GeoFS Backs VFREnglish.com Online Radiotelephony Courses

The flying school VFREnglish.com has started offering online VFR radiotelephony courses. Both founders are experienced and certified pilots and instructors who took up the mission to help pilots improve their skills and confidence when communicating in the air. They have chosen GeoFS to support their online courses and make their students practice real flying situations while communicating. The web based nature of GeoFS made it easy and natural to integrate to VFREnglish online platform where students are just one click away from any flying location and conditions. Enhanced with GeoFS HD imagery and extended with an online audio chat, VFREnglish students can fly accurate VFR exercises together, under the monitoring of their instructors who can track their flight on the ATC map.

VFREnglish currently offers three different courses from "Basic" to "Pro" that will all provide students with one year of GeoFS HD and can lead, in the "Pro" plan, to preparing for the ICAO exams.

Visit the VFREnglish.com website to get more information or read their testimonial on using GeoFS professionally.

 

GeoFS 2.9

It has been one year since the last update on the GeoFS blog. So it probably is due time to increase the version number by another notch. GeoFS is undergoing continuous development and updates so there is no tangible release cycle, but for celebration purpose, let's just blow another candle and list all the events of this year 2020:

• Covid-19: yes, it has also impacted GeoFS, as it impacted everyone's life this year. Development had to slow down a bit but things are improving and there is light at the end of the tunnel.
• Water detection and rendering
• Carrier arresting cables
• Improved wind/terrain interaction, improved turbulences, added thermals
• Fixed fog problems and weather engine performance
• New Pilatus PC-7
• Reworked Concorde exterior and cockpit
• Reworked Su-35 exterior and cockpit
• Reworked “Major Tom” hot air balloon with multi-liveries
• Refreshed airport and runway data
• GeoFS for Schools licensing: bringing GeoFS to the classroom.
• GeoFS Light app: free, self contained version of GeoFS for Android and iOS
• Loads of Community Contributed aircraft: thank you to all the developers!
• And... the general bug fixes and performance improvements