Champion Aerospace sponsors the A2A Accu-Sim C172 Trainer
Champion Aerospace, who has been creating spark plugs for aircraft for over a century is now an official sponsor of the new Accu-Sim C172 Trainer aircraft that’s currently being developed by A2A Simulations Inc. They now manufacture a broad range of aviation products including igniters, exciters, leads for turbine engines, oil filters, and ignition harnesses […]
America’s Army: Proving Grounds To Launch This Summer
The U.S. Army today announced that America’s Army: Proving Grounds, the next version of its official Army game will launch on August 29, 2013 on Steam. The new America’s Army: Proving Ground website features the game’s first trailer, as well as a registration form for players to reserve their Soldier name for the game. America’s […]
EFIS Panel Builder for Microsoft Flight Simulator
simPlugins has released their EFIS Panel Builder for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Suitable for all single and multi engine aircraft types Covers Piston and Turbine Engines EFIS and Analog Instruments Design an unlimited number of panels A Background Image can be assigned to each panel Multi-Screen support Over 60 Instruments included Instruments are configurable for different […]
Virtual Delta Airlines
Runs your own airline with Virtual Delta Airlines poised to launch later this month. Virtual Delta Airlines was made to revolutionize the way the Flight Simulator Hobby is looked at. From load sheets, crew scheduling and a Delta Airlines Employee portal there will be over 900 routes to choose from. In honor of the PMDG 777 […]
August 2013 Calendar – WWII Warbirds
For August Ken “Arthonon” Cartwright provides these WWII warbirds taken on May 4th, 2013, at the Planes of Fame air show in Chino, CA. You can see more of Ken’s photography at his site, Techflyer.net. If you would like to contribute to the SimHQ Monthly Calendars, please contact email [email protected]. Typically we’re looking for jpg or png images in […]
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad Game Preview
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad Preview il2sturmovik.com Of course, the star of the 1C/1C Game Studios Game Night event was the IL-2 Sturmovik follow-on, Battle of Stalingrad. Battle of Stalingrad takes pilots back to WWII to fly and fight the air war of the epic Battle of Stalingrad from both the Russian and German perspectives. Albert “Loft” Zhiltcov and […]
1C Game Studios Game Night 2013
I received a very distinct honor and privilege of being invited to a media event hosted by 1C and 1C Game Studios where three new products were discussed. The event was hosted on the USS Hornet, a WWII aircraft carrier with an amazing history. Just being onboard an icon like the Hornet was an honor in itself, […]
Beta Testers Wanted for Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations
Matrix Games is looking for beta testers for their upcoming Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations game. Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations models modern air and naval operations in extreme detail. It covers the period stretching from post-WW2 all the way to the modern day and even the near future at the tactical and operation scale. Command: Modern Air/Naval […]
Volair Sim Cockpit Review
Until recently personal cockpits have been considered something of a niche product, reserved generally for those that were rich enough to afford such a device. The other option was to try to build your own, a tedious and often ultimately more expensive idea. Luckily, over the last few years the cost of gaming cockpits had […]
Have HOTAS Will Travel – Part 2
or “Your Joystick…Never Leave Home Without It” by Bill “BBall” Ball After “Dr. Kozmo” applied his miraculous cure to the HOTAS, it was time to fire-up another mission. It starts with us at dawn sitting on the “Alert 5 Pad” chatting with JTOC, we get tasked to fly RESCAP on a downed reccee Hornet. The good news […]
Have HOTAS Will Travel
or “Your Joystick…Never Leave Home Without It” by Bill “BBall” Ball Webster’s Dictionary describes the word “LAN” as follows: “A network that allows the computers in a small area (such as an office) to share equipment (such as printers) and data — called also local area network.” Noah Webster might have been a smart dude, but […]
Day 3: SimHQ at E3 2013
by Erik “EinsteinEP” Pierce Day 3 – The Final Day Day 3 was a bittersweet day. The first two days were certainly action-packed and exceeded all expectations for awesomeness, but, with all the running around and interviews, I was almost looking forward to going home. Almost. First there was some Battlefield 4 to try out! […]