The short grass runway of Locher/Sarentino Airfield is quite sloped in the Italian Alps ! And it is beautifully modelled by Vassilios Dimoulas in his freeware scenery for FSX and P3D. Complete the fun ending your flight by parking your aircraft in the underground shed. (locher_airfield_vd_100.zip – 323 Mb)
Located in Germany between Mannheim and Frankfurt, the little airfield of EDGP Oppenheim has been reproduced with great details by Frank Seifert. It’s totally free and the high quality level is stunning : 3D animated people, AI ship traffic and dynamic lights, it’s perfect for P3D V4, and FSX too.
Completely free and designed for X-Plane 11, Debrecen Airport (LHDC) is an airport in Hungary, located close to the Eastern border with Romania. Say thanks to LHSimulations, also author of the famous payware Budapest LHBP.
After a few quiet months, Sun Sky Jet come back into the light to share some news about their freeware project of Detroit KDTW for FSX and P3D V4 at least. The 3D buildings, detailed jetways and volumetric grass will be just some of its features.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WejZrfCC338 Thanks to LHSimulations, enjoy a new detailed airport as a freeware scenery for X-Plane 11. FlyBalaton Sármellék LHSM is an Hungarian airport with a single runway, and not too far from the border with Slovenia.
At Peter Rosendahl’s website, you can find an updated version of his freeware tool SIMconfigBackup to allow you to save the important configuration files of many simulators, up to P3D v4. An English and German user manual as PDF file can guide you in the different menus of the software.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4kyiCznsTg Johannes Schuster and Jens Hicken remade their German scenery of EDXE Rheine Eschendorf, and it’s still freeware. Now compatible with P3D v4 too, the grass runway airfield welcomes the virtual pilot with detailed buildings and objects, and even 3D animated people, smoke effects to produce a realistic and live environment. Click here to download the 540 MB zip file.
PTA profiles are shaders mods to be used with P3D Tweak Assistant, and they enhance the global look, lights effects, shadows tones and environment colors, without impact on the framerates in P3D v3. Made by TOGA Projects team, PTAbsolute is a new freeware to recreate the most realistic environment. It works best with ENVTEX, but it is not mandatory. The developers are currently focused on P3D v4 incoming compatibility and a Service Pack 1 for ENVTEX, a HD textures set for best use with Active Sky 2016.
Since the beginning of the year, A Sky Story team offers different kind of sceneries, payware and freeware, airports and regions, always with photoreal terrain and for X-Plane. The latest addition to their website is a freeware regional airport in France : LFBE Bergerac.
Only available for Android mobile devices, FP737 is a completely free app, without ads either, to provide the handy information to the 737 pilots. Checklists, Handbook, Limitations, Lexical, are already provided in English and French. The author also announced he plans to complete more content to the Alerts and Handbook sections in the future.