Below, you can also find a flight simulation story that received its own individual coverage.
Pietenpol Air Camper Released for MSFS 2024
Emerald Scenery Design released the Pietenpol Air Camper for MSFS 2024.
It’s currently available on Orbx Direct and the developer’s own website starting at $19.99. It includes the following features.
- A highly detailed 3D model built from real-world 3D scan data, featuring both classic and bush wheel variants.
- 14 hand-crafted liveries based on real Pietenpol paint schemes.
- Native MSFS 2024 CFD flight model, refined using feedback from multiple real-world pilots.
- Hand-crafted Wwise sound package featuring real Continental A65 engine recordings, including custom foley.
- Physics-based sounds including impulse coupler, slip drag rumble, and backfires.
- Custom hand-prop start physics, including interactive cockpit controls while in Avatar mode.
- Automatic preflight cover removal during auto-start, for quality of life.
- Physics-based fuel slosh and gravity-reactive doors, plus camera motion, vibration, and buffeting effects with adjustable intensity.
- Optional engine realism featuring priming, overpriming, throttle-assisted depriming, and carburetor heat thermodynamics.
- Realistic propeller drag, windmilling resistance, and a breakable, repairable propeller.
- Generator-driven panel lighting with realistic low-voltage dimming.
- Optional features include: Engine realism, headphone simulation, multiplayer airshow smoke, hubcaps (classic variant), prop-spinner (skullcap), tinted glass, and mounted EFB tablet support. Some options are persistent.
- Native passenger and custom visual cargo (Airmail) loadout support.
- Quality-of-life autopilot support for keybinds & external tools like PMS50 (premium version).
- Hand-held Communications Radio TX/RX with transponder for use on virtual networks like Vatsim, Pilot Edge, and IVAO.
- Hydroplaning/water-skiing capability for bush tires.
- 2D/3D Paint kit available from the Emerald Scenery Design website.
Airbus A380 Gets New Screenshots, Footage, and a Development Update
iniBuilds provided a development update, footage, and screenshots of its upcoming Airbus A380.
We hear about the ground operation, persistence, turnaround capabilities, the EFB, OIS, ground services Integration, the flight deck, displays, controls (including Brake to Vacate, the Vertical Situation Display, and more), the flight models and dynamics, failures and special scenarios, and the ability to choose between two eras.
You can select in the EFB a Batch 2 configuration representing operations in the early 2010s, or a later Batch 7 configuration. You can see what that entails above.
We also hear about the differences between the two engine versions, Rolls-Royce Trent 900 and Engine Alliance GP7200.
On top of that, the developer also showcased exterior model improvements and effects to improve immersion.
It’d be too long to explain it all here, so you should definitely read the full official post.
Dubai Airport V2 Gets Development Update and Screenshots
We stay with iniBuilds for an extensive look at Dubai International Airport v2, currently in development.
The entire airport is being rebuilt according to the capabilities of MSFS 2024, including improvements to modelling, texturing, terminal geometry, interior spaces, airfield detail, lighting, and the wider airport environment.
This includes overhauled terminal exteriors and improved and expanded interiors. On top of that, ground textures, markings, taxiway environments, service roads, and apron areas have been updated. The metro line has been extended, and new details and structures have been added.
That being said, the developers have also worked on bug fixing and performance optimization. The multi-jetway system has also been added.
This will be a free update for owners of the existing Dubai Enhanced version, but the upgrade path from MSFS 2020 to MSFS 2024 will be discontinued. When V2 (dubbed Dubai Premium) launches, those who do not have the Enhanced version will have to buy it at full price.
Above, you can see plenty of screenshots showing comparisons between the current Enhanced version and v2.
Korla Licheng Airport Released for MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020
Fsxcenery released Korla Licheng Airport in China.
It’s available on Simmarket for $18.94, and you can see what it looks like above.
If you’d like to read more flight simulation news, you can find plenty in our previous roundup article from yesterday.
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