Friday, 18 February 2011 00:00

Source: Microsoft

From theThe Microsoft Flight Development Team... February welcomes a new webisode edition to the site! We hope you enjoy. It is fun to be able to put another stake in the ground to plot our progress. As we do, please keep in mind we are still knee deep in development.

To further simplify providing notifications of updates to the Announcement site, we've implemented an RSS feed for your convenience.

Monday, 31 January 2011 00:48

Source: Microsoft Flight

From Microsoft Flight: Welcome to our latest Microsoft Flight News update! We are happy to announce some new postings.

History: In November we added a new section to the “News” item to provide messages and communications direct from the Microsoft Flight Developers.

In December we introduced a new section to the web site to showcase some in-process screen shots from the game.

New in January, we’ve added 4 new screen shots to show our continued progress with the environment. We have also added a January News from the Team update to cover a concern we’ve heard though the Tell Microsoft Flight alias: Online vs. Offline gameplay.

Friday, 28 January 2011 00:00

Source: Microsoft Flight

Greetings to all Flight fans! We would like to welcome you to our January “News from the Team” addition. First off, we hope you like the screen shots.

We are happy to be able to share with you another check point in the development process. We are all working hard to bring you a truly exciting experience. We continue to receive and enjoy all your emails and comments via the Tell Microsoft Flight email alias. Although we cannot reply to each and every one, we do read these and appreciate the comments and suggestions.

Tuesday, 25 January 2011 02:03

Source: Getmapping

Getmapping’s aerial photographic survey of Scotland is being compiled into a comprehensive set of terrain scenery by Horizon Simulation for the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator, ‘Generation X’ edition. The first volume which complements scenery of the whole of England and Wales was the Western Isles. It has been closely followed by the Shetland and Orkney Islands. These form part of a planned series of five ultra-high definition photographic sceneries, published by Playsims, that will ultimately cover the whole of mainland Scotland and its outlying islands.

Tuesday, 25 January 2011 01:57

Source: Scotflight

Developed by highly acclaimed airport scenery designers, Scotflight, VFR Airfields Scotland is an upgrade to Microsoft Flight Simulator X that replaces the default, generic airport scenery with detailed and accurate, realistic and recognisable models of the actual airports.

Integrating into Horizon’s VFR Photographic Scenery X, VFR Airfields Scotland: Volume 1 offers incredible value for money and provides scenery for EVERY airport throughout the areas of Scotland’s East & West Islands as defined by the Photographic scenery volumes 4 and 5.

Tuesday, 25 January 2011 01:49

Source: Real Flight Environment

Real Flight Environment, the new flightsim community has opened a brand new webpage www.realflightenvironment.weebly.com featuring new products and releases for Flight Simulator.

Real Flight Environment develops quality flight simulator addons for FSX and FS2004 that enhance your flying and simming experience. The new webpage has opened up a new forum to the flightsim fans and to guests! Which means you don't have to register for a Real Flight Environment account in order to participate in the last flight simulator discussion topics.

Sunday, 09 January 2011 23:21

Source: Nuance Communications

Nuance Communications introduced the Dragon Gaming Speech Pack, highly advanced speech recognition designed to transform PC game play. Developed to make gaming more exciting, realistic and competitive, Dragon Gaming Speech Pack allows PC gamers to speak their actions in several of today’s most popular games, including Call of Duty® Black Ops™, World of Warcraft®, Second Life™, Pacific Poker and Microsoft® Flight Simulator™. With voice control, gamers can perform auxiliary commands while continuing to control the primary game action with the mouse, keyboard, or controller.

Monday, 03 January 2011 21:51

Source: openVFR

We are very happy to announce that we have officially launched our first countries for North America in openVFR now. Just visit the product websites (Terrain / Objects) or our Facebook page to get an impression of the first nine countries, which are ready for download now.

"After the release of openVFR Europe we have got so many requests  the flightsim community to implement openVFR also for other areas of the earth.", Markus Freyt states. "Fortunately Openstreetmap covers the whole planet with fantastic data for every place. So, when selecting the new countries we have listened to those flight simmers."