PTaylor's WebLog

Sometimes you run across an opportunity that is so big, so cool, that you just have to take it. Intel has offered me a position on the Larrabee team helping deliver the Larrabee launch titles. Having been involved with the last two big PC graphics transitions...

Gary Summons, of UK2000 scenery fame, announces his intent to go "FSX only" in 2009 He discusses it here .

Team Eaglesoft, discussion here . Ron notes the GA roster is already "FSX only", and explains why the 2 FS9 aircraft on the Corporate Aviation roster will not get the FSX treatment. Which is a totally understandable decision, BTW. It's great to...

XSI Mod Tool There is a discussion of how to use the XSI mod tool here to create models for FSX. XSI Mod is a freeware tool from Softimage, see this page . There is clearly room for someone to take these instructions, deal with the animations issue...

SIDickDastardly has just posted about an amazing freeeware 2D Panel add-on called PanelMania that has: 1. Panels for all default FSX aircraft with fewer than 2 engines 2. A total of 24 new fullscreen panels (48 including night versions), ideal for...

showing available from EB Games here ( on 9/30 ) http://www.ebgames.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=72573 and Amazon here ( on 9/19 ) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flight-Simulator-X-Gold-PC/dp/B001E95V5K/ref=pd_sxp_f_i/026-3989278...

To complement my list of high-detail airports and cities here http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/archive/2008/06/25/high-detail-feature-list-and-then-some.aspx SimTours is a great place to know about. Check it out here http://www.simtours.net/ ...

As part of a discussion thread or 2 on AVSim.com and FlightSim.com, I researched smaller GA airport sceneries available in North America: 1)Floyd Bennett Field in NY was just announced ( and CGAS Brooklyn ) http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/notams08...

Newly released and looking impressive. At http://www.fsdreamteam.com with a few interesting FSX-only features.

which lists available scenery worldwide, at http://walhalla.mine.nu/fsx.php very useful to bookmark.