Category: Add Ons
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First, my apologies for being a bit quiet this week. Work and family have been a priority. That said, readers know I’m a big fan of REX Studios, and use their Texture Direct and Soft Cloud products every time I fly. So I think it’s good news that they have a large 50% off sale…
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I’m a big fan of Chris Bell’s fantastic Night Environment add-on for P3D, which brings realistic “to the horizon” night lighting environments to the simulator. You can see a video of me flying in his Pennsylvania package here. So it’s natural that I’m excited about Chris’s latest project, Black Marble, which will bring highly detailed…
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The remarkable Tom Tsui at FSX Times has updated his C 172 gauges for the Saitek FIPs. Can’t wait to install them this weekend. If you use Saitek Flight Information Panels, you really can’t beat Tom’s rapidly growing collection of instruments, and his service is excellent. I’m a huge fan. Thanks for your work, Tom!…
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REX/Milviz have collaborated to bring a new weather radar instrument to the sim community, the REX/Milviz WX Advantage. Here’s a quick and dirty first look video. Initial impressions? It’s great, especially for how snappy and responsive it is.Yet another reason I need to buy the folks at REX a drink. A more detailed review will…
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I noticed when linking over to the REX website today that they and Milviz have released a new weather radar add on for P3D and FSX. I’ve been looking for something like this for a while. Active Sky Next has a radar screen, but I wanted an instrument that I can run on the touchscreen…
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A few weeks ago I did a PilotEdge flight from Grand Canyon to Laughlin. To pass the time along the way I took some screen captures. They really show how great the REX-4 Direct environmental sky textures, clouds, and haze can look.
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For the past week or two there has been an active thread in the AVSIM P3D forums about a modification one of the members there developed that increases the brightness of Prepare3d scenery, adds more realistic (and darker) shaders for cloud and scenery shadows, and creates a more realistic horizon haze in the far distance. That…
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I love A2A’s aircraft, and have three: the Cessna 172 Skyhawk trainer, the Cessna 182 Skylane, and the Piper 180 Cherokee. Of these, the 182 is my favorite and aircraft of choice. The A2A simulation, especially with its Accu-Sim component, makes this aircraft as realistic as I can imagine it could be for a simulator. This…
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After reading so many good reviews of it over at AVSIM, tonight I decided to download the Night Environment scenery for Pennsylvania. I don’t know if I got the install quite right, and it took a minute to figure out that I should turn off the default autogen scenery (which also makes lights), and I…
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Having upgraded the sim to Prepar3d 3.2, last Friday night I downloaded the most recent Active Sky Next patch to keep everything current. I don’t know that this was necessary, as my ASN was working fine post-3.2, but I wanted to have the latest code running. After the install, two things happened: I had no…
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