Captain Sim released the first three screenshots of their upcoming '757-200 Captain' project. This is just a small sample of the extensive preview that is scheduled for later this week - it will give you some idea of what to expect from this project. This official announcement of a Boeing 757 being modelled by Captain Sim makes them the thrid company to be working on this aircraft's model for Flight Simulator: other two are Phoenix Software Simulations and Level-D Simulations.

 Preview screenshots: Captain Sim - Forums

FlyTampa released today their latest scenery title: named FlyVienna, this new scenery is an extremely realistic representation of the Vienna-Schwechat International (LOWW) airport for Flight Simulator. Located in Austria, Vienna-Schwechat is  the first european airport scenery from FlyTampa - they currently have 7 american, 1 asian and 1 european airport. Alike many other FlyTampa sceneries, FlyVienna features unique terrain and pavement rendition techniques, seasonal ground changes (summer, spring, fall, winter and hard-winter), new award winning control tower, numerous static and animated objects like service trucks and cars, docking signs & attendants and english/german documentation. The FlyVienna scenery is priced at $21.50, donwload version only (37MB).

 More info: FlyTampa

JDT LLC reports that the popular Radar Contact air traffic control add-on is now receiving an update. This new version 4.01 features a new method of "weaving" the wavs together: all audio files for a specific speech are condensated into a single file and this new file is finally played. Some informal calls were removed and a new (more complete) voices screen is included. Other minor fixes and improvements are present in the update. You can download Radar Contact V4.01 on the developer's official website.

Developed for serious simmers who are looking for more realism, Radar Contact v4 features virtual controllers who give taxi instructions, takeoff clearances, ascent and descent clearances, vectors to the active runway, clearances to land and traffic calls for any aircraft in their flight path. The issues with not-so-inteligent AI traffic are not a problem when using Radar Contact, as the controllers will move conflicting traffic before they become a threat. In this new version of Radar Contact, some exciting new features are present: interaction with traffic on the ground and in the air, accurate ATC procedures all over the world (not only USA), arrival airport weather taken into considaration, realistically divided centers, realistic ground operations and more efficient arrival vectors, along with many others goodies.

 Download (direct link): Radar Contact v4.01 - Update

A third "Service Update" for the Active Sky v6 weather engine was released today. In this new patch, there are some minor fixes and improvements: the memory leak problem with extended long-term (3+ hours) use of ASG when using auto-submits and the new default “Keep ASG open during auto-submits” option; and the invalid handling of “xxxxNDV” visibility tags were fixed. Also, performance was improved throughout all ASv6/ASG processes. ActiveSky is a comprehensive weather engine and sky graphics upgrade for MSFS 2004 that allows you to load real-time weather data into the simulator and fly with all the effects present in real life - wake turbulence, vertical air currents, fog, icing...

The ActiveSky weather engine uses advanced intelligence and logic routines to obtain weather data and synthesize it into a beautiful and realistic depiction within the flight simulator. You may choose to fly using real-time, archived or even custom made weather data - nearly every weather condition can be configured and simulated! The Active Sky v6 Service Update 3 is available for download.

 Changelog and download: HiFi Simulations - Forums