Sept. 11, 2008 VISTA, California — Joystick Technologies, LLC. dba CH Products announces today the latest release in their controller product line.
From LA to Sydney, over torrential bodies of water and massive terrain, through farmlands and wetlands, the CH Flight Sim Yoke has been a constant companion in the countless journeys you’ve taken for many, many years. It’s time to finally retire that indestructible co-pilot now and say hello to a new friend.
CH Products is proud to release the latest and greatest in Flight Simulation hardware with the release of its new high end yoke, the new CH Eclipse …read more

TweakFS has released the second member of its ToolBox Series of utilities.
 
The TweakFS ScreenShot ToolBox is a utility that will bring out the artist in you! Some screenshot artists are becoming very skilled, applying similar techniques used by real-world photographers in their use of angles, lighting and shot composition.
Screenshots are a great way to immortalize your FS flight adventures, moments that can be shared with your FS buddies and uploaded to forums for all the world to enjoy. With the TweakFS ScreenShot ToolBox you can easily create, display, edit, upload, download and email FS screenshots.
The major feature is the Apple …read more

Just Flight announces both the boxed and download versions of the Mosquito are now available, and a demo version is also available for those who’d like to try before they buy.
The demo aircraft is the BOAC unarmed high speed courier aircraft, which is featured in the Mosquito Special Ops – Upgrade Pack A. This variant was adapted to carry one passenger in an extremely compact compartment in the bomb bay on high-speed envoy missions. The BOAC markings were an attempt at trying to convey to the enemy that the aircraft was unarmed, although the Mosquito’s enviable high speed performance was …read more

Announcing the Beechcraft Staggerwing by PRE-Flight RC Simulator. Regarded by many as “The Most Beautiful Airplane” of all time – certainly the most beautiful biplane, the Beechwood Staggerwing was designed as built from the start in 1932 to be THE premium business executive airplane – much like the Gulfstream executive jets of today.
The Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing gets its name from the negative stagger – the lower wing is more forward than the upper wing – which is designed to give the pilot a superior view as well as provide a lower stall speed. Its retractable gear, uncommon at the …read more

Flying-W Simulation is pleased to announce the release of Super Traffic Board (STB) for FSX. STB goes far beyond displaying flight information as you would find at any airport with new and exciting ways of interacting with your AI traffic. Supporting all FSX AI packages, Just Flight Traffic, MyTrafficX, ORBX/FTX, Ultimate Traffic and World of AI with others to follow soon STB categorizes aircraft according to the operator (offering unique interpretations for Passenger, Cargo, Military and GA flights), shows flight numbers and IATA codes where available, displays real world airport names and reports allocated runways, speed, altitude and distance of …read more

Brian Gefrich and Joel DeYoung are pleased to announced that after a long wait, a public beta of SquawkBox 4 is now available to try on the VATSIM network. This version of SquawkBox works with Flight Simulator 2002, 2004 and FSX. It has been tested on Windows XP and Vista. Download this latest beta version and help find and resolve the last outstanding bugs.
Visit the The Squawkbox site or to download directly visit the download section. To report bugs, please visit the SB4 forums. Please use the Squawkbox forums to report or discuss any issues.
The following issues are already known …read more

FSWidgets has released the fourth member of the GMap for FSX family. This latest arrival – the iPhone Edition – runs inside what could be considered an “iPhone emulator”, displaying the look and feel of Apple’s iPhone with all of the functionality of previous editions of this freeware moving map system.
See the Free Tools/Utilities section on the Download Page – http://fswidgets.com

Angle of Attack production brings us again something to watch. A new training DVD of 747 Queen of the skies from PMDG.
I own their previous DVD about Level-D 767 and if the quality is even half from that, it is worth to buy. Not only you get a good training but also some goodies for your Microsoft Flight Simulator.
I watched a demo and got myself 45$ shorter. Many hours to come and watch it.
I believe this is well worth a money. Check it out at http://www.flyaoamedia.com/dvds.html

The next mission for Space Shuttle Mission 2007 is STS-124. STS-124 started with an uneventful Discovery launch on May 31, 2008 commanded by Navy Cmdr. Mark E. Kelly assisted by Pilot Navy Cmdr. Kenneth T. Ham.
STS-124 is one of the busier ISS assembly mission. It carried the Japanese ISS laboratory “Kibo”. Kibo’s size prevented the installation of the OBSS boom (for thermal tiles inspection) in the Shuttle’s cargo bay. Instead, the Astronauts used the one left on the ISS by the previous STS-123 mission. During this mission, the Discovery and ISS crews installed and performed initial activation of the Kibo …read more

Tom’s Hardware Guide has published its August 2008 edition of the regular: �Best Video Cards For The Money’.
“Detailed graphics card specifications and reviews are great – that is, if you have the time to do the research. But at the end of the day, what a gamer needs is the best graphics card within a certain budget…” says Don Woligroski, at the top of the feature.
Highlighting the �pick of the bunch� across the entire price range, he takes a detailed look at the latest high-end single- and dual-chip offerings from both nVidia and Ati, together with a peek into the …read more