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News, reviews, links and goings on in the flight simulator world - with a Pacific twist. Focusing on aircraft, airlines and information relevant to kiwi, aussie and pacific rim simmers
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Thumbs up if you like paradisiac islands ! Emerald Scenery Design shows their work-in-progress on Tetiaroa Island, part of the French Polynesia in the middle of
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Jetstar will take delivery of its first Boeing 787-8 in late September and a total of three 787s by the end of the year, Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce has
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The temperatures are dropping south of the equator and as thousands of Aussies and Kiwis look to escape the autumnal weather, it's time once again to Cross the Ditch!
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Emirates is upgrading its services out of New Zealand by putting on a third superjumbo.
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A380's galore on the Trans Tasman run now. If only we had a decent payware model huh Delete the scoop?
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The ultimate Airbus A320 throttle quadrant with motorized trim wheels CNC machined parts and laser cut to precision 90 made in Aluminum Real design Motorized trim wheels Perfectly positioned gates Forces tested by real pilots Engine Panel...
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Airbus SAS’s first flyable A350 rolled out of the paint shop as engineers prepare for the maiden test flight in coming weeks.
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Things have been a little quiet on the FSL A320 front lately and with updates from BlackBox and Aerosoft on their own A320 projects recently its good to see a little info trickling out for the FSL machine. Te simrussia.com lads have a short interview (posted as images on the page) with some of the FSL development staff. Worth a read, even though it is brief Delete the scoop?
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Four different paints with maximum details and realistic textures Polygon optimized model Includes Interactive virtual cockpit Full moving parts Ailerons elevators rudders flaps rolling wheels Animated sections such as doors pilot and copilot rsquo...
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Ant's Airplanes T-28D Trojan offers Flight Simulator X pilots the unique chance to fly this classic military aircraft. It is very well detailed on the exterior, and the 3D panel is simply superb.
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Fabulous new release from Ant (of Ants Airplanes) this week, with one of these a regular on the NZ side of the Tasman at air shows its sure to be a popoular seller. Bought it myself earlier in the week and very pleased. Nice modelling, fabulous sound pack, great set of supplied textures, and as usual a killer price Delete the scoop?
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These normal procedures are based on 737 FCOM and FCTM provided by PMDG, they are designed to be printed and inserted after cutting in a checklist protects 12,5 x 24cm size 18 pages.
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This should be of interest to any NG pilots in the Pacific, but possibly specifically the PMDG NGX operators. Released by Frederic Furst on avsim this week, filename: air_child_737_procedures.zip Delete the scoop?
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You can easily recognize the 737 style yoke, revealed by GoFlight, and named GF-Pro Yoke System. Via Fabrice Kauffmann
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Oh yesss.... what wouldn't a Pacific simmer give to have one of these mounted on the desk? No mention of price yet AFAIK but it certainly looks the part (thanks to Fabrice for scooping) Delete the scoop?
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The Awards Presentaton - Reader's Choice and Bravo Zulu
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Hawaiian Virtual is a Virtual Airline used to simulate the operations of the real world Hawaiian Airlines as accurately as possible. Hawaiian Airlines has a
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Pilatus has entered the business jet age, unveiling the PC-24 twin-jet at the European Business Aviation Conference and Exposition (EBACE) in Geneva this
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Plans for a third runway highlights Melbourne Airport's preliminary master plan, released on Monday for public comment. The master plan covers planned
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Wow, could be a few more procedures to master at YMML in coming years :) 
Steve Hall's comment,
May 20, 9:37 PM
Interesting they are going for another East West option. I would have thought a 34L/16R option would have been preferred. Maybe noise issues.
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Turbine Sound Studios proudly presents this first HD version of the Pratt amp Whitney PW-127 soundpackage for the ATR-42 and -72 We had to record sounds from various ATR-72 and 42 aircrafts in different countries to create this soundpackage All...
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Fabulous sounding sound-set for the ATR for Pacific simmers. I assume like their other titles it'll drop into any aircraft folder. Be a lovely replacement for the Flight1 sound pack Delete the scoop?
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The new build v3.0.2 of the free flightplanner is a good reason to promote the great work shared by TA Software (Tim Arnot) with the FS Community. Since
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As mentioned on simFlight this week it seems there's an update for the already excellent freebie flight planner Plan-G Delete the scoop?
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Given that each new FTX Global announcement raises more questions and in particular about third party landclass and mesh products, I thought it may be time to draw some diagrams...
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"The Story Of PAD" By Bob May Premier Aircraft Design was founded by
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excellent run down of the history of this prolific and generous freeware sim addon group, lots of excellent models for the simmer on a budget, and plenty with Pacific connections Delete the scoop?
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Here is what weve been up to in the last month.
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You've gotta admit, if they pull this off this world wide coverage product it's gonna be spectacularly good for simmers, and spectacularly good for FTXs back pocket :) Delete the scoop?
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If Ants Airplanes weren't already the best value for money in the FSX world then they certainly are this week. Head on over to PCAviator, they have 40% off these already well priced machines, I had the Tecnam Sierra already which is an awesome machine, and bought the Eaglet yesterday which is of the same high quality. Delete the scoop?
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Rob Randazzo's FANCON Key Note Address
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Great stuff, a recording of Robs Keynote for those of us who are on the opposite side of the globe to most of these sorts of events :) Delete the scoop?
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This is a repaint of the CTC Wings DA42 Diamond Twin Star ZK-CTH and requires the payware IRIS Simulations DA42 model. CTC Wings operate 8 DA42's from their NZ base at Hamilton International Airport
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Not a super common aircraft but NZers esp in the north island will be familiar with them buzzing about. Neat model from IRIS too, so great to see this repaint on avsim this week. Filename: da42_ctc.zip Delete the scoop?
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Eagle Rotorcraft Simulations is pleased to announce the release of the Bell 222A for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (use in Lockheed Martin Prepar3D is allowed). Started by Alan Devins in 2006 as a follow up project to his original FS2002/FS2004 Bell 222, this model was acquired by Eagle Rotorcraft Simulations in July of 2010. We have spent nearly three years working on and off on this project. This initial release features a single, standard 222A model variant with four (4) liveries. As time allows, this project will be expanded on, bringing new features, including model variants, new liveries, and improved virtual cockpit (VC) visuals. Via Fabrice Kauffmann
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Not the same level of detail as the payware Cera model 222 but a nice freebie here from Eagle, originally developed by Alan Devins. Not sure if there's a repaint kit but would be great to see the Waikato Hosptical based Westpac 222 painted for this machine. (thanks to Fabrice for scooping) Delete the scoop?
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This week's NZ VATSIM/VATNZ flight heads east beyond the oceanic boundary to the Chatham Islands. The Chatham Islands are 680km south-east of mainland New Zealand and consists of 10 islands in a 40km radius.