FSBreak 5: Free Megascenery Earth Download, Air Hauler Previewed, and More!




FSBreak - The Flight Simulator Podcast show

Summary: Hosted by Eric McClintock, Adam, Cam, #38; James. Listen Here: Subscribe to automatically get the latest podcast: iTunes, Zune, RSS XML, E-Mail, All Other. Free MegaScenery Earth Download Pick and choose areas that you want photo scenery for. Prices for the scenery range from 1/4 cent to 1/2 cent per square mile. Most areas are between 1,200-2,000 Square miles, and are priced at $7.49. Approx. 1GB of scenery per area, available for instant download. Complete states are priced at around $120, and a 65GB download. (They do have a price to include a hard drive shipped with the scenery) City packs are also offered for $15-$30 per city. They currently have almost 300,000 Square Miles in 182 areas in the United States. They are adding new areas all of the time. The scenery is FSX Only, and displays at 1.19 meters per pixel. Each area includes day scenery and night scenery, and enhanced autogen scenery. Free Scenery: They are offering one area free, "WA-004" which includes a 1,300 Square Mile area around Mt Rainier in the state of Washington. Free scenery is a 1.14GB download. As a special promotion they are offering the first area purchase for $2.99, instead of $7.49. Link to Free Scenery. [Link] Air Hauler Previewed Air Hauler is an automated program that allows you to manage all aspects of your own air cargo company, and fly the flights in FS2004 or FSX. Features: Airline startup options, you get a plane and a small amount of cash to grow on. Manage multiple companies as their own entity. Complete airline route, airport, and financial information. Each airline has a base, Air Hauler will import your custom airports from FS2004 or FSX. Each airport has a startup cost and a monthly lease. It is able to automatically suggest possible airport candidates to add to your inventory. Remembers where you left off your game progress. Even if in the middle of a flight and Flight Simulator is shut down, next time you start the game it will pick up where you left off. Fuel prices vary from region to region, airport to airport, and between different fuel types that your aircraft require. It also pulls the oil price from the internet to reflect the real world price of fuel. The program assigns jobs that need to be flown, and you are able to filter them and fly the ones you want tom and expire after 72 hours. You are able to adjust FS settings such as time and simulation rate without penalty. Aircraft limits are enforced. If your cargo is over weight you are not allowed to leave the airport. For a fee you may have the airport remove some fuel to make your aircraft lighter, and you are able to make stops for refueling, but careful flight planning is required! Any aircraft can be used, freeware an payware. However, aircraft must either be purchased or leased. The price depends on the condition of the plane. Loans can be taken out to lease or purchase assets, and there are different loans available with different terms and interest rates. Air Hauler even includes a stock market feature. You can use your company's cash to purchase shares of real world companies at current market prices that are downloaded from the internet. All costs are automatically determined from your flights and company. Including airport use fees, fuel, aircraft repairs, insurance, and loan fees. At a certain point in the game, you are able to hire on virtual staff. Pilot's skill levels differ, as do their salaries and efficiency. Complex flight planning can be used for the flights flown by you. The game is currently in late beta and will be released for FS2004 and FSX priced at $36.99 from JustFlight. [Link] You can also read John Allard's full preview. [Link] Screenshots: [nggallery id=3] Tecnam P92 for X-Plane The P92 is an advanced microlight, two-seater (side by side), single strut braced, high