The Flightsimulator Fan Blog

Aasiaat by Wensley

2012-01-28T15:22:00.001+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Aasiaat by Roger Wensley was just released, looks nice as usual!

UK2000 scenery East Midlands EGNX

2012-01-23T16:46:00.000+01:00

Link: UK2000

The scenery for East Midlands airport was released, looks very nice and there is a try version/lite version available too.

P-51B/C

2012-01-22T16:34:00.002+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com
Link: Flightsim.com

A F Scrub has produced this model of the P-51 model B and C.

CYVR FS9 by Jonathan Gabbert

2011-12-26T14:55:00.001+01:00

Link: Avsim.com

Jonathan Gabbert has finally released is long awaited FS9 CYVR! Nice work!!!

Umiujaq

2011-12-03T07:51:00.001+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Umiujaq by Roger Wensley was released a short while ago, looks very nice!

c-123 Provider

2011-10-22T18:52:00.002+02:00

Link: Avsim.ru

An updated version of the C-123 Provider is available at Avsim.ru. By V. Zhigulskiy

Single Engine NG panel

2011-09-24T22:03:00.002+02:00

Link: Flightsim.com
Link: Flightsim.com (update)

Greg Gott has designed this very nice and framerate friendly NG panel for single engined aircraft like the C172, C182 and Mooney.

2011-09-23T05:42:00.000+02:00

Link: Flightsim.com

By William Morgan

Berlin Brandenburg Airport scenery

2011-09-22T05:23:00.002+02:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Great scenery for Berlin Brandenburg by Gernot Zander.

Bruce Dickinson Flying Heavy Metal

2011-09-07T11:25:00.005+02:00

Bruce Dickinson's series about flying and flying history, very interesting.

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

EV-55 from Brodhaq simulations

2011-09-05T19:50:00.001+02:00

Link: Brodhaq

A EV-55 model has been released by Brodhaq, looks quite nice and is available both for FS9 and FSX.

Tupolev Tu-124 etc

2011-08-17T21:38:00.002+02:00

Link: Tu-124
Link: Tu-104 / panel
Link: Tu-134
Link: Tu-154M
Link: Tu-154 B2
Link: IL-62M

Above are a bunch of different Russian aircraft models for FS9, they are really nice.

Lockheed Connie

2011-08-03T19:24:00.001+02:00

Link: Flightsim.com

There is a new Connie available at flightsim.com by Volker Bohme, Luis Pallas, Bill Tyne and Stefan Werner.

Premier aircraft Fokker 100

2011-08-02T19:22:00.001+02:00

Link: Premier Aircraft

Premier aircraft has released their version of the Fokker 100.

Joe Williams OLF - KNJW scenery

2011-07-27T15:48:00.002+02:00

Link: Flightsim.com (FS9)
Link: Avsim.com (FSX)

A very nice looking freeware scenery for both FS9 and FSX.

LEDA Scenery

2011-07-19T18:33:00.000+02:00

Link: Website

A very nice and newly updated scenery of the Spanish airport with the icao code of LEDA is available from the link above.

West Baffin scenery

2011-07-10T09:38:00.002+02:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Roger Wensley, one of my favourite scenery designers keeps producing interesting scenery, this is of West Baffin. Cool place!
You might also want to download Roger's Dewey lakes scenery here.

KADW scenery for FS9

2011-07-07T10:35:00.001+02:00

Link: Flightsim.com

There is a new scenery of KADW, Edwards AFB out at Flightsim.com, looks interesting.

Cairo Intl scenery for FS9

2011-06-26T15:27:00.003+02:00

Link: Vateg

Came across this nice Cairo Intl scenery. Read more on it in this pdf file. Main designer is Ahmed Hussein.

Clyde River and C Christian scenery

2011-06-22T21:50:00.000+02:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Clyde River and C Christian scenery by Roger Wensley.

Eastfrisian scenery

2011-06-18T09:03:00.003+02:00

Link: Flightsim.com

I just found one of those amazing sceneries around that noone ever told me about. It's the scenery over Eastfrisian in Germany. It is made by Marcel Kuhnt and Horst Weingaertner and is beautiful!

It is very detailed but works without any significant drop in frame rates. I especially like the Wangerooge airport.

Flightplan in Excel

2011-06-06T18:52:00.003+02:00

Link: download

I've made this file a couple of years ago but I haven't shared it here but I just realised that it should be shared so here it is.

You do need a bit of knowledge if you wich to use all the fields and some sort of EC6B, there are som electronic ones for use on the computer.

AI traffic planning tool

2011-06-05T13:41:00.000+02:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Bruno Thoraval has released this AI traffic planning tool which looks to be promising!

Flytampa Chicaco Midway

2011-05-31T16:57:00.002+02:00

Link: simMarket

This is one awsome movie and sound!!!

CYYJ scenery update

2011-05-23T16:00:00.000+02:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Don Grovestine has updated his scenery for CYYJ, Victoria.

Fsdreamteam

2011-05-15T10:53:00.002+02:00

Link: Fsdreamteam.com

Just wanted to share a couple of videos of a scenery I really want to buy... well maybe after the next paycheck!

Hanel Field

2011-05-09T18:02:00.001+02:00

Link: Flightsim.com

I came across this small scenery of Hanel Field close to Fort Hood river. It is made by Stephen Reed and I must say that it is one of the most beautiful sceneries for FS9 that I have ever seen.

This is a must have!

Update your FSX and FS9 database

2011-05-08T19:30:00.001+02:00

Link: Flight Simulator Navaids

Update your FS navaids via this great page and service.

Premieraircraft Beech 99

2011-05-03T18:12:00.001+02:00

Link: Premieraircraft

Premieraicraft has released an aircraft that has been on my wishlist for a long time, Beech 99. Nice number of cool paints for it too.

Premieraircraft Jetstream 31

2011-05-02T18:10:00.003+02:00

Link: Premieraircraft

Premieraircraft has released a version of Jetstream 31. Nice addition to my fleet. Also a bunch of repaints on the same webpage.

B26 Maruder FSX

2011-04-28T05:50:00.001+02:00

Link: Flightsim.com

This nice model of the B26 is made by W E Stephens, so all you WWII buffs out there, get it and try it out.

vasFMC

2011-04-16T20:31:00.001+02:00

Link: VAS

VasFMC is a very nice addon for fs9 and fsx. It will make your navigation a lot more real. A good tutorial can be found here.

Buffalo Airways Virtual

2011-04-13T17:07:00.001+02:00

Link: Buffalo Airways Virtual

I joined a very interesting and nice VA called Buffalo Airways Virtual. This one is modeled after the real counterpart and it is a really nice experience to fly over the Northwest Territories.

Kaufbeuren AFB

2011-04-06T06:43:00.002+02:00

Link: Avsim.com

Kaufbeuren air force base in Bavaria. Nice scenery by Klaus Jone.

Piaggio P-149

2011-03-20T17:32:00.002+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

A very nice model and panel of the Piaggio P-149, made by Mario Noriega.

You will also need the fix, available here.

Hog River Alaska

2011-03-08T18:05:00.000+01:00

Link: Avsim.com

Nice little scenery enhancement for Hog River airstrip. By Jim Hill.

Avsim revamped

2011-03-07T18:02:00.000+01:00

Link: Avsim.com

The Avsim site has gotten a really nice upgrade, especially like the file section.

Mirage

2011-03-06T19:23:00.003+01:00

Link: Mirage Aircraft for FS

Top notch Mirage fighters can be found on this nice website I stumpled across this evening. There are a large number of models and repaints. Lovely!

Grumman Firebomber

2011-03-05T08:20:00.002+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Emile Lancee has made this nice model of the Grumman Tracker S2F Firebomber, you can find it both for FS9 and FSX, the link above is for FS9 and this link is for FSX.

FSX C-47

2011-03-02T19:26:00.002+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Manfred Jahn has made this basepack of the C-47. Very nice looking and there are a few repaints available at flightsim.com

Pocono Mountain airport

2011-02-25T07:53:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

John B Loney Jr has made this scenery of Pocono Mountain airport in Pennsylvania. You can find the FS version here.

Motorglider

2011-02-23T19:52:00.002+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Elmer Voigt has made this repaint of Mehlin Rainer's motorglider.

SAAB SK60 video

2011-02-22T07:38:00.001+01:00

Link: Youtube.com

Alphasim/Virtavia

2011-02-14T07:26:00.001+01:00

Link: Virtavia freeware

Here you can find a collection of the Alphasim/Virtavia freeware aircraft, great models!

British Columbia lighthouses

2011-02-13T07:21:00.002+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Mike Mann has released this addon for BC, Canada and eighteen lighthouses.

Amazing video

2011-02-12T06:55:00.002+01:00

Link: Youtube.com

Lufthansa A380 tour

2011-02-11T06:42:00.001+01:00

Link: Youtube.com

Kabul International Airport

2011-02-10T10:17:00.002+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Kabul Intl by Thomas Gierse. Looks nice and might be interesting for all of you who fly military missions into Afghanistan in your fs9.

Diavik Diamond Mine

2011-02-09T10:14:00.002+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Scenery for Diavik Diamond Mine in Yellowknife, Canada. By Sidney Schwartz and Peter Ham.

Kamloops float base

2011-02-08T10:13:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Steven Payne has released this freeware scenery for fs9 of Kamloops float base.

Charlie Lake Float Base

2011-02-07T10:07:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

A new cool float base has been released at flightsim.com.

Interesting video

2011-02-05T06:31:00.000+01:00

Link: Youtube.com

I found this awsome video on youtube, check it out, a beautiful flight into Los Angeles.

Airwolf

2011-02-04T07:04:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

A Meyer has released this very nice model for FS9 of the Airwolf helicopter. One of the series that sparked my aviation interest.

T33A

2011-02-03T06:57:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Tim Conrad's beautiful T33A can be found at flightsim.com, also a very nice new repaint by Markus Hellwig can be found here.

Virtual Dispatcher updated

2011-02-02T06:51:00.000+01:00

Link: Virtual dispatcher 0.5.0

Virtual dispatcher is updated to version 0.5.0 which includes a connection to fsuipc and a connection to some virtual airlines.

Venice Tessera by ISD updated

2011-02-01T06:49:00.000+01:00

Link: avsim.com

ISD has updated its fs9 version of Venice Tessera.

Gjoa Haven

2011-01-27T18:17:00.000+01:00

Flightsim.com

Gjoa Haven, Nunavat by Roger Wensley was relaeased a couple of days ago. It seems that Roger is building up a great number of sceneries if you would like to fly around the Canadian wilderness to great small communities. Read more on this community at wikipedia.

Sydney Intl Scenery

2011-01-26T17:48:00.000+01:00

Avsim.com

Robert Fluke, Anthony Lynch and the former VOZ development team has released this, version 2 of Sydney's Kingsford Smith Intl.

Milton Shupe Beech AT-11

2011-01-24T17:38:00.003+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Milton Shupe has realesed a new aircraft, namely the Beech AT-11. Looks very nice.

Virtuell Helikoptertransport

2011-01-23T10:42:00.001+01:00

Link: virtuellhelikoptertransport.blogspot.com/

I thought there lacked a helicopter VA in Sweden so I started one. Only in Swedish though.

Creusois Airport

2011-01-15T22:28:00.001+01:00

Link: Emmanuel Parot

Stumbled across this great looking scenery from Emmanuel Parot. It contains scenery for the airports of Montlucon-Guéret (LFBK) and Guéret Saint-Laurent (LFCE).

Real H2O

2011-01-14T22:23:00.001+01:00

Link: Simmarket

Real H2O makes a promise to bring out the best in the water quality in FS9. The default textures are somewhat boring and not very realistic but with this great looking set of new textures it looks pretty stunning.

Of coure you can also look around for the file fs9wat.zip which does the same and for free.

Valdez by Wensley

2011-01-04T21:36:00.002+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Roger Wensley has release another of his great sceneries, this time of Pioneer field in Valdez, Alaska.

Iqaluit scenery

2010-12-27T17:27:00.003+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

By Sidney Schwartz, Iqaluit is a smallest Canadian regional capital and this scenery of its airport is really nice.

Gulfstream photoreal panel

2010-12-25T14:26:00.001+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Horst Paetzold has designed this nice photoreal panel of the Gulfstream IV.

A Merry Christmas to all

2010-12-24T08:35:00.002+01:00

I'd like to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

The blog has been around for a little over a year now and it's been an interesting year, I have found a large number of addons which I have tried to share with you, the readers. I hope I have given you some hints on what's out there.

Merrill Field Alaska

2010-12-18T07:14:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Another great scenery by Roger Wensley, this time it is Merrill Field in Anchorage Alaska.

FSX Flores scenery

2010-12-17T07:11:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Flores airport on the Azores islands, by Shigeru Tomino.

FSX Corvo scenery

2010-12-16T07:09:00.002+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

By Shigeru Tomino. Nice looking new scenery for Corvo airport in the Azores

A2A Spitfire for FSX

2010-12-15T07:00:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Repaint of A2A's Spitfire by Huub Vink.

Pond Racer FSX

2010-12-13T21:57:00.001+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

FSX Pond Racer 2011 by Colin Sefton is available at flightsim.com. Looks interesting, a cool looking aircraft.

HJG Boeing 717-200

2010-12-12T20:41:00.000+01:00

Link: Historic Jetliners Group

If you are looking for another beautiful model of the Boeing 717-200 I must recommend the HJG version. The repaints available are also beautiful.

C-2 Greyhound

2010-12-08T14:06:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Paul Holstein has repainted this model by Rick Sasala of the C-2 Greyhound which is the transport verison of the E-6 Hawkeye. The model and panel are very nice of this cool aircraft.

E-6C Hawkeye

2010-12-07T13:56:00.003+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Pierre Marchadier and a bunch of other authors has put together this nice model and panel of the E-6C Hawkeye with French livery paints. The panel and model are very nice and the only thing that I thought were missing were the sideviews in the 2D panel.

If you would like to find out more about the Hawkeye I recommend the wikipedia page on it which can be found here.

Edit
I must add that I found another great thing about theis aircraft, two little gauges on the panel which lets me both land as on a carrier with the tailhook and takeoff with a catapult, simply amazing!!!

Sights in FS9 - part 1

2010-12-06T17:28:00.002+01:00

I'd thought I might publish some screenshots of different places in FS9, famous and not so famous. The first two below are of Mt Ranier just south-east of Seattle. Taken while doing a flight from Seattle to Dallas-Fort Worth as American 1685 in a MD83.

AFS Design

2010-12-05T09:11:00.001+01:00

Link: www.afs-design.de

AFS Design has released its new Airbus, the upcoming A350 model. Looks nice. He also has a number of other models available at the site which looks interesting, among others the A320 family which I have mentioned here before.

Virtual Birds Factory Convair 240

2010-12-02T06:58:00.002+01:00

Link: Avsim.com

New textures for the base package by Greg piper and Tom Gibson, updated model by Georg Hauzenberger and new textures by Hans Hermann. The base model can be found here.

Benina Intl

2010-11-30T07:04:00.003+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Emad Qtiefan has made this beautiful rendition of Benina Intl airport, HLLB. You can find it at Flightsim.com and it is both for FS9 and FSX.

New Portland scenery

2010-11-27T15:43:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Peter Ham and Sidney Schwartz has made this complete rebuild of Portland, KPDX for FS9. It looks really good!

Southwest Tinmouse

2010-11-26T18:39:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Cinthia Gutierrez Sanchez has created this nice repaint of the Tinmouse 737-200 in Southwest colors.

Plan-G updated

2010-11-25T20:06:00.002+01:00

Link: Plan-G

Tim Arnot has updated his flight planning tool Plan-G.

Orbys releases Canberra scenery

2010-11-22T06:55:00.002+01:00

Link: Orbyx

Orbyx has released its Canberra scenery. It will set you back AUD $ 32.95

Blue 1 Boeing 717 JCA

2010-11-20T14:48:00.003+01:00

Link: avsim.com

I came across this very nice repaint of the Jet City Aircraft Boeing 717 made by Geoff Cooper. The Blue 1 livery is one of the coolest ones out there currently in my humble opinion. The Jet city aircraft is freeware and can be found using this link.

Ile des Pins Moue

2010-11-17T07:43:00.002+01:00

Link: Avsim.com

Patrick Baudoin has released an interesting scenery for Ile des Pins Moue.

Charleroi for FS9

2010-11-15T07:40:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Mattias Spiessens has designed this light scenery for Charleroi airport.

Virtual Dispatch updated

2010-11-13T07:27:00.001+01:00

Link: Virtual Dispatch

Virtual Dispatch is up to version 0.4.0 with new features like a new airport tab with SID and STAR information. Good work!

Igloolik update

2010-11-12T07:24:00.002+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Roger Wensley has updated his Igloolik scenery for fs9.

And I will keep an look out for the sceneries from Roger as at least one person did hit the like button on this blog pertaining to Roger's sceneries.

C-46 Commando

2010-11-11T07:04:00.002+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Terry Jones has put together this very nice package for the C-46 Commando model. The different parts of the package are made by Libardo Guzman, Tom Gibson and Greg Pepper.

The model and aircraft and panel are really nice.

Virtavia Caribou

2010-11-09T15:38:00.002+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Virtavia has introduced a new model of the very DHC-4 Caribou. Looks very nice and a nice 2D panel too which I am really fond of.

Dreamwings Fokker 50 version 3

2010-11-08T18:25:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Just a small tip on a very nice model by Dreamwings of the nice Fokker 50 aircraft. There are loads of different repaints available on for example flightsim.com.

Dash 8 Q400 panel

2010-11-07T20:16:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

A cool looking panel for fs9 and the DH 8 Q400 aicraft, works great with the Dreamwings model which can be found here. By Dmitry Stepin. An update can be found here.

Fokker 27 panel 2

2010-11-06T07:25:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

This panel is also made by Fraser McKay and is of another type of Fokker 27 panel. Very nice this one too.

Fokker 27 panel

2010-11-05T07:23:00.001+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Fraser McKay has designed this really nice Fokker 27 panel.

Quaqtaq scenery

2010-11-04T07:19:00.000+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Another great and fun remote place from Roger Wensley, this time it is the Quaqtaq village.

Tinmouse repaint Air Canada

2010-11-02T07:16:00.002+01:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Markus Hellwig has released a new repaint of the Tinmouse aircraft, search this blog for a link to the Tinmouse model. This time it is of the Air Canada 737.

2010-10-28T06:55:00.002+02:00

Link: Flightsim.com

A. F. Scrub has made this interesting model of one of those obscure aircraft from a time a long time ago. The Latecoere 631. Included is also a nice looking panel. For more on the real aircraft and its history check out the Wikipedia page here.

Sikorsky S51

2010-10-25T19:19:00.003+02:00

Link: Flightsim.com

Rui Cristina has made a repaint of Greg Pipers model of this historic heliopter from Sikorsky.

Tip on a youtube video

2010-10-24T09:46:00.003+02:00

Link: Youtube.com

I am following this blog by a Swedish guy that is studying to become an airline pilot and is interning as a FO at the Swedish regional airline of Skyways which fly Fokker 50's. He posted an interesting video yesterday on the procedures for takeoff in a Fokker 50 and I thought I might share it with you.

Project Opensky

2010-10-19T13:54:00.000+02:00

Link: Posky

I've been flying around the Swedish virtual skies in a couple of really nice POSKY models of the lovely Embraer 135 and 145. If you click the link above you will find a large number of really nice models and textures for different airlines. The one in the picture to the left is the City Airline one of the ERJ-135ER. City Airline is a real world airline based at Gothenburg Landvetter airport. They fly two ER-135, five ERJ-145 and three MD-87.

Reactionsbar

2010-10-17T09:17:00.000+02:00

I have added a line below each posts where you can click your reactions to the news or links being published, you can chose between: good, bad and indifferent. This is a way for me to know what kind of information, news you want to see so please do take a second and click them for the posts that you read.