This week we have a lot of updates coming from QualityWings and their 787-10, Aerosoft, Laminar Research about their X-Plane 11.30, PMDG and their work for X-Plane, MILVIZ’ Turbo Otter, The Beech V35 Bonanza by A2A Simulations, FSDG and much more.



flightsim.news Weekly, 15th June 2018

We will continue this week with issue 6 of our weekly recap of all news from the Flight Simulation cummunity. This time again, there is something for airliner fans as well as lovers of general aviation aircraft. Of course we also have news about Prepar3D as well as for FSX, X-Plane 11 and the Aerofly FS 2. Get ready for the perfect news summary for the weekend.

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Prepar3D & FSX

Turbo Otter on final approach
The DHC-3T from Milviz will be released soon. Read more on Facebook.

Bonanza in the beta
This writes Scott Gentile of A2A Simulations in their forum. The Beech V35 will also be the fastest GA aircraft in the A2A hangar.

Reno-Tahoe International now also for FSX
The scenery of Pacific Island Simulations is available here.

VFR-Airfields for less
Aerosoft offers a 20 percent discount until June 17.

Aerosoft Airbus must be late
Reason is the forthcoming release of Prepar3D v4.3, writes Mathijs Kok. This should mean that the planned release date of 26.6. can no longer be kept.

Aeroplane Heaven is working on Sud Caravalle
First rendering is on Facebook.

Aerosoft’s DC-8 for FSX released
Previously, the machine was only available for Prepar3D v4. Go to the product page here.

Preview of the 787-10
The video can be found at QualityWings’ Facebook page.

FSDG publishes Dakar
The Blaise Diagne International Airport Dakar in Segenal costs eight euros and is available here as a light airport.

Mission package for Pilots of the Carribean is here
Bundle customers get the three missions for free, all others pay 10 Euro in the FSDG shop.

Lockheed Vega 5 in early access
More information about the airplane by Wing42 can be found at its product page.

More pictures of the EC 135
The helicopter for the FSX and Prepar3D can be found here.

Nürnberg almost finished
The airport scenery of Captain7 and 29Palms Scenery Design will come along with many details. More information in our post.

GSX Level 2 announced
The popular tool promises SODE jetways at all airports, regardless of whether they are standard or add-on sceneries.

PMDG unveils Global Flight Operations
This will make it possible for the first time to virtually park aircraft and take them over from other pilots – including cockpit status.

Prepar3D v4.3 is coming this month
This is the conclusion of an interview with Thomas Hynes from PCFlight.net and Adam Breed, Engineering Project Manager at Prepar3D. The podcast can be found here.

FlightBeam is building Wellington
The preview can be found at FlightBeam’s Facebook page.

Website of Flight Sim Labs hacked
Thus the conflict between the manufacturer and Reddit has escalated completely.



X-Plane

The Carenado Aero Commander 690B is coming soon
You can find Carenado’s announcement about the turboprop machine on Facebook.

Another update for Rio de Janeiro
The airport Santos Dumont has now arrived in version 2.2.

Preview video of Monument Valley
If you want to see moving pictures of the new scenery by Frank Dainese and Fabio Bellini, you can find the video on YouTube.

PMDG gives update to X-Plane
The DC-6 is to be converted for X-Plane 11 and, according to the Avsim forum, the company is now in close contact with Laminar Research for the first time.

Dortmund for X-Plane in the works
Stairport Sceneries converts the FSX/P3D version of Aerosoft – including city area. More information about it in our post.

Active Sky for X-Plane is coming
This writes HiFi Simulations in their forum. We can expect first photos and videos in 30 to 60 days, the release is scheduled for the end of 2018.

More videos about the Huey
The moving images of the Bell UH-1H “Huey” from Nimbus Simulations are available on YouTube.

X-Plane 11.30 comes in late summer
What you need to know about the presentation of Laminar Research at FlightSimExpo 2018, was summarized by flusinews.de.

Broome in Australia is available
More information about the very first Australian orbx scenery for X-Plane 11 at its product page.



Other Flight Simulators

Aerofly FS 2

The airfield Lukla as 3D terrain model
First screenshots of the hand-made model can be found in the Aerosoft forum. Sascha Normann actually wanted to generate the terrain model semi-automatically using a drone, but this is not possible without a corresponding licence from the Nepalese authorities.

“Aunt Ju” comes first for Aerofly FS 2
As Mathijs Kok announced in the Aerosoft forum. This makes the Ju52/3M the very first add-on aircraft for Aerofly FS 2.



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