FSBreak 13: Orbiter Space Simulator, X-Plane Impressions, FSDreamTeam McCarran, and More!

Summary: Hosted by Eric McClintock, Richard, Mark, and Adam. Listen Here: Subscribe to automatically get the latest podcast: iTunes, Zune, RSS XML, E-Mail, All Other. FSDreamTeam's Las Vegas McCarran Features: Fully customized ground and runways in high resolution, both in FSX and FS9 Animated custom ground vehicles. Full 3d taxiways lighting. Improved Night Effects High resolution building textures. NEW ParkMetrade; feature: working SafeGate docking systems with automatic airplane recognition, and parking accuracy evaluation ( FSX only ) NEW YouControltrade; feature: custom airport actions with easy on-screen menu to trigger animations, events,etc ( FSX only ) You can try a free timed trial for free, and the full version can be unlocked for 22.90 EUR, or ~$30.00 USD. Upon purchasing, you get a serial code that works for both the FS9 and FSX version. [Link] [gallery columns="2"] Carenado Releases PA28RT 201 Arrow IV for FS9 As covered in Episode 10, Carenado has reworked the aircraft to support FS9. It is available separate from the FSX version at a stand alone cost of $27.95 USD. [Link] Heli Traffic 2009 Also Updated for FS9... Heli Traffic 2009 is the first Flight Simulator add-on that adds realistic AI helicopters that take off and land vertically, fly like helicopters and use helipads and not runways. This innovative product brings it's own AI engine that fully controls AI helicopters, instead of relying on FS to fly them. This allows a much greater degree of control, which translates into a realistic helicopter flight behavior... Heli Traffic 2009 also allows you to create your own helicopter flight plans, and now has been updated to support FS9... Price: $24.95 [Link] Adaptive Lighting in FSX? It sounds incredible, but it really works (NVidia card needed, newer models only 9xxx and later, probably 8xxx as well - couldnrsquo;t test it on ATI, yoursquo;ll have to try yourself): This little .dll adds HDR to FSX in DX9 - without noticeable impact on framerates (at least on newer cards). Itrsquo;s the same effect you see in Half Life, for example, and it mimics the eyersquo;s adaption to bright light and darkness. All you have to do is to open the archive, copy the DLL and the ini-file into your FSX directory and start up FSX to see the effect. What happens is that colors become more vivid, the image is less flat and it now makes a difference if you look into the direction of the sun or away from it. Even during the night, it adds more realism. The effect works windowed or in full screen. Be careful, you might become addicted to it. If you have the ldquo;affinity maskrdquo; setting in your fsx.cfg, you should take it out in order to keep high frame rates. To see the dll in action, have a look at this clip on youtube: You can find more info via SimFlight [Link] or YouTube [Link]. More X-Plane Links #38; First Discussions www.XPJets.com - Excellent X-Plane 777 [nggallery id=22] www.freeworld-airways.com - X-Plane Virtual Airways. X-Plane Flight Planner, Now in 4th Edition, www.xpgoodway.com The OpenSceneryX project is a free to use library of scenery objects for X-Plane v8.50 and above. It is a collaborative effort by members of the X-Plane.org community and the aim is to provide a good range of high quality scenery components for authors to use in their scenery packages - www.opensceneryx.com www.xsquawkbox.net - Directory for Plugins, SDK's, and online resources for X-Plane. www.petersaircraft.com - Great PayWare A330 Model, ~$19.00 USD. Orbiter - A Free Space Simulator Orbiter is a closed source freeware space flight simulator for the Windows operating system. The first version was released on November 27, 2000 and is an ongoing project with the latest version 060929 released on September 29, 2006. Orbiter was created by Martin Schweiger, Ph.D, a Senior Research Fellow at University College London. [Link] ...