Carolyn Keene reports:  Would you like to ‘Fly the Wight’ for under a tenner and bring the Isle of Wight virtually to your PC?

Now you can with a Flight Simulator program from Just Flight, letting you see the real Wight from the air and pinpoint key landmarks.  Keeping in with the Eco Island ethos, view the entire Island with principle towns of Newport, Cowes, Ryde, Sandown, Shanklin, Yarmouth, Ventnor even The Needles Rocks and lighthouse (pictured) specially rendered in 3D!

Just Flight have just announced the release of Visual Flight Rules (VFR) a program that uses the very latest digital aerial images of the Isle of Wight to transform your PC into a Flight Simulator.  Allowing you to see the real landscape as you would see from the air in a real aircraft.

Now for the tech spec:  VFR stands for ‘Visual Flight Rules’ this is the way that pilots navigate when they aren’t using complex instruments they look at a map and then pinpoint landmarks on the ground to work out their course and position.

It’s the most common form of recreational flying undertaken in the UK, but to do this in a flight simulator requires scenery that’s exactly the same as the real landscape… and VFR Real Scenery is an amazing piece of software that provides it!

VFR Real Scenery uses Infoterra’s 25cm aerial photographic data of England and Wales to create high resolution scenery optimised for 1m display in Flight Simulator X.

The software includes 9.6m digital terrain data to vastly improve the accuracy of the FSX relief.  Custom night lighting – night effects are applied individually to each part of the scenery for accuracy and realism.

This Isle of Wight scenery area is included in the Volume 2 (Central & Southern England) DVD-ROM package.

For more information click here

Just Flight supports several charities, through donations, sponsorship and active involvement in fund raising.  Whilst in business to make a living, they feel strongly that as a company, support the organisations below who seek to improve the lives of those who are unable to enjoy the good health and freedoms which are all too easy to take for granted.

Royal British Legion

Cancer Research

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

Royal National Institure for the Blind

Macmillan Cancer Relief

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

RAF Benevolent Fund

Isle of Wight Community Information @Island Pulse.