Aerosoft have just released their long awaited Rome Ciampino scenery. It’s been a fair time coming, but it’s finally released. For a price of EUR23.14 this scenery can be yours. Available from both Aerosoft and SimMarket.

Rome Ciampino airport is Rome’s second largest airport after Fiumicino. Serving both civilian and military operations. The airport is a large base for Ryanair providing a diverse route network through Europe and Africa. Although not a base for Wizzair, there is a variety of flights serving Eastern Europe from this airport.

This scenery seems to match the high quality precedent set by Aerosoft with their previous sceneries and looks to have sufficient value for money.

Expect a review from us on this scenery in the near future.

JustSim have released their long awaited Dusseldorf scenery. This scenery follows on from their other popular sceneries including Nice, Barcelona, Hamburg and Luxembourg. Judging from the photos alone they seem to have done another excellent job with this scenery.

Dusseldorf Airport is the main airport serving the North Western area of Germany. Located 7km north of downtown Dusseldorf. Being the 3rd busiest airport in Germany there is a great variety of flights spanning across the globe. With flights to destinations including Dubai, New York and Hong Kong.

JustSim Dusseldorf comes as a welcome update to the ageing Aerosoft scenery that has existed for quite some time now. This scenery comes with a vast expanse of features including SODE jetways, dynamic lighting support for P3D V4 and custom autogen in the surrounding area.

If you wish to purchase this scenery is can be bought from SimMarket for EUR23.88.

Entire feature list:

Fully compatible with ORBX Germany North and FTX Global Vector (photo file backgrounds included)
Fully compatible with FTX Global openLC Europe (additional photo file backgrounds included)
Ground polygons made with the requirements of the SDK Prepad 3D
Dynamic lighting of the apron – only Prepar3D V4
Shading and occlusion (texture baking) effects on terminal and other airport buildings
High resolution ground textures / Custom runway textures
High resolution building textures
Animated SODE Jetways – will come in 2 weeks
Surrounding area with custom autogen
Fully AI traffic compatible with accurat AFCAD file
Excellent night effects
3D birds
Optimized for excellent performance
Inclusion of manual in PDF format
Fully 3d taxiways lighting
Automatic season change for vegatation, photobackground high resolution
Realistic reflections on glass (Prepar3D V3&4)
Inclusion of manual in PDF format

Flight Sim Labs have announced the current progress of their A319 and A321 products over on their forums. The A320 from FSLabs took the flight sim community by storm last year when it released. Bringing one of the most advanced simulations we have ever seen. If you want a more detailed explanation into why it’s such a good aircraft, why not check out our in-depth review?

Andy Wilson, one of the FSlabs developers. Has announced that the A319 and A321 are just around the corner. He states that the A319 will be released shortly after if not at the same time as P3D V4 compatibility for the A320 in the next few weeks. With the A321 likely to release alongside Service Pack 1 later this year.

It will be nice to have more varients of the FSLabs A320 in the sim with the A319 and A321. At the moment only Aerosoft offer such an option but soon FSlabs will be even more of a competitor to the popular A320 simulation range.

Make sure to keep an eye out on our website and Facebook page for when these updates are released.

TFDi’s 717 is a much appreciated addon within the flight sim community. For some time now, the team at TFDi designs have been working to not only create a more stable product, but a product that has advanced feature and capability wise. Well the news has just dropped that FSFX Packages, the developers who have brought us the likes of PreciptFX and Chaseplane has announced an immersion package for the 717. Following on from their popular and excllent 777, 737, A320 family and Dash 8 immersion packages, it is great to see them continuing the series with a package for this excellent aircraft. We can presume the pricing will be similar to that of the other immersion packages. With the 717 now compatible in P3D V4, I look forward to seeing what new capabilties 64bit simulation brings to this brand new immersion package.

This news is being brought to you live from Flightsimcon where part of our team is currently located. For more live updates make sure to keep checking out the FSElite website and Facebook page. We are hoping for lots of exciting news over the weekend so keep your eyes peeled.

Over on Facebook, QualityWings Simulations have updated us on the progress of their 787 aircraft. Some exciting news has emerged! They state that the 787 has now been in beta testing for six months, being tested by an expert team who have found over 600 issues that have been ironed out. The initial release of the product will include the 787-8 and -9 with the GEnx and Rolls Royce Trent 1000 engine variants. With both engine models include their own custom flight dynamics. At its current state, the 787-8 is looking to release first. With a free update coming for the -9 there after.

The aircraft will be compatible with FSX, FSX SE and P3D V4. With the FSX release version releasing first which is what we expected. The aircraft is being priced very reasonably at $69.95 being sold separately for P3D and FSX. The product will be sold through Flight1.

The team at Flight1 are showing off something very cool! A few years ago we recieved a preview from Level-D simulations teasing a 757.  Having heard nothing since then, many presumed that this project had died off. Well quite the opposite. Out of nowhere the product is in beta and being shown off at Flight Sim Con. We will have more news coming in regarding this product soon, for now sit tight.

We look forward to seeing more of this aircraft.

Update at 1648z 

• The aircraft is 80% complete.
• The modelling is almost done.
• It is close, they are taking their time to make it perfect.