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A couple of new old pages

I’ve finally got around to creating new pages for two existing airfields – one of which had a page on the old site, the other one didn’t and has just been packaged up for the first time on its own. The...

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Taking FlaK… and updating it

It went a bit quiet again, but once more it was actually for a reasonable reason… Mainly that my health took another nosedive, as it tends to. I’m on a double dose of one of my medicines for a while....

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Long time no update… Again

Sorry folks. It’s not out of choice that I’m not updating the site or publishing new pages or updates, it’s simply down to the fact that life ain’t a whole lot of fun right now. For those who don’t...

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It’s Here: The Map of Almost Everything

It’s been promised for a long time. It’s been planned for even longer and there actually was one a while ago, but it vanished into a folder somewhere and never re-appeared… So after a significant...

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What’s Next? Did I stop doing scenery altogether?

It’s a question that’s been asked a number of times by people, seeing as it’s been months and or years since I was actively releasing/updating stuff, so this blog post is an attempt to explain where...

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Ian Elliot’s Matching Scenery

Not one of mine, this time, but there’s a new scenery now available to download for the WW2 collection: RAF Matching Green (USAAF Station 161) by Ian Elliot. Home to the 391st Bombardment Group’s B-26...

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Something of an X-Plane-ation.

Following the printing of my reply to a previous letter in the latest issue of PC Pilot (thanks for the full page, PCP editorial crew! ), I’ve received a handful of comments and responses that people...

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Well… Bother.

I was hoping to upload a new version of RAF Raydon today, completely recreated from scratch on top of an official aerodrome reference plan and with almost everything in the right place, to the right...

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Fixed One, Broke Two More…

OK. So. I fixed FSX, by reinstalling a keyboard driver. This isn’t quite as odd as it sounds, when you consider that the problem turned out to be in part of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable...

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New Object Library Release – 20171022

I’ve uploaded a new version of my object libraries – 20171022 – as an interim release. There are a bunch of new objects in there, which I’ve told people I’d release a long time ago, but I’d rather wait...

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I really do dislike hackers.

You know all those files that I said I was going to be releasing? Well they all got held up because some little [censored] [bleep!] individual hacked into the WordPress plugin that I was using for a...

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Not Just One Library Upload, but Two

The reason I said a while back that the last library update I did was “intermediate” was that I was still working really quite hard on a number of projects – some of which have advanced faster than...

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RAF Banff Version 1.0 Release

It’s been a while coming, but I have finally uploaded Version 1.0 of my RAF Banff scenery, which can be found for download here or via the top menu bar under Flight Simulator / Historical / RAF...

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Raydon Redone and Re-uploaded!

The airfield that I was due to release before the whole mess with the Contact Form kicked off, RAF Raydon v2 is described as “Raydon Redone” for the simple reason that it has been. Completely, from the...

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Another “Facebook told me to”…

For anyone interested in the site who uses Facebook, I’ve once again done what Facebook told me to* and have set up a Group called “The Mess”. It’s a closed group – meaning that you have to request...

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New uploads for All-in-One Files

I have finally got around to updating my All-in-One scenery archives again, this time incorporating the SODE files for airfields that use them, within the “All-in-One Scenery” download. Also included...

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New SODE files uploaded

Along with a new version of WordPress, I’ve uploaded a new version of my SODE SimObjects, which corrects a bunch of errors in the landing direction “T”s that I failed to notice before uploading them...

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An update to the SODE file update post

I said in my post last night that WordPress was being silly about doing an update. Apparently, as part of that silliness, it reverted the changes I made to the IJP Libraries page. Please try again. It...

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King’s Cliffe: Home of the “Loco Busters”

RAF King’s Cliffe – home to the Lightnings and Mustangs of the 20th Fighter Group’s “Loco Busters” – has been uploaded and released, following a few last minute tweaks and kicks. Developed from period...

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A Little Detour to Little Walden

Not content with releasing one scenery today, I’ve also uploaded Little Walden in Essex, which was used by both the 8th and 9th Air Forces, both as a bomber and fighter station. This high usage was in...

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