Books

AeroPress has released what I’m sure will be a welcome training manual for the MD-80. The manual is available in both print and PDF versions, in both English and Italian.

The guide has been designed exclusively by talented and visionary designer Massimo Solimbergo and comprehensively illustrated using enhanced screen shots and photographs from the MD80 cockpit.

The guide has been designed to be easily followed by anyone. Student or Advanced Pilot. A new flow system was designed especially for the manual called the ETS or Easy Tutorial System. The ETS System was principally designed using an enhancing process which increases the intake of information while minimising confusion. The result is a fast and easy learning process that really does work.

The kind folks at the FlightSim Pilot Shop have put together a free Key Command Guide Sheet for Flight Simulator X:

Many flight simmers, especially the more novice users, have a hard time remembering the numerous key commands associated with Flight Simulator. From flaps to lights to ATC commands, it can certainly get confusing. That’s why we’ve put together a handy spreadsheet featuring over 500 commands, labeled and formatted to fit over a key on a standard keyboard. Simply cut them out and affix them to your keys as needed. You could even take an extra keyboard that you might have laying around and utilize it exclusively for flight sim. You can customize it any way you’d like, even edit the commands to your preference. Best of all, it’s completely free! Here at FSPilotShop we want to help you get the most out of flight simulation!

Simply add the item to your cart and proceed to checkout. If you’ve never purchased from us before, you’ll be asked to create an account. If you’re an existing customer, you can simply login. Select the Paypal payment option so that you do not have to enter in any payment details and once you confirm your order, you’ll be able to download the spreadsheet instantly!

You can download the guide here.

The May issue of Cyber Skies magazine is now available for download for the very reasonable price of $1.25.

Go Bush Flying in Alaska with Bruce and Shavron Air! See the best deal in PayWare Airplanes - Just Flight’s Flying Club X including the Piper Seneca, the Warrior and the Tomahawk as well as the Cessna 152 and Schweizer 300cbi. 5 planes, one box!

Learn about the real Bill Piper and Freeware Pipers including the Apache and the Arrow III.

Fly better than ever with Saitek’s X52-Pro Flight Control System. Corky shows us how to add a switch and move a gauge!

Ever wonder how to run those antique radios and auto pilots? We show you how to fly like Grandpa!

And J.K. Bruce voices opinion on “sub-virtual” pilots. All this and more in the May issue of Cyber Skies Magazine!

IVAO has released the second issue of their freely downloadable magazine - Virtual Sky. It’s an extremely well polished work and well worth a download. To be honest, I’m amazed it’s free. I’ve seen a lot of commercial work at a lot lower quality than this!

We are happy to present before you the second issue of IVAO Virtual Sky Magazine.

A little bit of statistics, before we start !. Our first issue had a little over 25,000 downloads for which we owe our sincere thanks to all our avid readers. We have received several e-mails and forum posts congratulating us on the outstanding issue. We are glad that you all liked it and found it informative.

It is our constant endeavor to improve the contents of the magazine. We have now included an improved section on training and we hope you will all find it useful. Also, in this issue we have an exclusive article from the famous author Captain Mike Ray.

Very soon on a trial basis we will be launching of the second issue of this magazine in three more languages viz., French, German and Spanish. Our idea is to reach out to as many interested members of our flight simulation community, without language posing any barriers.

Sit back and enjoy your journey through the April 2008 issue.

You can download your copy of the IVAO-Virtual Sky from this link http://www.ivao.aero/newsletter/newsmirror.asp

Also, if you like the magazine, please support us by spreading the word among your friends in the flight simulation community.

The Aviator -  a free downloadable magazine for aviation enthusiasts - has released Issue 3 Volume 1.

This issues contains:

• The Outer Marker
• The Armchair Investigator
• The Fastest DC-9 Alive…
• The Sweet Spot
• Flight One’s PC12 review
• and much more…

You don’t get much for free these days, so why not go grab a copy?