Add-ons

Lionheart Creations have released their gorgeous looking EPIC LT for Flight Simulator X and Flight Simulator 2004. This is one beautiful looking aircraft - I want one!

Package Features

• Both FS2004 and FSX ‘pure’ models and textures for both simulators
• Fully animated control surfaces
• Fully animated prop blades with full feather capabilities
• Garmin G900X glass panel system with a TruTrak AutoPilot. The Garmin system features;
  • Maximize Full View PopUp
  • Pilots PFD Mini GPS Window in the LH Screen
  • Engine Popup
  • Fuel Management Popup
  • Chronometer
  • Zoomable full screen MFD GPS
  • Direct To flight programming
  • Lockable Altitude as well as Preselect Altitude. Same for Heading
  • On Screen Simplicity clickable area’s such as frequencies, heading, CRS, Transponder
• Soft glow interior cabin/cockpit illumination, mimicking soft lit overhead lighting
• Rear lit illumination of the instrumentation and Garmin gauge panel system.
• Popup rear cabin table when landing gear is retracted.
• Smooth cabin modelling
• High resolution textures for extreme detail of interior, panel, and fuselage
• Animated pilot and copilot that feature ‘roaming sight’
• Customised sound package with focus to turbine sounds, hydraulics, and servos
• High realism airfiles that create a realistic Epic LT ‘feel’, derived from feedback from actual  Epic LT pilots.
• 9 Different paint schemes, some featuring different interior textures which match the exterior themes.
• A popup panel that ‘manages’ features such as wheel chauks, co-pilot, luggage, etc.

Don Grovestine has released his freeware CYYJ (2008) airport for Flight Simulator X and Flight Simulator 2004.

CYYJ (2008) is a Microsoft Flight Simulator FS9 and FSX add-on covering the Victoria, British Columbia, Canada international airport and surrounding area. It is compatible with UTX - Canada (FSX), with UT Canada/Alaska and several other FS9 add-ons including Victoria+, and VIVA Base, but none are required. CYYJ (2008) is provided in a single load module with installer.

CYYJ (2008) features

• An airport definition (AFCAD file) based on high-resolution aerial photos that:
  • accurately places all runways and taxiways
  • provides realistic taxiway and apron markings
  • eliminates the rounded FS9-generated taxiway/runway intersection fillets and inserts triangular turning “gussets” where the latter exist at the real CYYJ, and
  • specifies representative taxiway, runway and approach lighting
• A terminal building that, from only a short distance, could be mistaken for the real thing and about sixty other very detailed buildings - all modeled with GMax and “painted” with hand-drawn textures
• realistic terrain profiles at both ends of Runway 09/27 and at the approach end of Runway 13 (that were removed by the FS9 default flatten)
• Taxiway and apron signage accurate as to both position and content
• fencing from the fire station in West Camp, past the terminal and around to the east end of Runway 09/27 and
• drive-through” parking for airlines at the terminal and for GA throughout East Camp and West Camp (if your AI includes ACA, JZA, WJA, QXE and/or PCO, the aircraft will take their usual positions around the main terminal).

CYYJ (2008) is available for download from both Avsim.com and Flightsim.com. Please check the Status Page for known issues, patches and update information.

Natural World FS has released Trees 2.0 for Flight Simulator X and Flight Simulator 2004.

Natural World FS contains alternative vegetation for FS, which will change the appearance of the countryside. Forests will be far more realistic. VFR flights will be an even better experience. Textures are made in high resolution for FSX with SP 1 or 2 and for FS9, for every season.

Golden Age Simulations has released their Classic Waco Collection for Flight Simulator X and Flight Simulator 2004.

Golden Age Simulations is proud to present, to the flight simulator community, our Classic WACO Collection.

This offering is modeled around the venerable WACO Model 10. With over 11,000 aircraft manufactured, the Model 10 put WACO on the map of the Golden Age. It made WACO a household name that has endured throughout the ages. Our package includes four aircraft and is essentially a journey through the evolution of the ‘10.

Start by stepping into the OXX 6 powered Model 10. Water cooled, the radiator hangs above the pilot and passenger. Better keep your cool! Many passengers and pilots came home wet when the radiator boiled over.

Next in the package is the little known Milwaukee Parts Company (Tank Brothers) conversion, essentially an air cooled version of the Model 10. This version of the three seat Waco Ten was the standard airplane modified by replacing the less than perfect Curtiss OX-5/OXX-6 series engine with the air cooled version of the OX-5 produced by the Milwaukee Parts Company. It was designated the GXE.

The ASO brings you through the thirties and to the modern age. Known variously as the Waco Sport Ten, the Ten W, the Waco 220, and eventually the ASO, this model appeared in June 1927 when the Advance Aircraft Company mated their basic Waco Ten airframe with the fabulous 220 hp Wright J5 engine. The increase in power resulted in spectacular performance, and over 90 examples were built before it was succeeded by the later CSO, which was basically the same airframe with the new 225 hp Wright J6-7.

Your journey continues with the CTO-R, the Model 10 for this century. Fully equipped and sporting the Jacobs R-755 engine. This is the ultimate sportsman’s craft. She’s slick and fast and a joy for any pilot who is willing to take her to the edge.

Virtual Aviation Suite has released a new version of their VASFMC, which now includes a version for FS2004:

As many people were hoping, this release also contains the MS FS2004 gauge version plus customized versions of the Project Airbus A319 and A320 models including the vasFMC gauge integrated into the Ken Mitchel Airbus panel.

Additionally there is also a great new HTML documentation available for vasFMC 2.0. Its not fully complete yet but nevertheless a must for the new release.

There are a huge number of changes for this release - way too many to list here - so head over to their forum for further details.