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star city

NEW
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WIN VFR LONDON X

Battle of Britain 70th Anniversary

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After the World Cup disappointment for England fans,

it’s time to move on, only another 4 years to wait hey!

That aside the build up continues and the workload

increases here at HQ. We will be shortly publishing a full
exhibitor listing on the website. Along with more details
of what you can expect to see at the show next month.

As for this month, July brings us more great summer fun in the build up to our
show. We have another jam packed magazine with stories and articles from
around the world to keep you busy and up-to-date on all the latest flight sim Inside this issue
news.

As always you will find our June Highlights with info you may have missed
throughout the month, following that we take a look at the world’s first Aero  Editorial
Park for flight simulator.
 Aero Park Opens
Have you fancied yourself to be a Bush Pilot? Now for all users of FS2004 the
opportunity to try out this great aircraft the C185F Skywagon.  C185F Skywagon Bush
From across the pond we received news that a new Flight Academy had opened  Flight Academy
for students at Warrington Middle School, this has been set up to help young
people gain an active interest in flight with the use of three simulators.  Cockpit Automation
How many folks think that an aircraft can land itself? You will find the definitive  Battle of Britain Released
answer to this poser in our centre page spread, Cockpit Automation, myth or
fact?  NEW 206 Jetranger
The Battle of Britain commemorates its 70th anniversary this year. We have
 Sim Snips
news of an exciting new title just released. Plus news on the Bell 206 Jetranger
this highly mobile aircraft now offers virtual training to get you safely into the
air.
 Photo Gallery

Flying a real MiG is out of the loop for most people, however now over in Star  Fly the MiG
City you can have a go on their brand new simulator, at a price of course! We
take you round the hangar once again with another aircraft you will see at our  In The Hangar
show in August.
 Flying in Switzerland
And finally, why not head over to Switzerland and fly some stunning missions
around the wonderful mountainous landscape.  Name The Plane
We will be back again early next month for a pre show edition of our magazine.

Enjoy the read as the build up to Summer Sim 2010 continues, don't miss it!
See you next month!

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 Here is a selection of flight sim news you may have missed!
The latest FS2004 scenery
add-on from MikeMax Aviation
is the very scenic and beautiful
Salina-Gunnison Airport,
located in the mountains of
Utah.
Canadian Xpress VA invites all
pilots to join their new fly-in
where they follow one of
Canada's busiest highways,
Highway 401
New NPSimPanel is a pack
of panels covering the
Boeing 737NG, Boeing 747-
400 and several variants of
the Boeing 777
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Just Flight has announced
that it is currently developing
a high quality simulation of
the Czech Sport Aircraft
Piper Sport for FSX.
Now available from ORBX is
patch PNW.002 for FTX NA Blue
- USA Canada Pacific Northwest.
The patch adds hundreds of
improvements to the scenery.
San Diego X is the seventh
high quality photo real scenery
for FSX from Flight Sim
Design. The package includes
a new feature called
"Enhanced High Definition"
Now available is a new feature
packed version of the award
winning WWI combat sim Rise
of Flight. Rise of Flight: Iron
Cross Edition
New for FS2004 from Enigma
Simulations is the British
Aerospace BAe ATP twin
turboprop airliner. Included
are six models of the
passenger version.
Eastern Airlines Virtual has set
up a special tour to visit the
thirteen original U.S. colonies
to celebrate American
Independence Day
Andras Field is our 2010 experimental project. We have those projects to explore new ideas and to see how we can include
customers better into our projects.

Andras Field, the airport(s)

Consists of a fictive airport located in Southern Bavaria, close to the Swiss and Austrian border. It has a big runway suitable for
medium passenger jets, a active glider section, a large helicopter area and a complete seaplane base. So no matter what you
like to fly in FSX, Andras Field can handle it. The airport itself is highly detailed and has some rather advanced
features (we also see this as a experimental playground for our scenery developers). The immediate surroundings have been
included as well and there is a lot to explore.

Andras Airpark
Is part of Andras Field and it consists of plots of land that can be bought (yes for real money) by simpilots. There is no need
what so ever to do this, only when you like to have your own place, to show your house to all the other users it makes sense.
You can either buy the plot and have us place one of the standard house/hangars or you can model your own place and send
the files to us. In the next update (every week or 10 days) your place will be included for all to see. Sign with your name at the
road side. Airparks are popular in the US because the are (fenced) communities of like minded people.
All your neighbours are aircraft owners like you, many will use their aircraft for daily commute. If is raining you can get from
your bed to your cockpit without getting wet as the hangar is part of the house, just like a garage. Again, though the airpark is
part of the project and open to all customers, a plot for yourself there is not included in the product. It's optional.

User interaction and user involvement

Aerosoft only wants to provide the files and start the project. We hope the users will then start to take ownership of the
project and start to manage it. There are many aspects we left unfinished at this moment. For example we have all the charts
and maps, but we have not drawn the SIDs, STARs, taxi routes etc on them. That's something we feel the users can decide on
amongst themselves. We will then update the maps. To coordinate this there will be a board of directors (consisting of Sales
Director, Airport Director, Airpark Director, Glider Association representative). These functions are open at this moment and a
few days after release we will ask users to find people for these functions. So Andras Field is a project fully driven by the users.

Andras Park
Now available from Aerosoft

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 C185F SKYWAGON BUSH FS2004
C185F SKYWAGON BUSH. Four different models: Amphibian, Float (with and without window door), Ski (with and without win-
dow door) and Tundra. Control window for controlling eye candies (Cargo Pod, Wheel chokes, boxes& packages, Pitot cover,
Sights prop and Tiedown ropes).

This is a standalone package (it doesn't require the C185F package) -

Polygon optimized model – Friendly FPS – Original HQ digital stereo sounds recorded from the original aircraft - Autopilot in-
stalled -Pop up Skywagon Manual with performance charts and normal & emergency procedures and Owner’s Manual
Supplement (OMS) - Original instruments - Includes: Interactive virtual cockpit.

Lights: Navigation lights, landing and taxi lights -

Transparent windows - 3D modelled pilot and cockpit
area - This model doesn’t have a 2D panel - Realistic
Full moving parts: Ailerons, elevators, rudders,
light effects on gauges - Nightlight effects on panel –
flaps, rolling wheels and trim tab – Animated
Built-in zoom gauges - Separate switches for
sections such as: propeller, doors, windows -
instruments lights and dome light – Toggle yoke at VC –
sun visor, air vents, copilot seat, vibrating
Real behaviour compared to the real airplane - Real
antenna, cowl flaps, pilot, engine and exhaust
weight and balance - PDF documents: Operation tips,
pipe.
Reference, Owner’s manual and Owner’s Manual
Supplement. By CARENADO

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 Dominick wants to be a pilot and sees his participation in Warrington Middle School's new flight academy as a way to make his
dream come true. "I'm into math and science," he said. "I'm going to take more advanced classes in those subjects because of
what I am learning here."

That's the attitude district, school and National Flight Academy officials are hoping to inspire with the career academy unveiled
Tuesday. "I like being able to fly and calculate the amount of time to get from one place to another," said Daishon Johnson, 14.
"You don't even notice you are doing math, and that encourages you more."The district has the only middle school flight academy
in the United States, said Carl Leiterman, retired director of workforce education.

The aviation classroom experience is operated in partnership with the National Flight Academy and includes three flight
simulators. The curriculum will focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics. "This is a way to engage students to
perform at high levels of math and science that we could never get them to from a textbook worksheet or a teacher standing in
front of a class," Superintendent Malcolm Thomas said. The flight academy is inspiring and fun, said Malcolm Rand, 12.
"I'm not that good at math and science, but this is really going to help," he said. "I know I'm going to improve." Warrington Middle
will have 132 students in the academy, Principal Sandra Rush-Riley said. "Once it gets out that we have this awesome product, we
hope it will bring more students back to our school," she said.

Set in the heart of Northamptonshire, Sywell boasts one of the best General Aviation Airfields in the United Kingdom.
With superb airfield facilities and a wonderful Art Deco styled Hotel, it is easy to see why many pilots consider this one
of the finest fly-in destinations.

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 For the longest time I've toyed with the idea of renting out a simulator and recruiting volunteers in order to
demonstrate the immense difficulty a non-pilot would have at the controls of a jet. Logistics and cost, unfortunately,
would make this extremely difficult (the tab would likely be in the tens of thousands of dollars).

Recently I learned that something like this has already been done. Several years ago, researchers in Denver gathered
together 112 private pilots and put them to the test in an old Boeing 737-200 simulator. Of the 112, only 23 managed
to get the plane from 35,000 feet to a reasonably intact landing -- in clear weather, with instruction from the ground.
Approximately 50 percent were unable to manage anything at all. Mind you these were FAA certificated pilots.

Anyway, I never heard back from Jon Hilkevich. That's the Chicago Tribune reporter who, in covering the story of the
American Airlines flight attendant pressed into cockpit duty after one of the pilots fell ill, said of the Boeing 767: "In
fact, the sophisticated plane, equipped with an array of computers, can fly and land by itself."

I e-mailed Mr. Hilkevich a note of cordial disagreement. I'm not sure what to make of his silence. As both an air travel
writer and a pilot with more than a thousand hours of 767 time under my belt, I felt that my protest would carry some
weight and credibility. Alas it was met with silence. Perhaps big city reporters don't take kindly to lowly airline pilots
explaining what it is they actually do for a living. I suppose I wouldn't mind so much if not the fact that Hilkevich is the
paper's transportation writer, and in that capacity, with its presumed expertise, he ought to be more careful.

(And as more of an aside than anything else: I was also a little struck by Hilkevich's implication that the Boeing 767 is
some state-of- the-art aircraft. Yes, it's a perfectly capable aircraft with "an array of computers," but it was designed
in the 1970s.)

All right, as you can see it's proving hard for me to get this topic out of my system. Yeah, yeah, yeah, planes can't fly
themselves; the realities of cockpit automation are widely exaggerated and misunderstood. I'm tired of complaining
about it, and chances are you're tired of reading about it. But I think what makes it so hard for me to let go is just how
pervasive these myths have become. Conventional wisdom holds firmly the idea that pilots are on hand merely as a
backup, that we "monitor" rather than fly. The press and pundits repeat this garbage constantly, and millions of
people now believe it. I keep hammering because it's important.

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I was on a talk show last fall. The host, Emily Rooney, who might
be an esteemed journalist but who has no aviation background or
expertise whatsoever, remarked matter-of-factly of airline pilots,
"We don't need them." She believes this because that's what
she's been told by too many of her peers and colleagues.

This bad information trickles out to the public and becomes

"fact." Only a few weeks ago I received a letter from a supposed
frequent flier who asked, "What percentage of landings
nowadays are still made manually?"

Virtually all of them, is the answer. I see only a small handful of

automatic landings -- "auto lands," in the vernacular -- every
year, not counting those practiced in the simulator. Practiced?
Yes, because in most respects automatic landings are more
complicated, and more work-intensive, than those performed by
hand. (For the record, auto lands have been around since the
1960s. The first commercial jet so equipped was the British-built Hawker Siddeley Trident.)

I put the blame on three pairs of shoulders:

1. The echo chamber media, for not doing its homework.

2. The academics, researchers and bureaucrats sought out by the media for aviation commentary. "Felix Feelgood, professor of
aeronautics at Suchandsuch University, says that ..." These people are bright and their work might be important, but they often
have little or no experience in the day-to-day operation of commercial aircraft. Yet they're granted a majority of the airtime.

3. Pilots. We're often our own worst enemies, enamoured of gadgetry and, in our attempts to explain complicated procedures to
the layperson, given to dumbing down. "Aw, shucks, this plane lands itself. " Perhaps for some pilots this is an attempt to be
humble and self-effacing, but it's also self-destructive. It undercuts and devalues our profession. Why shouldn't we pay a regional
pilot $18,000 a year if, after all, he's just sitting there "monitoring" things.

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 70th Anniversary
Just Flight is pleased to announce that the official release date for its keenly anticipated Battle of Britain 70th Anniversary package for
Flight Simulator X is now confirmed as 25th June for the boxed/DVD version and the download is available now at Justflight.com

Battle of Britain 70th Anniversary includes exceptionally high quality simulations of the Hurricane, Spitfire and Messerschmitt 109 and
represents excellent value at just £39.99 for the complete package. As an added incentive, customers who purchase the download or
pre-order the boxed version from Justflight.com before 25th June can earn a massive 1000 Just Rewards points that are worth £10 off
any purchase from the Just Flight or Just Trains websites.

The summer of 1940 marked Britain’s darkest hour as we awaited the Luftwaffe blitzkrieg. But, for a few desperate weeks Fighter
Command held back the German air armada in what Churchill rightly described as their finest hour. Now the three most famous aircraft
from the battle are once again airborne in the skies of Flight Simulator X. The Hurricane, Spitfire and Messerschmitt 109 have been
brilliantly re-created to the highest levels of detail and the result is this fantastic package.

Exterior models are built using the most accurate plans available to achieve highly accurate profiles and shapes. The rear fuselages are
modelled like the real thing, with fabric over stringers rear and they are specula and bump mapped where appropriate.

All aircraft come with high-fidelity flight models, accurate sound sets, intricate animations, firing gun effects and many more impressive
features

Cockpits are fully modelled to an astounding level of detail with every switch, knob and lever working and many with bespoke animation
code

Huge range of variants in different paint schemes – a total of 40 different aircraft!

Animations include canopies (with jettison feature), pilot figures, undercarriages and opening engine covers that reveal fully detailed
engines. Comprehensive printed manual with flight tutorials for each aircraft.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: Flight Simulator X, Windows 7, Vista or XP

MINIMUM HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS: PC with 3.0GHz or any dual-core processor, 1.0GB RAM. 256MB graphics card, 1.0GB hard
drive space.

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We have replaced the default FSX hover and flight behaviour with our own
dynamics, engine and systems management, complete with optional
damage, repair and maintenance features.

All this realism isn't easy to master for a novice pilot so we have introduced
several modes including auto-start and tutorial mode. The helicopter can
speed through the start up and shut down sequences on its own or the
pilot can follow on-screen prompts through the start up/shut down
sequences as the helicopter highlights each function on the 2D panels as
they are required.

Aircraft systems will fail according to misuse. This may take several flights
to occur as wear information is accrued and recorded. The pilot is able to
clear persistent wear and damage using a virtual “Service Workshop” or
switch off wear and damage completely.

Your aircraft can be equipped with low skids, high skids or floats and there is also a high skid utility version with a working cargo hook. Each
version can be selected with or without doors too but remember that this will significantly affect the air craft's performance.

The package includes 2 different fuel management systems. The accurate start-up procedures are not simple click sequences but dynamic
systems affected by temperature altitude and most importantly, pilot error!

Experienced pilots will of course stay well clear of

damaging the aircraft and will appreciate the more
subtle attributes such as the blade slap and transmission
whine associated with certain manoeuvres and flight
regimes.

If you are a student pilot and want to keep a record of

how your ability is improving there is an option for wear
and damage that persists for the life of each aircraft or
until servicing and repairs are carried out; minor damage
accrues over time but major damage will have dramatic
effects.

Training Modes include start-up/shut-down guidance with

on-screen prompts or your co-pilot can complete the start
for you while you plan your flight.

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Medicare Virtuel is a new virtual airline based
in Montreal that concentrates on medevac
virtual flights.

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Announcing a new FSX aerobatic team, the

Black Phoenix. We fly the L-39 from Lotus
Simulation and are in need of virtual pilots
who are professional and mature.

The team was founded in 2010 by Maxime

"Phoenix" Plante, ex-right wing of the famous
FSX Skyblazers. He totalled 350 hours of real
flying with multi-IFR licences and more them
3000 hours on flight sim since FS95. The team
goal is to demonstrate that formation flying
and aerobatics in FSX are possible and team
spirit is the key of this goal. The Black
Phoenix's aircraft is the well known L-39
Albatross from Lotus Sim, a training plane who
is perfect for the formation flying.

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The IRIS AudioworX 757-200 sound-pack for

FSX is our fifth in a series of sound-pack
releases for Microsoft Flight Simulator X.

Developed using the Captain Sim 757-200 for

FSX as a focus test-bed, this product is
compatible with various other freeware and
commercial twin engine airliners for maximum
compatibility and should work fine with
default and add-on products alike.

This product features all new sounds recorded

from the exterior and interior of the Boeing
757-200 and re-mastered, sampled and
engineered for superb clarity both inside and
outside of the cockpit!

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 Fly the mig at star city !
Our company, "Country of Tourism," has always been offering unique flights and space tours in planes like MiG fighters and Space Training
at Star City and much more. But if you are not ready to pay this price we offer for all aviation fans our new and exciting service which should
be affordable to almost everyone. We are describing the amazing
modern fighter combat-flight trainer and simulator. This complex
was developed by leading Russian specialists and, at last, is
available for everyone in one of the entertainment centres.
The Flight Simulator will allow you to feel as though you are in a
real combat fighter-jet experiencing the feeling of between 4G
and 5G overload during any aerobatic manoeuvres.

Keep in mind that price for such a "flight" is very reasonable and is
not even close to the real fighter jet flight.

We, "Country of Tourism," have the Exclusive Rights to sell all over
the world combat flight-training and simulator-flights. There is no
other company that can legally offer you the same service.

Before the flight you will meet an actual fighter pilot and
hear a pre-flight briefing, the basic theory of flight and basic
aerodynamics. Based on the real jet fighter frame, the pilot
will show you basic flight controls and operations.

After the briefing, you will put on the pressure or G-suit, receive final instructions and then the pilot will wish you good luck. During the
flight, the customer negotiates with the traffic controller, receiving guidance (and hints) to get maximum joy out of the flight. You will
experience new, and, perhaps, exciting feelings during the 5G overloads in tight aerobatic manoeuvres. What about hitting some ground or
sea targets? Want to see some real big explosions? Or are you more for aerobatic flights? Perhaps you would like to know if your rolls or
loops are sufficiently professional and clean and you would like it proven by a real pilot. Or maybe you dreamed about an aircraft carrier
landing? Once you reach the supersonic speeds of the jet, you will experience a new set of feelings – you will feel like a "chosen one", part
of an elite "super pilot" group, able to conduct aerial warfare flying dangerous combat aircraft.

The simulator consists of two parts – hardware and software. The hardware part is a real cockpit of a modern fighter jet adapted for
simulator purposes and a little more comfortable for the pilot (like a moveable chair to allow the pilot into the cockpit). Cockpit is secured
on hydraulic pistons which allow it to change roll angle up to 25 degrees and pitch angle for 28 degrees and it even creates vibrations of the
cockpit when necessary according to the flight situation. In addition, the cockpit fully supports G-suits, which add the feelings of overloads
and stresses in tough turns.

Flight missions can vary from simple flight or an aerobatics flight to all types of real combat mission situations such as anti-air, anti-ground,
anti-sea missiles, with usage of all available fighter armament. Pre-flight briefing, basic flight principles and plane controls descriptions will
be done by a genuine combat fighter-pilot.

Each person will find his own level of excitement in this simulator. For one who has never thought about the skies, he will receive a basic
overview of this magic, and how it is done – in best possible way. Far better than showing "poor quality graphics on a small computer
screen" to somebody who has no idea what flight simulator really is. The flight simulator's fun will preface the next step, which is into to the
cockpit of the real jet fighter – with real control stick and actual controls and instruments clusters instead of a flimsy joystick, keyboard and
monitor.

Image © Country of Tourism

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Hunting Percival P-84 Jet Provost T1
Known universally as the 'JP', the Jet Provost, introduced all-jet training for pupil pilots for the first time in the
RAF. The Jet Provost was a private venture adaptation of the Provost primary trainer. XD674, shown here, first
flew on 26 June 1954 and was the first of nine T1 Jet Provosts built.

Comparative trials between Piston and Jet Provost T1 equipped flights took place at No.2 Flying Training School
(FTS), RAF Hullavington in August 1955. Results were such that all-jet pilot training was made standard in the
RAF, the first Air Force to achieve this. An improved version, the T3, with up rated engine, shorter undercar-
riage, wingtip tanks and other modifications first flew in June 1958 and 201 were built.

In November 1961, the T4 was flown and a total of 185 were delivered. Later, to cope with training require-
ments at higher altitudes, a pressurised version, the T5, was produced. The first aircraft flew on 28 February
1967 and 110 of this variant were produced. One of these aircraft, XW323, was used by HRH Prince Charles
during his pilot training and is displayed at RAF Museum London. Many well known aerobatic teams used these
aircraft including the 'Red Pelicans' and the 'Lincolnshire Poachers'. Replacement of Jet Provosts by turboprop
Tucanos began in 1988 and the programme was completed in 1993.

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 Vertical Studios is pleased to announce the launch of their first series of Add-on
Missions for Flight Simulator X, Mountain Flying in Switzerland. Designed by FAA
certified pilot using actual flight paths, Mountain Flying in Switzerland includes
detailed aeronautical charts of each departure, route, and arrival as well as real
world voice actors to provide the most realistic flight experience available in FSX.
The Add-on Missions also include complete FSX Nav Logs, Flight plans and GPS with
programmed waypoints. The entire round trip takes over 2 hours to complete, but
the missions are built as 3 separate parts, with each part lasting between 30 and 45
minutes. Experience all the beautiful scenery, including incredible views of the snow
covered Alps and Lake Geneva, with its world famous jet d’eau.

Part 1 of 3: Col de Coux Add-on Mission for FSX

This first leg takes you from the grass runway in Geneva up and over a mountain pass
named Col de Coux and down to an airport in a canyon. Along the way you’ll be able to
enjoy all the beautiful scenery, including incredible views of the snow covered Alps and Lake Geneva, with its world fa-
mous jet d’eau. The chief flight instructor from the Aeroclub de Genève will help you navigate and also handle all the radio
communications, but it will be up to you to safely arrive at your destination. You are the Pilot in Command!

Includes:

 Detailed aeronautical charts of your departure, route, and arrival

 FSX Nav Log, Flight plan and GPS with programmed waypoints
 Real world voice actors with written text of entire dialog

This mission pack is available for FREE from Vertical Studios

Images © Marcelo Terraza Report by Boosh

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