Coming this week – Pieve di Caldore
Another masterpiece of RealEarthX complementing their ever-growing series of the Italian alpine scenery ‘DolomitiX’. This week we’ll be releasing Pieve di Caldore which connects to the south of the earlier released titles Auronzo and Comelico! Just one little piece missing to connect it to Alpago further south as well.
Ultimately the Italian developers are striving to get the entire Dolomiti region released in this very high detail fashion, true the FSAddon credo ‘We add reality’ !
NOTE: ‘Coming’ as soon as I can get our webshop supplier to help us resolve the problems ! Stay tuned !
SupportMyFS needs Experts!
SupportMyFS will go LIVE this week. We will step up advertising and making waves about it in the various media and on the Internet.
VERY IMPORTANT: we can still use EXPERTS on Flight Simulation. So head on over to the site (it is on-line already!) and register, then get in touch if you think you are a flight simulator expert and able to help fellow hobbyists with their problems.
It is FUN to help others and you can even make a little money with it to further finance your hobby !
SupportMyFS is the world’s first and only dedicated support company for the flight simulator hobby!
Free Sardinia Mesh from Real Earth X
Real Earth X have released their new freeware title Sardinia Mesh (SardiniaFR on our webshop). Due to problems with the shop currently, I have made it available here in this post, and also on our downloads page under the new tab on this website: FREE STUFF (see above).
Sardinia Mesh provides a major improvement of the famous Italian island compared to the default MS mesh and allows you to see the proper elevations now!
Click on the picture to download your copy!
What else do we do !? Google Hangouts !
Because one of the primary bits of FUN running this particular company of mine is INTERACTION with our customers, here’s a little tip of the veil of WHAT ELSE I do besides running a flight simulator add-on company. All my life I have been involved in breaking (IT) technology and so I am also involved in Google+ and its Hangouts (basically multi-participant on-line video-calls or meetings). And by ‘accident’, through a good friend of mine in New York, I got involved with an experiment by a TV Station in the US of using the Hangouts directly in their news show.
So that’s how a little Dutch FS Add-on publisher got to speak all of a sudden on TV in mid Missouri to viewers of Sarah Hill, the news anchor. Weird !? You bet. Fun !? Absolutely. Fascinating!? Most certainly. And mind you, this is about tv stations, but the technology introduced here reaches much further and will very likely ALSO involve the FS communities in some way or other. Hence my post here.
Now, to learn more for those of you curious, here’s a tv program with an interview of Sarah, including a Hangout! Very interesting, so enjoy! And yes, I’ll have more FS news soon too, don’t worry :-)
Some new FREE stuff coming soon
In between interruptions by flu, elderly care, migraines, regular work and internet hiccups I am hard at work at releasing some new products from Real Earth X that have been laying around for some time now. Apologies for the delays… but hey… it’s free !
First to be released will be a LOD 13 resolution mesh product depicting all of Sardinia, the large island off the Italian coast. After that we’ll have the Italy Landclass for you, also available through our webshop. The latter is a ‘donationware’ title, with the revenue going to a Good Cause. (Minus the part that the banks take from us, of course).
And Real Earth has more coming, so keep your eyes peeled on the website here !
And last but not least SupportMyFS is now 99% ready for launch, so expect it to go ‘LIVE’ sometime next week. And oh, we are STILL looking for many more FS EXPERTS and SPECIALISTS, so be sure to read what we need! Could be a nice on-the-side job for YOU too !
MS Flight anyone??????
Since I am ‘under NDA’, i.e. I promised MS I wouldn’t tell anybody anything specific about their new ‘flight game’, I cannot tell you much. Yet. Because I am still heavily debating with myself if I should STAY under NDA or just call it a day with Microsoft ;-) I have been playing MS Flight Beta for a day, this week. That’s about how long it could keep me interested.
But, instead of me telling you things, why don’t you read for yourself what has happened since FSX was in the design phase? Since I was part of the projects since that time, I can confirm that what Randazzo (PMDG) writes in his post at Avsim, is correct.
Read it for yourself here and be sad….. or not. We’ll keep working on FSX !
I want to share a Storch with you
First ‘working day’ of the new year and I am having a bad cold. So what better things to do than surfing the Internet and finding stuff to look at…… due to an email by one of our Storch fans with an included photo of a British Storch, I found it on Youtube as well.
It is owned and flown by Pete Holloway and the clip below was made flying off my favorite airfield in the UK, Old Warden. If you look good you can also spot the Lysander… and probably ‘our’ Gladiator was out there too.
Click on the 720 HD bottom right and watch this beauty in fullscreen! I love Youtube !
By the way, the Storch, Gladiator and Lysander are all still available at our store for VERY reduced pricing until January 10th !
What’s next? Normandy !
Yes, currently uploading the files of the FranceVFR product Haute Normandie Photo HD. It is depicting the northeastern part of Normandy in France, made up of aerial photos and detailed mesh. The photo backdrop is a great base for further development of add-ons and the mesh does a good job at the rocky coast!
WIP on the Lockheed Hudson
Just a few pictures I made today of the Very First Beta model that Simon sent us. So much still to be done, changed and improved, but the initial model is looking very nice already ! ALL pictures in FULL SIZE can be found on my photos site here.
Below a few teasers:
Many takers – Offers still valid !
Since we posted our Christmas Specials on the shop, we’ve seen a lot of people ‘digging in’ and getting themselves some of the goodies. More than expected really, what with this bad economy all around. In fact the bad financial status of many in various countries was the main reason to reach out and discount some of our main products! And we are really glad to see so many of you benefiting form it ! ENJOY !!
(Oh, and check this out: you can still benefit UNTIL JANUARY 10th !!!)
Meanwhile we’re working on some new products, like Pieve di Cadore (as shown further down), and the Lockheed Hudson/Lodestar. I’ll have some First Beta pictures to show later today I hope, although release of the aircraft is still firmly ‘down the road’.
Another bit of news is that we’ll be increasing our cooperation with FranceVFR and hopefully will have some new products in the next year. To start with we’ll be selling their Haute Normandie photo software in our shop soon!! Stay tuned !
For now, we at FSAddon Publishing wish all our customers, friends and colleagues a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a WONDERFULL 2012 !!!!
Free Tri-Motor Liveries
Here’s some news from our friend Garry J. Smith from ‘Down Under’ :
“…. Ford Tri-Motor Livery Extravaganza – all FREE for your flight sim entertainment.
Edward C. Moore and Garry J. Smith have teamed up to create an outstanding compilation of liveries for the Microsoft Default Ford Tri-Motor (FS2004 Version). Over 360 individual liveries covering a broad range of Real World liveries, Fictional liveries and a ton of fun vibrant liveries for your flying pleasure. Additionally there is over 130 AI specific liveries (Sim Friendly sets) with a couple of hundred more in the mill for repainting.
This project has become so large that a unique web site had to be created to accommodate the dynamically expanding project – see http://www.ford-tri-motor.net
For those that are familiar with the Microsoft Default aircraft, you will know that they have some serious limitations on texture mappings with many surface areas mirrored which restrict the development of overall repaints. However, Garry has put in a great deal of artistic creativity to ensure that each and every one of the hundreds of liveries for the Tri-Motor are meaningful renditions wherever possible.
To see an overview of this project feel free to check out the two slideshows:
Original Batch of liveries:
http://www.ford-tri-motor.net/Downloads/Ford-Tri/Page1/Ford_Tri_Motors.html
Bonus Batch of liveries:
http://www.ford-tri-motor.net/Downloads/Ford-Tri/Bonus/Ford_Tri_Motor_Bonus.html
Overall I think you will find there is something for everyone in this incredible suite of FREE liveries for your flightsim entertainment…..”.
Christmas 2011 – Discounts
DISCOUNTS !!!!
There, I’ve said it.
We have a number of special offers. Extra special because of the economic bad times for all of you…. and us. We figured many of ‘us’ could do with a ‘deal’ and some positive news amidst all the doom and gloom. So here are our Extra Special Christmas Deals!
The Combo we had last year too: Lysander and Gloster Gladiator. Together, download, special price Euro 24,95 !
And then a NEW Combo: the recently released Fieseler Storch and the good old Super Cub, both by Simon Smeiman. Together, download, for only 19,95 Euros !
And to top things off, for those of you who always wanted them but thought they were too expensive (they are NOT, actually), our top products for FSX, Vancouver V2 for FSX and Tongass Fjords X as well!
For a LIMITED TIME you can buy Vancouver V2 for 15 Euros and Tongass for a mere 17,95 Euros.
ONLY from FSAddon’s own webshop of course, click here to go to the Silvercloud Store ! 
Ben Gurion FSX and FS9 Updates !
David has delivered his updates to Ben Gurion X and Ben Gurion FS9 today. The updates fix some problems with AI, parking spaces, lighting and runway traffic. Over the past few weeks it became apparent that a few problems of the previous versions were still around and needed another look.
Especially the AI traffic (and AFCAD) was a problem. David installed WOAI and was able to correct some of the problems with parking and movement of AI aircraft now.
A complete overview of the fixes can be found in the Readme file that comes with the zipfile. Customers from our own shop can download the ‘patch’ from the attachment section of the products in the shop. Everybody else can find the patches in our FSAddon website, look under the More Services tab, ot go straight here for Ben Gurion X or here for Ben Gurion FS9.
Temporary problem with Serial Numbers
After our latest shop software update it appears that serial numbers are no longer automatically sent to the customers. I am keeping an eye on all orders and sending out the numbers manually, currently.
I hope the programmer can fix the problem (again) as soon as possible and will let everybody know here when it is done !
Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience!
Francois
Fieseler Storch and Ben Gurion on Aerosoft
Yup, Aerosoft now too has added our wonderful Fieseler Storch to their shop (a download version, despite the CD picture).
And for the fans of big airports, they have also added Version 2 of Ben Gurion for FSX (including the discount for current owners of version 1).
So, no excuse to not have these products on your hard disk anymore, you now have three places to acquire them from ! ;-)
Holiday Discounts Planned !
On popular demand we will repeat our Lysander – Gladiator Special this month and offer the pair with a 16 Euro total discount ! We’ll also add two other packages to the list.
The first will be a Combo Package of our new Fieseler Storch and our Super Cub package. Another awesome two planes with a lot of special history. The pair will be available for Euro 19,95, which is a saving of 14 Euros !
And in addition to that we will offer a special deal on some of the Real Earth products, letting you buy a Bundle for only 25 Euros. The combination will include the Alpago, Comelico, Auronzo and Tre Cime products and cost only Euro 19,95 (instead of the regular 33 Euros, i.e. a 13 Euros saving).
The discounts are valid only during a limited time, from December 10th to January 10th, so don’t miss out on it. Make sure you check the Special Package and not the individual packages (except with the Lysander – Gladiator deal. Here you just buy both and get the discount in your shopping cart).
Note: These special deals are exempt from any other discounts that may be given on regular products.
Fieseler and Ben Gurion X now on simMarket
Following the recent release in our webshop of our very popular Fieseler Storch, I now finally have found the time to make it available to simMarket as well. The delays were caused by multiple and repeating hardware problems and lots of travel.
But now it is published and should you prefer the simMarket shop over ours, then you may find the Storch here!
Also release now is the new version (Version 2.0) of the Isralei Tel Aviv airport, Ben Gurion. As you may know, David Rosenfeld the author has decided to raise the price due to all the extra work and the new Ben Gurion now costs Euro 24,95. For previous customers there’s a discount, so they only pay the difference between the old and the new price, i.e. 5 Euros !
You can get Ben Gurion from our own shop of course, but now also from simMarket, just click here !
SimStop by Flight1
You all know Flight1 of course as one of the largest US flightsim developers and software distributors. You may also know they make products for the real aviation world as well. But what you maybe do NOT know yet, is their new initiative called SimStop.com.
The goal of SimStop is to get more flightsimmers to connect to each other. Preferably in real life through meetings and clubs, but at the very minimum by connecting them through the Internet. SimStop is much more than just another ‘social network’. It is a technology platform that provides ways to see each other flying, to form clubs (groups) and yes, to buy software !
Yours truly appears to be joining Mungo and his team and if all goes as planned you’ll see regular articles from me on SimStop.
Meanwhile we’d love to see you register and start building this new community with us !
