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THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA!

Announcing Real Environment Xtreme™ for FS2004 (FS9)! A first of its kind product... a complete photo-realistic, hi-definition professional graphics package for Microsoft's Flight Simulator series created entirely from state-of-the-art photography. INCLUDES our NEW built-in Weather Engine and Flight Planner! The texture sets within Real Environment Xtreme™ coupled with the powerful NEW Weather Engine and Flight Planner provides for an exhilarating and realistic experience. Real Environment Xtreme™, code named REX, has taken almost three years of research & development to reach the level of detail that exists today.

REX is a technologically & artistically advanced, hi-definition texture utility for the simulator pilot who requires a more advanced feature set. THE BULK OF THE CONTENT has been produced from extremely hi-resolution film photography, NOT digital, with the utmost artistic attention to detail. Source material was laser drum-scanned and the proprietary artwork and textures are maintained in hi-definition format to allow its amazing detail and clarity to become evident within the simulation environment.

Real Environment Xtreme™ (REX) FS2004 Features:

• User-friendly intuative and visually pleasing interface
• Full-featured NEW built-in Weather Engine (Built on Real Life meteorological algorithms using synoptic, meso-scale, and micro environment weather formulas for Real and Custom weather)
• Flight Planner (Ability to create and file a Flight Plan using true to life flight requirements)
• Hi-definition, ultra-realistic photo-real 3D clouds (stratus, wispy, cumulus and highly realistic rendering of cirrus clouds as seen in the real world)
• Sky color environments (Includes smoothing horizon transition & visibility smoothing for dawn, day, dusk & night)
• Convincingly real water environments with tropical reef simulation (end user color controllable, including tropical with reef simulations, inland and ocean, wave turbulence/frequency, environment variants & coloring. Also new, never before seen, water coloring matches sky colors at dawn & dusk!)
• Airport environments (photo-real asphalt & concrete runway textures, new runway and ground bump-mapping, asphalt taxiways, concrete taxiways, realistic taxiway markings and airport signage)
• Multiple variations of sun, lens flare & brand NEW lightning bolt algorithms, which creates a visually stunning array of lightning situations
• Fully integrated to select Sky, Cloud, Water, Airport, and Effect Themes based upon weather situation, season, and other synoptic, meso-scale, and micro weather conditions
• Enhanced Cloud Simulation to give a more 3D volumetric feel to cloud structures and the atmosphere
• Lighting environments (runway lighting including simulated ground glow, stunningly realistic aircraft spotlights with variations for small to large aircraft, aircraft strobe lights, variations for add-on aircraft as well)
• 3d cloud & water resolution options for performance preference
• Flexibility to work in tandem with other vendor weather & texture packages

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Windows XP SP2 / Windows Vista
• Microsoft Flight Simulator FS2004 (requires update v9.1)
• Processor: 2.0Ghz+
• RAM: 1GB
• Hard Drive: 4GB of free space for installation
• Video Card: 256MB DirectX 9 compatible (512MB recommended)
• Other: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 - required for REX, download from this link.
• FSUIPC (registered OR unregistered version)
• Internet connection required to download REX service packs and real-time weather data.

More info here, or buy it directly here.

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General features

• Authentic custom sound set built from the real aircraft sounds
• Highly realistic custom flight model created by an industry leader in this field
• High quality aircraft textures inside and out
• The model is based on extensive research on the actual real-world aircraft
• Immersive virtual cockpit with mouse clickable instruments and knobs
• Authentic 2D instrument panel
• Compatible with Flight Simulator X
• Windows Vista compatible
• Numerous animations - propellers, rotating wheels, moving flaps, elevators, rudders, ailerons, nose wheel steering, entry doors, engine inspection panels, undercarriage shock absorber movement and trim tabs. Even the door handles and sun visors work!
• Small but important items are modelled - brake fluid lines, pitot head, Comms and Nav radio antennas, sun visors, footsteps, tie-down points, flap hinges, door hinges, temperature gauge probes, fuel tank caps and grab handles
• Operating navigation and landing lights
• Cockpit night lighting
• Full PDF manual

Avionics

• ADF system
• VHF Communication/Navigation Transceiver
• Transponder
• Altimeter (will change from Milibars to Inches indications in the pressure setting window on the altimeter depending on which International settings you have set in Flight Simulator - also, to make it easier to read, a simple mouse click enlarges it)
• Individual Avionics can be turned ON or OFF
• 'Engine starter motor engaged' warning lights
• Low-voltage warning light
• Mouse-over text added where appropriate
• All avionics are now available in a large pop-up window
• Yokes can be toggled to show/hide in the Virtual Cockpit with a mouse click

Download it free here.

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I miss Speedbird, passenger flying will never be the same.

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Some times ago, Javier Rollon the creator of the awesome T-6, Javelin and Seamax announced he started a new project of a CRJ-200 for X-Plane. He has published several pictures and videos of the progress of the project on his blog. Here are a few of them:

                                   

At the same time he showed the development of cockpit.

And now, he shows us the most amazing video, showing the lighting effects as never seen! Just take a look what you can expect:

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