Newly acquired Just Flight Piper Arrow III. Shakedown flight.

There are numerous talented designers who are putting out top-notch products for our sims. With the Christmas season just around the corner and the sales that may occur what are you hoping to acquire this year?

With the “reality” add-ones that enhanced so many aircraft flight performance getting such a good reception I feel other developers are now baking in better flight dynamics into their new products that the add-ons may not be as necessary moving forward. Are you looking to move away from some of the big name players to many of the smaller newer shops that are boasting the better dynamics as a feature of their new products?

I for one am looking at the new T310R from Milviz as well as the new Take Command! Hot Start TBM 900. Both would be great additions to my hangar.

More from TIGHAR regarding Amelia Earhart.

Unfortunately I did not have the opportunity to land at this airport. Have you?

I grabbed the newly released X-Plane 11.02 Beta 1 update and was impressed by the performance improvements that it provided for my very old struggling setup. My computer consists of the following:

It goes without saying how under powered the CPU is by today's comparison of what is available.

Previous X-Plane 11 betas ran very slowly. I had to lower rendering settings to get any sort of reasonable flight from them. With the most recent release I am able to fly with the default "out of the box" rendering settings and get 15 to 20fps. I understand that 15 to 20fps is not good. Not at all. Honestly though I am impressed with how the program has been tuned to get it to that level with aging hardware.

If you have a chance I recommend testing out this new beta thread.

Photos here: https://simspotting.org/topic/73/testing-x-plane-11-02beta1

"The abandoned Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight Center was built in 1962 at JFK Airport (then Idlewild Airport), designed to be the next big thing in the elegance of air travel. Known as the “Grand Central of the Jet Age,” the historic terminal was futuristic and cutting edge, featuring an elevated footbridge, old clocks hung from the ceiling, large windows, and a classy collection of red velvet lounge chairs. The departure/arrival corridor looked like it came straight out of James Bond, a red carpet piercing through a white tube."

SimCoders has announced version 3.0 of their Reality Expansion Pack product. It offers integration with X-Plane 11 as well as continued integration with X-Plane 10, updated GUI, quick start option, and other enhancements.

Check it out:

Wonderful shots!

A new release of Simcoder's HeadShake plugin for X-Plane incorporates a view change based on your taxi direction. Nice touch Simcoders.

A great evening watching jsnapp1982 flying in X-Plane 11. Him and his friends are doing a group fly from southern California to Chicago. Check out his stream some time!

jsnapp1982 - Twitch