Sweet! That Westjet thirty-seven is just gorgeous. I also like that sky whale on the far right, whose beauty many people fail to see. The wooden RCAF flier also caught my attention. Thanks for sharing, Darren!
I've just noticed Edgar Guinart from Aeroproyecto released a brand new, improved version of his Sukhoi Superjet simulation, right on Christmas Day, on Avsim. I made a quick comparison between this new version and the first one, V 1.0, released in 2013, and the improvements are quite easy to remark. Fun fact - there has been an intermediary version (1.1) released in 2014 of which I knew nothing about.
Edgar's first version of this simulation had a very limited amount of actual realism/accuracy implemented in it due to lack of data about the systems of the real aircraft, but despite that, it was still a joy to fly, and to look at, with plenty of functional and well arranged subsystems to play with. The description of his second version (V 1.1) says it features many improvements compared to the first one, and I suppose this latest version builds upon that second release. All in all, a free, wonderful little jet that has been a pleasure to fly so far, is now even better, so go ahead, try it out! Click here to grab it form Flightsim.com or click right here to get it from Avsim.
Thank you very much indeed, my friends! Considering the fact that this forum hasn't climbed to "flight level full-blown-FS-community" by now, I normally should've ditched it, and maybe recommend other fine FS forums to its members. But like I often said in the past, you can never know what's ahead, who knows when a bunch of simmers will find this place cozy and stable enough to call it their new home, (it almost happened before), so I'll leave it airborne. Besides, what do I have to lose? Regarding simming itself - I too have eased up on simming quite a lot. Mind you, I haven't quit simming, it's just that I rarely get to feel the virtual breeze rushing above and below my equally virtual wings, due to several reasons, such as real life tasks which take time and effort, and simply a need for more relaxation and enjoyment of other things I like, away from the hassle and intense concentration associated with tweaking or even using FS (the way I use it at least). All this also results in my reduced presence on FS forums. It's funny, because I've just come across another fellow simmer's farewell "speech" over at HJG (here), and while I do not give up simming, I can actually relate to many of the reasons he blames for his divorce from FS in his video. Also, as he says, it's mostly simmers of a respectable age who tend to need either a break or a retirement from FS, or just to ease off. Here too, I am an exotic bastard. But yes, my passion for flight simulation (as a branch of my passion for aviation) is as strong as always, and I'm just as fascinated and delighted as ever before when I trick my senses into thinking I'm manning all those wonderful flying machines, in those breathtaking virtual skies, above that pretty virtual landscape. Every time I fire up the sim after some time off, I relive that joy I first experienced in my first days of simming, I remember being so mesmerized that there actually is such a piece of software that's not a simple, boring game, but an actual home flight simulator that's so easy to use, and supported by so many varied addons. Concurrently, I want to thank all of you who keep popping in every now and then and drop a few screenies, a nice thought or whatever else you feel like dropping. @Hippygator Believe it or not, I've been thinking of you too and hoping you're doing fine, despite not corresponding as of late. I've been through quite a few hassle with my job, or jobs rather, trying to find the right place. I've had a lot on my head, but I haven't forgot you, dear vice-grandpa! That's not say I couldn't or shouldn't have corresponded more, I just don't want to bother you too much.
As a matter of fact, I'm in the process of comparing, looking for, and acquiring exterior Christmas lights and power cables for what is to hopefully become the most extensive and spectacular exterior Christmas lights show I've ever put up. And also the grandest in my area. I am still planning and designing the whole thing. It has become a bit of a competition among a few of us neighbors over here, but so far, no one is quite as crazy as myself. May you and your loved ones also enjoy a wonderful Christmas time, and a joyful 2018!
In addition to the high quality and diversity of their ever expanding fleet of freeware classic airliner simulations, the folks at Historic Jetliner Group are also known for the frequent surprises they like to make to the FS community. This year, as in previous years, the HJG team has prepared a wonderful Christmas present for their fellow virtual pilots, and they've just placed it under the tree for us to grab it - a set of 737 Classic series simulations, as well as a brand new, advanced Dassault Mercure simulation by Mario Noriega, offered through HJG.
The 737s are as cool as they can be, but I personally find the Mercure simulation to be even more spectacular because...I mean seriously...a highly realistic simulation of an exotic, rare and easily forgettable aircraft from the past, is bound to be spectacular! As soon as I get time, I'll sprint for the virtual tree to unpack this present, I suggest you do the same! If you do, I wish you loads of fun with these new birds! A full year of intense effort spent on the 737 simulations, another 2 and a half years of equally intense effort spent to bring the Mercure project to fruition...just to offer them for free, like all the other goodies available at HJG...this truly is a wonderful Christmas present! Thank you HJG!
I haven't popped in on FSK for quite some time, having been busy lately. I told myself "not much should be going on over there anyway", but apparently, I was wrong. While I was gone, it seems a very active spammer joined FSK and started polluting the entire forum with his delusional nonsense, a combination of FS stuff posted by other members on other FS forums which he copy-pasted here (and linked to the original posts on those sites), omnipresent links to commercial cr@p, posts related to other games, most likely also copy-pasted from other forums, and God knows what other nonsense. I'm talking of course, about "breckjensen".
Sorry about the intruder folks, he's been booted. It seems these parasites only show up when I'm gone for a longer period of time. Maybe they're spying on me.
Hey thanks for pointing that one out, I've been busy these months and haven't popped in on the site to see what's up. I don't remember ever seeing this feature, so it's probably an upgrade introduced by our host.
The Historic Jetliner Group recently announced they have a bunch of surprises in store for the FS community this year. A short while ago, the first one of those surprises was revealed to be their freshly-released BAe 146/Avro RJ package, a fantastic and unexpected surprise indeed. And it seems like 2017 is really gonna be (actually, it already is) a terrific year for those keen on classic jetliners, specifically on HJG's simulations, as the group has just revealed (although not yet released) another major surprise...they're working on a 737 simulation.
Personally, I've always found it curious that during all these years, the Boeing 737 (100/200 series) hasn't found its way into the hangar of the Historic Jetliner Group. Now, that is set to change, as HJG has just announced that for the past 16 months, Erick Cantu (yes, the legend himself) has been busy building a brand new 737 3D model, specifically to be used as part of HJG's upcoming 737 simulation. So not only is HJG cooking a 737-200 simulation, but it'll also feature a brand new, never before available (or existent) 3D model, as opposed to using an existing "ancient" model built several years ago, as is the case with other simulations. And more than that, the model is being built by Erick Cantu, a truly legendary developer in the field of FS 3D models, thanks to the outstanding quality of his work.
Considering HJG's history of producing/hosting a wide variety of classic jetliners of a varied, but generally good or very good quality/realism/accuracy, I'm guessing it's safe to assume their upcoming 737 is gonna be an exquisite simulation. Just how exquisite, it remains to be seen. Personally, I have a great curiosity, which I can't wait to satisfy upon the release of this new simulation - namely, how will this new HJG 737 compare (in terms of realism and all that) with the state of the art TinMouse 737, which I own, and which is actually one of my very favorite aircraft from my entire hangar. That will be one tough simulation to dethrone...
Click on the picture to go to the official announcement.
The Historic Jetliners Group, in cooperation with other independent developers, released a BAe 146 simulation for FS9 and FSX about 10 years ago. This was supposed to be a complete package from the very beginning, from 2007, meaning it was supposed to include all the versions of the BAe 146 (100, 200 and 300) as well as all the versions of the newer Avro RJ airliners (70, 85 and 100). But due to various reasons, during all these 10 years, only the BAe 146-300 (with minor variation) has been available, the completion and release of the rest of the package has been, unfortunately, impossible...until now. After 10 years of delay and waiting, during which many simmers who, once upon a time, had anxiously waited for the completion of this package, most certainly lost their hope, HJG's BAe 146/Avro RJ package has finally been completed and is available for download from their website. And this is big news for 2 reasons:
1) Now, 5 more versions of this airframe are available from an originally planned total of 6 (roughly), only 1 having been available till now, so it's a huge expansion, almost as if the whole package has just been released now; 2) This BAe 146/Avro RJ package is very realistic indeed, with a plethora of systems being expertly crafted and implemented. It's not exactly suitable for simmers looking for stress-free flying.
Apart from its QualityWings payware counterpart (I suppose), this is definitely the most realistic and complete BAe 146/Avro RJ simulation you can possibly get.
The official HJG announcement, as well as any extra information HJG has provided/may provide regarding these simulations can be found here. Download page here (you must be familiar with the way HJG aircraft are installed, check the forums or ask for help in there if you need to).
A bit late reporting on it, I know - A promising new simulation of an interesting 1970s short-haul jetliner - the Fokker VFW 614 - has been released for X-Plane 10, by Peters Aircraft. The VFW 614 was not commercially successful, but it was a technological masterpiece at its time, featured new technologies (for those days), some of which are found even in today's Airbus airliners, and had wonderful flight characteristics. By far, its most prominent trait was the position of its engines, which were mounted on top of the wings as the plane was originally intended for third world countries, with poor infrastructure, hence the risk of ingesting foreign objects from the ground into the engines was greatly reduced.
This particular simulation is touted as being a very high fidelity one, based on intense studying of many authentic documents of this plane, the VFW 614 that is being preserved at the Aeronauticum Museum in Nordholz, Germany, as well as testimonies of people who were involved in the construction and operation of this jetliner. If you ask me, it is definitely a wonderful experience to have the opportunity to realistically sim-fly an in-depth simulation of a very rare, exotic and interesting (operational and systems-wise) airplane of the past from time to time, it gives you a glimpse into the "guts" of those other metal birds that existed out there, of which very few were built and of which very few people even heard (compared to the "celebrities of the sky"), but were at least as "tasty" as the more popular ones. It gives you an idea about aircraft configurations, systems and technologies, other than those of the very popular old planes, but ones which were contemporary with the latter. It looks like this is just one such simulation. Now if only I were an X-Plane user... See more (and maybe purchase) by following this very link right here. Also, see it in action in the video below.
JustFlight is currently working on their HS 748 propliner and 787 Dreamliner simulations for FSX and P3D. They've just released a couple of videos of the work that's been done so far, and boooy, it sure looks fantastic already! The 787's gonna be a new member of their famous F-Lite product range, aka simulations that are not too complex/in depth, are easy to fly, yet realistic enough to offer a very pleasant and convincing experience, similar to the CLS products. Take a look:
Innsbruck airport in Tyrol, Austria, is without a doubt among the most breathtakingly scenic major airports in the world, and over the years, the FS community has seen a number of Innsbruck sceneries released for various simulator platforms, all of them stunning (even the freeware ones). But this time, things get really serious, as ORBX is currently working on a brand new Innsbruck scenery of its own...so...well...I've already mentioned ORBX and Innsbruck, that pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the way the final product is gonna look like. Note that the scenery will require either FTX GLOBAL BASE or OPENLC EUROPE in order to work.
Milton and his team have done it again, another exquisite digital replica of a classic bird emerges from their factory, this time, it's none other than the Grumman Mallard. The team has been working on it for some time, they even released an unfinished, work-in-progress version for FSX a while ago (here). And as usual, it's available for FS9, FSX and P3D. Looks so very darn good, and addictive, I'm gonna grab it and take it for a spin, I suggest you do the same, go get it --> LINK.
The old Tegel airport in Berlin was supposed to be replaced by the larger, ultra-modern, and overall superior airport of Berlin Brandenburg a rather long time ago (in 2010), but for many reasons, mainly due to corruption and poor planning, (no, Germany is not immune to that either ) Berlin Brandenburg airport still hasn't opened as of 2016 and won't open anytime soon, so the old Tegel airport is still going strong and will continue to do so for quite some time to come.
That means there's every reason for this veteran airport to be upgraded in FS, as new scenery modeling techniques become available. Aerosoft has just delivered on that, by releasing their brand new, much improved version of Tegel airport for FSX and P3D. I wonder if Tegel will live long enough to see the need for yet another upgraded version representing it in FS, sometime in the future. It all depends on the Berlin Brandenburg airport... Click on the image below.
I don't remember to have ever heard of JustSim before, but judging from the screenshots and the following video, this team seems to be doing a good job. From their ovens comes a freshly baked, beautiful Spanish destination, for FSX and P3D, Girona - Costa Brava. Check it out HERE.
Freshly cooked from Just Flight, comes a nice little simulation of a modified version of the interwar F3F-1 fighter bomber from Grumman, dubbed the GulfHawk II, for FSX and P3D. Accurate flight dynamics, authentic animated VC, choice of electric or cartridge starts, just to name a few features...sounds good LINK
Big deal, big event. The first 727 jet to take to the skies, which has been under restoration for the last 25 years, will fly again, for the last time. It'll depart the Museum of Flight's Restoration Center and Reserve Collection at Paine Field, Everett, Washington, bound for the Museum, at Boeing Field. Read the whole story here.
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Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:03 pm
The wooden RCAF flier also caught my attention. Thanks for sharing, Darren!
That's not say I couldn't or shouldn't have corresponded more, I just don't want to bother you too much. 
May you and your loved ones also enjoy a wonderful Christmas time, and a joyful 2018!
), omnipresent links to commercial cr@p, posts related to other games, most likely also copy-pasted from other forums, and God knows what other nonsense. I'm talking of course, about "breckjensen". 
