This is a small review of a scenery I liked in Asia . It is a freeware made by Budi Santoso of ISCENERIES. They have made a couple of good freeware sceneries for some cities in Indonesia .  The biggest scenery they have is for Bandar Udara Internasional Soekarno-Hatta  ICAO code  -WIII  , which is the  main aiport serving the greater Jakarta area on the island of Java, Indonesia. The airport is named after the first President of Indonesia, Soekarno, and the first vice-president, Mohammad Hatta. It is a  detailed realistic freeware scenery with Photo-realistic textured buildings, vehicles and jetways. It has moving vehicles, fully animated trees like they follow wind direction. Activedocking system only at gate C when pilot tune NAV2 frequencies.  However all  gates work with AES . This airport is  included in  the Airport Enhancement Services v.1.95 and above  by Aerosoft . A must download if you are flying to this part of the world . You may download the sceneries from Avsim or visit http://iscenery.net/

Mumbai ( VABB) has been chosen as the host for the  popular IVAO  Real Flights Events, now in its second year. It is designed to reproduce real world movements at the host airport during the given time  slot.  . The event is being held on the 17th of May 2008 , 12:30 Z onwards . Full air traffic control services will be provided at the  airport as well as select nearby airfields and nearby FIRs in the Middle East, Thailand, to name a few.   IVAO , Indian Division  is looking forward to the particpation of one and all to make it a grand success . We also have an updated AFCAD created for the  Mumbai airport by Sanjay Dutt .  You may download it here .

 The Madurai airport scenery is now available for download . One of South India's great temple towns, Madurai is synonymous with the celebrated Meenakshi Temple. Situated on the banks of river Vaigai, Madurai has a rich cultural heritage passed on from the great Tamil era more than 2500 years old. This scenery has been  created by Martin Stebbing. You can download it here .

The new Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Scenery  for  Hyderabad (VOHS) is now available for download on Avsim. The airport was commissioned on the 23rd of March 2008. The old airport at Begumpet (VOHY) will no longer be available for Civil Aviation operations. The new airport is located at Shamshabad . This scenery has been created by Sanjay Dutt . The scenery can be downloaded here

Pic courtsey : www.hyderabad.aero

simMarket has made available a documentary DVD published by JustPlanes: " Start your visit to India in the cockpit as you witness a final approach and landing Mumbai International Airport. You will then be positioned right above the main taxiway and runway of this busy airport for a look at the International and Domestic traffic. India's airlines are booking and this is the right timing to see old and new liveries of several airlines."  DVD collectors go to here.

IVAO's PRD  writes ".......We are happy to present you the first issue of the official magazine of IVAO - Virtual Sky. This magazine is dedicated to the online flight simulation community and offers the community some of the finest information on virtual flying/ controlling. Exciting articles have been hand-picked and designed to cater to the varied interests of our community.....".

The International Virtual Aviation Organisation (IVAO) is pleased to announce the fifth-annual Crowded Skies event starting at 1900Z on  January 5, 2008. As with our previous Crowded Skies events, IVAO members are encouraged to get online as a pilot or air traffic controller to help us break our current Crowded skies record of 1501 simultaneous connections!. IVAO invites you to join us to become a part of this historic record-breaking event.  For more information about Crowded Skies, please visit http://crowdedskies.ivao.aero.

 The International Virtual Aviation Organisation’s (IVAO) Software Development Team is pleased to announce, the new year release of its long awaited update of IVAO Virtual ATC Client (IVAC), the premier ATC Client for real-time virtual simulation of air traffic controlling. This update in addition to bugfixes, offers a highly realistic controller working position (CWP) and an even more realistic simulation of Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems.  For more information and to download this new update, please visit http://www.ivao.aero/softdev

Flight Simulator X Service Pack 2 addresses these post-release customer concerns (see the Readme file for details): Multiplayer compatibility with Flight Simulator X: Acceleration and DirectX 10 preview. Important notes: If you have already installed Flight Simulator X: Acceleration expansion pack, do not install Service Pack 2. If you do not have Acceleration installed you must install Service Pack 1 before installing Service Pack 2. Download at FS Insider

Tanmay Mishra has developed fully hand-drawn closest to real repaint for India's Fastest growing and one of the finest airline "Kingfisher Airlines" for Flight Simulator greatest third party aircraft "ATR72-500" by Flight1. Download this freeware from here.