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A Pilot's Life from Sim Bit World aims to give purpose to your flight simulator flying. It simulates a commercial pilot career, from junior first officer to senior captain at a major airline. Development is ongoing with new features being added, including the just announced live map that will allow you to see all users who are currently in flight.

The Premier IA is a light business jet manufactured by Beechcraft. Carenado has briefly announced on Facebook that they will be bringing this plane to X-Plane and provided a few screen shots.

With the release of TrueEarth Great Britain North, along with the two previous volumes from Orbx, X-Plane pilots can fly throughout the British Isles over outstanding scenery. Reviewer Stuart McGregor is actually a native of the area under review and enjoyed visiting familiar places and seeing how accurately they have been recreated for flight simulator use.

AvilaSoft has released v2.1 of their Electronic Flight Bag. New in this version is support for X-Plane. It continues to support Prepar3D and FSX. The Electronic Flight Bag v2 (EFB v2) helps an air crew to perform all tasks more simply and efficiently, but more important: paperless. It includes charts, checklists and much more.

Announcing the FlightSim.Com Store Easter Sale, now in progress. For a limited time save on over 150 products from some of the best developers in flight simulation. Please visit the store today and check out the deals.

Fans of the C-47 Skytrain for X-Plane from VSKYLABS will be pleased to know that the developer has entered a "progressive update phase" and that updates will be flowing on an almost daily basis for the new few weeks, with many exciting new features planned. They have an online update log so you can follow the progress.

FSWidgets announces the release of a new X-Plane-exclusive product. XTaws for Windows is an advanced simulated TAWS (Terrain Awareness Warning System) and PFD (Primary Flight Display) avionics app, designed exclusively for X-Plane 11 or 10 (64 bit only).

Digital Replica announces an updated v1.1.0 for their Cessna 310L. Released last summer, this light twin already has features like a full 3D cockpit complete with PBR. It now also has Librain effect and de-ice systems implements, plus other improvements and fixes.

VSKYLABS announces that their next helicopter project for X-Plane will be the Cicare 8. From the one supplied image it's clear that development has just started. At the present time they expect release late in 2019 or early 2020.

Four new X-Plane 11 scenery packages from FSDG and published by Aerosoft are now available at the FlightSim.Com Store. Three of them take you to the continent of Africa to visit Egypt, Morocco and Senegal while the fourth takes you to Austria in Europe. Included are Sharm El-Sheikh, Dakar, Agadir and Graz Thalerhof.

UK2000 Scenery announces that Bournemouth X-Treme X-Plane Edition has been released. This scenery was previously available for FS2004, FSX and Prepar3D. Originally an RAF base, Bournemouth now sees some charter and airline traffic. The scenery includes the usual UK2000 features like fully detailed buildings, realistic ground markings, custom light effects, custom taxiways, etc.

Laminar Research has today announced that X-Plane 11.33b1 is now available. This is an incremental update that includes updated Gateway airports and translations, crash fixes and diagnostics, minor UI improvements, and bug fixes. Being a beta it will not install automatically so users must run the installer and opt for betas.

VATSIM is pleased to share that after nearly six years of development, the swift Development Team have announced that their new pilot client has reached the phase of public beta. Swift is a brand new pilot client. It is compatible with all the major flight simulator platforms and be used on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

Drzewiecki Design announces the start of their annual Easter Sale. For a limited time save 30% on all of their scenery products for FSX, Prepar3D and X-Plane. Drzewiecki makes scenery for interesting places all over the world. From major cities like Seattle, Washington DC, New York, Warsaw and Moscow to exotic islands like Baku and Bornholm they have something for everyone.

Developer Grand Island Sim has been quiet for a while but has now announced two new scenery packages. The first is St Johns CYYT and judging by the screen shots it is fairly well along. Also announced is Zanzibar HTZA which is still early in development. St Johns is expected for Prepar3D late this year, with an X-Plane version a few months later.