Add-ons

SimScape is a new group of flight simulator developers who have just launched their web site and first products, including an F-16 HUD.

SimScape is a new development team focused on developing easy-to-use software products to improve your flight simulation experience. SimScape has developed a strong expertise in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 and FSX and may extend its knowledge to Laminar Research X-Plane.

Discover a new way to fly your jet fighter with this advanced HUD. It is based on the real F-16 HUD. It was developed using a new transparent vector graphics technology that is supported on FS2004 and FSX (SP1 & SP2).

For easier installation and usage, this HUD has been integrated in the F-16 panel. For more information, click here to view the F-16 HUD page.

Now that the HUD technology is well known by our team, some other Head-Up Displays will soon be available for other aircrafts.

The Phantom is an impressive aircraft. I’ve seen many a low, high-speed flypast at an airshow and it never fails to impress. You now have the chance to fly this historic aircraft with the release of AFS Design’s F-4F Phantom.

Features

• Model development after technical data of F-4F Phantom
• New highly accurate external model
• Complete animated F-4F Phantom cockpit and virtual cockpit
• Realistically developed flight dynamics
• Complete animated lighting effect in panel, virtual cockpit and external model
• Lights for cockpit, strobe, navigation and landing- and taxilight
• Complete animated and fully efficient autopilot with autoland
• Accurate working avionics for radio navigation
• Animations: hatch , canopy, move in gear with spring system
• Accurate gear chassis with rolling wheels
• Engine animation
• New textures (1024*1024) with specular shine, night lighting and more…
• New recorded sound of original record in Rostock-Laage (german fighter wing )
• Animation of tail hook
• New authentic F-4F Phantom afterburner effects
• Realistic reheat effect on full power
• Detailed manual
• Formation flight with three F-4F Phantom

L.F. Wade International Airport (IATA: BDA, ICAO: TXKF), formerly named Bermuda International Airport, is the sole airport serving Bermuda, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean.

It is located in the parish of St. George’s and is 10 miles (16 km) east of Bermuda’s capital city of Hamilton. In 2006, L.F. Wade International Airport handled about 900,000 passengers, up 7% from 2005.It has one passenger terminal, one cargo terminal, eight aircraft stands and can support all aircraft sizes up to and including the Boeing 747. Currently, ten airlines operate seasonal or year-round scheduled services to Bermuda Airport from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The largest aircraft now operating in regularly scheduled service at BDA is British Airways’ Boeing 777-200.

Bermuda has scheduled commercial flights to/from Atlanta; Baltimore; Boston MA Logan (BOS); Charlotte/Douglas, NC, high season; Chicago-O’Hare (ORD), high season; Fort Lauderdale, seasonal; Halifax; London Gatwick ( 6.75 to 7.75 hours); Miami International (MIA); Munich (high season: New York (JFK); NYC Newark (EWR); New York - La Guardia (LGA); Philadelphia, PA (PHL); Toronto; Washington DC (DCA) and Washington-Dulles.

Features:

• Original detailed airport scenery
• 3D Signalizations and taxi lights
• Numerous static objects at the airport
• New Landclass
• New Mesh Terrain
• Corrected coastlines

VoxATC, the voice recognition software for flight simulators, has been updated.

Version 5.46 of VoxATC X is now available. The following has been added/updated:

• Visible guidance for taxi routes
• Traffic information when in circuit (pattern)
• Improved AI traffic handling at airports and higher AI density
• Supports Vista 64
• Refers to FSX, not system time
• Incompatibilities with later versions of MyTraffic X (5.1b) fixed
• UK/European phraseology applied to Australian/New Zealand airspace
• Student callsigns

Get yourself a little slice of aviation history with this new scenery add-on.

About 75 years ago, Wiley Post and his Austrailian friend Harold Gatty set an aviation record. They flew around the world, only stopping for fuel and repairs in 8 days, 51 hours, and 51 minutes, breaking a record set by the Graf Zeppelin, a lighter than air craft. They left the United States from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, but the planning and most of the pre staging for the flight, and in fact all of Wiley post’s record breaking flights, came from his home airport, Curtiss-Wright Overland, in Oklahoma City, OK. His hangar in Oklahoma City was of art deco period design and built in 1928. This hangar was eventually torn down as the old Overland airport was engulfed by the growing city. Luckily, the hangar was disassembled, numbered, and warehoused for future reconstruction if funds became available.

The funds for reconstructing the hangar at the airport that replaced Curtiss-Wright Overland, Wiley Post Airport (KPWA), are being gathered now by an organization named Curtiss-Wright Wiley Post Hangar Inc. The hangar is to be reconstructed and turned into a museum and event center.

In support of the efforts to reconstruct the Wiley Post Hangar, Jim Dhaenens has created a rendition of Wiley Post Airport with the Curtiss-Wright hangar reconstructed and placed where current plans show. There are over 100 custom objects in the scenery including the Oklahoma Museum of Flying (the home of the Miss America P-51 Racer), OHP Troop Oscar Hangar, all the FBO’s, and even the signage on the airport. All Jim asks is a voluntary donation to Curtiss-Wright Wiley Post Hangar Inc.

The scenery will be available on June 7th to coincide with the Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots (ninety-nines.org) Festival of flight 2008 being held at the Museum of Women Pilots (museumofwomenpilots.com) n Oklahoma City, OK.

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(Source: FlightSim.com)