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Flight Sim discussions; mostly on the core platform ( graphics and terrain, platform team, sim engine, geo tools and geo data, international, internal tools, technical art ) plus news on releases and updates, and the occasional tweaks and tips.
I opened the doors on a new blog here so that this blog remains clean and FS focused. The new blog...
Date: 10/15/2008
Sometimes you run across an opportunity that is so big, so cool, that you just have to take it.Intel...
Date: 09/25/2008
which lists available scenery worldwide, athttps://walhalla.mine.nu/fsx.php very useful to...
Date: 09/20/2008
Newly released and looking impressive. Athttps://www.fsdreamteam.com with a few interesting FSX-only...
Date: 09/19/2008
As part of a discussion thread or 2 on AVSim.com and FlightSim.com, I researched smaller GA airport...
Date: 09/17/2008
To complement my list of high-detail airports and cities here...
Date: 09/08/2008
showing available from EB Games here ( on 9/30 )...
Date: 09/07/2008
SIDickDastardly has just posted about an amazing freeeware 2D Panel add-on called PanelMania that...
Date: 09/05/2008
XSI Mod Tool There is a discussion of how to use the XSI mod tool here to create models for FSX. XSI...
Date: 09/03/2008
Team Eaglesoft, discussion here. Ron notes the GA roster is already "FSX only", and explains why the...
Date: 09/02/2008
Gary Summons, of UK2000 scenery fame, announces his intent to go "FSX only" in 2009 He discusses it...
Date: 09/02/2008
Lately the chorus of voices complaining about lack of add-ons for FSX has stopped complaining about...
Date: 08/31/2008
Aerosoft, read about it herehttps://www.forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?showtopic=19472 it makes sense...
Date: 08/28/2008
here...
Date: 08/28/2008
Connie DC-7 The FSX add-ons are really starting to roll out. Now if Nehalem delivers the performance...
Date: 08/19/2008
From Aerosoft, see TahitiX MadeiraX VFR London Charles de Gaulle These are amazing, congrats to...
Date: 08/18/2008
Carenado, a major add-on aircraft developer, has announced they are going "FSX only" with all future...
Date: 08/10/2008
is at Oshkosh and one of the models flew, how cool is that! a nice writeup on msnbc.com at...
Date: 07/29/2008
I worked with Chuck Jodry and John Walton on an article to showcase how to convert 3DSMax model...
Date: 07/28/2008
GameFest 2008 slides are available athttps://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/xna/aa937787.aspx GameFest is...
Date: 07/28/2008
So, in case you missed it, TS2 was publicly demoed at the National Train Show last week. And the web...
Date: 07/21/2008
Almost 2 months ago I briefly noted there is a new MSDN ESP Dev Center. Available...
Date: 06/26/2008
I still see a lot of confusion about Acceleration ( aka X-Pack ). X-Pack is an expansion pack for...
Date: 06/24/2008
https://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=557 has what they purport is the Intel CPU release...
Date: 06/24/2008
Yet another FSX tweak. Note, it is possible to tweak the shadow quality somewhat. Try adding this to...
Date: 06/23/2008
St Maarten by FlyTampa! is already released, seehttps://www.flytampa.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2977...
Date: 06/18/2008
Graphics ATI 4850 accidental viewing,https://www.tomshardware.com/news/Radeon-4850-4870,5667.html...
Date: 06/16/2008
that provides a great level of geo-location search. in the authors' own words: "Map2Explore.com is a...
Date: 06/13/2008
The B-377 Stratocruiser from A2A Simulations, formerly known as Shockwave. Some nice screenies on...
Date: 06/06/2008
I see questions all the time about how successful is FSX as compared to FS9. I cannot share internal...
Date: 06/05/2008
FSWChttps://www.fswaterconfigurator.com/gallery.htm FEX...
Date: 06/05/2008
and showing the difference an "SP2 native" aircraft makes, here. its nice to see people flying and...
Date: 06/02/2008
seehttps://www.fsinsider.com/downloads/Pages/BonusAccelerationRacingMissions.aspx
Date: 05/29/2008
https://www.pilote-virtuel.com/viewtopic.php?id=2130 some interesting shots in there, including a...
Date: 05/27/2008
here for ATI and here for NV. the "Related News" links on both pages have more tidbits. it will be...
Date: 05/26/2008
as per TSInsider.com athttps://www.tsinsider.com/en-US/team/Pages/MeetusattheNationalTrainShow!.aspx...
Date: 05/25/2008
Soaring Heroes, by Andreas Paschen. Normal-D on youtube at...
Date: 05/23/2008
You will have noticed there are no more comments or email from my blog. No, there is no change...
Date: 05/23/2008
When loading a flight (saved in windowed mode with open panels/views) in fullscreen mode, the opened...
Date: 05/22/2008
Toms posted a OC CPU-GPU review on May 15th that included FSX-SP2 and shows a whopping 83.1 FPS at...
Date: 05/21/2008
is finally changed. <sigh of relief> .please see the new images at...
Date: 05/14/2008
Goal: Let’s create some definitions for FSX content, so users and third-party developers (3PDs)...
Date: 05/07/2008
Microsoft ESP Developer Conference - May 22, 2008 - Reston, VA, See...
Date: 05/07/2008
I want to clarify my previous post on FS9 port-overs. Let me start by saying my blog posts are my...
Date: 05/01/2008
Lamont Clark has posted a way cool tweak to display descriptive labels about 1500 ft above airports...
Date: 04/17/2008
Everyone who writes software, and most who use it, should be familiar with "back of the envelope"...
Date: 04/17/2008