News archive 2007-2
December
9, 2007 - Winter FLIGHTPLANS
World of AI launches packages for Turkish, Easyjet-Switzerland and Sky Europe on AVSIM. Also winter flightplans for TAP are available.
December 8, 2007 - SCENERY - Bucharest Airports
The new freeware Henri Conada International Airport (formerly Otopeni) and Baneasa Airport of Bucharest can be obtained at http://dl.flightsim.ro/ (if the server allows you to enter without exceeded bandwidth limit)
December 1, 2007 - FLIGHTPLANS by EVOLVE AI FP Group
Evolve AI, known for its AI aircraft (Airbus), also launches now flightplans. A whole series of flightplans, too long to list here, are available on AVSIM. Go to "Library", Search for "EvolveAI", take in the category "FS 2004 AI Flightplans" and order further per date.
November 20, 2007
- Winter FLIGHTPLANS FOR Bulgaria Air
Winter flightplans for Bulgaria Air by Marc Marijnissen can be downloaded on AVSIM.
- SCENERY: Klagenfurt airport
The freeware airport Klagenfurt International (LOWK) by Johannes Kimla, which is also the maker of the freeware LOWS (Salzburg), can be downloaded on AVSIM.
November 8, 2007 -FLIGHTPLANS for the winter keep pooring in.
AI-traffic-world brings us further winter flightplans for Helvetic Airways, Darwin Airline, Swiss, Olympic Airlines, Adria Airlines, Aegean Airlines and Cathay Pacific. They can be downloaded at AVSIM.
November 7, 2007 - FLIGHTPLANS for the winter continue to arrive
AI-traffic-world launches winter flightplans for Icelandair, Iceland Express, Wizzair, Sky Europe, Virgin Atlantic and Sterling. They can be downloaded at AVSIM. Further we also find Islas Airways (Canaries) and the German LGW at AVSIM.
November 5, 2007 - FLIGHTPLANS for the winter begin to land.
Winter flightplans for the Spanish companies Vueling, Clickair, Iberia and Air Nostrum are available on AVSIM.
October 31, 2007 - AES
The list of the airports where Airports Enhanced Services (Aerosoft) can be activated is ever growing. Now, 82 commercial and freeware airports can exhibit moving jetways, pushback and other services. You can see my video using AES here.
October 20, 2007 - SCENERY: Poland - Warsaw
There is a new freeware airport of Warsaw available on Polisch VACC. Other Polish airports can also be found there.
October 20, 2007 - SCENERY: Czech Republic
There is a lot of freeware available for flights (IFR en VFR) in and to the Czech Republic. Now, you can download here the airport of Olomouc (VFR) together with some other small airports. The airport of Prague LKPR (new version since beginning 2007) is available here. The surroundings of Prague (VFR) can be obtained here.
October 18, 2007 - FLIGHTPLANS: Estonian Air, Club Air, FlyLAL
Winter flightplans for Estonian Air, Club Air (Italy) and FlyLAL (Lithuania) are available on AVSIM.
Club Air is an Italian company based in Verona. They fly with Bae146-200 and Avro RJ85 to various destinations in Italy and Romania and to Serbia, Moldova, Ukraine en Albania.
FlyLAL or Lithuanian Airlines is the national air company of Lithuania.
October 15, 2007
- Singapore Airlines take delivery of the first Airbus 380
Today, Singapore Airlines has taken delivery of the first Airbus A380 and will start on Oct 25 its maiden flights between Singapore and Sydney. For those who are interested (this is a non-European flight) the flightplans can be obtained on AVSIM.
The AI livery and the base pakkage (ai_a380.zip) can be downloaded on AVSIM together with the update of the mdl file (update_ai_a380.zip).
- FLIGHTPLANS: UK International Airlines
Flightplans for UK International Airlines are available on AVSIM. UK International is an airline company, based in Sheffield, making flights with B767-200 between UK and Asia (Pakistan). In the future, more destinations in Asia and even in Africa will be serviced. These winter flightplans contain the flights from East Midlands to Islamabad (Pakistan) and Sharjah (Emirates). Unfortunately, the repaint of the B767 is not available yet.
October 14, 2007 - FLIGHTPLANS: Winter flightplans are launched
Winter flightplans for Germanwings and Volareweb by Marijnissen can be downloaded on AVSIM.
October 9, 2007 - SCENERY: Bordeaux Mérignac
There is a new freeware airport of Bordeaux (Mérignac) availble and can be downloaded at Acquitaine Simulation.
October 4, 2007 - SCENERY: Napoli
There is a new version of the freeware airport of Napoli availble and can be downloaded at Napulevola as a .rar file. To unpack the files you have to use Winrar which is for instance available here for free.
October 2, 2007 - FSX: 1 year after release
When I look at the various flightsim sites and forums I can notice that FSX doesn't have the same success as its precursor FS9. The number of freeware add ons is rather scarce in comparison with FS9.
After the release of FS9 many add ons which were formerly freeware became commercialized. Just think about Active Camera, FSUIPC, etc. This trend is now going on with the release of FSX. For instance, the formerly freeware AFCAD2 program by Lee Swordy is now, in a little more sofisticated form, payware. All this commercial add-on stuff readily leads to a significant investment if one wants to extend FS with new airports, aircraft, other add ons, etc. In this way the investment I made for FS9 is about twentyfold of what FS originally costed. However, all these investments are worthless whenever a new version of FS appear because Microsoft has the habit to release each time a new version which is to a large extent not backward compatible. And I don't even speak about the upgrade of your PC to let run the new FS smoothly. If one considers further the constant increase of the prices of the add ons (just think about PMDG who changed from one day to another the Dollar sign into the Euro sign) I think we had the best FS time behind the back.
Moreover, a segment of enthousiastic simpilots has been left behind by Microsoft. All those that are making realistic IFR flights didn't find any significant improvement in the FSX version, because Microsoft lacked to upgrade its Artificial Inteligence (AI) engine.
With missions in FSX, Microsoft has emphasized more the computer game aspect which strives to be as realistic as possible. The only result is that it turned out to be the most frame-rate eating game on the market. (see e.g. here )
Thanks, Bill, but, I couldn't care less.
September 27, 2007 - SCENERY RODOS
Freeware international airport of RODOS Diagoras by GAP (Greek Airports Project) is available on AVSIM.
August 13, 2007 - STILL SUMMER FLIGHTPLANS AVAILABLE
Marc Marijnissen delivers on AVSIM summer flightplans for Luxair, Fly Niki and Air Via*. Also those of Hemus Air group (Bulgarian Air, Hemus Air and Viaggio Air) by René Tanggaard are available.
* Air Via is a Bulgaarian company flying with 3 Airbus A320 from Burgas to various European (mostly German) cities.
August 11, 2007
- FLIGHTPLANS
During the holidays lots of flightplans appeared on AVSIM, too much to list here. Go to library, choose on the bottom 2004 AI Flightplans and order per date..
- SCENERY
- New freeware Barcelona airport available on AVSIM.
- New versiion of Koln-Bonn airport available on AVSIM
- Freeware Frankfurt-Hahn airport to obtain on Germanairports.
July 152007 - SCENERY: THE NETHERLANDS 2000 AVAILABLE
The 3e version of the freeware NL-2000 scenery is now available. Read carefully the download instructions for the BitTorrent protocol.
July 7, 2007 - SCENERY: Patch for LOWS
A patch with some recent adjustments for the beautiful freeware Salzburg airport by Johannes Kimla can be downloaded on AVSIM. You can get the original airport here. Further you can use AES (airport enhanced services) for free on this airport.
July 3, 2007 - FLIGHTPLANS: Atlantic Airways and Air Finland
Summer 2007 flightplans of Atlantic Airways and Air Finland can be downloaded on AVSIM. Atlantic Airways is a company seving flights with Bae 146 between the Faroe and Shetland islands to different locations in the UK, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.
July 2, 2007 - SCENERY: THE NETHERLANDS 2000
The 3e version of the freeware NL-2000 scenery is soon available. They only wait for the agreement of the Ministry of Defense. Meanwhile you can download here a demo video (about 20 min). Remark that they work now with the peer to peer (P2P) file sharing protocol BitTorrent because of the large files.
July 1, 2007 - To complete Scandinavia: FLIGHTPLANS SAS
Summer flightplans for SAS can be downloaded on AVSIM.
Archived news
World of AI launches packages for Turkish, Easyjet-Switzerland and Sky Europe on AVSIM. Also winter flightplans for TAP are available.
December 8, 2007 - SCENERY - Bucharest Airports
The new freeware Henri Conada International Airport (formerly Otopeni) and Baneasa Airport of Bucharest can be obtained at http://dl.flightsim.ro/ (if the server allows you to enter without exceeded bandwidth limit)
December 1, 2007 - FLIGHTPLANS by EVOLVE AI FP Group
Evolve AI, known for its AI aircraft (Airbus), also launches now flightplans. A whole series of flightplans, too long to list here, are available on AVSIM. Go to "Library", Search for "EvolveAI", take in the category "FS 2004 AI Flightplans" and order further per date.
November 20, 2007
- Winter FLIGHTPLANS FOR Bulgaria Air
Winter flightplans for Bulgaria Air by Marc Marijnissen can be downloaded on AVSIM.
- SCENERY: Klagenfurt airport
The freeware airport Klagenfurt International (LOWK) by Johannes Kimla, which is also the maker of the freeware LOWS (Salzburg), can be downloaded on AVSIM.
November 8, 2007 -FLIGHTPLANS for the winter keep pooring in.
AI-traffic-world brings us further winter flightplans for Helvetic Airways, Darwin Airline, Swiss, Olympic Airlines, Adria Airlines, Aegean Airlines and Cathay Pacific. They can be downloaded at AVSIM.
November 7, 2007 - FLIGHTPLANS for the winter continue to arrive
AI-traffic-world launches winter flightplans for Icelandair, Iceland Express, Wizzair, Sky Europe, Virgin Atlantic and Sterling. They can be downloaded at AVSIM. Further we also find Islas Airways (Canaries) and the German LGW at AVSIM.
November 5, 2007 - FLIGHTPLANS for the winter begin to land.
Winter flightplans for the Spanish companies Vueling, Clickair, Iberia and Air Nostrum are available on AVSIM.
October 31, 2007 - AES
The list of the airports where Airports Enhanced Services (Aerosoft) can be activated is ever growing. Now, 82 commercial and freeware airports can exhibit moving jetways, pushback and other services. You can see my video using AES here.
October 20, 2007 - SCENERY: Poland - Warsaw
There is a new freeware airport of Warsaw available on Polisch VACC. Other Polish airports can also be found there.
October 20, 2007 - SCENERY: Czech Republic
There is a lot of freeware available for flights (IFR en VFR) in and to the Czech Republic. Now, you can download here the airport of Olomouc (VFR) together with some other small airports. The airport of Prague LKPR (new version since beginning 2007) is available here. The surroundings of Prague (VFR) can be obtained here.
October 18, 2007 - FLIGHTPLANS: Estonian Air, Club Air, FlyLAL
Winter flightplans for Estonian Air, Club Air (Italy) and FlyLAL (Lithuania) are available on AVSIM.
Club Air is an Italian company based in Verona. They fly with Bae146-200 and Avro RJ85 to various destinations in Italy and Romania and to Serbia, Moldova, Ukraine en Albania.
FlyLAL or Lithuanian Airlines is the national air company of Lithuania.
October 15, 2007
- Singapore Airlines take delivery of the first Airbus 380
Today, Singapore Airlines has taken delivery of the first Airbus A380 and will start on Oct 25 its maiden flights between Singapore and Sydney. For those who are interested (this is a non-European flight) the flightplans can be obtained on AVSIM.
The AI livery and the base pakkage (ai_a380.zip) can be downloaded on AVSIM together with the update of the mdl file (update_ai_a380.zip).
- FLIGHTPLANS: UK International Airlines
Flightplans for UK International Airlines are available on AVSIM. UK International is an airline company, based in Sheffield, making flights with B767-200 between UK and Asia (Pakistan). In the future, more destinations in Asia and even in Africa will be serviced. These winter flightplans contain the flights from East Midlands to Islamabad (Pakistan) and Sharjah (Emirates). Unfortunately, the repaint of the B767 is not available yet.
October 14, 2007 - FLIGHTPLANS: Winter flightplans are launched
Winter flightplans for Germanwings and Volareweb by Marijnissen can be downloaded on AVSIM.
October 9, 2007 - SCENERY: Bordeaux Mérignac
There is a new freeware airport of Bordeaux (Mérignac) availble and can be downloaded at Acquitaine Simulation.
October 4, 2007 - SCENERY: Napoli
There is a new version of the freeware airport of Napoli availble and can be downloaded at Napulevola as a .rar file. To unpack the files you have to use Winrar which is for instance available here for free.
October 2, 2007 - FSX: 1 year after release
When I look at the various flightsim sites and forums I can notice that FSX doesn't have the same success as its precursor FS9. The number of freeware add ons is rather scarce in comparison with FS9.
After the release of FS9 many add ons which were formerly freeware became commercialized. Just think about Active Camera, FSUIPC, etc. This trend is now going on with the release of FSX. For instance, the formerly freeware AFCAD2 program by Lee Swordy is now, in a little more sofisticated form, payware. All this commercial add-on stuff readily leads to a significant investment if one wants to extend FS with new airports, aircraft, other add ons, etc. In this way the investment I made for FS9 is about twentyfold of what FS originally costed. However, all these investments are worthless whenever a new version of FS appear because Microsoft has the habit to release each time a new version which is to a large extent not backward compatible. And I don't even speak about the upgrade of your PC to let run the new FS smoothly. If one considers further the constant increase of the prices of the add ons (just think about PMDG who changed from one day to another the Dollar sign into the Euro sign) I think we had the best FS time behind the back.
Moreover, a segment of enthousiastic simpilots has been left behind by Microsoft. All those that are making realistic IFR flights didn't find any significant improvement in the FSX version, because Microsoft lacked to upgrade its Artificial Inteligence (AI) engine.
With missions in FSX, Microsoft has emphasized more the computer game aspect which strives to be as realistic as possible. The only result is that it turned out to be the most frame-rate eating game on the market. (see e.g. here )
Thanks, Bill, but, I couldn't care less.
September 27, 2007 - SCENERY RODOS
Freeware international airport of RODOS Diagoras by GAP (Greek Airports Project) is available on AVSIM.
August 13, 2007 - STILL SUMMER FLIGHTPLANS AVAILABLE
Marc Marijnissen delivers on AVSIM summer flightplans for Luxair, Fly Niki and Air Via*. Also those of Hemus Air group (Bulgarian Air, Hemus Air and Viaggio Air) by René Tanggaard are available.
* Air Via is a Bulgaarian company flying with 3 Airbus A320 from Burgas to various European (mostly German) cities.
August 11, 2007
- FLIGHTPLANS
During the holidays lots of flightplans appeared on AVSIM, too much to list here. Go to library, choose on the bottom 2004 AI Flightplans and order per date..
- SCENERY
- New freeware Barcelona airport available on AVSIM.
- New versiion of Koln-Bonn airport available on AVSIM
- Freeware Frankfurt-Hahn airport to obtain on Germanairports.
July 152007 - SCENERY: THE NETHERLANDS 2000 AVAILABLE
The 3e version of the freeware NL-2000 scenery is now available. Read carefully the download instructions for the BitTorrent protocol.
July 7, 2007 - SCENERY: Patch for LOWS
A patch with some recent adjustments for the beautiful freeware Salzburg airport by Johannes Kimla can be downloaded on AVSIM. You can get the original airport here. Further you can use AES (airport enhanced services) for free on this airport.
July 3, 2007 - FLIGHTPLANS: Atlantic Airways and Air Finland
Summer 2007 flightplans of Atlantic Airways and Air Finland can be downloaded on AVSIM. Atlantic Airways is a company seving flights with Bae 146 between the Faroe and Shetland islands to different locations in the UK, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.
July 2, 2007 - SCENERY: THE NETHERLANDS 2000
The 3e version of the freeware NL-2000 scenery is soon available. They only wait for the agreement of the Ministry of Defense. Meanwhile you can download here a demo video (about 20 min). Remark that they work now with the peer to peer (P2P) file sharing protocol BitTorrent because of the large files.
July 1, 2007 - To complete Scandinavia: FLIGHTPLANS SAS
Summer flightplans for SAS can be downloaded on AVSIM.
Archived news
