FSAddon released today their first photographic scenery, named Salt Lake City Photo. Developed in association with CoBoy Design, Salt Lake City Photo was designed using aerial photographs to present a very detailed view of the area, depicting every object that is present in the real world. Everything from roads to terrain color matches the real Salt Lake City! A high-resolution mesh covers 40,000km² of terrain and autogen was manually aligned with the streets and roads for increased realism.

Salt Lake City Photo features photographic textures for both summer and winter seasons, both of them with night textures included. Also featured in the package are a fully aligned autogen, seamless integration with the default FS2004 landclass, enhanced airports and landable water. The FSAddon "Salt Lake City Photo" is ideal for both IFR and VFR pilots, and is available for EUR 14.95.

 Screenshots and details: FSAddon - Product Page

It's been 8 months since FS Station was officially released. During this time, I've been working hard to bring you the most recent Flight Simulator news and the most complete content you can find on the web. It's not an easy task to constantly monitor 40 flightsim websites, choose the most relevant news, write the news article and finally illustrate it - I also need to find time to write the tutorials/reviews, study and sleep.

Although I add new content as frequently as possible, I've found that we need more than that to catch up with the huge flightsim communities out there. I really want this site to grow big, and I finally realized that the only way I could achieve that is with YOUR help. If you have some free time on your hands, if you love flight simulators and if you would like to help this community to grow --- volunteer to be an official FS Station publisher!

I basically need people to help me write news, tutorials and reviews. You not only help FS Station as a community, but you also receive free payware products to test and review. It's a nice way to have the latest products in the market - you just need some free time in your hands. If you write well and write quality content, I can guarantee that you'll love this job.

Interested? E-mail me at fsstation(at)fsstation.com with your details!

Captain Sim is pleased to announce the release of two more 'Legendary C-130' expansions: the C-130 'Tanker' and C-130' Floatplane'. Featured on the KC-130 (Tanker) are 2 inflight refuelling pods with a reel control panel; on the CL-130 (Floatplane), we have 2 floats and 8 ATO (assisted take-off) units. With the expansions installed, you will be able to land on the water and practice inflight refuelling with other military aircraft when playing online. Both models include 24 variations and several model modifications. They are sold separately, for $14.99 each, and do not require the base model to be installed (limitations apply).

 Screenshots and details: Captain Sim - Product Page

 Still undecided? Captain Sim C-130 - Review

The Georender team released today a second volume of the popular Alaska Cinematic photographic scenery. Alaska Cinematic 2 doubles the size of the area flyable in Volume 1. It covers the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge plus the adjoining mountains, lakes and marshes. All portrayed in the characteristic Georender detail with the highest possible resolutions and vivid textures. This new volume contains no less than 22 airports plus hundreds of landable lakes, and small bodies of water.

Combined with the previous volume, it features almost 50 airports in an area of just over 20,000km². Also included is a free update to the scenery textures, now employing the latest processing techniques to add further realism to the Anchorage Metropolitan Area. Alaska Cinematic 2 is available for EUR 20.00 (download version) - Alaska Cinematic Volume 1 is required for the expansion to work correctly!

 Screenshots and details: Georender - Product Page

Cloud9 released today the first set of preview screenshots of their upcoming scenery, Los Angeles International (KLAX). The product is in advanced development stage and, from now, cloud9 will publish new screenshots and details every few days. This high quality project has been developed to reach two important goals: the maximum quality and detail level allowed by Flight Simulator and the minimum possible impact on the frame rate. This product will be released with an embedded trial version to give to all users the possibility to test the scenery with full detail before purchase it.

The cloud9 Los Angeles International (KLAX) scenery is developed based on real ground and in-flight pictures and features photographic terrain textures, highly detailed buildings and runways, animations and special effects, realistic night effects and many other goodies. The first screenshots and details are published at the cloud9 website.

 Screenshots and details: Cloud9 - Product Page