Marchetti SF.260 is maybe the most famous Italian light aircraft. It is now available from JRollon for X-Plane. The REP expansion pack from Simcoders is also included. The plane comes with ten colorful liveries and lots of features.

UK2000 announces a new scenery for X-Plane, Belfast City Xtreme X-Plane Edition, expected out before the end of this month. It will include fully detailed buildings, realistic ground marking, stunning night effects, PBR, specular lighting, autogate, custom light effects and halos and more.

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.

In a brief Facebook post Skyline Simulations has announced a new X-Plane scenery project, Toronto Billy Bishop. The scenery will also include the main Toronto downtown with high rise buildings and CN Tower.

In a brief announcement, DreamFoil Creations has announced that they are working on the Embraer 120 for X-Plane. Previous creations were helicopters so this is something new for them. The Embraer 120 Brasilia is a twin turboprop commuter airliner built in Brazil. Produced between 1983 and 2001 a total of 354 were built, with 94 still in service in 2017.

vFlyteAir announces the release of their Ryan Navion 205 Vintage for X-Plane 11. vFlyteAir normally creates payware add-ons but this is being released as freeware. The Navion 205 Vintage is optimized for VR, and features PBR textures, FMOD sounds, and custom HDR lights. If you're a fan of retro and vintage airplanes, you'll love it!

New from Orbx is EGKA Shoreham for X-Plane 11. Once known as Brighton Airport, EGKA Shoreham Airport is a lovely airport on the south coast of the UK. It is at the forefront of general aviation in the UK, and a major base for flying activities along the South Coast. The scenery features HD ground images, the art deco terminal, working animated clock and more.

Another new publisher now with us. Today we've started adding Alabeo products to the new FlightSim.Com store. Not the full range yet, but a good selection with more to be added shortly. Alabeo specializes in GA aircraft and has been creating them for us for many years now. There's sure to be something in their line-up that you'll enjoy. They support FSX, Prepar3D and X-Plane.

Today we've started adding Aerosoft products to the new FlightSim.Com store. Only a few so far, but many more to come from Aerosoft's extensive catelog. Located in Germany, Aerosoft has been offering flight simulator products for over 25 years and currently supports all the major flightsim platforms as well as being involved in other sims for trains, trucks and buses.

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.