ATC - Portugal

Been a tough week.  After the Conference last weekend (big success in every possible way), we needed a few days to get all the hardware back our offices and connected, some of us had car troubles and were offline a few days unexpected. So forgive us for being not too active with news this week. All is back on schedule now and we got some good news for you. First of all about a possible new simulator. You know we had several meeting about this over the weekend and we promised to give you some more details. Well we are still not saying it is 100% sure but for sure we made great progress towards Aerosoft Flight Simulator 2012 (that title is provisory for now btw). A lot more pieces are in place now and we are officially investing money in it now. So from a plan it has grown into a project. And we all invite you to give your comments!

Because in Aerosoft we are growing and expanding our activities to reach more fans of Flight Simulation from the entire world, we are looking for portuguese translators (English-Portuguese) for a new project we have. If you like flight simulation and you have some free time to help us on this, then please send us an email to Este endereço de e-mail está protegido de spam bots, pelo que necessita do Javascript activado para o visualizar and we can talk about it.

This weekend we'll meet our friends at the Paderborn-Lippstadt during the 7th German Flight Simulator Conference. If you are somewhere near that location we sure would appreciate a visit. This year it will be a bit bigger then other years, with more space and more things to do. For example our Kai Tak Airport landing competition where you can win prices every hour. One side effect of the conference is that our support on Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be limited as most of our staff is busy with the show or the travel to and from the event. So we ask you for a bit of patience.

We got new scenery products so we had to have a new Airport Enhancement Services right? Now we do and it's already version 2.04. Besides the new airports covered (Aerosoft Monastir X, Nice X, Tegel, Luebeck and Luxembourg plus many airports by FranceVFR) there are also improvements in the gate menu so you can see what status all the services are in at that moment. Much requested feature that. As always, AES is free to try!

And while we are talking about AES, do vote for it at the simFlight Awards would you?

Last weekend would have been the date for the AVSIM conference that was planned in Dayton. We all know this was unfortunately cancelled and many people saw that as a sign of the time. We did not agree and are happy to announce that we had to increase the floorspace for our yearly conference by 50% to handle all the stands. We also expect a record number of visitors as we got so much to show (not only for FS btw, how about Rise of Flight, World of Subway, City Bus Simulator just to name a few). But we got room for you, so do come and join us.

It’s not often we do airports that are about to close (Read more here) but Berlin-Tegel Otto Lilienthal Airport is an exception. This is the main airport of Berlin and with close to 15 million passengers in 2008 it’s not a small one. It has a distinguished history with the Berlin Airlift without a doubt as the highlight. An important airport that belongs in your German Airports 3 collection. Continuing in the tradition of the German Airport Series, the airport Berlin-Tegel "Otto Lilienthal" is featured with its latest and up to date layouts, buildings, objects, runways, taxiways, lights, and navigation aids. Just like the real life airport. A high definition aerial photograph has been used for ground texturing making the airport and its surroundings seem absolutely realistic. Even with this whole range of objects, details and features, the framerates remains excellent.