Los Angeles’ second-busiest airport, Long Beach Airport – Daugherty Field (ICAO: KLGB), has released in X-Plane 12 by developers Skyline Simulations. The multi-runway airport to the south of Los Angeles welcomes a host of flights from across the United States, handling well over 1 million passengers each year. By far the airport’s busiest operator is Southwest Airlines, operating to a wide-variety of destinations. Skyline Simulations’ product features ultra high-definition custom textures, PBR materials on all buildings and an accurate depiction of the city using original OSM data. The scenery ..read more

After months of waiting for many, PMDG’s long-awaited 737 series for Microsoft Flight Simulator is now available on Xbox. Xbox flight simmers who have been looking for the in-depth narrow-body airliner can now load up the sim and download. The aircraft products are highly regarded in the community for providing an authentic and realistic flying experience in the Boeing 737. The modelling, texturing and sounds included are seen as some of the best on PC, so to have this on a console sets a new standard. Expect to be able to perform accurately simulated flights from A to B, test your skills with ..read more

FSDreamTeam has released Houston Intercontinental Airport (KIAH) for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Officially known as George Bush Intercontinental Airport, the Texas airport provides service to a multitude of domestic and international destinations. The airport comes with a number of features from FSDreamTeam. They have included a highly detailed model of the terminal building, complete with interior modelling whilst focusing on ensuring performance is good for many simmers. Furthermore, there is fully dynamic lighting throughout, customised taxiway lighting and also use of MSFS Parallax shader ..read more

Aerosoft has just released Marseille Airport (LFML) for X-Plane. Developed by FlightSim Studio AG and ShortFinal Design, the product is a recreation of the airport in the south of France. The 100-year old airport has two primary runways and is France’s fifth most busy airport. Airlines such as Air France, Ryanair, Volotea, Transavia and Air Algérie take passengers to destinations right across Europe. The airport product takes advantage of X-Plane 12 by implementing quality 3D models that utilise PBR materials for an authentic look. It includes native weather effects, custom orthoimagery, accur ..read more

Announced a few weeks ago, Got Friends has shared a few new videos for their upcoming DoubleEnder aircraft for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The unique aircraft will provide a great GA flying experience as the preview videos highlight. The first video (above), is a proper first look at the plane since it was first announced. Whilst we have seen some screenshots, to see the DoubleEnder in action is exciting to see. You can see just how much visibility the pilot has looking out of the cockpit – this will make for a cool experience in VR in particular. You can also watch the Twin Rotax 916s in acti ..read more

After providing their last update in March, Pacific Islands Simulation recently took to their Facebook to share the progress on their highly anticipated Salt Lake City Airport scenery for MSFS. Salt Lake City International Airport (KSLC/SLC) is the busiest airport in Utah and is located only four miles away from Downtown Salt Lake City. The airport is best known for being a major hub for Delta Airlines and consistently ranks high for its on-time departures and arrivals compared to other major U.S. airports. In 2014, the airport embarked on a $4 billion redevelopment program to replace the orig ..read more

In early April, FSimStudios announced they were getting close to releasing their Calgary International Airport scenery for MSFS, and that day has finally come. Calgary International Airport (CYYC/YYC) is located about 11 miles away from downtown Calgary and is the fourth busiest airport in Canada. The airport serves as a hub for WestJet Airlines, which is headquartered in the city, and Lynx Air, and as a focus city for Air Canada and Flair Airlines. In the last decade, the airport has experienced several exciting changes, including opening a new air traffic control tower, runway, and internati ..read more

Developer Sonicziz has found a way to improve the aircraft and location menus within Microsoft Flight Simulator, thanks to their new tool sets. Both tools are designed to help you save time when in the menu system of the sim. It’s also a way to refine what you’re looking for, save notes, add favourites, and more. Both the aircraft and location manager overhaul the in-sim menus giving you more options and settings than before. The Aircraft Manager allows you to control presets quickly and automatically, whilst the ability to save notes allows you to save relevant information against each aircra ..read more

Parallel 42 continues to provide unique products for flight simulators, with their latest, Stripr, being a brand new utility tool for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Stripr will completely overhaul your loading screen experience in MSFS. It may sound like it will just simply change some screenshots whilst you wait for the sim to load, but there’s a number of key features that are seemingly useful to many simmers. Starting with the obvious visual changes, Stripr changes the default imagery with cinematic birds-eye views of airports and the world. You can influence the airports you see, as well as a ..read more

Lockheed Martin has just released a brand new incremental update for Prepar3D v5. The new update, Prepar3D v5.4 comes with a range of performance, stability, and usability improvements. The simulator’s performance improvements come from better use of background threading. There has also been three additional backend flight plan GPS systems that allow for staging, secondary and offset flight plan systems. For those using VR, there have been plenty of VR fixes and improvements make VR setup and calibration easier and more user friendly. The full changelog is down below that gives you a good idea ..read more