Announcements

Prepare to lose many hours of productive time with this terrific free online helicopter rescue game. It reminds me of a game I once had on the Commodore 64 (yes, I’m that old…):

Sky Blue Radio has issued the following press release regarding their first birthday celebrations. Congratulations and well done

Sky Blue Radio is Celebrating! Come and Join Us 

Starting Friday May 9th 14:00z to Monday 12th 03:00z 

That’s right the volunteer staff at Sky Blue Radio are celebrating our first birthday as a dedicated broadcaster for the flight simulation and aviation communities and you are invited to come and enjoy a great weekend of entertainment. 

As part of the celebrations we will be having a weekend cram packed with live shows with over 60 hours of live DJ’s throughout the weekend and a great series of free prize giveaways and competitions from the simulation industries leading companies, such as Horizon Simulations, Captain Sim, Just Flight, Angle of Attack, Flight1, Vroute, France VFR, Space Shuttle Mission 2007 and World Flight Scotland. 

With a great mix of music, FS and real world aviation news, great prizes to be won and live DJ’s, this all sums up into a weekend not to be missed. 

Join us online at www.skyblueradio.com and on your cockpit com2 radio (123.45) with Wee Tune Beastie, FS Inn, FS Co-pilot and now available through Vroute. 

Sky Blue Radio – Sounding Great at Any Altitude

Flight1 have informed me that they’re looking for someone to create their product videos. This sounds like a great opportunity for someone with the right skills to get their work known.

If you’re interested, please drop me a line via the contact form and I’ll send your details on to Flight1.

On the subject of videos, it’s time for another shameless plug for FlightSimTube, our new flight simulator video and screenshot site. It’s proving to be rather popular, so head over there now and join in the fun

Virtual Skies has opened it’s doors with the promise of a more relaxed and friendly online flying experience for flight simmers:

Virtual Skies is a flight simulation netowork founded to provide dedicated, free and professional service to its members. We currently have regular events and competitions running, aswell as providing some of the best ATC avliable on the internet. We pride ourselves on flexibilty and are always open to ideas and suggestions from our members. Our global and divisional staff are dedicated to ensuring that your expierience flying with us will not only be professional, but also fun.

If you’d like to get online, but are a bit daunted by the existing systems, this could well be for you.

VATSIM has issued the following release regarding VAT-Spy 1.0:

VATSIM is pleased to announce the release of VAT-Spy, a traffic and ATC viewer application exclusively for the VATSIM network. VAT-Spy was developed by Ross Carlson, author of VRC (Virtual Radar Client), an ATC radar simulator for VATSIM.

VAT-Spy was closely modeled after ServInfo, a popular traffic and ATC viewer for multiple online flying networks. VAT-Spy’s feature set includes a few new items such as:

• Smooth panning and zooming on the world map.
• Most fonts and colors on the map are customizable.
• Multi-threaded for high performance and responsive interface.
• Map bookmarks allow you to save favorite views of the map.

In general, the goal for VAT-Spy was to mimic the primary functionality of ServInfo, while providing a more responsive user interface through the use of multi-threading, as well as smooth panning and zooming on the world map.

VAT-Spy is a Windows desktop application built on the Microsoft .NET Framework. To learn more about VAT-Spy, see some screenshots, and to download the application, visit the VAT-Spy
home page.