Brilliant add-on which populates Microsoft Flight Sim 2020’s North Sea with Oil Rigs, ships, wind farms and more. I never would have imagined that this area was so densely populated!
Airport Scenery Designer 2.0 was published by Abacus in 2002. It enabled you to create new scenery, airports and objects in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002.
Adds massive immersion, bringing the air to life with avian action! Absolutely essential. Why? Because it adds life to the sky! We have moving cars, we can add moving boats. The clouds move, albeit slowly. The water moves. So this add-on adds movement to the sky. Utterly enchanting.
This is an essential addon if you are flying in Australia. | FM transmission tower and TV Tower locations recorded by the Australia Communications authority. ... 1640 radio Transmission Tower and 701 digital video masts transmitters. ... average height between 25 (radio) to 50 m (TV); including emissive night lighting to ensure are visible at night.
Highly recommended. Many enjoyable details. Really brings the standard airport to life. I particularly enjoy flying past the radar and radio installations, the light towers and even the perimeter fence!
Having immensely enjoyed ORBX "AU Australia v2" I splashed out the coin for "ORBX Cityscape Canberra for FSX and Prepar3D". First up let me say that overall it is great! At about 1/2 the retail price of the host sim (Prepar3D) for a relatively small area (you can fly across the main area of interest in a few minutes in a slow mover), it has to be categorised as a premium product. While I rate the scenery at 4, given the constraints of the host sim, the price drives down the rating by a1 point. Unless you live in the area I find it hard to justify this price point considering the host sim covers the entire planet.
Enables you to fly into new airports in Microsoft Flight Simulator 98. What makes these airports so dangerous? These airports are all located hundreds or thousands of miles apart. But in a word - what makes these airports dangerous is the surrounding terrain. Weather, high altitude, narrow approaches and hidden runways all add to the challenge. And designers Jim Rhoads and Tim Dickens are carefully detailing each airport to bring you an authentic flight experience.
Airports: Dutch Harbor - Aleutian Islands | Funchal, Madiera Island (Portugal) | Innsbruck, Austria | Kathmandu, Nepal | Guatemala City, Guatemala | Aspen, Colorado | Kodiak, Alaska | Akureyri, Iceland | Sondre Stromfjord, Greenland | Templehoff Berlin, Germany.
John Miller's Glideslope Software has developed another scenery pack for Microsoft Flight Sim 98 and 2000 in their Now Fly Reality! series. The Flight Sim Museum looked at their initial release North West England Virtual Scenery in some detail.
Adds the U.S.S. Nimitz Carrier and flyable F/A-18C Hornet, F-14D Tomcat, A-7E Corsair II, TA-4J Skyhawk, S-3 Viking and E2C Hawkeye to Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002.
"The Beechcraft Duchess 76 is a twin engine General Aviation training and touring aircraft that is popular around the world. This model - for Flight Simulator X and FS2004 - comes with five variants each featuring an authentic avionics suite and accurate livery."
One of the more unique products I've seen in terms of presentation. This product is housed in a ring binder (232 x 200 x 42 mm) with about 40 single and double sided pages of documentation.
A sprawling and detailed rendition of this Naval air station in the Florida keys. Has lots of static military choppers, jets and transports with seemingly no impact on frame rates, at least with my GeForce 2080. Hours of fun in this spectacular location which extends beyond the airbase to add cruise ships, buildings and port facilities to Key West.
Located on the Italy/Slovenia border, this large grass airfield dates back to WWI and is also home to a Pipistrel factory. This scenery recreates the buildings on the field and in surrounding streets, making extensive use of the author's own photo references. Like all of neptune11's releases it features local roads and landmarks which act as visual references to the aviator. At around a mere 30 mb download, this is absolutely essential if you fly in this area.
Another 5 star release from neptune11 which turns a rather mundane grass strip in the default scenery into a charming airfield. It also adds surrounding structures and the Pipistrel factory. The result is that Ajdovscina becomes not a place to fly over in MSFS, but rather a place to stop and spend a few relaxing hours. And then come back again and again.
Featuring a landscaped river and meticulous custom buildings, this airport sets the standard I'd like to see in all payware airports. And yet this one is free.
I will probably stop reviewing neptune11’s airports after this one. They now get automatic 5 star ratings. Small download size (~30 mb), updated to keep in step with the sim world updates, containing signage, fencing, parking, lighting... what's not to like?
At an amazingly compact 20 mb, this scenery sets the gold standard for efficiency in 2024. I have downloaded airports at 2 gb (100 times larger) which don't look appreciably better than this.
Renders the tower and main buildings but falls short of adding fences and the various smaller buildings and parked aircraft around this medium sized airport.
Elevated roads, railways enbankments and ditches add to the charm of this regional airfield. It has all the detailed and frame-rate friendly scenery we have come to expect from neptune11's offerings.
This freeware product is has everything I want in an airport: signage, fencing, parking, lighting... basically everything that adds local colour and without impacting frame rates.
Another charming airport with a ton of local detail, from pens of sheep throughout the airport grounds, to gyrocopters in the main hangar, all adding to the bucolic charm of the location.
With charming farms and splendid smokestacks Neptune11 has made Sostanj a destination you'll want to visit again and again in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
A nice, frame-rate friendly upgrade to this regional airport in Austria. You can find the airport between WP 4 and WP 5 in the "Graz" mission from Slovenia 2, flying out of Maribor and north into Austria.
One of the most transformative add-ons created for MSFS 2020, it adds boats and piers worldwide by interpreting Open Street Map data. It generated a great variety of frame-rate friendly boats and makes the harbours come alive. Essential.
I took a walk around the beautifully sculpted airport by Mr. Miyazaki. What a great opportunity this sim gives us to inspect architectural marvels in this fashion!
"See, spot and identify every minute land feature - every road, every street, every house, every park, every golf course - EVERY THING that you'll see flying the Atlanta skies in real life. You clearly see "everything" in the city below you from the vantage point of your own cockpit - right down to individual rooftops and individual trees on golf courses. "
The promotional video from PC Aviator gives a good indication of where terrain mesh and mapping was at in 2004 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004. "Seattle and 30,000 Square Miles (76,000 sq km) of Spectacular Surrounding Areas of The Pacific Northwest and Washington State. ... MegaCity Technology brings out the finest real-world detail in the city down to the level of you being able to see vehicles on highways and sandtraps on golf courses."
New York is a VFR pilot's dream. The clarity of the scenery adds subtle depth to the flight. As well as the urban terrain there is enough surrounding countryside to keep you entertained. The documentation alone makes this product an exception to current publishing practice. Every aid necessary, in terms of maps, Approach Plates and Airport Diagrams, is given to encourage you to explore this product the way it is meant to be used.
An essential product for MSFS 2020 aviators who enjoy exploring coastlines. It converts the 2D satellite images of boats into 3D models with associated piers and wharves.
Adds chair lifts, ski lifts with all the cables, towers and associated buildings globally in MSFS 2020. With 20,000 lifts, 150,000 pylons, 630,000 objects and yet no impact on frame rates this product transforms all your mountain flights.
This amazing software transforms your visual flight experience in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 by procedurally adding antennae, cooling towers, construction cranes, radar domes, radio and mobile masts, satellite dishes and more objects.
On June 22nd at Flight Sim Expo 2024 Jorge Neumann, head of Microsoft Flight Simulator announced that Puffin Flight’s "We Love VFR" will be integrated into the base sim of MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024. This is a major upgrade for all FS users and well deserved recognition of this one-man developer’s incredible contribution to the enjoyment level of VFR sim pilots in MSFS.