Microsoft Flight Beta program accepting applications

Microsoft announced the kickoff of the Beta program for the upcoming Microsoft Flight in January and they are currently accepting applications to participate in the program.

X-Plane 10 Demo

Laminar research just released the demo for their newest flight simulator version, X-Plane 10.
Head out to x-plane.com to download the newly released demo.

I hope to also come back with a preview post in the next days after I play a bit with the demo version.

G.A.P. Mega Corfu X released

Greek Airports Project has released a very complete scenery for Kerkyra (Corfu) area, a busy European holiday destination. The scenery, which is based on over 2000 high res pictures of the area, models a large part of the island, the city, harbor, castles, as well as the Kapodistrias airport of Corfu (LGKR). It also features the floating sea base & helipad at at Agios Georgios bay.

More details on the official site.

Infinite Flight - new mobile flight simulator

A new mobile phone flight simulator, produced by Flying Development Studios, has been released for Windows Phone 7 devices. It features very nice graphics, 15 airports in San Francisco Bay area, multiple day/time and weather presets, a Cessna C172SP trainer aircraft and many more features.

More details can be found on the official site.

New version of Plan G

A new version of the very good Plan G flight planner based on Google Maps has been released.

 New features in version 2.0:
•New Airport viewer
•New Approach viewer
•Add approach to flight plan
•Display Victor Airways
•Weather reports without FS connection
•Relative wind display
•New enhanced native ".PLG" file format with support for cross-references, passing altitudes, notes, approaches etc
•Sample plans
•Sharable bookmarks
•Display KML/KMZ files
•New Quick Planner
•Route Copy to clipboard for VAs, VATSIM etc
•Water runways display
•Detachable tool windows for expander panels
•Actual times recorded (local or zulu) an be printed on PLOGs
•Spot elevations (with optional DEM installed)
•Move aircraft to here function
•Many more UI enhancements

To view more details and download the free flight planner go to Plan G flight planning software page.

I also made a review to the first version of Plan G a while ago. You can see it here.

iFly Jets - The 737NG for FS2004

One of the most sophisticated 737NG built for FS2004 is here and can be purchased from Flight1. The iFly Jets 737NG features a lot of of the systems available in the real aircraft along with ground support and pushback options.
For those who would like to see a complete list of features iFly has also made public the aircraft's operation manual one their support forums.

The product can be purchased trough download from Flight1.
More details can be found on the developers product page.

Looks like a FSX version of the aircraft is also in development.

Latin VFR Sao Paulo (SBGR) scenery

Latin VFR released the Sao Paulo scenery for FSX and FS2004. It also includes 400 km of photo scenery and mesh for Sao Paulo region.

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