Simulation

CSC Selected to Provide Air Traffic Control Simulation Training Systems to Universities

by Jarkko on August 20, 2009

in Aviation, Flight Sim

Image via Wikipedia FALLS CHURCH, Va., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ — CSC  announced today that its NexSim(TM) Radar and Tower air traffic control simulation training systems have been selected by four universities to support the initial training and development of next generation Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic controllers. CSC will provide a total of 32 [...]

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MS FlightSim is no more

January 23, 2009

Image by joshmadison via Flickr According to Flightsimx and Gamasutra, Microsoft has shutdown the ACES game studio and axed the entire staff. What now? X-Plane might be very happy with the news but a lot of people, including myself, wants the fact that FS11 will be released. Now those “wants” are gone. Yep, we have [...]

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MegaSceneryEarth!

December 29, 2008

There’s not too many flight simmers in the world who have not heard of or used the MegaScenery brand of photoscenery which has been available for Microsoft Flight Simulator since Flight Simulator 98. MegaScenery has always been at the forefront of scenery realism and has always brought flight simmers the most realistic scenery possible for [...]

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USAF and X-plane

December 10, 2008

The U.S. Air Force has finally found a commercial (PC based) flight simulator that works for them. That’s because the game, X-Plane, provides sufficient editing capabilities for aviation engineers to use classified flight characteristics to create simulated warplanes that are realistic enough to allow military pilots to get useful training while using them. That’s a [...]

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Very nice survey from SimFly.EU

November 16, 2008

Image by fun3MD via Flickr SimFly.EU is conducting a very short Flight Simulation survey which you can complete by visiting their Survey website. Everyone who participates will be entered into a free prize draw to win products from First Class Simulations, Flight1 Software, and Captain Sim, as well as recieving Virtual Airline Bonus’s. “The survey [...]

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