News

Microsoft Flight Simulator Freeware Embraer Phenom 100 Gets New Screenshots & Development Update; Transall C-160 Announced

Today third-party Microsoft Flight Simulator aircraft developers shared an update about an upcoming aircraft and announced another.

Microsoft Flight Simulator Phenom Image Source: Ouroboros Jets

Today third-party Microsoft Flight Simulator aircraft developers shared an update about an upcoming aircraft and announced another.

Recommended Videos

We start with Ouroboros Jeys, which released a development update and new screenshots of its EMB-500 Phenom 100.

“Gooday’ Ouroboros. Today we have an update for you on the Phenom 100. It’s a smaller update today but at the hopes of bringing you content on a more frequent basis. Last time we mentioned that we needed to integrate the Working Title items into the airplane to improve usablility. Now MSFS will integrate these changes natively and this eases the workload on our devs. We will continue to create a custom EICAS for this aircraft. Techno recently got the XML started on the G1000’s and some of the ported Ejet XML allows the airplane to already stand on it’s own in sim. Sorry for the update title pun, but Vitor has done it again and added wonderful decals with backlighting into the sim just like our Ejet. Taco went ahead and added some cargo bays to the front and back of the jet. More functionality for your preflight actions. Both Reecee and Vitor began to texture the first version of the model.”

EXTERIOR

  • Forward Cargo Bay
  • Aft Cargo Bay
  • Radome Section Started

INTERIOR

  • Decals Added to main panel and armrest columns
  • Some items are animated now
  • Cabin textures and testing underway

This aircraft is going to be freeware and open-source. To follow the developer’s progress, you can check out its Discord server.

Next, AzurPoly announced a brand new aircraft, the vintage military transport Transall C-160.

“We are now working hard to introduce a monument of military transport. Just retired from service in the French Air Force, the C-160 Transall has been the cornerstone for logistical support during more than 50 years.

With its very particular look, fitted with two Rolls-Royce turboprop engines, the C-160 was deployed in a countless number of humanitarien operations and military missions since the seventies.

It navigated through the skies alongside other mythical transporters, like the C-130, before being replaced by the all new and bigger A400M.

We had the chance to visit a C-160R (“rénové”, means “renovated” in French) that we will use as a reference to develop our aircraft on MSFS.”

About the author

Giuseppe Nelva

Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.

Comments