Designed and coded by Andrea Ilari, FS2004 Flight Plan on Google Earth is an online converter of .pln flight plans generated by FS2004 to Google Earth. You simply select your desired flight plan, upload and in a few seconds a Google Earth file is generated, enabling you to see all the waypoints of that route above high-quality satellite images. This interesting service is available for free at Andrea's website. Google Earth can be downloaded from its official website.

A JetBlue Airways A320, carrying 139 passengers, has just made a successful emergency landing at LAX. The aircraft had a landing gear problem soon after takeoff as the nose gear was turned sideways and struck. They have burned fuel over the ocean for over 2 hours in order to make the airplane lighter and finally landed. The nose gear caught fire during the landing, but the crew managed to stop the aircraft safely. All people on board are alive and there are no reported injuries. Congratulations to the crew for such an amazing landing!

Captain Sim has announced today that a price tag has been set for the 'Legendary C-130'. This new add-on is to be released soon, at the cost of $51.30; higher than the average price guessed by users of $38.00. Now, a new contest is going on: the person who correctly guess the release day will have a change to get it for free. More information about the Legendary C-130 and the contest can be found at Captain Sim.

 

Sim-Wings has released a new product today: Biarritz Anglet Bayonne Airport. Biarritz is a regional airport located next to a famous seaside resort that also serves some international destinations. The scenery is totally designed with Gmax and features active gates, dynamic and static objects, high quality building textures, landclass of the area and accurate AFCAD. Biarritz Anglet Airport is priced at EUR 13.79 and is available, via download, at SimMarket.

Microsoft's Software Development Manager, Carl Edlund, has presented in the AVSIM 2005 Conference a demontration of new graphic technologies that can be incorporated into flight simulation. Presented features include better lighting, shaders, environmental reflection (reflective water), material reflection (wet runways), integrated renders (fog, clouds ...) and some other goodies. It has not been oficially confirmed, but that new technology is expected to be on the next version of Flight Simulator - which hasn't been announced yet. Click here to view more pictures and detailed information.