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X1SOFTWARE also announced its upcoming add-on for the Microsoft's Flight Sim X. Eurofighter EF2000 adds the latest multi-weapon air superiority platform to the latest and greatest civilian flight simulation. It features two versions of the Eurofighter, including the single seat fighter and the tandem trainer, and the most detailed physical model yet seen on the PC, giving the hungry pilot everything they could wish for. It has a highly detailed, completely active cockpit including working radar set. Shut down your engines and open your canopy and the ladder appears. Launch your weapons and watch them speed away. Climb into the rear seat, either online or via LAN and two pilots occupy the same aircraft. EF2000 also has animated features including flaperons, foreplanes, leading edge slats, the air braking system, an articulated landing gear and a drogue chute. It also features heat blur, cockpit reflections, bump mapping and much more. An authentic sound set completes the flying experience.

Chiefs at Ireland West Airport Knock have reacted to the news that XL is to cut its route to and from Gatwick next month by vowing to get a replacement airline despite the remainder of the year being a difficult trading period.

Chiefs at Ireland West Airport Knock have reacted to the news that XL is to cut its route to and from Gatwick next month by vowing to get a replacement airline despite the remainder of the year being a difficult trading period.

The CEO of Ireland West Airport Knock has said the awarding of the Dublin PSO contract is a matter for the Department of Transport following claims by Ryanair that the they had offered to serve the route for a lower price than Aer Arann.

More words have been written and spoken on Ireland West Airport Knock than any other Irish airport. Everyone has a tale to tell, a memory to recall, an opinion to offer — and all with the same gusto that characterised the man behind the ‘people’s airport’, Monsignor James Horan.

Ireland West Airport Knock has announced that following a competitive tendering procedure, Michael McNamara & Co have been awarded the construction contracts for two major infrastructural projects at the airport; namely the implementation of CAT II ILS (instrument landing system) on Runway 27 and the Runway End Safety Area (RESA) works on the 09 end of the runway, a combined value of €3.6M.

Fifty years ago today, a Dutch KLM Super-Constellation airliner named Hugo De Groot crashed into the Atlantic, about 100 miles off the Conamara coast, with the loss of 99 lives. The plane was en route from Amsterdam via Shannon with eight crewmen and 91 passengers. Nobody survived. It was the worst disaster involving a single plane in the history of commercial aviation up to that point.

I suppose one way of getting ourselves through the current problems is to support other Irish industries and keep some money in circulation here. On the other hand a little break away can lift the spirits, so I combined both for a few days last week and went and visited a friend living in Carcassonne.

Ireland West Airport Knock has welcomed Aer Lingus’s return to the west of Ireland following agreement to commence an Aer Lingus London Gatwick service in April 2009. The decision will provide the airport and the region with interlinking capabilities connecting business interests and tourism traffic in both directions. It will add an additional 127,000 annual seat capacity at Ireland West Airport Knock, increasing its share of the Irish regional market to the UK to almost 20 per cent.

The return of the Aer Lingus Gatwick route to Ireland West Airport Knock and the Aer Lingus Heathrow route to Shannon Airport is a considerable boost for Galway and the west of Ireland, according to Dep Frank Fahey.