Toposim expands the selections in their ultra-high-resolution UltraMesh product line with UltraMesh Arkansas and UltraMesh Tennessee, now available at the FlightSim.Com Store. Featuring an incredible 2.3m horizontal resolution compiled from 1m LIDAR bare earth source data, this is truly the most detailed and accurate rendition of the states of Arkansas and Tennessee elevation models ever produced for the FSX/P3D.

It has now been a year since Flight Sim World shut down. In this Op-Ed, Michael Hayward looks back at the history of the flight simulator, how it came about, what was good and bad about it, and what ultimately went wrong that lead to its failure.

Positiongames has updated FSXFollow. FSXFollow is an app that let you track and control your plane through your iDevice. This update includes several bug fixes and a new GUI. FSXFollow works with FSX, FSW and Prepar3D (version 4 and 3).

To celebrate the festive period, FlightSim.Com is inviting members to redesign the existing FlightSim.Com logo, into a Christmas themed version. Bill Womack from Orbx has kindly agreed to be the judge, with the top three designs all receiving a First Class Membership for a year. The winning entry will be used for the duration of the Christmas period.

Just Flight announces a new generation of VFR photoreal scenery for FSX, Prepar3D and FSW. VFR Real Scenery NexGen 3D uses the very latest 25cm and 50cm aerial images to provide a general 'in sim' texture resolution of 1.2m/pixel, which increases to 60cm/pixel around airports and specific points of interest. The first volume, covering southern England, is expected next month.

For over 22 years, FlightSim.Com has offered a wide variety of services to the flight simulator community. Today we would like to announce the addition of a major new service, our FlightSim.Com Store.

FS-FlightControl, a touch-optimized Instructor Station for Prepar3D, FSX and FSW, assists Simulator Operators, Flight Simulation Enthusiasts as well as Home Simmers to get the most out of their flight simulator. Version 1.3.31 has just been released with a number of changes and enhancements.

Are you ready to spend $1200 on a new video card? NVidia has just announced their latest GeForce RTX 2080 with three models ranging from $600 to $1200 and now available for pre-order. These are NVidia's fastest cards ever, based on their new Turing architecture and designed to replace their popular GTX 1080 series.

Just released for X-Plane 11 by Carenado is their C340 II twin engine general aviation aircraft. It features state of the art configurable frame rate friendly logic system, VR compatibility, full PBR throughout, realistic behavior confirmed by real pilots and more.

Just to be clear, Flight Sim 2018 is an exciting convention for flight simulator fans and not new software! Held in October at the RAF Museum, Cosford, UK, it's the world's largest one day flight sim show, with over 1200 expected to attend. Now in its sixth year, this has become a major meeting place for serious aviation simulator fans in the UK and beyond.