Hong Kong city scenery consisting of mesh, landclass, photoground and Thousands of custom buildings.

- Kai-Tak International (VHHX, closed 1998) airport scenery.
- Highly detailed curved Checkerboard approach.
- 2 Heliports (Peninsula Hotel rooftop, Shun-Tak Ferry heliport).
- Animated AI-Ships including Hong Kong's Starferry, junkers, barges etc.
- Custom animated car traffic & FSX-traffic throughout the city.
- Unique night effects like animated Lightbeams, haze-glow and Fireworks display.
- Includes both FS2004 and FSX-SP2 versions. FSX version is fully FSX-SP2 compliant.

For more information please visit the FlyTampa homepage or the direct download site at Simmarket by clicking here.

Navigraph releases AIRAC cycle 0807(Effective from 03JUL08), this includes navaids, airports, airways and partly terminal procedures. Each cycle costs 20 credits, independent on the number of addons/downloads you make during that cycle. For more information please visit the Navigraph website.

The independent freeware design team has a new name: OZx (pronounced Ozzy-X) and a permanent home at http://www.aussiex.org . Please visit their site and register to support their efforts, sign up to be a developer and also to continue the scenery workshop discussion there.

Release schedules

Over the next week the OZx team will endeavour to re-release the former FTX Freeware 1.2, which will be named OZx 1.0 - it will contain 134 airfields and 26 scenery areas; the only airports not in their release are YLIL, YMLT and YRED.

Orbx will re-release YLIL, YMLT and YRED with minor updates over the coming weeks also, and progressively the other AFCAD-based GA airports as shown in our official freeware page on the FTX website.

Aerosoft has just released Leipzig/Halle which is not only looking superb (check out those screenshots) but it has also much functionality that we have not seen a lot before. From the bridge you can use to cross the highway to the docking systems that are fully functional. Rather special is large amount of vehicle traffic based on AES light (of course it is fully compatible with the full AES version as well) on the platforms and the nearby roads. FS2004 now, but the FSX version is about to follow. For more information please visit the product page.

SkyUnlimited has just released, Built specifically for FSX (SP2/Acceleration), this all-new extremely detailed and functional Gmax version of the famed Messerschmitt Me-262 features not only the single seat fighters, but the two-seat trainer with fully operational dual cockpits as well. The Messerschmitt Me-262 Schwalbe (German for "Swallow") saw action from late summer of 1944 until the end of the war, sharing the title of first operational jet fighter with the British Gloster Meteor. The Schwalbe is available from Flight1

France VFR is proud to announce its latest release, the first in an upcoming High-definition Airport series, representing the Airport of Toussus le Noble (LFPN, Département 78, North of Paris) for FS2004.

The Toussus Airport (LFPN) scenery is developed to extremely detail, including building textures, high-definition ground textures as well as the corresponding night textures.

France VFR emphasises the difference within the previously developed airports: Toussus is the first one created entirely in high-definition for FS9 and FSX conform to new airport design concept charts. The two versions of FS2004 and FSX are sold separately with possibility of upgrading to FSX (FSX release: July 2008)

Both versions are stand-alone products and entirely compatible with other France VFR BasePack scenery (or the upcoming regional scenery) and fully compatible with any Mesh of your choice.

For more information see the following product page at The FlightSim Store.

BluePrint is proud to announce the release of a package which contains full versions of SAEZ, Buenos Aires Ezeiza International Airport, and SVMI, Caracas Simon Bolivar International Airport. Please note that both sceneries are delivered in a single installer, but each scenery must be added to the FS library separately. For more information please visit the BluePrint homepage.

Aerosoft's Oliver Pabst just delivered AES version 1.96, it has quite a few new airports that have been added to the list including Brisbane of VOZ. New airports are:

RJCH - Overland Hakodate Japan
VHHX - FlyTampa Hong Kong Kai Tak
GMML - Laayoune 2008 by Antonio Totingue
KATL - Imaginesim Atlanta
TNCC - Tropicalsim Willingstad Curacao Intl.
YBBN - VOZ Brisbane
EDDF - Mega Airport Frankfurt Version 2008
SBRJ - Tropicalsim Santos Dumont
LIRN - Napoli Capodichino of napulevola.it
URSS- Sochi 2007 of VSS
UNNT - Novosibirsk-Tolmachevo of TolmachevoTeam
LMML - Malta of Daniel Chircop
EDDP - Leipzig-Halle of Aerosoft GAP 2

Please note that not all airports have been released yet! For more information please visit the product page or visit the Aerosoft homepage.

FSInventions announces a new version of its FSFlyingSchool add-on for FSX and FS2004. Version 1.9.2 introduces a fix and also some new features which are free to existing customers.

New Aircraft Supported
Support for several new aircraft has been added to FSFlyingSchool, including: Maule M7 260C with and without skis, Grumman Goose G21A, Aircreation 582SL Trike, DeHavilland Beaver DHC2, some Flight One Cessnas and their PA28.

Updated Manual
All program updates over the past 4 versions have been fully integrated into the PDF manual and FSUIPC installation instructions have been expanded.

Missing WAV File Fix
A few users reported that the instructor repeatedly announced that a file which was not missing, was missing – this no longer occurs.

For more information see the following product page.

Thirteen months in the making, and hand-crafted by the FTX Freeware Dev team, these 139 photoreal airfields and 26 scenery areas for FSX are available for anyone to use and enjoy. You don't have to be an existing Orbx customer or FTX user and there are no strings attached.

These texture matched airstrips are designed to blend seamlessly with FTX. The majority of strips you will find in this package are small airfields designed for general aviation (GA) flight. Some are farm strips – sharing a paddock with crops; some are mining strips – designed for twin engine turboprop fly-in, fly-out operations; some are small strips servicing rural communities or tourism operations; and occasionally you will find larger airports that have had the FTX ground texture and scenery makeover, such as YMHB Hobart, YMLT Launceston and YRED Redcliffe.

The download includes full documentation, area maps and navigation tips. The installer is 100% self configurating and you will be up and flying in just a few minutes! For more information please visit the Freeware section on the FTX homepage.