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News Archives 2004


ExhibitTitle Comments Year Thumb
2003 Paris Air Show Chino reported: "It happens to be the Paris Air Show this week, and since I was in the neighborhood, I decided to go." 03-Mar-2004
Ka-52 Team Alligator: Russian edition I tried the Russian version of the sim - Ka-52 Team Alligator - and it ran smoothly, with no lockups or control problems! Additions to the exhibit: Sim design philosophy - sim 'lite' or sim 'heavy' ?, Screens, Hints, System requirements. 03-Mar-2004
IL-2 Forgotten Battles   03-Mar-2004
Gravis Phoenix Gravis Phoenix was a low budget alternative to the (then extremely costly) HOTAS solutions from Thrustmaster and CH Products. 03-Mar-2004  
Eurofighter at the Paris Air Show   03-Mar-2004
Flying a Eurofighter simulator Now this is not the full blown motion simulator with a dome, but it was a fairly complete EF cockpit with the MFD's, HUD, switches, etc. in the right places. 03-Mar-2004
Australian Flight Sim Expo MiGMan was keynote speaker at Australia's very first Flight Sim Expo. I presented a lecture: 'History of Public Flight Simulations', presented in my usual inimitable style, with plenty of video examples from the golden oldies. 28-Sep-2004
Videos in the Museum   05-Oct-2004  
New subscription service goes live   05-Oct-2004  
Cleaned out the hog pen I cleaned out the hog pen. I had forgotten what jewels were hidden in there - wire frame animations of the Jane's A-10 and a dozen movies of the real hog in action. 15-Oct-2004
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: Downloads   15-Oct-2004
East Sale: RAAF Base in Victoria, Australia Added shots of RAAF East Sale in Australia created with freeware files for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 downloaded from www.aussim.com. 15-Oct-2004
New Flight Sim 2004 scenery New flight sim releases include two incredible scenery upgrades for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 from FSAddon: Orcas Island and Wenatchee-Skykomish which focus on ultimate realism in a (relatively) small area. 15-Oct-2004
Orcas Island "This was the first Georender title that Richard did for FSAddon and has many new and unique features. But most importantly, it generates the well-known 'atmosphere' so typical for Georender products." 15-Oct-2004
DSB Design DSB Design emphasise the classic fighter jet marques such as the Hawk and Northrop F-5 series in their line-up. I met the founder David Brice at the Australian Flight Simulation Expo - August 28th, 2004. 22-Oct-2004
Using the Virtual Cockpit   22-Oct-2004  
Videos in F/A-18E Super Hornet exhibit The F/A-18E Super Hornet exhibit is the first to incorporate the new streaming video displays which bring the history of this great hobby to vivid life, and make it a quantum leap easier to explain to friends and family members what flight simming is actually about! 22-Oct-2004  
Air Combat Manoeuvering Instrumentation. Added an image of the ACMI - Air Combat Manoeuvering Instrumentation to Falcon. 22-Oct-2004
Flight sims for pocket money I did a quick whip around of on-line Australian PC games shops and found these sims still selling - some at prices as low as AUD $ 9.95 to AUD $ 29.95. 29-Oct-2004
Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2 additions Added: Air combat training - lag turn and lead turn, Engine start sounds to the Zero checklists, Images of all: Allied ships, Japanese ships, representative buikdings modelled in the sim, airfield types, all the aircraft in the sim, About the A6M2 Zero, Specs of the A6M2 Zero, Combat tips for the A6M2 Zero, Videos: A6M2 Zero: engine start, takeoff, virtual cockpit, guns, low level, high speed pass. 29-Oct-2004  
Vietnam Air War updated Added images of more of the aircraft in Vietnam Air War including the UH-1C Huey gunsight. 29-Oct-2004  
3 window display system from Bugeye Technologies   29-Oct-2004  
Viper Pits There is some exciting new gear on the way from Chris Mihok and the boffins at Viper Pits Feast your eyes here. 29-Oct-2004
Coolangatta, Australia in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 Coolangatta, Australia by John Ross in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. Check out the moving road traffic on finals! 08-Nov-2004
What's in the Bag? "Well, Tom Clancy can give you guided tours of fighter wings and carriers, but how about a tour of a flight bag? I thought not." 08-Nov-2004
USAF campaign in Vietnam Air War Briefings, pictures and impressions of the 1st 5 USAF missions in Vietnam Air War for Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2. 08-Nov-2004
Tornado on the Commodore Amiga The most complex sim ever - Training - Planning and spins - Belly landings - TFR - LGB's and JP-233 - ALARM - Multiplayer 08-Nov-2004
3 window display system 3 window display system from Bugeye Technologies - check out the Review at www.avsim.net and the website - www.bugeyetech.com. 08-Nov-2004  
FA18 Thunderstrike exhibit updated   15-Nov-2004
Himalayas   15-Nov-2004  
DC-3   15-Nov-2004  
Classic Wings 98 Over 100 'classic' aircraft with 12 Visually Incredible Panels. 15-Nov-2004  
Features list for these sim add-ons from The Associates Airline Adventures, Classic Wings 98, DC-3, FS Clouds 98, Himalayas, Sri Lanka. 15-Nov-2004  
Jet Pilot exhibit updated   15-Nov-2004
Abacus sim listing updated Updated the listing of sims by Abacus. 15-Nov-2004  
MiG Alley videos added 6 new videos, historical images, Mission planning, After action reports. 15-Nov-2004
Airline Adventures   15-Nov-2004  
How to build a cockpit   11-Dec-2004  
Cockpits on location   11-Dec-2004
JetFighter 5 flight report JetFighter 5 was released in 2003 under the title of "Jetfighter". It is a stunning looking sim which still serves the purpose of providing an action arena for neophytes to the genre, but old hands will be frustrated by the lack of controls and options. 11-Dec-2004
JetFighter 5 JetFighter 5 was released in 2003 under the title of "Jetfighter". It is a stunning looking sim which still serves the purpose of providing an action arena for neophytes to the genre, but old hands will be frustrated by the lack of controls and options. 11-Dec-2004
Nuclear Strike no go. Nuclear Strike was published by Electronic Arts in 1997. And that's all I know about it as I couldn't get it to run under XP. Amazon describes it as a 3rd person perspective helicopter shooting game. 11-Dec-2004  
Nuclear Strike I had problems getting the program to start in Windows XP. 11-Dec-2004  
727 Professional A new Museum exhibit from the Just Flight catalogue, 727 Professional presents the 727-100/200 in one of four versions with a total of 29 different liveries for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. 11-Dec-2004
Updated Avro Vulcan Updated the exhibit on the Avro Vulcan for MSCFS2 by www.flightcraft-simulations.co.uk. 11-Dec-2004  
Acro Jet errata Acro Jet was released in 1985 on the Sinclair Spectrum. Thanks to Adrian Brown 01-Jan-2005


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