Calum Martin

Orbx has confirmed that this weekend will see the release of Newcastle Airport for Prepar3D v4 and v5. The airport in the North-East of England is home to numerous charter and scheduled airlines including Jet2, Ryanair and TUI. In addition, Emirates visits frequently with their 777-300ER on the 7,600ft runway.

This product has been developed in-house by the Orbx UK team and comes complete with detailed PBR material, high-quality modelling of the airport and plenty of other features to keep you occupied. The iconic Tyne Bridge has also been fully modelled to make the approach as realistic as possible into the airport. The airport is also fully compatible with TrueEarth Great Britain and EU England.

Once Orbx’s Newcastle Airport (EGNT) is available, we’ll let you know. In related news, Orbx has released TrueEarth US Oregon yesterday.

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SimToolkitPro, known as the all-in-one EFB, is now available as version 0.6. The EFB tool enables simmers to plan flights, view weather, keep track of their progress and see how other virtual pilots are getting on with their flights.

Version 0.6 has been teased for a month now and comes complete with new features, functionality and more. As described back in the start of the month, version 0.6’s main new features include compatibility with MacOS and Linux, user accounts, free cloud save back-ups and also the ability to Microsoft Flight Simulator support.

Users will be able to manage their entire fleet, produce flight plans via SimBrief an also generate routes based on set criteria. For example, if you want to fly a specific airline to a certain distance, you can find routes based on all of that information.

Along with new features, version 0.6 still contains all of the features found in previous versions, but with improvements to speed, memory usage and utilising resources.

The new website is now online, along with all the new download links to each version. SimToolKitPro, along with all their features, is free to download and use.

As a reminder, SimToolkitPro version 0.6 is optional to users, with version 0.5.83 still available to those wanting to use it. Also, your data will be backed up free to the cloud to ensure there are no issues with migration.