Maastricht-Aachen is the next scenery by Turkish developer ST Simulations, recreating the Dutch airport known for the EUROCONTROL MUAC.

Developed by ST Simulations, Maastricht Aachen Airport (also known as Vliegveld Zuid-Limburg/Beek, IATA code: MST, ICAO code: EHBK) is an international commercial airport in the municipality of Beek, about 10 kilometers northeast of Maastricht (NL) and 30 kilometers northwest of Aachen (GER).

It is primarily important for air freight traffic but is also used by low-cost and charter airlines. Next to the airport is the Upper Area Control Center Maastricht of Eurocontrol, which monitors the upper airspace above 24,500 ft (approx. 7,500 m) in northwest Germany, the Benelux countries, and northern France. The control center was also recreated in great detail for the scenery.

Furthermore, many custom 3D objects were implemented for ground vehicles, static aircraft, various buildings, signs, and more, including custom lighting models.

Features

• Maastricht-Aachen Airport Terminal 3D Model with Interior
• EuroControl Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC)
• Cargo Terminal East Hangar and Apron
• Many Airport Buildings
• Custom Static Aircrafts(Dash 8 – Q400, Embraer 195)
• Custom CGL Aerial
• Custom Hangars, Airport Buildings and Offices
• Custom Lighting Models
• Custom Static Ground Vehicles
• Custom Taxiway Signs
• Accurate runway and apron (2024)
• Realistic and Highly Detailed Representation of the Airport
• A lot of custom objects, models and details for the environment
• Highly Detailed Textures, Physically Based Rendering (PBR), Reflective and Realistic Textures
• Realistic Runway and Taxiway Marking

• Payware
• Developer: ST Simulations
• Publisher: Aerosoft GmbH, ST Simulations
• Release Date: August 1, 2024
• Platform: Microsoft Flight Simulator – PC & XBOX

Available now!

• Aerosoft Shop
• Contrail Shop
• simMarket
• Flightsim.to
• Orbx
• Just Flight
• and MSFS Marketplace!

Official Trailer

Screenshots

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Located in Slovenia’s Julian Alps, Bovec Airport (ICAO: LJBO) is one of the most popular alpine mountain airports. It is located just a few hundred meters above the emerald Soča river, surrounded by high mountains. Bovec Airport, at an elevation of 1414.0 feet, has a 2700 ft (823 m) long grass runway in the direction of 07/25 (070°/250°). Various parachuting events and organizations are held in the valley under the name of Skydive Bovec. Now on the MSFS platform with its gorgeous nature!

With this addon, many special 3D models have been added for Bovec Airport. High resolution, detailed models are used. Appropriate objects have been placed for Bovec, the tandem skydiving center. Training is given at the skydiving school. The land has been reshaped. Brand new 3D models and details will be added in future updates.

Bovec Airfield does not publish a METAR. The nearest weather station is Tarvisio, 20 km (12 mi) away. Flight information region (FIR) is Ljubljana ACC.

The city of Bovec is surrounded by important mountain peaks such as Kanin, Prisojnik, Matajur, Krn, Mangrt, Jalovec, Škrlatica and Triglav. Triglav National Park hosts hiking organizations with its fascinating beauty. Around Bovec is a wonderful hiking (Brjeka) route, which also includes the Soča river. Take a wonderful journey in the Alps of Slovenia with the panoramic flights you will organize from Bovec Airport!

Features

• Custom Hangar of the Bovec Airport with interior details
• Cafe Aeroklub Bovec 3D Model
• SkyDive Bovec
• Animated Country and Event Flags
• Custom Gliders and Trailers
• Custom Event Tents
• Highly Detailed Textures, Physically Based Rendering (PBR), Reflective and Realistic Textures
• Realistic and Highly Detailed Representation of the Airport
• A lot of custom objects, models and details for the environment

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The DHC-6 Twin Otter is the ultimate go-anywhere aircraft. It was built to reliably and safely go where other aircraft don’t stand a chance.

It can land on tarmac runways, mudflats, water, sand, snow, ice and does regular scheduled flights in both of the Polar Regions and to airports at extreme altitude as well as on tropical islands.

Optionally equipped with skies, tundra tires and floats there will be no place where the trusty Twin Otter will not be able to take you. With versions for cargo and passengers, 100 and 300 models and different engines we cover the whole range of this amazing aircraft.

One of the main reasons the Twin Otter still performing well after years is its rugged design. A fixed landing gear that is strong, light and cannot fail. A tall wing that keeps the engines clear of debris and is designed for STOL operation. Besides the PT6A-20 turboprop engine manufactured by Pratt & Whitney Canada is one of the best engines ever built.

The aircraft has been completely new designed for Microsoft Flight Simulator and use the latest design, system and flight model technology.

Start your flight adventure today and explore the globe in the aircraft that was built for any terrain!

Features:

• Full new development using all options of the platform
  • Highly optimized modelling, prepared for use on PC and Xbox
  • Wwise sound set with close to 300 spatially placed sounds
  • Full use of decals to save on texture memory, very light on system resources
• Complex icing modelled on almost all surfaces and functional de-icing systems including electrical de-icing for probes and de-icing boots for leading edge
• Fully featured fuel systems (updated when MSFS adds more features)
• High-definition flight models for each model
• No additional navigation database needed
• MSFS checklists implemented
• Complete avionics stack (all compatible with available tweaks):
  • Garmin 530 all-in-one GPS/Nav/Comm solution
  • Garmin 430 all-in-one GPS/Nav/Comm solution
  • Bendix/King KR-87 ADF Receiver
  • Bendix/King KT-76C Transponder
  • Bendix/King KAP140 Autopilot
  • Intercontinental Altitude Alerter
  • Collins 913K Autopilot Controller (used as repeater for the KAP140)
  • Bendix/King KMA Audio Selector
  • Collins FD-112V Flight Director
• Thirteen models:
  • DHC6-100 Floats Passenger (Westcoast Air C-FGQH)
  • DHC6-100 Wheels Cargo (Norway Airforce MXJ_67-062)
  • DHC6-100_Wheels Passenger (Fuerza Aerea de chile 940)
  • DHC6-300 Amphibian Passenger (Viking Air N153QS)
  • DHC6-300 Floats Passenger (Trans Maldivian 8Q-TJM)
  • DHC6-300 Floats Passenger Short Nose (Trans Maldivian 8Q-MAV)
  • DHC6-300 Ski Cargo (British Antarctica Survey VP-FBB)
  • DHC6-300 Tundra Wheels Cargo (Air Inuit C-GKCJ)
  • DHC6-300 Tundra Wheels Passenger (Norlandair TF-NLC)
  • DHC6-300 Wheels Cargo 3 Blade Prop (Aklak Air C-CDHC)
  • DHC6-300 Wheels Cargo 4 Blade Prop (Aklak Air C-CDHC)
  • DHC6-300 Wheels Skydiver (Perris Valley Skydiving N-708PV)
  • DHC6-300 Wheels Passenger (Solomons Airline H4-FNT)

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The DHC-6 Twin Otter is the ultimate go-anywhere aircraft. It was built to reliably and safely go where other aircraft don’t stand a chance.

It can land on tarmac runways, mudflats, water, sand, snow, ice and does regular scheduled flights in both of the Polar Regions and to airports at extreme altitude as well as on tropical islands.

Optionally equipped with skies, tundra tires and floats there will be no place where the trusty Twin Otter will not be able to take you. With versions for cargo and passengers, 100 and 300 models and different engines we cover the whole range of this amazing aircraft.

Aerosoft Twin Otter will be released on 19 January 2022. You can buy from Aerosoft e-shop.

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Features:

• Over 160 airlines included (more added with every update)
• Over 1400 traffic routes for airports included (more added with every update)
• No impact on the framerate
• Zero learning curve, install and forget, all settings are done via the standard simulator user interface
• Fully transparent to other DLC – Compatible with all airports
• Designed to work in AI ONLINE and AI OFFLINE mode
• Fantastic value for money

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Also you can installation via Aerosoft One.

 Trailer

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Microsoft Flight Simulator users can tour the Flying Eye Hospital in full hospital mode with stunningly authentic detail and learn more about Orbis’s mission to train and inspire local teams to save sight in their communities by accessing the plane free-of-charge through an in-game news link or directly via Microsoft Flight Simulator Marketplace. The plane, however, is not currently available for flight.

The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital demonstrates how aviation can be a force for good in the world. Since their first generation DC-8 took off in 1982, the Orbis plane has flown to 97 countries to carry out sight saving programs. This third generation MD-10 that Microsoft Flight Simulator users can experience was donated by FedEx employees and launched in 2016.

The aviation sector first pioneered simulation technology; now Orbis and the wider medical community are fast adopting it. Just as simulation has been teaching pilots how to fly for decades, it is now helping doctors, anaesthesiologists and nurses to save sight and improve patient care.

On board the plane, Orbis uses simulation to teach and train eye care teams around the world – using virtual reality, artificial eyes and mannequins. Simulation has proven even more vital during a global pandemic as opportunities for hands-on training have decreased.

A passion for aviation and realistic simulation are the threads that tie Orbis, Microsoft Flight Simulator together, so we’re proud to showcase this unique aircraft.

The Flying Eye Hospital is available as a free download to all Microsoft Flight Simulator users to tour beginning today and will be available as a free download in the Marketplace on Xbox Series X|S on July 27. The sky is calling!

Source: Orbis

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Acclaimed developer Frank Schnibben (Cityscape Honolulu, Melbourne Cityscape for AUv2) has brought to life Australia’s largest city with his debut Microsoft Flight Simulator scenery with the assistance of our in-house team. A complete cityscape, the scenery captures the feel and energy of the harbourside capital, with thousands of details and features across the entire metropolitan area.

This package is being submitted to the Microsoft Marketplace and will be available there once it passes their mandatory checks.

Changelog:

Fixed bugs/replacements:

• Misplaced objects corrected.
• New textures on many objects (e.g. AMP building).
• Overall improved textures.
• Removed some of the ugliest default road overlays
• Made the bridges flyable under (Harbour B. and Anzac B.).
• Improved alignment with FlyTampa YSSY.

New:

• 3D cliff between Bondi Beach and South Head
• Luna Park (with animated ferris wheel) incl. North Sydney Swimming Pool and Milsons Point wharf
• 3D dockyard on Garden Island (HMAS Kattabul, Cowper wharf)
• Quay Quarter Tower
• White Bay cruise terminal
• Brickpit ring walk
• Parramatta POIs:
• Meriton + Altitude
• Lennox
• Deloitte
• 6-8 Square
• 4 Square
• Sydney Water HQ
• Bankwest Stadium
• Lighthouses (with animated lights):
• Hornby
• Macquarie
• Light Rail trains
• 2 cruise ships:
• Queen Mary 2 at Overseas Cruise Terminal
• Sirius (fictional) at White Bay terminal
• 2 new ferry classes placed along their routes from Circular Quay to Parramatta/Manly:
• Freshwater
• Rivercat
• Added boats and ferry wharfs

Cityscape Sydney on OrbxDirect

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Ahlan Wa Sahlan – Landmarks Dubai for MSFS

Key Features

• 22 high-detail custom landmarks including Atlantis The Palm, Royal Atlantis, Jumeirah Gate, Jumeirah Beach Hotel, The Address highrises, Dubai Frame, and the Ain Dubai ferris wheel
• 185 medium-detail custom landmarks, balancing quality and performance
• Coloured night lighting and other enhancements for the six default landmark buildings, including Burj Khalifa and Burj Al Arab
• OMDU Skydive Dubai is modeled with its unusual raised concrete platform runway and small terminal building
• Custom orthoimagery from the Palm Jumeirah area in the south to just west of Dubai International Airport
• Many enhancements to the city and surrounding areas: improved vegetation and building placements, static trains and boats, cranes, chimneys, etc.
• Extensive terraforming across the coverage area, enhancing how our custom landmarks sit within the simulator’s terrain
• Custom night lighting based on real-world photography

You can buy it from OrbxDirect web site. https://orbxdirect.com/product/landmarks-dubai-msfs

Prices: $9.99 AUD – US$7.57 – €6,35 – £5.46

The download size of this product is 3.85 GB. It uses 6.88 GB when installed.

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RECENT IMPROVEMENTS

Thank you for all your feedback. Since launch we have received a lot of feedback from simmers, pilots and airplane creators.
We take feedback of the flight model very seriously. Continuous improvement of this area is our number one priority. As you can see in this video. We fixed the phantom spoilers on the Cessna 208. We also fixed the fuel capacity and engine performance on several aircraft. And we improved the aircraft stability in turbulent air as well as turbulence simulation.
For example: as you can see in this video the air becomes much less turbulent after transitioning from land to sea.
We are adjusted the braking power and tire friction on all aircraft for more realistic braking distances and we tweaked the ground friction parameters for wet surfaces. We adjusted the input mapping over the control surfaces for all aircraft for more realistic handling at different speeds. This makes controlling the aircraft on short final and flaring much easier.
We added an upper dead zone and a reactivity setting to the input sensitivity menu for more realistic handling with various controllers. Thanks to these options, you can reduce the amplitude and speed of the movement of the control surfaces that you want to apply when you move your yoke. Allowing you to be more precise in your control of the aircraft. We’ve added stall physics to the rudder and elevator control surfaces.

This generates a stall of the rudder or elevator surfaces when applying extreme and sudden inputs on these surfaces. It significantly reduces the aerodynamic force of these surfaces once they are stalled.
We’ve adjusted the rotation rates and inertia of most aircraft, including the aerobatic aircrafts such as the E330 and pit special. We’ve improved the negative airway lift simulation and stall to improve the simulation of inverted flight. Such as here with the aerobatic aircraft the CAP 10.

GOALS OF NEW FLIGHT MODEL

One the main goals of a modern flight model was to increase the level of realism and to achieve native simulation of advanced behaviors such as:

• stall
• spin
• adverse yaw
• and induced roll.

But… there was another goal. In a real airplane the air around the plane is key.
Each updraft is felt. Flying over a forest, over water, over a building… changes the air and has a very noticeable impact on the aircraft. We wanted to capture this effect and simulate the air mass accurately and represent updraft and wind changes cause by heat, mountains, lakes, turbulence etc. For example: When the wind blows upwards the mountain there is a strong impact on the airplanes vertical speed. Once over the mountain, the air is very turbulent and the wind blows back down into the valley. That’s why the modern flight model entirely simulates the aircrafts motion using 1306 surfaces interacting with the airflow of the world. In these images you can see the resulting aerodynamic force that is generated by the air flow pushing on the surfaces on the aircraft. When the control surfaces move, such as the aileron going up or down.
You can see the forces changing direction, getting shorter or longer or even pushing in the opposite direction.
This is what makes the aircraft pitch, yaw, roll, when the user moves the control surfaces of the airplane.

A CLOSER LOOK AT SURFACE SIMULATION

This is the sim running in the legacy flight model mode.
As you can see here, the FSX simulation is based on a single point positioned at the center of the aircraft.
It generates one big force vector and one big moment that makes the aircraft roll, yaw or pitch, based on the performance tables that are in the flight model file. When switching to the modern flight model, you can see that now we have hundreds of force vectors that are displayed. We are showing a sub-set of the 1306 surfaces that are simulated in order to have a better visibility of all the vectors. And you can see that each vector is displaying a different force depending on where it is positioned and where it interacts with the airflow. This surface simulation is fully optimized for modern multi-core CPUs. It simulates 1306 surfaces via a chop system over 32 power threads and over 100 frames per second in less than 100 milliseconds. This new architecture allowed us to push up the complexity of the simulation by a factor of 1000.
Here is an example of the advantages of a modern flight model.

MSFS Aerodynamic Simulation

• 1306 Simulated surfaces
• 32 CPU Threads doing work
• Over 100 Frames per second
• Less than 100 microseconds per update

This is a visualization of the native simulation of induced roll. Adjusting the rudder makes the plane roll and then, an aileron correct is required to stabilize and cross control the aircraft into a slip. Once both controls are fully applied the plane continues to fly straight in a fully cross control flight. Air flow being accelerated by the engines and propellers is also correctly simulated and natively causes prop wash and engine effects when touching surfaces. This allows for more accurate simulation of engine effects and aerobatics which heavily use engine effects. You can see the aerodynamic forces getting stronger when the RPM increases and the air flows over the wings and the tail. You can see how the prop wash of the propeller makes the plane move. This is exactly what you feel when you do your engine tests on the tarmac. Here you can see how we use the prop wash and move the tail surfaces to lift the tail and make it move. All surfaces have their own aerodynamic simulation that is located in 3D space. Surfaces can stall independently from other surfaces natively causing stalls and spins if one wing stalls and not the other.

AUTHORING TOOLS

With added tools in the sim allowing air craft creators to create aircraft directly in the software. Here’s an example of adjusting the airplane geometry to adjust the flight model surfaces for the airplane. Airplane creators can adjust parameters by a click of a button and see the result directly in the sim. We are also continuously improving the authoring tools for the aircraft. The propeller performance curve plotting system has been updated and we improved the system to define propeller performance data.
Aircraft creators can now either use the propeller performance tables or implicit curves of performance.

FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS

We’re improving the flap definition system, increasing the control over the way the flap surfaces move when they are being deployed. Aircraft creators will be able to more accurately define how the surfaces move forward or backward. or how the surface angles change when the flaps are deployed. This gives a more detailed control over the pitch movement generated by flaps. We are also currently fixing an issue that was causing a lack of performance on twin engine propeller aircraft at very low speed. This was happening for example: at takeoff when you had the full engine and the breaks set and you released the breaks the engines were really lacking power at that precise moment. There will be an update to the aircraft selection menu allowing the users to adjust the limits of the planes control surfaces, the fuselages wear and to adjust the aircraft center of gravity. Next we plan to focus more on turbo prop engines, super sonic flight, and the interaction of surfaces with super sonic airflow. Finally we plan to continuously improve developer tools to allow more accurate definitions of the surfaces of the aircraft. And to increase the number of surfaces simulating the aircraft.

MORE AVIATORS

Sebastian Wloch – CEO

François Rembry – Game Designer

Romain Thevenin – QA Tester

We’ve worked hard to continue to grow our expertise in the aviation field and the number of pilots on the core team has grown significantly. We’ve hired ex-pilots from the French Marine National. Aviation and mechanic engineers and even airline pilots who have flown on Boeing aircraft. We now total over 6000 flight hours on the team. We’ve even hired expert pilot consultants who have helped us improve the flight model and the systems in the aircraft.
Our primary focus will always be simmer and pilot feedback and any issue brought up by the community will be looked at first. To send us feedback about the flight model just submit a ticket via Microsoft Flight Simulator website. I hope you enjoyed this tour into the world of aerodynamics and Microsoft Flight Simulator. We are very excited to keep listening to the community, the pilots, the feedback and to keep pushing the envelope of what’s possible in the simulator.

Thank you and see you all soon in the skies of Microsoft Flight Simulator.

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We are hard at work hard on World Update 3 and it is looking great! This massive update contains new aerials, new DEM, over 70 POIs, 5 airports, two landing challenges, and will also introduce 5 brand-new photogrammetry cities for your enjoyment. Unfortunately, these new cities are causing a slight delay… it’s a new process and data source for us and the tools have to be updated for these cities to integrate seamlessly into the sim. The Bing Maps team is working hard to make this happen and the data provider, Bluesky, is helping as well. We believe that the remaining issues will be resolved within a few days so we are targeting the release one week later than originally planned. We apologize about the delay, but are convinced that it will be worth the wait … and that a full 3D London is a critical element of this release. Thank you for your patience. Here are a few images of what’s to come:

FEATURE DISCOVERY SERIES EP. #10 – AERODYNAMICS

Source: FlightSimulator

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