How many FIPs (Flight Instrument Panels) can one add to a system? — That’s a pretty common query among FIP users.
Andrew Crowhurst in New Zealand tells us that he has 18 FIPs and is planning to add 6 more. Photos are added to the Cockpit Section. Just can’t help to post a notam here.
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Aiya. Still haven’t done the remaining Turning OFF the FIP gauges. Anyway, there are some good photos added to the Cockpits section lately. Have a look.
Just found this free magazine Simulator World on simMarket. Regular contents cover from flight to train, bus and truck simulations. 
The just released November issue talks about the new Train Simulator 2014, plus reviews on some Danish Airports and VFR Airfields for FSX and the D17 Staggerwing for X-Plane.
The magazine is available in English and Deutsch and has published 11 issues already.
Wouldn’t say that it’s exceptional but still it could be some readings to kill your time over the weekend.
The organizers of the FS Developer Conference (FSDevConf) just announced that the weekend of 15th November 2013 has been confirmed to run the event.
FSDevConf is the first ever conference for flight simulator developers, to be hosted online for anyone in the world to participate in.
The event is based on the concept of a similar successful conference from the game development industry led by the AltDevBlogADay organizers, in the hopes of specifically targeted towards developing for flight simulator platforms such as Microsoft Flight Simulator, Prepar3D and X-Plane.
The event will feature talks from basic to advanced covering topics such as airport design, modeling, texturing, audio, networking, publishing and more.
The entire conference can be watched live in streaming HD720p on both Google+ and YouTube and viewers will be able to interact with the speakers in Q&A sessions after each talk.
“A full schedule of sessions will be released in the beginning of November with the main focus on Saturday between mid-morning US and late-evening Europe, but depending on speaker availability other times during the weekend may be planned as well,” say the organizers.
Although every session (including Q&A) will be archived and available for viewing after the event, the organizers encourage both active developers and those interested in developing to attend the live sessions.
The original press release can be found here.
A2A Simulations has just set up a download link in its forum for the Pilot’s Manual of its coming C172 Trainer for people who are interested in the aircraft. Check out the link here: Accu-sim C172 Trainer – Pilot’s Manual. The 100-page manual contains a lot of information about C172. The release date of the aircraft should be coming soon.
Update: Matthew Porter reported that the aircraft is now available:
http://www.a2asimulations.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=56
Came across these two videos from A2A Simulations on Youtube. Quite impressive. Worth a look if you haven’t seen them.
Just purchased and downloaded the FTX Global. Will test it and give a quick update on my first experience with it.
About a month ago, I reported that Vertical Studios had released the last day of its Colorado Camping Weekend mission pack, which I had been longing for. I was so excited and purchased it immediately. But frankly, I really haven’t had much time flying around the areas.
Now, the company has released the first part of their third mission pack — the Big Budget Blockbuster. A friend, Colin Moir, who wrote to me saying that the new mission is fantastic.
Even though I normally won’t write anything that I haven’t experienced it myself, there is no reason why I shouldn’t recommend this new one based on the good quality, and particularly the continuously affordable prices, from its predecessors.
Oh my dear, is having “no time” a sin?
To many simmers, OZx is a no stranger as it offers hundreds of good quality sceneries and airports for the Australia and North America areas.
Just found that its long waited version 3.4 was released nearly a month ago. The site says that over a dozen new airstrips and points of interest are added to the new version.
This is certain an addon all flightsimmers shouldn’t be missed. Here’s the link: OZx 3.4
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