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An announcement from the guys at Navigraph: “The airport charts and enroute charts available for download via the nDAC software have now been updated. The FEB08 revision has been replaced by the MAY08 revision (batch #12). More information about the data (changes and current coverage) is available in our nDAC product pages, http://www.navigraph.com/www/ndac.asp.

The number of airport charts are now 23,271 (previously 22,655), in a total of 1,199 airports (previously 1,183). The new and revised airport charts are distributed over 232 airports worldwide. …/”

The full PR after the jump…

And our plug: Navigraph Credits are available from simMarket: click!

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Francois Vranken of CityBird VA announced today: “CityBird was founded in 1996 and flew passengers to holiday destinations in Florida and the Caribbean, initially aiming for longhaul destinations with 767s and MD-11s. The call sign was ‘Dream Flight’.
Later on 2 A300s were added as an expansion to cargo operations. Alas, these Airbusses eluded me and I never got them for my lens. “

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Bryan York of FS2/CatIII Software said today: “Flight1 ATR Drivers please note: FS2Crew has just released their highly anticipated FSX version of its popular Flight1 ATR Edition. For a while we didn’t think there was ever going to be an FSX version of FS2Crew for the Flight1 ATR due to some technical issues.”

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Flight One Software has released the DVD version of Ground Environment X USA-Canada for FSX.

Ground Environment X brings all-new ground textures to FSX using aerial and satellite imagery to bring you highly realistic ground environments for FSX. Some of the features include:

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Greetings! You have found the new simFlight.com system site!

Now based on Wordpress the site comes with all the functionality of the so named ‘Web 2.0′ and beyond.

We are running a beta test of the system now, things might change, things might not work 100%…. we welcome you to let us know about that, you can do so by commenting on this post.

Feel free to browse and take the site to the test…. we welcome your comments !

The simFlight Team

Just in from this developer down under: “FSWidgets has released a significant update for the Electronic Flight Bag for FSX (EFBFSX). Version 1.2 now includes support for the recently released freeware moving map - GMap for FSX (displays aircraft position in Flight Simulator X on Google Maps).

It also adds Windows 120 DPI (Large Fonts) support and full Vista UAC compatibility. This update is free for current registered users.To download the update please visit http://www.fswidgets.com“

The product is available from your friendly FS Shop simMarket! You can also download a FREE demo from there.

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FriendlyPanels has published yet another one of their ‘combination panels’, the latest one being for the Learjet 45 of FS2004 and FSX. “…All gauges are visible in only ONE screen (except for FMC, that requires a separate window) keeping an excellent readabilty…..”.

Available here from simMarket.

After just posting what seemed to be an endless stream of press releases about news products, patches, etc i remembered a nice ‘rant’ i read written by a friend of mine (you will know who it is) in his blog a few days ago.

It starts like this: ‘When will YOU (FS) public relation people (do they really exist???) learn to write something more original to us news editors ? After more than 5 years at simFlight and 3 years at Avsim I am getting extremely and hopelessly bored by the continuous bloated texts that people submit us every day’ … and you can read it all by jumping to his site.

Needless to say that i loved it