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Practically Geek – 5 FREE Bush Airstrips

Enjoy this video from “Practically Geek”. Explores the remote and challenging scenery of BUSH Airstrips! These FREE add-ons aren’t your Heathrow’s or JFK’s but rather beautiful airstrips nestled away in some of the most remote places on earth. On the YouTube page you will find the download links to Flightsim.to.

Review: Challenging Approaches to Samos for MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024

Fortunately for us virtual pilots, there are small, exquisite flight destinations like the airport of the Greek island of Samos, known for its somewhat perilous visual approaches. It is no surprise that this small airfield has been recreated four times to date: first in July 2016 by 29Palms for FSX, FSX:SE, and Prepar3D (P3D) v3. This add-on is currently also compatible with P3D v4 and v5. In December 2020, Terrainy Studio followed up with a version for MSFS 2020 and in January, Skyline Simulations created one for X-Plane 11. At the end of June 2025, MM Simulations (www.mmsimulations.com) released their rendition for MSFS 2020 and 2024, which will be discussed below.

Samscene Modern Cities Series: Enhanced US Cities for MSFS20/24

Samscene has expanded its “Modern Cities” series for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024. This series aims to improve the default photogrammetry of US cities by fixing textures, overhauling structures, and adding missing buildings and features. The main objective is to showcase the best of US photogrammetry in MSFS, further enhancing the simulation experience with additional feature buildings.

Dammam King Fahd International Airport (OEDF) for MSFS2020/2024

Vertex Design Studio has released a detailed scenery add-on of King Fahd International Airport (OEDF) in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024. King Fahd International Airport (KFIA) is a major transportation hub in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, serving as a vital gateway to the region. Named after King Fahd, KFIA is one of the largest airports in the world by area and plays a central role in regional and international air travel.

MSFS24: Paulo Ricardo Releases Detailed Brazil Sceneries

Brazilian scenery developer Paulo Ricardo has released two new sceneries for Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS), compatible with both MSFS2020 and MSFS2024. These are the developer’s first sceneries for MSFS2024. RIO DE JANEIRO WORLD UP MSFS20/24: The “Cidade Maravilhosa” in Detail This scenery is a tribute to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s “wonderful city.” Paulo Ricardo aims […]

Portlander Makes Portland: KPDXv2 MSFS Portland International Airport

Bill Womack has been known in the scene since the release of the famous “Tongass Fjords” at Francois “Navman” Dumas’ defunct label “FSAddon” at the latest. Back then, he made it with Holger Sandmann for FS 2004 and FS X. In 2015, Bill founded his label iBlueYonder. He lived in Portland for a long time, so he is a true “Portlander”…

EU Destination: Ireland West Airport (Knock) EIKN MSFS24/20

Ireland West Airport (Knock) (EIKN), developed by Fly X Simulations and published by iniBuilds, is located in County Mayo, in the west of Ireland. The airport serves both national and international destinations and is an important transportation hub for the region. This scenery aims to realistically depict the airport and its surroundings in Microsoft Flight […]

Prince Muhmmad Bin Abdulaziz Airport MSFS20

The Prince Muhmmad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport (OEMA) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is a new, detailed addition for virtual pilots looking to deepen their flying experience in Saudi Arabia. Developed by Tuwaiq Designs, this add-on offers an authentic recreation of the international airport of Madinah, one of Islam’s holiest cities.

Thailand: Betong International Airport (VTSY) MSFS 20/24

A new scenery expansion for Thailand is now available: Betong International Airport (VTSY) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024. Developed by SIMMAN, this add-on delivers a detailed recreation of the airport and its surrounding area.

Product Presentation: KOS AIRPORT LGKO MSFS24/20

Atelic introduces Kos Airport LGKO MSFS24/20, a highly detailed and realistic recreation of Kos International Airport (IATA: KGS, ICAO: LGKO) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and 2020. Following the success of their Madeira scenery, Atelic has focused on another popular European island airport, delivering an authentic flight experience for simulation enthusiasts. Kos International Airport “Hippocrates” […]

Italy: LIRZ Perugia Airport MSFS24

SALVUZ has released a detailed scenery of Perugia “San Francesco d’Assisi” International Airport (LIRZ) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. The airport serves as a gateway to Italy’s Umbria region and offers regular connections to European destinations. Perugia Airport (LIRZ) is located near the city of Perugia and serves as an important regional airport for Umbria. […]

EU Destination: EPOP Polska Nowa Wieś by DFC for MSFS24

New developer Digital Flight Sceneries (DFC) launched “EPOP Polska Nowa Wieś MSFS24” on SIMMARKET. This add-on meticulously recreates the area surrounding EPOP airport in Polska Nowa Wieś for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. According to SIMMARKET, this scenery is ideal for VFR flights, parachute jumps, and aviation training.

JustSim Releases Nice Cote d’Azur Airport for MSFS2024

JustSim has released its Nice Cote d’Azur Airport (LFMN) scenery add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (MSFS2024). This marks the first release in their “NG Series” product line. The scenery features high-resolution ground and building textures, along with detailed 3D models of the airport and surrounding areas. JustSim emphasizes that the add-on is optimized for […]

FSX3D Releases Ajaccio-Napoleon Bonaparte LFKJ for X-Plane 12 – Detailed Rendition of a Corsican Hub

Developer FSX3D has released a new scenery package for Ajaccio-Napoleon Bonaparte Airport (LFKJ) for X-Plane 12. This detailed rendition of the airport, also known by its former name “Campo dell’Oro,” allows simmers to experience the challenges and beauty of flying on the French island of Corsica. Ajaccio-Napoleon Bonaparte Airport (LFKJ): Gateway to Corsica Ajaccio-Napoléon-Bonaparte International […]

Aspres-sur-Buëch LFNJ: A Unique X-Plane 12 Flying Experience

For X-Plane 12 pilots seeking a challenging and scenic airfield to test their skills, the ASPRES-SUR-BUECH LFNJ scenery by FSX3D offers a unique and rewarding experience. Available at SIMMARKET, this add-on recreates the Aspres-sur-Buëch aerodrome, known for its distinctive location and demanding approach. A Challenging “Aircraft Carrier” Landing The Aspres-sur-Buëch aerodrome, also called the Chevalet […]

Soaring into Switzerland: Langenthal (LSPL) and Birrfeld (LSZF) Land in MSFS 2024

Flight sim enthusiasts looking to expand their virtual horizons now have two new meticulously crafted Swiss airfields to explore. Detailed renditions of Langenthal (LSPL) and Birrfeld (LSZF) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, developed by Mailsoft Flylogic, bring the charm and challenge of these unique locations to your home simulator. Let’s take a closer look at […]

DTTZ Tozeur-Nefta: A glimpse into the Tunisian Desert for MSFS24

Tozeur-Nefta International Airport (DTTZ) is an airport located in southwestern Tunisia, connecting the cities of Tozeur and Nefta. In the real world, it serves as a gateway to the Tunisian Sahara and is particularly important for tourism. The Real DTTZ Airport The airport has a 3167-meter runway, with runway 09 equipped with an ILS system […]

Product Overview: OERK Riyadh Saudi Arabia V3 for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020/2024

OERK Riyadh King Khalid International Airport V3, by AZRSIM, is an add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and 2024 that meticulously recreates Riyadh’s airport in Saudi Arabia. This Version 3 aims to deliver an even more realistic and immersive flight simulation experience. About Riyadh King Khalid International Airport (OERK): King Khalid International Airport (KKIA) is […]

29Palms Announces Brand New Chania Airport (LGSA) Scenery for MSFS 2024

29Palms has announced their first scenery developed specifically for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: Chania International Airport (LGSA). This will be a completely new build, not an update to the existing MSFS 2020 version (published by Aerosoft), which was originally a port from Prepar3D and lacked the level of detail 29Palms aims for. The developers promise […]

Aalborg Airport (EKYT) MSFS Updated

SIMNORD has released a substantial update for their Aalborg Airport (EKYT) scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The new version 1.6.0 brings numerous improvements and adjustments, particularly for compatibility with the recently released Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Key improvements include the integration of Level-of-Detail (LOD) optimizations for the terminal building and tower to meet the demands […]

SiamFlight Releases Detailed Phuket International Airport Scenery for MSFS

A new, highly detailed scenery of Phuket International Airport (VTSP/HKT) for Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) has been released by SiamFlight and is available on SIMMARKET. This scenery promises an immersive and realistic experience of this crucial transportation hub in Thailand. Phuket International Airport: Gateway to Island Paradise Phuket International Airport, officially known as Phuket Airport, […]

SIMNORD Updates Aarhus Airport (EKAH) for MSFS 2024

SIMNORD has released version 1.1.0 of their Aarhus Airport (EKAH) scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator, bringing full compatibility with MSFS 2024. The scenery has been recompiled using the MSFS 2024 SDK and optimized for the new simulator. Here’s a summary of the changes:

Congonhas, Brazil now available for MSFS

Nestled amidst the bustling city of São Paulo, Congonhas Airport (SBSP) stands as a testament to the vibrant aviation history of Brazil. Officially named São Paulo/Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre Airport, it serves as the second busiest airport in the country, handling up to an impressive 536 commercial flights a day. The airport’s name, Congonhas, derives from […]

Review : FlyTampa – Amsterdam Airport Schiphol EHAM for MSFS v 1.2

Review by Rick Desjardins Introduction This latest release from FlyTampa for MSFS is of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, ICAO: EHAM. This is the main international airport of the Netherlands and is located approximately 9 km southwest of Amsterdam. In terms of its status among other world airports in 2021 it was the third busiest for international […]

This place is amazing and you can fly there on MSFS

Next to Ha Long bay, a UNESCO World Heritage site, you can find Cat Ba Island. Cat Ba Island is the largest of the more than 300 islands that compose the Cat Ba Archipelago. Bijan’s Scenery brings life and authenticity to the entire south east part of the island. For this particular flight we used […]

BORA BORA IMPROVEMENT PROJECT for MSFS

CLI4D Designs has released the long awaited Bora Bora scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Now, one of the most stunning places on earth will also shine on the simulator. The scenery includes: It’s available for download on Simmarket.

Looking for interesting flight ideas? Try Sri Lanka!

The weekend is coming and we have another flight idea for you. This time we will be flying over one of the most beautiful countries in Asia, Sri Lanka. For this flight we will go low and slow using the good old Piper Warrior II from Just Flight. We will fly coast to coast departing […]

Review: Drzewiecki Design KEWR NEWARK LIBERTY International Airport v1.1 for MSFS

Review by Rick Desjardins This review is of Drzewiecki Design’s updated release of Newark Liberty International Airport, ICAO: KEWR. The airport straddles the boundaries of Newark in Essex County and Elizabeth in Union County in New Jersey. A major gateway to many parts of the world it is the second-busiest airport in the New York […]

Review: FranceVFR – VFR France Nord-Ouest for MSFS

Review by Rick Desjardins Introduction I remember reviewing this same product in FSX and loved it back then. It made such a positive difference so I was anxious to see how this new product stacked up in MSFS. As you can see in the image below the country is divided into six areas with this […]

Review: AirWorthy Designs TFFJ St.Barts

Review by Rick Desjardins Introduction Gustaf III Airport, ICAO: TFFJ, also commonly known as Saint Barthélemy Airport, is a public use airport located in the village of St. Jean on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy. The airport has a single 2,119 ft concrete runway 10/28. The airport was ranked by The History Channel documentary […]

Review: Flytampa Toronto Airport for MSFS

Review by Rick Desjardins Introduction Lester B. Pearson Airport, ICAO: CYYZ is the largest and busiest airport in Canada and is located in Mississauga, Ontario approximately 22 km northwest of downtown Toronto. The airport is named in honour of Lester B. Pearson who was the 14th Prime Minister of Canada and recipient of the 1957 […]

Aerosoft – Mega Airport Frankfurt V2

With Mega Airport version 2, Aerosoft and the German Airports Team revisit Germany’s largest airport. Let’s take a look and see how this remake turned out!

Aerosoft – Alta X Review

At the end of March, Aerosoft released their latest and northern most offering for Norway: Alta X. Considering previous releases from the same developers in this region, expectations are high. So let’s take a look!

Voie Bleu – Charleroi X EBCI Brussels South Review

Voie Bleu – Charleroi X EBCI Brussels South (yes, a mouthful indeed) has been available for FSX for several years. The last couple of months though, it has been updated and received a P3D specific version. As a Belgian flight simmer, I was eager to take a look.

KBLU – Blue Canyon Plus Two!

You don’t only get the nominal Blue Canyon-Nyack (KBLU) airfield in the latest release from Orbx, the package also includes the nearby strips at Gansner Field (2O1) and Limberlost Ranch (CA21), to give you a little scope to explore. Full details, including the off-airport scenery and mesh coverage, can be found here. Whichever areas or […]

Italian Scenery Upgrades

If the recently released Simple Missions captured your fancy then you may want to check out these other new releases, covering scenery for Italy, as well. Scenery Studio have covered the city of Florence (Firenze), the capital of Tuscany, and its airport, Peretola, in an updated single package for FSX and P3D. Version 3 features […]

FSDG Sceneries for FS9/FSX/P3D

Updated from the 2012 versions, FlightSim Development Group‘s Djerba, Sharm-el-Sheikh (video above) and their free Oresund X sceneries are all now available, compatible with FSX and Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D. The two airport sceneries, but not Oresund, are also compatible with FS9/2004. Existing customers will get a free upgrade to the new versions by simply redownloading from […]

FlyTampa’s Toronto Pearson released

The latest city covered by FlyTampa‘s creation is Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. The airport itself, named after Lester Bowles Pearson, Canada’s 14th Prime Minister and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is the largest and busiest in the country. The scenery comes with 3d terrain including tunnels and bridges, 3d animated ground workers, numerous custom buildings […]

Review of FLYTAMPA – COPENHAGEN for FSX/P3D

The latest release by FlyTampa is Copenhagen Airport, IACO: EKCH. The airport also known as Kastrup, is located in Kastrup, Denmark which is a suburb of Copenhagen. It is the main international airport serving Copenhagen, the entire Zealand and Øresund Regions as well as a large part of southern Sweden. It is the largest airport […]

30m “UHD” Mesh Scenery for X-Plane 10

You may already be familiar with the work of Andras Fabian of alpilotx.net, but to quote the press release received from hos earlier today, “After the successful release of “HD Mesh Scenery v3” last December, the new “UHD Mesh Scenery v1” tries to push the limits of the X-Plane 10 scenery engine even further.” The push […]

SXAD’s Norfolk International Airport

This new package for FSX and P3D includes more than just a highly detailed rendition of Virginia’s 3rd busiest International Airport, although obviously the primary focus is Norfolk International Airport (KORF/ORF) itself. When you install, you’ll also find yourself able to explore the nearby Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base and Norfolk Botanical Gardens. To find out […]

Reno/Tahoe from MegaScenery Earth

The latest release from PCAviator‘s MegaScenery Earth “Ultra-Res Cities” range is Reno/Tahoe – primarily famous to the aviation community for the high speed pylon racing in super-modified aircraft. Covering parts of Nevada and neighbouring California, you get around 5000 square miles of coverage at 50cm/pixel resolution. Find out more here.

Pulkovo also available for FS2004

The FS9 version of Digital Design’s St. Petersberg Pulkovo (ULLI/LED) has now been released, to join its sister product for FSX/P3D. Russia’s 3rd busiest airport, ULLI includes a realistic rendition of the Russian deep winter which has stopped so many invaders in their tracks, plus “baked” shadows on textures, lots of custom detail and the […]

Review of DREAMFLIGHT STUDIOS – PERPIGNAN RIVESALTES AIRPORT- LFMP for FSX

Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport, ICAO: LFMP is a small regional airport located approximately 5kms north of Perpignan, close to the Spanish border in southwestern France. A very picturesque area, it is on the eastern end of the Pyrenees Mountains and on the Mediterranean coast. The airport also goes by the name of Llabanère Airport. The airport has […]

Imaginesim Atlanta for P3Dv2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WEDHu2pG6x4 “Oh Atlanta, Prepar3D fliers now hear you calling. They can starting flying into you after today…” On a decidedly more serious note than seriously misquoting song lyrics, ImagineSim‘s Atlanta International Airport (KATL) is now available in a version specifically for use in P3Dv2. According to the developers, this version of KATL is released “as […]

Donationware XP HD Mesh Scenery v3 Updated

The X-Plane 10 mesh scenery products by alpilotx are more than just mesh, as the name would imply. In addition to the terrain itself, they also include  landclass, forests, road/railroad networks, all water features and autogen data. They have also recently been updated to version 3, including numerous improvements and a whole new area; Australia. […]

Orbx Full Terrain X Norway – now out

From the Farsund to the Nordkapp, the rocky and island-strewn coastline of Norway is one of the most iconic regions of Europe, but it only makes up a part of what Orbx describe as their most detailed FTX region yet, covering over 400,000 square kilometres of terrain. Among the many custom models are almost 100 […]

HECAX – Now released and available

The rendition of Cairo International Airport by SimDesignGroup, which we previewed earlier this month, is now available for purchase and download, allowing you to visit a much upgraded version of the Egyptian capital city in FSX. Featuring huge amounts of custom textures, structures and buildings, including in the area surrounding the airport itself, and compatible […]

FS9 Shobdon from MDM Ltd.

Shobdon (EGBS) in Herefordshire, England, is a small GA airfield near the Welsh border, using part of a World War II RAF training station, the remainder of which has been returned to agriculture. It is also the location recreated by this scenery from MDM Ltd, for FS2004 only. From the screenshots and product description, it […]

SKRG, Rionegro, from PKSim for FSX/P3D

PKSim have released José María Córdova International Airport (IATA: MDE, ICAO: SKRG), serving the city of Rionegro, less than an hour from Medellin in Columbia. The airport is the second largest in the country after Bogota’s El Dorado International Airport of Bogotá. With a full set of custom buildings, custom ground and operating surface textures, 3d […]

Domodedovo for FS9

It may have taken a while since it was originally asked about in comments here last May, but MDesign have now released their version of Moscow Domededovo airport (UUDD/DME), for FS9, to join the already available version for FSX/P3Dv1. In terms of passenger traffic, Domodedovo is the largest airport in Eastern Europe and Russia, handling 30,765,078 people […]

VFR Blackpool available for FSX and P3D

The real airport may currently be closed to commercial operators, with discussions ongoing regarding its future after the operator went into liquidation, but sim pilots at least can continue to use Blackpool International (BLK/EGNH) to its full capabilities, with the release of VFR Blackpool from RJ Sim for FSX and P3D. Designed to compliment photoscenery, VFR […]

Ultimate Terrain X USA v2 released

It’s been a while since we had a new release from the Ultimate Terrain X series from Flight1 Software and Scenery Solutions, but the new version of the USA pack – fittingly titled simply “UTX USA v2.o”, is now available to purchase. “Ultimate Terrain X USA V2 has been designed from the ground up to take […]

LICJ Freeware for FSX/P3D now available

We’ve mentioned the Palermo scenery of the Flight Simulator Italian Airport Development Team a couple of times recently, well now it is available to download for MS FSX and Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D v2.4 from their website, here. The packages – individually downloadable for each sim platform – come with self installers and a long list of features, […]

LICJ Freeware release date announced

The Flight Simulator Italian Airports Development Team (FSIADT) have sent out the final (hopefully!) beta of their Palermo Airport (LICJ) scenery for MS FSX and L-M P3D to testers.

American scenery triple bill

Fans of flying in the Americas will appreciate this triple helping of weekend releases, with two sceneries available for FS9/X/P3D and the third for FSX only.

Preview of Limesim/29Palms Hamburg

A result of co-operation between Hamburger-Flusi-Welt, LimeSim and 29Palms, the screenshot shown above is one of several released as a preview of “Hamburg HD“, taken in Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D v2.

Freeware Pontoise – Cormeilles en Vexin

Now available to download from French-VFR is “Greenhopper‘s” scenery of Cormeilles en Vexin – Pontoise (LFPT), for FSX and P3D. Compatible with both DX9 and 10 modes of the simulators, the scenery includes custom ground textures and structures (including the bar!), plus the adjacent go-kart track. The French-VFR download page can be found here. If your […]

FS9 release of Drzewiecki’s Sheremetyevo

Polish developers Drzewiecki Design turned their attention East recently, with the release of Sheremetyevo airport, serving the capital of Moscow in neighbouring Russia. The package is now available for Microsoft Flight Simulator 9, as well as the FSX/P3D version already released, and features up-to-date construction works, custom vehicles and 3d figures, docking systems, automatic season […]

More freeware for FTX Global

Sylvain Delepierre has been hard at work for users of Orbx’s FTX Global, with pack 5 of his European scenery upgrades released today. The pack includes seven improved airports, one each for Belgium and Denmark, two for Germany and three in Sweden. The list of airports and a download link can be found here at the Orbx […]

MegaScenery Earth St.Louis 50cm/px photoreal

The latest title in MegaScenery Earth‘s “Ultra-Res Cities” collection is St. Louis, covering 4,000 square miles of photoreal textures at a stated 50cm/pixel resolution. As ever with the Ultra-Res Cities series, the scenery covers the Terminal Area Chart area of the Missouri state city, as well as including PDF charts for the entire state. The […]

Review of FSDREAMTEAM – HOUSTON GEORGE BUSH INTERCONTINENTAL for FSX

George Bush Intercontinental Airport, ICAO: KIAH, is an international airport located in Houston, Texas about 23 miles north of Downtown Houston. It serves the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. The airport come into service in June of 1969 under the name Houston Intercontinental Airport but was […]

Jersey Airport from UK2000

Gary Summons of UK2000 Scenery has been busy again and this time the result is Jersey Airport (JER/EGJJ) in the Channel Islands, Dependencies of the United Kingdom, just off the coast of Northern France. Situated just outside the islands’ capital, St. Helier, the airport is mainly serviced by tourist traffic on a seasonal basis, but […]

TropicalSim’s SBRJ now cross-platform

The 2014 version of TropicalSim‘s SBRJ – Santos-Dumont in Rio de Janeiro (SDU/SBRJ) – has been released, now including support for Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D, in addition to MS FSX and FS2004. Each of the versions is compiled using the respective SDK tools, has a photoreal backdrop with autogen, is compatible with both default and add-on meshes, […]

Review of AEROSOFT – MEGA AIRPORT BERLIN-BRANDENBURG v1.11 for FSX/P3DV1/P3DV2

Berlin Brandenburg Airport, ICAO: EDDB, is an international airport under construction. It is located adjacent to the current Berlin Schönefeld Airport which is in Schönefeld, Germany approximately 18 kilometres south of Berlin, the capital of Germany. This new airport is intended to replace both Schönefeld and Berlin Tegel Airports, and to become the single commercial […]

SBuilderX for 64-bit Windows Systems

Luis Sá has just released an updated 64-bit version of the widely used and useful development tool SBuilderX. Users will have no more RAM constraints and this new version includes a comprehensive list of new features. It works with FSX and P3D2. Read the list of changes and get this new version of SBuilderX at Luis’ […]

Miami added to Ultra-Res Cities line

Miami is the latest addition to PCAviator’s MegaScenery Earth Ultra-Res Cities line-up available from simMarket. The usual approximately 5000 square miles, matching the terminal area chart for the city’s airports, is covered in 50cm/pixel native resolution ground textures and is, of course, fully compatible with the Florida state scenery from the same developer. See more […]

Nuvecta add Islands and more States

Alongside Delaware and Michigan, Nuvecta have taken their Treeline North America series of foliage coverage for FSX/P3D outside the Continental United States, adding Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands coverage, as well. Each package is designed to sit atop photoreal scenery and add depth and realism by adding trees based on USGS data. Click […]

Greece gets “Night Environment” coverage

Chris Bell’s “Night Environment” lighting system, published by Aerosoft, has added Greece to the list of covered nations and states. The Mediterranean country has all major and many minor roads shown by night lighting covering the entire country, with configuration options depending on performance and compatible with almost any texture, landclass or photoreal scenery set below […]

Belfast City from Eiresim

Belfast’s second airport has been known by many names over the years; Shorts, Harbour, Sydenham… These days it is named for one of the city’s most famous sons, as George Best Belfast City Airport (EGAC/BHD). The airport forms the first release for Northern Ireland from Eiresim, set atop 50cm/pixel photoreal textures, with highly detailed custom structures, […]

Houston, we have photoreal scenery

The latest “Ultra-Res City” from MegaScenery Earth is Houston in the US’s Lone Star State, Texas. As usual, there are around 7,000 square miles of scenery at a native 50cm/pixel, covering the same are as the terminal area chart. An image of the area covered, as well as further information, can be found on the […]

Ultra-Res Chicago, ready to explore

Many simmers will remember Chicago as being, for years, the starting point of the Microsoft Flight Simulator flight. See that picture above? There’s what was Meigs Field at the top, slightly right of centre. We won’t go into the politics of that on the front page. 😉 What you can do, however, is fly over […]

Vidan Design’s Nordborg for FSX/P3D

If you’re looking for an attractive destination or base for GA flying in Northern Europe, take a look at Vidan Design‘s Danish Airfields X – Nordborg, available here at simMarket. In addition to the small grass airfield, the scenery features the entire city after which the airfield is named, with high-resolution photoreal textures, custom buildings, […]

Monterey joins Orbx NorCal Airport Lineup

Jarrad Marshall’s second visit to Northern California for Orbx‘s Full Terrain scenery, Monterey (KMRY), is now available, featuring both the airport itself and a large photoreal area around, including the city of Monterey itself, Pebble Beach and the famous ‘corkscrew’ turn of Laguna Seca Raceway. The package comes in a “triple” installer for FSX, P3Dv1 and P3Dv2, […]

Review of TAXI2GATE – POINTE-À-PITRE LE RAIZET AIRPORT TFFR for FSX/P3DV1/P3DV2

Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport or Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet Airport, ICAO: TFFR) is an airport serving Pointe-à-Pitre on the island of Grande-Terre in Guadeloupe. The airport serves as the main hub for both Air Caraïbes and Air Antilles Express. In 2008, the airport handled between 2 and 2.5 million passengers. The airport has one runway 12/30 @11,483ft […]

SX Airport Design’s FSX Exeter International

One of South-Western England’s growing regional hubs, Exeter International Airport (EGTE/EXT) is now available for MS FSX from SX Airport Design. The scenery includes a numerous custom buildings both on and off the airfield site, set atop a custom seasonal photoreal background, with accurate parking locations/taxiways and high resolution ground polygons. There are also seasonal […]

Vero photoreal “Heart of Colorado”

Aspen, Colorado. The name conjures images of celebrities in ski-wear, business jets and limos, opportunities for political photo shoots to show how someone is ‘family orientated”. There’s a reason for all that, however: The scenery surrounding the city is nothing short of fantastic. Vero‘s latest photoreal coverage of the area, “Heart of Colorado“, comes in two versions; “Seasonal“, […]

AUScene Adelaide X now v1.20

Development of Adelaide X by AUScene is still continuing, with version 1.20 now available – free for existing users – bringing the following upgrades: FSX and Prepar3V2 versions Effect based taxiway lighting for FSX Frame rate optimisation Redesigned foreshore area For full details of the package, click here.

Orlando in high-res photoreal

The newest title in MegaScenery Earth‘s “Ultra Res City” series is Orlando in Florida, with “around 12,000 square miles” of 50cm/pixel aerial photography coverage. With highlights including the Cape Canaveral facility and the Walt Disney World Resort, the entire area shown by the scenery can be found by viewing the terminal area chart, which is […]

Review of AEROSOFT – MEGA AIRPORT DUBLIN FSX/P3DV1/P3DV2

Dublin Airport, ICAO: EIDW, is an international airport serving Dublin, Ireland. Its Irish name is: Aerfort Bhaile Átha Cliath. The airport is located approximately 6 miles north of the city of Dublin, Ireland. In 2012 just slightly over 19 million passengers passed through the airports facilities making it the busiest airport in Ireland in terms […]

AUScene’s YSSY Professional v2

Version 2 of AUScene‘s Sydney Kingsford Smith International (YSSY/SYD) for FS9 and FSX brings a number of improvements over the original, including “[the new] Virgin Australia terminal along with redesigned aerobridges, completely new apron lights and light effects. On top of this the executive apron has been completely redone, just check out the screenshots showcasing this […]

Faster than its shadow…

We are referring to the just released Aerosoft´s Berlin-Brandenburg Airport since the real airport will open not before 2016. This latest Aerosoft Mega Airport series release is for FSX only, with the Prepar3D version to follow soon, free of charge for the owners of the FSX version. This airport was designed using the latest scenery […]

King Abdul Aziz Airport from BDO Aviation

Serving the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, BDO Aviation‘s latest release is King Abdul Aziz International Airport (OEJN/JED), located on the Saudi West Coast and principal gateway to the country for the annual Islamic Hajj Pilgrimage.

Review of TAXI2GATE – ISTANBUL ATATÜRK AIRPORT LTBA FSX

Istanbul Atatürk Airport, ICAO: LTBA is the main international airport serving Istanbul, Turkey and also the busiest airport in Turkey by total number of passengers. It was originally opened in 1924 and is located in Yesilköy which is on the European side of the city 24 km west of the city’s centre. The airport was […]

Germany gets illuminated by Aerosoft

Chris Bell‘s “Night Environment” products, published by Aerosoft,  have spread their wings a little and crossed into Germany for this new release, bringing night lighting effects to roads both major and minor in MS FSX.

Taxi2Gate MCO now for FS2004

Taxi2Gate‘s products are usually pretty well received and we suspect that FS9 pilots will be more than happy to see the release of KMCO – Orlando International in Florida – for their preferred sim.

Megascenery Earth returns to Europe

MegaScenery Earth has crossed the Atlantic again for this package, covering the entire country of Portugal, in the Iberian Peninsular of Europe and as far West as you can go on the European Mainland. The over 92,000 kilometres of photoreal terrain for MS FSX cover a wide variety of landscapes, but visits from the US will […]

Review of UK2000 SCENERY – HEATHROW XTREME V3 for FSX

London Heathrow Airport or Heathrow, ICAO: EGLL, is a major international airport serving London, England. The airport can trace its roots back to when it originally opened as a small airfield in 1929. It was located on land just south-east of the hamlet of Heathrow next to farms and orchards. This is how it got […]

Aerosoft Mega Airport Dublin Available

Aerosoft‘s latest “Mega Airport”, serving Dublin (EIDW/DUB), the capital city of Ireland and home to flag airline Aer Lingus, has been released and is now available to buy. The scenery covers “All buildings and installations at and around the airport”, set on photoreal backgrounds with seasonal textures. Realistic night lighting effects are also included, along […]

5m Mesh for the United States in FSX

When most developers release scenery products for “the United States”, it means the ‘lower 48’ of the contiguous Continental US. Hawaii and Alaska are usually separate products altogether and Puerto Rico is in the ‘planned Caribbean pack’, if anywhere. Developers OFX have bucked the trend with their new 5m USA Mega Mesh product for FSX, […]

White Digital Simulations announced

Russ White, developer of some of the most highly-regarded Orbx airports, has announced the launch of White Digital Simulations, a new brand under which he will continue to release high-quality airports and scenery for both FSX and P3Dv2. His full press release can be read below:   “Introducing White Digital Simulations (WDS) a new FS […]

Photoreal ‘Streets of Philadelphia’

The newest MegaScenery Earth “Ultra-res City” covers more than just the eponymous byways of Pennsylvania’s capital from Bruce Springsteen’s song – if you’re a fan of the aircraft models by MAAM-SIM then you may well also want to visit the city of Reading, pictured above, where you’ll find the real world museum and its exhibits. […]

Istanbul released by Taxi2Gate

It seems like only a few hours ago that we were announcing the final previews of Taxi2Gate‘s İstanbul Atatürk Airport (LTBA/IST) for FSX SP2/Acceleration: That’s probably because it was! As promised, however, we can now announce that the package is available to purchase through simMarket, here, with the usual level of detail and features that you’d […]

Lognes – Émerainville airfield for FS2004

Île-de-France, east of Paris, is the location of Prealsoft‘s Lognes – Émerainville airfield (IATA: XLG, ICAO: LFPL) for computer pilots to enjoy. Operated by Aéroports de Paris, it is usable in daylight VFR only, by light aircraft and helicopters. This FS2004 scenery covers all main buildings and a lot of custom objects, on a reworked photorealistic background, […]

Megascenery Earth Boston “Ultra-Res” scenery

Another scenery for fans of photorealistic terrain comes from PCAviator here, covering Boston, Massachusetts, in the North East corner of the United States. Ultra-Res City Boston is 6,000 square miles of 50cm/pixel terrain according to the developer’s provided information and includes not only the city itself, but also the state of Rhode Island, excluding Block […]

Orbx adds KRDD to product line

Orbx‘s latest release in the Full Terrain X series is their first for the recently released Northern California area – KRDD Redding Municipal Airport, by Jarrad Marshall, for FSX and P3Dv1. The scenery covers more than just the airport, though, also including another high-detail field, Benton Field (pictured above), the helipad at the Mercy Medical […]

Review of AEROSOFT – THESSALONIKI X for FSX/P3DV1/P3DV2

Thessaloniki International Airport, ICAO: LGTS, which is officially known as Macedonia International Airport is located about 15 km SE of the city center of Thessaloniki, Greece. The airport originally opened in 1930 has grown over the years to become the second largest state owned and operated airport in the country after Heraklion airport. In 2012 […]

Review of PAULO RICARDO FSX – MEGA SAO PAULO FSX for FSX

  Brazil is a very beautiful part of the world and with this recently released scenery addon they’ve given the cities of Sao Paulo and Ribeirão Preto and their surrounding areas a major makeover. Sao Paulo, which is the main focus of the addon, is the largest city in Brazil with a population of approx. […]

Review of FranceVFR – Nord-Pas de Calais v2 for FSX

Nord-Pas de Calais is the next release in the series of VFR v2 sceneries from FranceVFR. A simple way to describe them is to say that they are a VFR scenery on steroids! Rather than reinvent the wheel here is a bit of history on the region taken from my review of Nord-Pas de Calais […]

South America Landclass and Mesh from OFX

Along with Africa and Asia, South America used to be a forgotten area of the flight simulator world. With airport developers now moving in, however, the number of people flying there has increased and, as a result, so has interest in more scenery for it. Hopefully helping you out if this is an area you […]

Osijek from SkyHighSim

The city of Osijek lies in the far eastern corner of Croatia, near to the border with Hungary and is served by its namesake airport (OSI, LDOS), which was constructed primarily as a freight centre, but has the capacity to handle between 100,000 and 150,000 passengers every year. SkyHighSim’s version of the airport has been […]

Brittany North from FranceVFR

FranceVFR‘s latest adddition to its collection, released recently via their own webstore (French language) and now also available at simMarket (which may help the translation a little!) is version two of their Northern Brittany coverage, the North’West tip of France. Laid against a backdrop of their usual high-definition photorealistic ground textures, version 2 brings a […]

50% off Warsaw City at simMarket

Not content with just doing an airport for Poland’s capital city, Drzewiecki Design did a large area of the city, containing a number of airports, airfields and helipads, instead. Available for both FSX/P3D and FS2004, the package is currently 50% off for one week only as simMarket’s latest “deal of the day”.

Moscow preview from Drzewiecki Design

well regarded Polish developers Drzeriecki Design have announced that their next project will be Moscow Sheremetyevo (UUEE/SVO), yesterday on their forums. The team posted several Work in Progress screenshots of the Aeroflot hub on the thread, which can be found here, and state that the newly announced project is not going to affect other work […]

FSX Western Africa Enchanced by OFX

Along with most of Asia, Africa is definitely an area of the world massively under-developed for flight simulators in general. OFX Simulation are trying to go someway to dealing with that lack of coverage, in FSX at least, and this is the first part of their efforts, covering 3235 km² of landclass and improved mesh […]

Flying Bear Studio Da Nang X

The airport at Da Nang, Vietnam, is a shared use military/civilian airport – although the military traffic these days is massively reduced from the levels it was. The third largest international airport in the country, Flying Bear Studios have recreated it for FSX with all major airport buildings, a custom ground texture, ground lighting, animated […]

Stewart, BC, gets a major X-Plane Makeover

It’s unsurprising that the area of Canada around Stewart, British Columbia, has for years been popular with flight sim fans and developers. The airport sits in an area of fantastic scenery, which has now been recreated for X-Plane 10 by beti-x and is available to purchase through their site. The add-on not only covers the […]

Mega Airport Oslo v2 – now available

Developer Jo Erlend Sund has stepped up the game again with Aerosoft‘s Mega Airport series, bringing version 2 of Oslo Gardermoen (OSL/ENGM) to computers for FSX, P3D v1 and v2. The new version brings the major changes to the airport which have taken place in recent years, against a photoreal background including seasonal variations. 2048 […]

Orbx/Pilot’s FTX Global Vector out

Orbx have teamed up with global scenery upgrade specialists PILOT’s for their latest release – FTX Global Vector. Sitting atop the previously released FTX Global texture package, Vector brings accurate coastlines, rivers, lakes, roads and more to your simulator. They describe it as a total sim overhaul, with the examples of the visible differences shown […]

Puget Sound Photoreal textures

Vero have moved slightly north for their latest release through simMarket – up to the Puget Sound area of Washington State, with colour corrected aerial photography at LOD17-18 for major airports, LOD 15 for towns and cities, dropping to LOD13 in rural areas and mountains for best performance. The overall scenery, Puget Sound Photoreal – […]

Orbx Vernonia – a challenge worth conquering?

Last weekend saw the release of Orbx‘s latest airport, a small strip within the boundaries of FTX PNW from new team member Misha Cajic. Described as being situated in a “beautiful, but challenging’ location, 05S Vernonia Municipal has a 896m runway, surrounded by hills – but that’s nothing compared to the bonus included scenery of […]

Austria Professional HD – East

Published by Aerosoft and developed by Flugwerk, Austria Professional HD – East provides fans of this diverse country with summer season photoreal textures at 1m/pixel and a 5m mesh to lay them over – all topped off with autogen structures and trees to give as realistic experience as possible when flying around the country. Two […]

Review of TAXI2GATE – KMCO ORLANDO INTL FSX

Taxi2Gate have with this latest release for FSX, added another large and impressive airport, Orlando International Airport, to their stable of products. Orlando International Airport, ICAO: KMCO, is located six miles southeast of Orlando, Florida. Like many modern airports it began as a military airport during the Second World War. It was originally known as […]

Orbx Ireland released

As predicted by the earlier thread, the last area of British Isles coverage from Orbx’s Full Terrain X series has been released and is now available in the form of Ireland, for FSX, P3D v1.4 and v2. Famed for its lush greenery, Ireland is the major part of the third largest island in Europe, situated […]

Simbreeze Hurghada price drop for December

Another opportunity to pick up a bargain this month comes in the form of Simbreeze’s Hurghada, down from the usual price of €19.99 to €13.99 until the end of December, at simMarket. This FSX/P3D scenery recreates a tourist gateway to Egypt’s Red Sea coast, covering a significant area around, as well as the airport itself, […]

“Final” preview shots of Orbx Ireland

Ian Emms, responsible for many of the preview screenshots of Orbx products on their forums, has posted a thread entitled “EU IRL my final shots” – an indication that release is imminent for the final part of their British Isles scenery coverage. The Republic of Ireland is still very much a rural country, with a […]

MegaScenery Earth goes one mile up!

Colorado is home to a number of the best skiing resorts in the United States, as well as some fantastic vistas and the Mile High City itself, Denver. The state as a whole is well over 100,000 square miles, but due to the terrain, only(!?) has 272 aiports. It makes up for that in mountains, […]

New simMarket Deals of the Day

With the Black Friday sales now ended, normal service is resumed with simMarket’s Deals of the Day – this time featuring FSAddon‘s Tongass Fjords X and Vanvouver+ v3 for FSX. Both products are offered at a 50% discount until 15/12/2013 and offer a dramatically improved version of one of the most popular areas to fly […]

Arizona gets MegaScenery Earth Coverage

You can’t mention Arizona without talking about its most famous terrain feature. Especially not when that feature is as globally renowned as the Grand Canyon. That’s not the only famous bit of photoreal terrain that you’ll be flying over in MegaScenery Earth‘s latest set though; the cities of Phoenix and Tucson number amongst those present, […]

X-Plane 10 HD Mesh Scenery v2 released!

Andras Fabian of alpilot.net has announced the release of version 2 of the donationware X-Plane 10 HD Scenery Mesh, reporting that “It covers many of the “interesting” regions of the planet”, using over 55 Gbytes of data, across Europe and North America. If you already know about the project and just want to skip straight […]

MegaScenery Earth Nebraska

When posting MegaScenery Earth scenery news articles, we always try and open with an interesting fact about the state being covered. With Nebraska, that was a bit of a challenge. The state is mainly famous for the people born there – according to a search, both Gerald Ford and Malcolm X were born on Omaha, […]

Taburet recreates IOW Airport for X-Plane

Bembridge, on the Isle of Wight off the South Coast of Hampshire in the UK, is the location of Taburet‘s latest scenery release. Created for use in X-Plane 10, with or without G2xpl/any photoreal scenery, the airfield is advertised as having the sole hard runway on the island and is close enough to many other […]

Portland – Vancouver Photoreal from VERO

The area around Portland and Vancouver in Northern Oregon/Southern Washington respectively may have been made more famous in the FS world by a landclass based scenery product, but when a region looks this good, it’s not surprising that developers wish to cover it in photoscenery instead. VERO have done exactly that with two products; “Silver” […]

We might be in Kansas, after all!

Kansas is big. Very big. It’s also really quite flat for the most part, but flat doesn’t have to mean uninteresting. If nothing else, as the picture above shows, it’s home to one of the most prolific aviation companies of all time, in form of Cessna Aircraft. To give the usual figures, the MegaScenery Earth […]

Catalina free from Aerosoft

Intended as a demo/preview of the “US Cities X – Los Angeles” product, Aerosoft are offering simmers a free download of the island of Catalina, off the South Californian coast. With a centrepoint of the “Airport in the Sky” and its sloped runway, the complete island with beaches, heliport, former seaplane base, aerial photographic textures […]

UTX Tropical America & Caribbean in a box

A lot of people still prefer physical media to downloads, so if you count amongst them, you might like to know that Flight1 Europe are now selling UTX Tropical America and the Caribbean through simMarket in boxed format. If you don’t know the UTX series, the screenshots on the product page, here, show you the […]

Pic du Midi v2 from Alro Creations

Definitely one for the rotary-wing pilot, rather than the airliner fans, Alro Creations have updated and reworked their recreation of the “Observatoire Astronomique du Pic du Midi de Bigorre” for FSX and P3D. Designed for use with FranceVFR’s Midi-Pyrénées PHOTO HD vol. 2, but compatible with the default scenery due to localised mountain top mesh, […]

Two new MegaScenery Earth packs

Not only are there two new MegaScenery Earth packages available at simMarket this week, but one of them is even outside the United States borders. First up and sticking true to form comes the US state of Iowa, over 56,000 square miles and with 234 airfields/airports, this Mid-Western state is best known for its vast […]

Tropicalsim’s Curaçao for FSX/P3D

Today’s other re-release is TropicalSim‘s Curaçao, redone as a 2013 version for FSX and P3D. Upgrading the entire island, with new coastlines, roads, landclass and a photoreal area with autogen annotation, the package comes at a discount for owners of the developers’ earlier Curaçao TNCC FS9 FSX package. Full details can be found here.

Minnesota MegaScenery

From one extreme to the other, PCAviator‘s MegaScenery Earth series has temporarily left the Deep South behind and moved to the Canadian border with Minnesota for MS FSX. The all-important numbers for this photoreal scenery are 86,938 square miles and – which is quite a lot in anyone’s book. There are also lakes. Lots of […]

Simbreeze – Hurghada X HEGN FSX/P3D

The Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada is a regular destination for charter airlines from around Europe and Western Asia, thanks to to pretty much guaranteed sun and unique surroundings of the early 20th century fishing port which has grown to be the largest tourist base on the Red Sea coast. This latest package from […]

Version 2 of UK2000’s VFR Airfields at simMarket

Released via their own site a short while ago and now also available through simMarket, UK2000‘s VFR Airfields Volume 1 Version 2 for FSX is a rework of the earlier Southern England pack, featuring the same coverage, but newly remade airports in FSX format, compatible with both Gen X photoreal scenery and other, landclass based, […]

Triple Texan packages from MegaScenery Earth

In Texas they like everything big… including their state itself, which is why it isn’t one border-to-border package like most other MegaScenery Earth releases, but rather three – West, South East and North East. For that, though, in total, you get 268,000 square miles of photoscenery, if you buy all three areas, with almost 1500 […]

AUscene’s Adelaide International X v1.10

AUscene‘s new Adelaide International X scenery version 1.10 provides FSX pilots with a highly detailed hub to operate to and from serving South Australia’s capital city. Set against a 30cm/pixel background, version 1.10 of the scenery remodels the tower, provides some fixes and updates, plus adds PAPI to the runways. It is compatible with both […]

openVFR go East to the Rising Sun

Yesterday’s Press Release from openVFR announced their coverage of Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun, for Microsoft FSX and L-M Prepar3D. “Japan is a land of striking scenic beauty. The total area of Japan is around 300,000 sq km. First time visitors are impressed by its greenness and its spectacular mountains. Seventy percent of Japan is mountains […]

RJ Sim’s “Biggin on the Bump” for FSX

Biggin Hill, near London in the United Kingdom, is one of the country’s most famous airports. A fighter ‘sector station’ during the Battle of Britain, Biggin Hill (ICAO: EGKB) is now a reliever airport for the capital, hosting business jets, some small charter traffic and many GA aircraft. RJ Sim have recreated what they call […]

Oklahoma!

More than just a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, the US state of Oklahoma lies north of Texas, also sharing borders with Arkasas, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. As ever, PC Aviator provide a couple of useful statistics, to advertise the 50cm/pixel photoreal scenery, this time including 69,899 square miles of terrain and 370 airports. More […]

MegaScenery Earth Missouri

It’s one of those trick questions from the Christmas/pub quiz… “In which US State is Kansas City?” The answer, obviously, is Missouri, across the Missouri river from the state of Kansas and also home to the Mark Twain National Forest, amongst many other things. Between the Missouri and Mississppi rivers, there are 429 airports within […]

Review of LHSimulations – BUDAPEST LISZT FERENC LHBP for FSX

Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport, ICAO: LHBP, serves the Hungarian capital city of Budapest and is the largest of the country’s five international airports. The airport was originally known as Budapest Ferihegy International Airport but was renamed in 2011 in honor of Ferenc Liszt, the virtuoso pianist and composer, on the occasion of the 200th […]

FSDT catalogue now available through simMarket

You’ll have seen the release of Vancouver through simMarket in the post below this, already, but it appears that after we went to bed last night, someone sneaked into simMarket and put the entire FSDreamTeam catalogue for FS9/X and P3D onto the shelves – covering numerous airports from around the North America and Europe, as […]

Voie Bleu’s Charleroi for FSX

Anyone who has flown with a low cost airline, particularly in Europe, will know that where the airline says you are flying to is not always where you end up… Good examples are London Luton, Frankfurt Hahn and Brussels Charleroi – the latter of which has been produced here by Voie Blue for MS FSX. […]

Raarup Free from Vidan Design

Vidan Designs‘ Danish Airports X series have got new addition today in the form of Rårup – at the very attractive price of absolutely nothing! The developers describe the scenery as “…an accurate and highly detailed rendition of Rårup Airfield EKRA, a small, private airfield located about 6 NM South-East of the city of Horsens […]

First iBlueYonder scenery announced

As promised in his press release at the weekend, Bill Womack already had a project waiting in the wings to announce as the first project for iBlueYonder. That scenery is Nantucket, just off the coast of Massachusetts, USA, and its Memorial Airport (KACK). “As a follow-up to our popular Plum Island scenery, we’re happy to […]

MegaScenery Earth Arkansas

The stats for this one are 53,179 square miles of 50cm/pixel and 254 airports, all within the border-to border photoreal coverage of Arkasas, including a number of national parks and the famous Mississppi river, which forms its Eastern boundary. If you’re still looking for El Dorado, you’ll find that, here, too, with MegaScenery Earth‘s latest […]

Richer Simulations Grenada for FSX

The island of Grenada sits almost at the southern end of the Carribbean Sea island chains, with the Grenadines to the North and Trinidad & Tobago  plus Venezuela to the South. Not only have Richer Simulations created the gateway to the island, Maurice Bishop International Airport (TGPY/GND), but they have upgraded the entire island in […]

SSG Studios releases Colombia 2014 FSX

Following the withdrawal from sale of their earlier products, SSG Studios have concentrated their efforts on what will become a total of six packages of airfields in Colombia, South America for Microsoft FSX. Part 1 of the series, which can be found here, contains 18 airfields, many of them being those previously available as individual […]

MegaScenery Earth expands into Louisiana

Continuing their coverage of the Southern United States once more, Louisiana has now been covered with 50cm/pixel photorealistic textures by PCAviator’s MegaScenery Earth series. A little over 51,000 square miles in size and with 272 airports, the state has a wide variety of terrain to fly over, although it is all fairly low lying, with […]

Introducing iBlueYonder

If you’ve been around the FS world for a while, there’s a chance you’ve heard of Bill Womack – and maybe even started a flight from one of his airport designs. For over ten years, he’s been creating highly-detailed GA airports for Aerosoft, FS Addon, RealAir, and Orbx. Now he’s beginning a new career chapter […]

Review of TROPICALSIM – RIO DE JANEIRO 2012 SBGL FS9 FSX P3D

This is a review of Tropicalsim’s FSX version of Galeão International Airport. The city of Rio de Janeiro has two major airports; Santos Dumont Airport, ICAO: SBRJ, located on the mainland, and Galeão International Airport, ICAO: SBGL which is located on Governador Island in Guanabara Bay. SBGL, which is actually officially named Rio de Janeiro/Galeão–Antonio […]

One Mississippi…

PC Aviator love their statistics when it comes to describing each of their MegaScenery Earth releases, so this time, you get 48,431 square miles of photoreal coverage and 215 airports, all within the border-to-border coverage of Mississippi. Apart from the namesake river, probably the most famous locations within the state are the cities of Jackson […]

Taburet Duesseldorf for X-Plane

X-Plane 10 fans will probably know Taburet‘s sceneries by now, based on OpenStreetMap data converted with Bennyboy’s Osm2xp tool and stating that it has “100 % Your house – Office – Fields – and all that is around you in real life is there for you to fly it over it !!” While the reality […]

Review of TAXI2GATE – E.T. JOSHUA AIRPORT SAINT VINCENT FSX

This is the second Caribbean airport released by Taxi2Gate this year and it comes just two months after their recent release of Georges F.L. Charles airport. This time they’ve taken us to the country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the largest of its islands Saint Vincent where we find E.T. Joshua airport, ICAO: […]

Akesoft’s La Cerdany and Llieda

SPain isn’t a country we see represented much in the FSX scenery market, but fans of European GA flying can visit La Cerdany (LECD) in the Pyrenees, joined at version 2 by Lleida (LEDA) from Akesoft, which is on special offer at simMarket, this week. As can be seen in the screenshot above, the airport […]

Wisconsin, the latest MegaScenery Earth state

The Northern US state of Wisconsin may not be the first place most people think of as a major part of aviation, but the chances are that while you may not know it’s home state, you’ll almost certainly of heard of the annual EAA AirVenture event at Oshkosh. Situated right up by the Canadian border […]

Taxi2Gate’s St. Lucia – now for FS2004

It’s been available for FSX pilots to enjoy for a while now, indeed we published a review of the FSX version here, but Taxi2Gate have now released St. Lucia’s George F.L. Charles airport (SLU/TLPC) for FS9/2004 users as well. With detailed 3d objects, custom ground polys, photoreal backdrops and volumetric grass, as well as hand-placed […]

MegaScenery Earth heads South to TN

It may perhaps be best known around much of the world for being home to a famous brand of alcoholic liquid, but there’s more to Tennessee than that and with the help of MegaScenery Earth, you can now explore it in photorealistic glory from your simulator. From the streets of Memphis to the waters of […]

Volume 1 Version 3 of Drzewiecki Airports for FSX

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyd-YgbxIdg This package has been a while coming, according to the news article announcing the FS9 version of Drzewiecki Designs‘ Polish Airports Volume 1 version 3, but with the addition of Lublin and Świdnik to the line-up, it’s now been rebuilt to FSX/P3D standards and is available to purchase. The full line-up in this multipack […]

Megascenery heads to the Midwest

After their recent releases along the US East Coast and neighbouring states, the PCAviator published “MegaSceneryEarth” series of phototexture sceneries have moved west, to the left-hand shore of Lake Michigan and the state of Illinois. The famous Microsoft Flight Sim series start-point of Meigs Field may be no more, but the state still contains over […]

Taxi2Gate’s Saint Vincent for FSX

Adding another Carribbean destination for your equatorial hops in FSX, Taxi2Gate‘s latest release is Saint Vincent‘s E.T. Joshua Airport (SVD/TVSV), named after the first Chief Minister of the St. Vincent and Grenadine Islands and formerly known as Arnos Vale Airport. The 5000′ single runway has a typically Carribbean approach, descending over dense foliage and is […]

Sim Design provide a gateway to Egypt

The city of Luxor in Egypt is famous for the many historical structures and sites both inside and outside the modern city, so in the real world, it is an exceptionally popular destination for tourists and historians. Thanks to Sim Design Group, you can now visit the Luxor International Airport (LXR/HELX) in FSX, too with […]

Megascenery Earth cover South Carolina

With locations within its borders such as Charleston, South Carolina has played a large part in US history over the years. It’s also the latest state covered by MegaScenery Earth‘s relentless drive to cover the entire United States of America with photorealistic scenery in FSX. As ever, the product covers the entire state to the […]

Aerosoft / 29Palms – Skiathos X – The Greek St. Maarten Review

Skiathos X is the second Greek Island scenery project developed by 29Palms Scenery Design and published by Aerosoft. The 29Palms – Aerosoft collaboration resulted in some great scenery products before, so let’s see if Skiathos X – The Greek St. Maarten lives up to expectations…

Lognes-Emerainville release from FranceVFR

Recently, FranceVFR announced that they would be releasing further titles in their “Aeroports de Paris” (ADP) collection – St-Cyr L’école is still in development but the second in the series – Lognes-Emerainville (LFPL) is now available to purchase. Functional both with and without the developers’ other Paris sceneries, Lognes-Emerainville airport is set on a high […]

Version 2 of LatinVFR’s Miami

Newly released for FS9, FSX and P3D is version 2 of LatinVFR‘s KMIA – Miami International Airport. The custom buildings feature “baked” shadows and occlusion, accompanied by custom reflection and a replacement global environment map, all sitting on a 30sq mile photoscenery background with hand-placed autogen and many other features. Recent purchasers of the package […]

North Carolina – Latest from Megascenery Earth

It’s taken MegaScenery Earth a while to get to the birthplace of powered flight, but North Carolina is now available in photorealistic detail for MS FSX. Famously home to Kitty Hawk, where the Wright Brothers made the first powered flight of a heavier than air vehicle, the state is now home to over 300 airports […]

Review of – IMAGINESIM – KCLT CHARLOTTE FSX (2013)

Charlotte Douglas International Airport, ICAO: KCLT was opened in 1935 and is a joint civil-military public international airport located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. When it was originally opened it was known as Charlotte Municipal Airport and was operated by the City of Charlotte. From the early fifties to the present day it has seen […]

Tropicalsim’s Lajes now for FS9, P3D

We announced the release of Tropicalsim‘s Lajes Airport/Air Force Base for FSX a short while ago, but those of you who fly in sims other than that may be more interested in this new version, which is a single purchase for Microsoft FS9, FSX or Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D. The scenery is compiled using tools appropriate to […]

Tunø Island from Vidan Design

The Danish island of Tunø and its airfield have been brought to FSX by the team at Vidan Design, with the entire island, located in the Kattegat Sea, recreated in high detail. Due to some of the techniques and animations used, the scenery is not compatible with DX10 preview mode, as is the case more […]

TropicalSim revisit the Azores with Lajes

Perhaps best known to many people as a miitary base, with elements of both the Portuguese Air Force and United States Air Force stationed there, the site of the Aerogare Des Lajes is also visited by an ever increasing number of regional aircraft carrying tourists to and from the islands. Including both the area of […]

Orbx Scotland released

Following on from the release of England and Wales, Orbx‘s European development team, SIM720, have released their rendition of Scotland for FSX and P3D, allowing you to fly the length of Great Britain from Lands End to John O’Groats (or, well, Lands End to Wick, if you want runways!) without leaving FTX scenery coverage. Although […]

Aerosoft head even further North!

Ever heard of Norilsk? We’d hazard a guess that you haven’t, but that’s the latest Russian destination available to FSX/P3D simulated pilots from Aerosoft. A former part of the Gulag system, the city is the second largest inside the Arctic circle, after Murmansk, and features some weather designed to really put your skills to the […]

GSNext Multipack available

GSNext are best known for their French military airbases, but they’ve actually gone much further afield than Europe, adding sceneries in Taiwan and Japan to their portfolio as well; a portfolio which, if you wish, you can now purchase in one go for the price of €60 rather than the €90 it would cost otherwise. […]

Megascenery West Virginia Photoreal for FSX

Born out of the tumult of the American Civil War, the state of West Virginia is the latest release from Megascenery Earth, bringing the entire state to FSX in 50cm/pixel aerial photographic textures. There are 87 airports within the state to explore from, in total, and as usual, the package comes with a charts booklet […]

AWG Simulations Scenery: Asia XP

X-Plane fans might like to take a look at this new package from SceneryTechXP, released through AWG Simulations, improving the look of Asia in the XP10.20+. Built using OpenStreetMap data, the scenery gives options for OSM data only, or OSM + autogen and covers all of Asia and Australia. Full details can be found here.

Up for some awkward airports?

Rolling Cumulus Software are normally associated with South American scenery, but this time the package covers some of the more isolated airports (or in one case a road…) in the Southern Asian Archepelagos. Unknown Airports Papua New Guinea Indonesia covers 8 airports, with 8 flight adventures, and also includes appropriate liveries for some freeware aircraft. […]

Blueprint’s KMSP now available

Minneapolis and Saint Paul, together, are known as the “Twin Cities” due to their proximity (amongst many other nicknames) so the fact that they have a single airport serving them doesn’t really come as a surprise. KMSP, Minneapolis Saint Paul International, has now been updated to version 2 by Blueprint and released for both FS2004 […]

FSAddon Normandy 1944 ready for beta

The screenshot above may be an older one, but Francois Dumas of FSAddon Publishing (a name with which many of our readers will be familiar!) has announced that the beta installer for “Normandy 1944” has been compiled by France VFR and the team are still hoping to have the base package released in June 2013. […]

Review of FlightSim Development Group – DEUTSCHLAND X NORTH COMPLETE for FSX

According to the developers, Deutschland X is intended to provide the best rendering of Germany ever done for FSX. For the purposes of this product, Germany was divided into four distinct areas; north, south, east and west. As the name implies this first installment of four covers the northern area. They’ve included new terrain textures, […]

PANC in X-Plane from Aerosoft

Anchorage‘s airport is the main point of entry for most people to the state of Alaska, so it seems a fairly obvious target for developers. Aerosoft have now made their version of the airport available to X-Plane 10 pilots. The scenery features not only PANC itself, but also includes the Lake Hood airports of LHD, […]

Two more “Megascenery Earth” states

Delaware and Maryland are the latest additions to PC Aviator‘s MegaSceneryEarth lineup. Both Eastern Seaboard states are covered in their entirety by the respective packs, with water bodies cut out and made landable, plus charts for the area and the airports each pack covers. More details can be found on the product pages, which can […]

City of Gilgit from MSK for FSX

It was hard to select a header picture for this release which shows both the surrounding terrain and the airport details, so let us start by pointing you directly at the product page, where you can see more promotional pictures. If you’d rather wait until you’ve read the rest, Gilgit Airport serves the city and […]

Charlotte from Imagine Sim released

One of the top 10 largest airports in the United States, Charlotte Douglas International (KCLT/CLT) handles in excess of 40 million passengers every year. This latest release from Imagine Sim, covering the airport, is a major recreation set over a satellite image, with the developers stating that they have accurately placed literally thousands of objects, […]

Taxi2Gate’s George F. L. Charles – Saint Lucia

The island of Saint Lucia is known primarily as a tourist destination, although much of its economy has also ridden on the offshore banking industry in recent years, as well as large exports of bananas and plantains Changing hands regularly between France and Britain over the years, the island is now independent, although retains close […]

Vidan Design Sonderborg for FSX

The airport of Sonderborg (EKSB/SGD) is located in Southern Jutland, a few miles from its nominal city, near the Danish/German border on the island of Als. With an 1800m runway, the airport can handle most short-haul and regional airliners and is well equipped with navaids, allowing it to operate under most weather conditions. Vidan Design […]

UK2000 Luton released

Along with Stansted, it may be the butt of many national jokes, but Luton Airport (LTN/EGGW) is one of the busiest in the UK and is home to many budget and regional operators, as well as many business jets and charter aircraft. As usual with UK2000‘s “Xtreme” scenery packages for FS2004 and X, Luton comes […]

FSDG’s Germany North released

Mainly thanks to the efforts of one locally based publishing house, Germany is amongst the most populated countries in the world for MS FS scenery add-ons. FSDG have now entered the arena as well, with Deutschland X North (DEX), the first part of a grand presentation for the entire country in aerial photo-based landclass, with […]

FranceVFR covers Bourgogne

Fans of photoreal scenery may be pleased to know that FranceVFR have released further coverage of the country, based on the usual IGN Summer textures, for MS FSX. The region of Bourgogne, better known in English as Burgundy, is famous for the deep red coloured wine made within the region. It lies East of the […]

Visit X-Plane’s Africa with AWG Simulations

The use of OpenStreetMap data for X-Plane add-ons definitely seems to be ‘taking off’, if you’ll pardon the pun. SceneryTechXP, through AWG Simulations, have now taken that to Africa, bringing the more accurate open source data set into use to provide either pure OSM data, or OSM + default autogen, to fill in the gaps […]

Bear Studios Cam Ranh Intl for FS9

Bear Studio‘s Cam Ranh International Airport in Vietnam (VVCR/CXR) has been recreated for Microsoft Flight Simulator 9/2004 by Bear Studios, with a custom ground polygon based on satellite imagery overlaid with custom ground markings and taxi lights, topped off with the inclusion of all major buildings and animated ground service vehicles. The airport is also […]

Luxembourg photoreal from ScenerySoft

ScenerySoft have released their photoreal scenery for the city of Luxembourg. The full press release can be found by clicking “Read more” at the end of this article, but the scenery’s highlights include both building and foliage autogen, edge blending with default textures, five season texturing and lit roads at night. Full details can be […]

29Palms/Aerosoft’s Skiathos released

As mentioned yesterday, Aerosoft‘s “Greek St. Maarten” has been released today, in the form of the entire island of Skiathos for MS FSX or L-M P3D. With a short runway, blocked at both ends by water, the airport shares much in common with the Carribbean airport from which it gains its nickname. Larger airliners are […]

Megascenery Earth covers VT and NH

If you’re a fan of photoreal scenery, you might want to look at PCAviator‘s latest releases in the Megascenery Earth series – covering the US states of Vermont and New Hampshire. Each pack provides you with a little under 10,000 square miles of photoscenery, the entire area of each state, and they both come with […]

Essen/Mülheim updated to v1.1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRCGIgXFfCE Available from german website flightport.de, Christian Bahr‘s FSX scenery of Essen/Mülheim has been updated to version 1.1. Among the updates are 3d lighting, new buildings, terrain modifications to aid compatibility with UTX and GEX, autogen plants and more. Full details can be found at flightport.de (German language).

Get into Dodge with The Airport Guys

Eastman in Dodge County, Georgia, is the setting for the Heart of Georgia Regional Airport – recreated here for MS FSX by The Airport Guys. With a terminal building named after a local confectionary and convenience store magnate, Heart of Georgia Regional is a state owned, single runway, facility that comes with many custom models […]

Graciosa island makeover from Tropicalsim

The island of Graciosa in the Azores gets a complete overhaul in FS9, FSX and P3D, courtesy of this release from Tropicalsim. Located in the central group of the islands, the airport is situated right at the northern tip of Graciosa and comes in two versions for FS9 and FSX, each version designed using the […]

SSG Studio Colombian multipack

SSG Studios have brought together a number of their VFR Colombian airfields into a single multipack, comprising 12 of their small strips designed for VFR pilots to tour the country. Available for both Flight Simulator 2004 and Flight Simulator X, more details including a list of airports included and a discounted price until 20th May […]

Alex Design Sanya Phoenix

Surprisingly for  an airport outside the ‘mainstream’ of major hubs, this isn’t the first scenery of Sanya Phoenix International Airport (ZYSJ/SYX)to be released, but Alex Design have decided to join the fray with their rendition for Microsoft Flight Simulators 9 and X. Capable of handling modern intercontinental airliners such as the A340 and B747, the […]

New Charlotte from ImagineSim

ImagineSim‘s latest release for Microsoft Flight Simulator 9 is a rebuild of their Charlotte Douglas International Airport, KCLT, in North Carolina, USA. With 5cm/pixel texturing on the custom buildings, 3d approach lighting, airport vehicles and ground personnel, along with active docking systems, the airport is a major upgrade from the previous version and, as such, […]

Aerosoft bring Dusseldorf to X-Plane

The German Airports team have brought another airport conversion to increase the realism of X-Plane, adding Dusseldorf as a new destination or start point for flights in the sim. EDDL has been developed to the state of the airport in 2012, with high resolution textures, a photoreal base image, 3d grass and much more. Full […]

MSK – Remake Jinnah International for FS2004

Karachi in Pakistan is not a location visited often by add-on scenery developers, so it is perhaps unsurprising that MSK have chosen to redevelop and update their own scenery from a few years ago to include new features and techniques. Jinnah International (OPKC) is the country’s largest international airport, served by numerous international airlines in […]

Regional Airports in a box

Aerosoft‘s “German Regional Airports” for FSX and P3D, covering Erfurt, Frankfurt-Hahn, Frankfurt-Egelsbach, Saarbrücken and Weeze, is now available as a boxed set for those who prefer DVDs on their shelf to downloads. With all the eye candy and quality you’d expect from an Aerosoft product, the five airport pack is also still available as a […]

Review of DRZEWIECKI DESIGN – WARSAW CITY 2013 for FSX

Warsaw is the capital city of Poland and it is also the largest city in Poland. This city including the metropolitan area has approximately 2.7 million inhabitants and is located on the Vistula River roughly 260 kms from the Baltic Sea. The city proper covers approximately 517km sq. while the metropolitan area covers approximately 3,000km […]

Elstree video from JerdooFlightX

Just in case anyone interested missed the release of the latest from Orbx for FTX EU, you might like to take a look at the video above, published to YouTube by JerdooFlightX to show off what is advertised as “The World’s First 1cm/pixel Scenery“. Developer Russ White is already familiar to many for the 2cm/pixel […]

Chubu Centrair from PIS

Built on an artificial island, 22 miles South of Nagoya in Japan, Chubu Centrair is the second such airport to be built in Japan and opened in 2005, becoming the country’s 8th busiest airport. Brought to Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D by Pacific Islands Simulation, this version includes not only the airport, but […]

Cancún for X-Plane 9/10

FlyXPlane have released their scenery of Mexico’s second busiest airport – Cancún International Airport (CUN/MMUN) – for X-Plane 9 and 10. Described by the authors as having been “modelled to its exact real world counterpart“, the scenery features static aircraft and includes the bridge connecting runway 12L/30R to the rest of the airport. More details […]

Orbx release Popham, announce Elstree

Orbx development team SIM720 have released their latest airfield in the Europe series – Popham (EGHP) in Hampshire, England. The airfield’s grass runways are well used in the real world, by a wide variety of GA types and its location near some of the most populous and well-off areas of the country make it an […]

Tropicalsim’s Europe bundle now 13 airports

The high price of Tropicalsim‘s “European bundle” pack may well put some people off at first glance, but for no fewer than thirteen airports, it actually works out at sub €10 each. Now updated to include the airports of Flores, Horta and São Jorge in the Azores, a full list of all included locations for […]

Champagne-Ardennes photoreal

The Ardennes region, spanning the borders of France, Belgium and Luxembourg, is probably best known for being the site of the final German offensive of World War 2, but these days the area is best known as a tourist and forestry area – the terrain making it difficult to do much in the way of […]

LBA Xtreme from UK2000

The latest release from the UK2000 “Xtreme” factory is Leeds-Bradford International Airport in Yorkshire – still known to many of the locals as “Yeadon”. Like most British regional airports, “LBA” is primarily a low-cost carrier hub, with odd other flights to local and European destinations making up the flightline for in excess of 2.6 million […]

Orbx Southern Alaska released

Covering more than 200,000 square miles, the new NA Blue Southern Alaska product from Orbx‘s “Full Terrain” line-up  stretches from Anchorage to Juneau along the southern coast of Alaska, as the name would suggest. Canadian fliers will also be pleased to know that not insubstantial areas of their states bordering the area are included as […]

Review of UK2000 SCENERY – DONCASTER XTREME v1.02 for FSX

Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, ICAO: EGCN, is an international airport located approximately 3.5 miles southeast of Doncaster in the United Kingdom. The airport’s history can be traced back to 1915 when it was originally opened as Finningley Airfield for the Royal Flying Corps. It would go on to be used by the RAF and […]

Aviasim publishes Leicester Aeroclub for FSX

Almost exactly a year after release of the FS9 version of Leicester Aeroclub, developers Aviasim have released a new version, completely built from scratch, for FSX. The FSX version is entirely built using the FSX SDK, with winter and summer ground textures for the 20cm/pixel ground textures, as well as hi-res custom building textures, custom […]

Orbx Shuttleworth released

Opinions on Orbx‘s new development team, British based SIM720, may be mixed, but no-one can dispute that they are turning out new airfields and scenery areas at a very high rate. The latest, with the Wales area scenery barely out the door, is back to England for Old Warden in Bedfordshire, home of the vintage […]

North America for XP from AWG Simulations

The latest area to get AWG Simulations‘ attentions, adding OpenStreetMap based autogen and features, is North America – although the detail for the pack states that it covers “United States of America (including Alaska), Canada, South America and Central America“. While the source data and tools used may well mean that you could create much […]

Orbx Old Warden Screenshots

Over at the Orbx forums, Iain Emms has posted more preview pictures of the next Orbx England add-on airfield scenery – this time Old Warden in Bedforshire – home of the Shuttleworth Collection of vintage aircraft. The thread shows a number of screenshots of the collection’s buildings and even some static aircraft – albeit your […]

Review of LATINVFR – SAN DIEGO KSAN v1.11 for FSX

  San Diego International Airport, ICAO: KSAN, is a public airport located approximately 3 mi from downtown San Diego in California. The airport also goes by the name of Lindbergh Field. It was given this name in honour of Charles Lindbergh, in 1928, for several reasons. It was here that his aircraft, “The Spirit of […]

Hong Kong FSX Live from Flightsoft

Flightsoft has released what they claim is “a vision of the future” of flight simulation – Hong Kong FSX Live. “What is so different about our product is its use of DigitalGlobe QuickBird© satellite imagery which produces flight simulation scenery of unparalleled clarity rendering terrain imagery with extraordinary precision and even delivering the minute details […]

Want your house in your sim?

With all the current trend towards realism in the sim, there have been a few situations recently where developers who have had errors pointed out to them have accused their customers of ‘wanting to see their house in the sim’. Well, if you did want that, now you can, courtesy of African scenery Development Group […]

More Orbx boxes available at simMarket

Thanks to Aerosoft‘s publishing agreement with Orbx, many of the Australian developers’ products are available as boxed products in Europe, including from simMarket – a significant saving on mailing costs to say the least! The latest titles to be added to the catalogue are all airports, but definitely not limited to being from one continent […]

KBOS for X-Plane

X-Plane native scenery is pretty rare even now, so it’s nice to see this release, covering Boston Logan International (KBOS)  from FlyXPlane for XP10 only. The gateway to the US North East is now ready for you to purchase via the product page at simMarket.  

Review of FlyTampa – Montreal CYUL for FSX

Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport or Montréal–Trudeau, ICAO: CYUL, is a Canadian airport located on the Island of Montreal approximately 20 kms from Montreal’s downtown core. The airport was formerly known as Montréal–Dorval International Airport until it was renamed in January of 2004, in honour of the former Canadian prime minister. CYUL is the busiest […]

Scenic Utopia releases San Diego packs

If Southern California is your idea of utopia, you may be interested in these two new releases from Scenic Utopia, which bring a whole mass of corrections and additions to the area in and around San Diego – pretty much as far South as you can go along the United States’ Western seaboard before finding […]

“Deutschland X Part 1 – North” Withdrawn

Following yesterday’s release announcement for Deutschland X North, the product has been withdrawn from both Aerosoft and simFlight shops, citing poor customer reaction and feedback. In this post at the Aerosoft forums, Mathijs Kok states “Currently our management is talking to the external development team to see what their reaction is and then we’ll decide […]

Flight1 releases GEX Asia & S. America

Flight1 Software have released the latest component of their GEX (Ground Environment Extreme) range, covering the continents of Asia and South America, featuring the “GEX World” single interface control and with a discount for GEX Atlantic and Pacific Tropics users. The package covers North Asia, Mongolia, India, China and Japan as well as South America […]

Review of AEROSOFT ONLINE – SAARBRUECKEN X for FSX

Saarbruecken Airport, ICAO: EDDR; is located near the city of Saarbruecken in South-west Germany near the border with France. The airport came into service in 1928 and continued to host flights till it was closed in 1939 only reopening in the 1960s. In 1972 they began to offer international flights bringing it into the ranks […]

SSG Amalfi for FS2004

SSG Studio‘s latest Colombian airport for MS FS9 has been released via Entusiastas de la Aviacion – this time it’s Amalfi, about 150km from Medellin, in the north east of the country. Like previous released from the developer, the airport is made from custom objects placed on HD ground textures, with volumetric grass and replacement […]

FranceVFR Midi-Pyrenees Photoreal

Most regular readers will, by now, be familiar with FranceVFR‘s photoreal area sceneries. Based on IGN aerial photography, they provide 0.85m – 1m/pixel photoreal imagery of summer textures across large areas of the country per package – in this instance volume 1 of the Midi-Pyrenees area, in the south west near the Spanish border, for […]

El Hierro Download version

El Hierro airport, situated on the smallest of the Canary Islands, is sometimes described as having one of the most dangerous approaches in the world. According to the documentation supplied by Sim-Wings for this FSX package, “High resolution ground textures based on an aerial image as well as Autogen cover the whole island. A custom […]

Tahiti Faa’a now for FSX/P3D

Users of MS FSX and L-M Prepar3D can now add Tahiti to the list of their custom airport destinations with this release from NXGN Simulations, following its recent release for FS9. Tahiti Faa’a airport is built on primarily reclaimed land and has a single runway which, at over 11,000′, is long enough to handle most […]

Review of SPECTRE – MTPP PORT AU PRINCE FSX

Toussaint Louverture International Airport, ICAO: MTPP; located in Tabarre, near the city of Port-au-Prince in Haiti. This international airport is currently the busiest in Haiti. Originally opened in the 40s and known as Bowen Field it was used for both civilian and military flights. The U.S. military also used it as an airbase throughout the […]

FlyLogic Grenchen now Downloadable

Already available as a boxed product, Flylogic‘s Grenchen, published by Aerosoft, is now available as a download package, too. This detailed Swiss airport features 12cm/pixel photoreal ground textures with seasonal colouring, detailed airfield structures (including the only speed camera that we’re aware of ever to feature in a FS scenery!), printable approach charts and numerous […]

New releases round-up

As some of you may have noticed, there were a few technical issues last night with the simFlight sites, one of the results of which was that the releases round-up got delayed… With over 20 products released in the last 48 hours, rather than make today’s post fill everyone’s browser pages, we’ll cut back a […]

New Year, New Releases

To kickstart the first weekend of your new year, we have three new releases to report today: One aircraft, one scenery collection and one utility in a box. We’ll start, this time, with a utility in a box – REX Essential Plus is now available, courtesy of Aerosoft, as a boxed product as well as […]

FSX Chemnitz-Jahnsdorf download

The press release and download describe this as a beta version, but Sierra.Foxtrot-Design‘s FSX rendition of Chemnitz-Jahnsdorf is now available to download from flightsim.com. Features of the scenery include licensed aerial imagery, 3d lighting objects, FSX native AI traffic, a manual season switcher to get around host platform limitations, modelled grass and compatibility with VFR […]

Freeware Ontario for FSX

Shehryar Ansari‘s scenery of “the other” Ontario International – KONT in California, USA, has been updated to version 3 for FSX and released via Avsim’s file library. The previous FS9 versions of the scenery have proven very popular and now users of FSX can also enjoy the scenery, including support for precipitation shaders and reflection. […]

Warsaw City 2013 for FSX/P3D

Previously only available for FS2004 users, Drzewiecki Design‘s Warsaw City 2013 package has now been upgraded and is available for users of the newer MS FSX and Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D simulators. With around 5000 square kilometres of ground texture coverage, including 14 airports/heliports with varying levels of detail, 1m/pixel ground textures (30cm/pixel at airports), landmarks appropriately […]

Review of TAXI2GATE – BRATISLAVA LZIB for FSX

M. R. Štefánik Airport also known as Bratislava Airport or Bratislava-Ivanka Airport; ICAO: LZIB, is the main international airport of Slovakia and is named after general Milan Rastislav Štefánik. Geographically the airport is located in the extreme western portion of the country just a few kilometers from the point where the borders of Slovakia, Austria […]

Monday’s new releases

We’ve got quite a varied collection to report on from simmarket today, covering all three major sims, plus a train. We’ll stick with the site’s primary focus first and what is now actually one of a number of F-111s on the market. GKS‘s is different from most, however, with a large number of systems modelled […]

Doha International for FS9/X

Doha in Qatar is not one of those airports that seems to get massive coverage in any version of MSFS. As a base of operations for flag carrier Qatar Airways, however, it is becoming better known as a transfer point, as well as another point of entry to the economically important region. MSK‘s scenery, released […]

Review of FRANCEVFR – ALSACE VFR V2 FSX

FranceVFR have just re-released their Alsace VFR scenery as V2. The scenery depicts the north-eastern corner of France known as the Alsace region. The coverage area is approximately 10,000 sq kms and includes some beautiful landscapes. Of the 26 regions it is the fourth smallest and has a population of just over 1.8 million inhabitants. […]

New boxed airports from Aerosoft

Neither of these are new releases, but Aerosoft have now made available their Mega Airport Helsinki and Dusseldorf airport products in boxed versions, as well as download. Both products contain installers for use with Microsoft FSX and Lockheed Martin Prepar3D, while the Dusseldorf disc also contains an installer for users of Microsoft’s Flight Simulator 9/2004. […]

More Colombian releases from SSG/EdlA

simMarket has four new versions of software from SSG Studios and Entusiastas de la Aviacion today – one new release and two new versions plus an update of a second. The new release is El Bagre (SKEB) for FS2004/FS9, as pictured above. Located in the municipality of El Bagre, within Antioquia department, the small airport […]

Contrail Simulations seek community help

Following on from their recent press release about their livery painting service, Contrail Simulations have been in touch again, this time seeking photos of the airport set to be their first scenery project; El Paso International Airport. According to the press release, anyone who sends in photos that they have taken themselves (don’t just search […]

New Zealand Pro for X-Plane

Andras Fabian of alpilotx is by now fairly well known amongst the X-Plane community for his donationware scenery and his latest release, New Zealand Pro for X-Plane 10, will only add to that Completely upgrading the default scenery with much higher resolution mesh, improved landclass, linear features (roads, railways, powerlines) and treelines, the scenery is […]

Friday’s simMarket roundup

In case the video doesn’t give it away slightly, today’s simMarket releases are led up by another Blu-Ray disc from Just Planes, this time following the Airbus quad jets of Spain’s Flag Carrier, Iberia flying to and from Mexico City. The coverage includes both the A340-300 and stretched A340-600, giving you an idea of the […]

Review of FlyTampa – Dubai Rebooted v2 for FSX

This scenery covers the Dubai International Airport and most of the city of Dubai. Dubai International Airport, ICAO: OMDB; is the main airport serving Dubai. Located near the city of Dubai it is a major aviation hub in the Middle East and also the home base for the following international airlines: Emirates, FlyDubai and Emirates […]

Aerosoft’s FlyLogic’s Grenchen X Released

Grenchen X is another one of those smaller airports from Aerosoft  Flylogic for FSX and P3D where what they save in resources and time on the airport, they make up for by adding detail to the surrounding area. The features list for the airport includes 12cm/pixel photoreal textures, recloured for seasonal variations, plus static aircraft […]

Aero Files – Airport Stock Graphics

Next up today, for Microsoft FSX and Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D, is a set of replacement textures designed to improve the look of your sim where it has not already been enhanced by specific airport or area scenery add-on developers. With new airport building, airport ground, moon and many other textures, Aero Files‘ Airport Stock Graphics will […]

Multiple X-Plane Add-ons at simMarket

The last couple of days have brought a number of new and updated products for X-Plane to simMarket, whether your preference lies with airliners, helicopters or VFR flight in general. First up is an expansion of the offering from The Avroliner Project – a group that have been around for a while, but which now […]

VFR Poland Coverage Increases

VFR Poland offer photoreal scenery of an ever-increasing amount of their native country, using a credits based system that allows the purchaser to obtain as little or as much as they want for FS9, FSX or X-Plane – although coverage for the Microsoft sims is currently significantly greater than for X-Plane. In a press release […]

Poitou-Charentes Photo HD FSX

FranceVFR have released another photoreal area scenery for Microsoft FSX, using 0.85 to 1 meter per pixel IGN aerial photography laid over a 4.75m mesh – this time covering the western France region of Poitou-Charentes. As usual, the textures are summer season only and water polygons have been cut out to provide landable areas for […]

Orbx FTX England Released

This is another one of those packages which probably really deserves the ‘eagerly anticipated’ line in announcing its release – and not just by your editor either, who has been cursing the brownness of the default UK textures from the moment ‘autumn’ was announced by FSX. Orbx’s Full Terrain EU England package covers the entire […]

Review of IMAGINE SIM – ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – KATL FSX

Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, ICAO: KATL, aka Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield Airport or Hartsfield–Jackson is located just outside of Atlanta, Georgia in the United States. It has had the distinction of being the world’s busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998 and by the number of take-offs and landings since 2005. The airport continued to hold […]

XPEarth Alaska

Thinking a bit bigger than his usual fare, Taburet has covered the entire northernmost state of the US with his latest phototexture release – “XPEarth Alaska for X-Plane“. According to the developer, XPEarth is “…a Lod Controlled Photorealistic scenery designed using 15 m resolution satellite images which are perfect for design photorealistic scenery to be […]

FSGuyane Bring Cayenne Airport to FSX

Many people in the FS world would probably have issues pointing to Guyana on a map of the Earth… Your editor has to be honest, he was wrong when he first described where it was. However it may now become rather better known thanks to FSGuyane, who have brought the country’s Cayenne Airport Félix Eboué […]

Taxi2Gate’s Bratislava now for FS9

Not long out for FSX, Taxi2Gate‘s scenery of the Slovakian M. R. Štefánik Airport (IATA: BTS, ICAO: LZIB) is now also available for Microsoft Flight Simulator 9/2004. As can be seen from the screenshot above, the airport is constructed using high detail custom objects and textures. It also features volumetric grass and comes with charts […]

Photoreal Malta from LivingFS

LivingFS have released a photoreal scenery for the island nation of Malta, near Italy in the Mediterranean Sea. Famous throughout history as something of a “fortress island” Malta these days plays host to many sun-seeking tourists and has now been recreated using high quality photoreal textures, with hand placed autogen and objects as well as […]

Aerosoft Düsseldorf for FS9/X/P3D

Aerosoft‘s latest release from the German Airports team covers Düsseldorf, Germany’s third-ranking international airport. The primary airport for the country’s largest metropolitan region, it is used as a hub by both Air Berlin and Lufthansa, and capable of handling the A380. Making use of recent aerial imagery, the scenery provides a realistic 3D model of […]

Aerosoft – Olbia X Review

A couple of weeks ago, Aerosoft released a new scenery product which will be the subject of this review. Olbia X is centered around the city of Olbia on the Italian island of Sardinia, and covers the main buildings of the city, the port with its ships and of course the airport, Olbia – Costa […]

Santorini LGSR Big Scenery 2012 for FS2004

The video above shows the “Santorini LGSR Big Scenery 2012” by Albysim. The developers of the scenery have been in contact to say that after over 1000 hours of development time, the free/trial version is now available to download from all major freeware download sites. Not only does the sim cover the airport of Santorini, […]

Warsaw City 2013 from Drzewiecki Design

Drzewiecki Design have built themselves up a considerable fan base for their sceneries and with their latest covering the entire Polish capital witn 14 surrounding airports and heliports, we suspect this one may add a few new members to that list. Released only for Microsoft Flight Simulator 9/2004, the Warsaw City 2013 scenery covers approximately […]

X-Plane 10 gets Helsinki from Truscenery

Truscenery have released their version of Helsinki‘s Malmi airport (EFHF/MEM) for X-Plane 10, providing users with, it has to be said, a very nice looking home base for their aeronautical activities. The airport uses a 10cm/pixel photoreal backdrop, high resolution textures on the custom airfield structures and buildings as well. In all, their are 230 […]

Review of AEROSOFT – MYKONOS X

Mykonos Island National Airport, ICAO: LGMK, is located about four kilometers from the town of Mykonos on the island of Mykonos, Greece. For anyone not familiar with the island, it is about 150 kms east of Athens in the Aegean Sea. During the summer season when tourists come and go air traffic volume is high, […]

NEXTMap first release from FSGenesis

Justin Tyme and FSGenesis are amongst the best known names in the hobby – indeed they’ve been around and involved for longer than most in the hobby! As of yesterday, the latest FSGenesis product, NEXTMap Northern Andes – the first in a new series of 19m mesh products in partnership with Intermap Technologies – is […]

FranceVFR’s Alsace VFR v2 for FSX

Those of us that like flying over photoreal terrain, but dislike the completely flat nature of most photosceneries may well have already heard of and possibly already own some of France VFR‘s “VFR Regional” sceneries. By placing huge amounts of representative, if not entirely accurate, objects and buildings using their 3DAutomation® technology, FranceVFR have created […]

Aruba for X-Plane from TropicalSim

TropicalSim have released their 2012 version of Aruba, an island in the southern Carribbean Sea, for Laminar Research X-Plane 10. Featuring the same custom objects and textures as its FS9/X/P3D stablemate, the scenery uses XP10’s lighting system amongst other features. If you have already purchased the Microsoft/Lockheed-Martin sim version through simMarket, there’s also an existing […]

SSG Studio Nuqui for FSX and P3D

Nuqui is the latest Colombian destination made available for Microsoft FSX and Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D from developers SSG Studios and Entusiastas de la Aviacion. Situated by the Pacific Ocean in the department of Chocó, Nuqui is known for sightings of humpback whales, as well as the local beaches and jungle foliage. It is recreated here with […]

Doncaster “Robin Hood” from UK2000

Doncaster Robin Hood Airport isn’t in the area traditionally related to the historical hero, being formerly known as RAF Finningley, in South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Serving the cities of Doncaster and Sheffield, it is primarily a low-cost airline hub used by Ryanair and Wizz Air, but is also the start of many peoples’ holidays on […]

…and Bratislava city for FS9

Bratislava-FS have released a photoscenery for MS FS9 of the Slovakian capital, Bratislava, featuring over 2000 ‘filler’ objects and 200 custom structures, placed over the photoreal ground textures. With more than 350 kilometres squared of day and night textures for all seasons, this is something to significantly improve the area for visitors. Check it out […]

Bratislava Airport for FSX

Taxi2Gate‘s latest release is Bratislava airport (LZIB/BTS) for Microsoft Flight Simulator X. The scenery uses high quality custom textures on both the ground and buildings, structures and objects to create a realistic environment whilst still being designed to be as friendly to frame rates as possible. The package also includes charts to aid in navigation […]

Review of AEROSOFT ONLINE – MEGA AIRPORT HELSINKI

Helsinki Airport also known as Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, ICAO: EFHK; is the main international airport for Finland and is run by state owned Finavia. It is located in Vantaa, Finland which is about 17kms north of the city of Helsinki. The airport is relatively young having been built for the 1952 Summer Olympics which were held […]

Namaste Nepal for FSX

Thai Creations have brought their version of the famously challenging Tribhuvan International Airport (ICAO: VNKT, IATA: KTM) to FSX, following its release earlier this year for FS9. The valley location of this Himalayan airport, which serves the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu puts it right near the top of the world’s ‘dangerous airports’ list, with special […]

Imagine Sim’s Atlanta for FSX

Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States of America, is the world’s busiest airport. According to the information provided by Imagine Sim,  it handles a collossal ninety-two million passengers per year. Their FS9 scenery for the airport has been around for a while, but now it is available for FSX users as well. “The airport features […]

Mykonos added to Aerosoft FSX/P3D line-up

Aerosoft‘s second scenery release takes us south of Europe, to the sun of the Meditterranean and the Greek island of Mykonos – said to have been formed from the bodies of giants slain by the hero Hercules. Whatever the mythology, the island is now a massive tourist attraction and its small airport is busy with […]

Aerosoft’s Hamburg for X-Plane

Aerosoft are continuing their support for Laminar Research X-Plane 10, with the addition of Hamburg Airport (EDDH/HAM) for the sim. Situated in Northern Germany, EDDH is a sizable airport, less than 10km from Hamburg city centre. It has two terminals, two runways and an extensive route network serviced by most of Europe’s major airlines as […]

Armi Project – OERK King Khalid for FS9 & X

The Saudi capital of Riyadh is served by Armi Project‘s latest release, covering King Khalid International Airport (ICAO: OERK, IATA: RUH), for Microsoft Flight Simulators 2004/9 and X in individual versions. The scenery includes custom modelling and ground polygons across the airport, including four passenger terminals, the VIP terminal, tank farm, military area and more. […]

Aerosoft Fairbanks now for FS9

Aerosoft‘s rendition of Alaska’s Fairbanks International for FSX has been out for about a month now, but as of today, users of Microsoft’s older FSFS2004/9 platform can add it to their sim as well. If you have already purchased the FSX version – reviewed for simFlight here by Rick Desjardins – then the FS9 version […]

Olbia for FSX and P3D from Aerosoft

Aerosoft‘s coverage of Mediterranean destinations has extended again, with the addition of their latest release – Olbia, Costa Smeralda on the Italian island of Sardinia for FSX and P3D. Primarily used by Meridiana, the airport also handles tourist flights alongside the scheduled flights to Rome and other destinations within Italy. Aerosoft’s rendition of it rests […]

LATINVFR – BERMUDA TXKF for FSX review

Bermuda is a British overseas territory. Made up of a group of 181 low lying islands, it’s located in the North Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of the United States, approximately 1,000kms west of North Carolina. L.F. Wade International Airport, ICAO: TXKF; formerly named Bermuda International Airport, is the only airport serving Bermuda. The […]

Scenerybox add two France photosceneries

Fans of flying their simulated aircraft over photorealistic scenery may well be interested in these two new releases from Scenerybox, covering the Hautes-Pyrénées and Aude regions of France for FSX. The photographs used were taken in 2006 and 2008 for each region respectively, so may not be 100% correct to the modern environment, but they’re […]

Juanda International for FS9/X

The Asian archipelago nation of Indonesia and its surrounds is becoming very popular within the FS world, with a number of developers now creating airports for the region. The latest of these is BDOaviation‘s Juanda International Airport (WARR) on East Java. Recreated with low polygon structures and high quality textures to keep frame rates as […]

Spectre’s Port au Prince for FS9

SPECTRE are a new British-based developer, whose first commercial release for Microsoft Flight Simulator 9/2004 covers the Aeroport International Toussaint Louverture, serving Port au Prince, the capital of Haiti in the Caribbean. The scenery features photoreal base textures overlaid with custom operating surfaces, buldings, vegetation and service vehicles. Full details and more screenshots can be […]

KDCA for XP10 from Tropicalsim

If you’re looking for a new destination to visit in X-Plane 10, Tropicalsim have added their rendition of Washington D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport (KDCA/DCA) to the options available. The airport has an interesting location, with some quite complex approaches and limitations of use due to its proximity to the heart of the United States […]

Bahia Solano for Prepar3D

Bahia Solano in Columbia is already available for Microsoft FS9 and FSX, so now developers Entusiastas de la Aviación have added a seperate version for Lockheed Martin’s Prepar3D to their catalogue. Including several features outside the airport perimiter, as well as the custom built airport itself, the scenery is a good place to base from […]

Review of UK2000 SCENERY – EDINBURGH XTREME V3 for FSX

Edinburgh Airport, ICAO: EGPH, is located in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2011 it was the busiest airport in Scotland handling just over 9.4 million passengers and the sixth busiest in the United Kingdom. Like so many other modern day airports Edinburgh was originally a military aerodrome. Opened in 1915 by the Royal Flying […]

FS9 KATL Update from Imagine Sim

ImagineSim‘s FS9 rendition of the world’s busiest airport, Atlanta (KATL/ATL) in Georgia, USA, has received a facelift and update which is now available through simMarket, here. Unfortunately the press release doesn’t tell us what has been updated, instead just telling us that it is an “extensive overhaul” compared to the previous version. Check it out […]

Aerosoft Saarbrücken X

  The airport of Saarbrücken in Saarland, Germany may not be the largest airport even published by Aerosoft, but what it lacks in stature doesn’t mean it cannot make up for it in detail. As is usual with Aerosoft’s FSX sceneries, this laest release comes with custom modelling and high-resolution texturing throughout, with all the […]

Orbx New Zealand North Island boxed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqVt-80a-yA Orbx‘s unique style of scenery design has spread south once more, with the release a while ago as download versions of their two New Zealand packs for FSX and Prepar3D. Aerosoft, who are responsible for publishing boxed versions of the FTX sceneries, have now released the North Island of this set as a boxed […]

JustFlight “Xtreme Airport” boxes

It seems that boxed versions of software are making something of a resurgence in the FS add-on market, with another whole bunch being added to the shelves at simMarket today. First up are the five “Xtreme Airport” boxed versions from JustFlight of the UK2000 British commercial airports. Each boxed set contains two airports – #1: […]

Drzewiecki Design sale for Day of Peace

To commemorate the International Day of Peace on 21st September 2012, Drzewiecki Design are holding a one week sale from the 17th-23rd September, with 30% off their range of FS9, FSX and P3D sceneries and scenery objects. To see the full range available, visit the Drzewiecki Design page at simMarket by clicking here.

LatinVFR Preview San Diego

LatinVFR have released some screenshots that they describe as “very very early WiP shots” of their upcoming San Diego (KSAN) scenery for FS9 and FSX. There are only three screenshots at present, but to keep track on progress, visit the LatinVFR forum here.

Review of AEROSOFT ONLINE – HERAKLION X

Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”, ICAO: LGIR, is the primary airport on the island of Crete, Greece. It is a shared civilian/military and is also the country’s second busiest airport after Athens International Airport. First opened in 1939 it was little more than a flat piece of agricultural land. With the hostilities of the Second […]

Gifu Airbase from GSNext

Another area of the FS world that sometimes seems to get less attention than it deserves is the island nation of Japan. Therefore it’s nice to see the country making onto another developer’s releases list with this – GSNext‘s rendition of the JASDF base at Gifu, also the location of a Kawasaki works, but best […]

Danish Airfields X – Sindal

Vidan Design are one of a number of developers that have created airfields in the Northern European country of Denmark, but unlike most, they have eschewed the major and more well known hubs in favour of small airfields with more character and GA traffic only. The latest release from the team is Sindal Airport (EKSN), […]

Review of AEROSOFT – FAIRBANKS X

Fairbanks International Airport, ICAO: PAFA, is a state owned public use airport located a few kilometers southwest of the city of Fairbanks in the state of Alaska in the United States. The airport serves both cargo lines and a limited number of passenger carriers. Up until several years ago it was a popular refueling stop […]

Skydesigners add training AWACS base

Avord‘s Airbase 702 “Capitaine Georges Madon” can be found almost exactly in the centre of France and is the second largest air force base in the country. As Avord is home to the Embraer EMB-121 ‘Xingu’s of School of Transport Aviaton 00/319 and the E-3F AWACS aircraft of 00/36, static aircraft representing both types are […]

Taxi2Gate Asuncion for FS2004

Taxi2Gate are one of numerous developers still developing for and supporting Microsoft FS2004, providing the older Microsoft sim’s not inconsiderable userbase with new or improved destinations. Their latest addition for the sim is Paraguay’s Asuncion International Airport (SGAS), which was renamed after the Paraguayan aviator Silvio Pettirossi and acts as a hub for TAM Airlines […]

Aerosoft’s Erfurt for FSX

The village of Bindersleben in central Germany is the location of the country’s smallest international airport, serving the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, after which the airport is named. In the usual Aerosoft style, this new package has been released for FSX first, but an FS9 version to follow will be included at no […]

LivingFS Philppines 30m Mesh

LivingFS have brought the FSX world a number of mesh improvements for places on the globe that are often overlooked and, usually, really need the help compared to the default terrain. Their latest release covers the Philippines and. as can be seen from the screenshot on the left, the ASTER-based 30m mesh really does make […]

Entusiastas de la Aviación cover more of Colombia

Entusiastas de la Aviación are continuing to produce Colombian destinations for Microsoft sim users and have released a further three packages – Nuquí and Bahía Solano for FS9/2004 and a version of Bahía Solano for FSX as well. Both locations are situated within the Colombian department of Chocó, on the Pacific coast of the country […]

More Colombian airports for FS2004

Entusiastas de la Aviación have added a further two Colombian sceneries to their collection for Microsoft FS9(2004) – Malaga and Manizales. While both sceneries feature detailed custom buildings, textures and structures, as you might expect, there are additional objects outside the airports themselves at both locations. For details, please click on the name of the […]

Tournus Cuisery freeware for FSX

Jean-Louis Coussot of JLC Aviation has released another of his small freeware French airfield sceneries for FSX – this time Tournus Cuisery (LFFX) in the Burgundy region. As with the developer’s previous releases, the scenery is designed for use with photoreal ground textures, but is also compatible with the FSX default scenery so if you […]

Tropicalsim Caribbean multi-pack

TropicalSim have updated the multi-pack covering all their FSX Caribbean sceneries to include their new Antigua and Santiago Cibao sceneries, as well as to update the version of Aruba that is included. With a total of no fewer than 15 regional airports included, the package is a good way for those looking for a new […]

Heringsdorf freeware for FS2004

Now available from the freeware library at flightsim.com is ddr-flugzeuge‘s rendition of Heringsdorf aiport on the island of Usedom, North East Germany, near the Polish border. The airport’s single paved runway is used by a number of regional airlines, operating seasonal scheduled services to a number of destinations around Germany, Poland and other European countries. […]

Asunción from Taxi2Gate for FSX

The Paraguayan capital of Asunción is served by the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (IATA: ASU, ICAO: SGAS) which has been recreated here for Microsoft FSX by Taxi2Gate. As you’d expect these days, the airport has custom structures, textures and ground polygons, in this instance joined by photoreal textures and autogen for the entire city. Given […]

Drzewiecki Design Polish Airports 3 for FSX

Drzewiecki Design‘s Polish Airports Volume 3 has been available for FS9 for a while now but, over the weekend, that version was joined at simMarket by the same package for users of Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D. The three sceneries contained within volume 3 are Poznań-Ławica Henryk Wieniawski Airport (EPPO), Bydgoszcz Ignacy Jan […]

LatinVFR create the tip of the triangle

Centering around the L. F. Wade International Airport, LatinVFR‘s new Bermuda scenery covers not only the airport and main island, but also provides the archipelago of almost 200 islands, all covered by photoscenery and hand-placed autogen for FS9 and X The airport itself is created with high detail custom structures, textures and surfaces, plus the […]

Aerosoft’s Toulouse for X-Plane

Aerosoft are another developer/publisher who have promised to bring their catalogue to multiple platforms and are delivering on that promise – the latest proof being Toulouse airport in Southern France, which is now available for X-Plane. Home to aircraft manufacturers Airbus and ATR, Toulouse has been recreated by Aerosoft with as many features the same […]

Review of Flightsim Development Group – SHARM El-SHEIKH 2012 v1.2 for FSX

Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, ICAO: HESH, which was formerly known as Ophira International Airport, is an international airport located in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. It is the second busiest airport in Egypt after Cairo International airport. It was originally the site of an Israeli Air Force base but after the land was returned to Egypt, as […]

NMG Trading cross-platform South African airports

The image above shows Johannesburg International (FAJS), but that’s far from the only airport release from NMG Trading today, as they have also made three others available – Cape Town (FACT), King Shaka (FALE) and Lanseria (FALA). Each of the airports comes as a single installer supporting three different developers’ sim platforms – Microsoft FSX, […]

Macon Charnay freeware for FSX

Jean-Louis Coussot has been in contact to announce the release of his scenery of Macon Charnay airport, LFLM, in France for Microsoft FSX. In his press release, he says that the buildings and hangars of the airfield, as well as the model aircraft flying area, were modelled and textured using photographs of the real structures […]

Fairbanks, AK, for FSX from Aerosoft

The city of Fairbanks in Alaska is one of the gateways to the United States’s most northerly state, with air services from numerous international carriers, as well as the smaller types in ERA Alaska colours, operating from its single primary and multiple subsidiary surfaces. The use of surfaces, rather than runways, is intentional, due to […]

Visualise HD release Colonsay 2012 HD

The small Scottish island of Colonsay may not be the most obvious choice for a scenery, but it’s a very good location for a first release, such as this from new developers Visualise HD. The photoreal scenery, for FSX with SP2 or Accel only, covers the entire island in 1m/pixel single season day and night […]

Berlin Brandenburg freeware

German developers Aviation Design have announced the release of their freeware scenery for FS9/X of Berlin’s new Brandenburg airport (EDDB/BER). Both versions are available within a single download from their site, to allow you to install the version you want. Unfortunately neither their press release nor their site show much information about the scenery, but […]

Husein Sastranegara International Airport for FS9/X

The latest Indonesian airport scenery from BDO Aviation has been released for Microsoft FS9 and FSX in the form of Bandung’s Husein Sastranegara International Airport (WICC). Situated a short distance from Bandung city centre, the airport is used primarily by airlines, although it has a GA area as well as being the home of PTDI, […]

Onet Valley’s WIII for FSX

Onet Valley‘s version of Jakarta’s Soekarno–Hatta International Airport has been released for Microsoft FSX. Created using high resolution aerial imagery for positioning and ground textures, the custom buildings and objects provide a unique look to this Indonesian air transport hub, which will give you a good entry point for further exploration around the area. Full […]

Tropicalsim Rio 2012 for FSX/P3D

Tropicalsim‘s popular Rio de Janeiro scenery has been remade using new techniques and methods for 2012, covering not only Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Antônio Carlos Jobim International Airport, but also significant amounts of the surrounding area, including photoreal ground textures with autogen and night lighting. The airport itself retains the custom buildings and structures […]

Review of AEROSOFT – YEKATERINBURG X for FSX

  Yekaterinburg Airport aka: Koltsovo Airport, ICAO: USSS, is located 16kms southeast of Yekaterinburg, Russia. It was opened in 1928 and like so many other airports it was originally a military airfield. In 1943 it became a civilian airport and in 1993 acquired its international status. In recent years it has seen the completion of […]

FS9 gets Dan Nang International from FBS

Flying Bear Studio have released their version of Da Nang International Airport in Vietnam for Microsoft FS2004. Best known perhaps for its earlier role as a US Air Force base during the fighting in the 1960s and 1970s, Da Nang is now the third largest international airport in Vietnam, as well as being shared with […]

Skydesigners Airbase 118

Mont de Marsan is the setting for Skydesigners‘ latest French Air Force base scenery, featuring Airbase 118 “Colonel Rozanoff” for FSX. With static models of aircraft stationed at the facility, ground personnel, vehicles as well as photorealistic textures blended to fit to the background scenery and numerous other features, this could well be a good […]

Comalapa from VirtualCol for FS9/X

The video above shows the FSX version of TACA’s hub in San Salvador, Colombia, but developers Virtualcol have released versions for both of the currently popular Microsoft simulators, as individual products. The advantage of having two individual products rather than one combined version is that it allows the FSX version to use entirely FSX native […]

Sharm El-Sheik for FS9/X from FSDG

FlightSim Development Group (FSDG) and 29 Palms have released their scenery for Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheik as a download product for Microsoft Flight Simulators 9 and X. The popularity of this Red Sea resort with visitors makes HESH the second busiest airport in Egypt and features an interesting approach between the Sinai mountains on one side […]

The clock is counting for FSX KPHL

SunSkyJet have announced that the ticker is counting down to release of their freeware KPHL Philadelphia International airport for FSX. The scenery is already available to download for FS9 users, by visiting their website, here, while FSX users can click here to see how much longer they have to wait and look at the screenshots […]

X-Plane 10 Tree Lines and Farms

One of the most common criticisms of X-Plane 10‘s default world is that it is all the same. The rolling fields and grasslands have very little to look at when flying VFR at low level, which isn’t particularly like the real world, to be honest. Tree Lines and Farms, by alpilotx.net is a free add-on […]

Hyvinkää Flying Club welcomes XP10 pilots

To X-Plane 10‘s Finland now and Hyvinkää airport from Truscenery. The developers have gone the extra mile with this small scenery, laser measuring buildings to model and using photographic textures for maximum realism. The scenery requires Open Scenery X 2.0 to be installed, but because it uses OpenStreetMap to place autogen buildings, these can be […]

Houston Photoreal for FSX from Newport

Newport have also been busy with the photoreal scenery generation tools for FSX, adding the area of Houston, Texas, to their catalogue. The coverage uses 2m/pixel imagery, blended into the surrounding default scenery at the edges and including textures for all four daily zones: Dawn, Day, Dusk and Night. For full details, click here.

FranceVFR Aquitaine Vol.2

The West coast of France continues to be the target of FranceVFR‘s attentions at the moment, as they release the second part of their coverage for the Aquitaine region, including the popular Dordogne valley holiday destinations. As usual, it comes with 1m or smaller resolution images, depending what is available from the IGN source and […]

Review of AEROSOFT – BARI X for FSX

Bari Airport, ICAO: LIBD, also known as Palese Airport, is located near the heel of Italy on the picturesque southeast Adriatic coast about 8 kms from the city of Bari. Originally a military airfield built in the 1930’s by the Italian Royal Air Force (Regia Aeronautica) it was seized by the British Eighth Army in […]

Xiamen Gaoqi for Prepar3D

Pacific Islands Simulaton have also added Prepar3D support to their catalogue, with a new version of their Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport in China being released for the simulator. As you might guess, the features lis for the P3D version is identical to the recently released FSX incarnation of the package, but given the different registry […]

Four boxes from Orbx via Aerosoft

Aerosoft have released boxed versions of more Orbx airports, for those of you who prefer a physical product to a download – which brings with it the advantage of being able to order them from somewhere other than Australia, as well. Their latest releases are Jackson Hole Airport (KJAC), Stewart Airport (CZST), Cresswell Airport (77S) […]

The Island of Women comes to FSX

  Isla Mujeres, the island of women, is located just off the coast of Cancun, Mexico, the other side of the Bahia de Mujeres, or the Bay of Women. Why is this starting to sound like a made up place designed to attract stag parties? It actually isn’t fictional and Taxi2Gate have today released their […]

Ni Hao Macau

Thai Creations latest FSX release is one of those instances where the image of the airport simply isn’t enough – it doesn’t show you anywhere near the depth of what is included in the package. Ni Hao Macau covers not only Macau International Airport itself, but the entire city of Macau is updated, along with […]

Urrao Virtual for FS2004

The day’s sole release for a Microsoft developed platform is Urrao Virtual from Entusiastas de la Aviacion for FS2004. This small Colombian airport comes with detailed surrounding terrain and elevations, custom buildings and structures including outside the airport perimeter and is situated in what the developers describe as being the perfect place for VFR flight. […]

X-Plane add-ons come to the fore

I posted a comment yesterday that X-Plane add-ons were coming along in leaps and bounds now that more developers were getting involved and it seems that someone, don’t ask me who, decided to prove that I had at least a bit of a point. Of four new releases at simMarket today, three of them are […]

Review of AEROSOFT – AIRPORT TOULOUSE for FSX

Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, ICAO: LFBO, is located just south of the city of Blagnac and about 4 miles west of the city of Toulouse in the southwest of France in the Midi-Pyrénées region. Blagnac airport as it was first known began to see both civil and commercial air traffic in 1928. During World War II the […]

TSD Greenville-Spartanburg airport available

It may not be the largest, best known or most anticipated US airport release for Microsoft FSX, but apparently Greenville-Spartanburg, situated mid way between the two South Carolina towns after which it is named, is one of the fastest growing airports in the country. Home to hubs for both FedEx and UPS in addition to […]

Simbreeze release Tenerife South X

The Spanish Canary Islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of Western Africa, are one of the world’s most popular tourist spots and famous for their volcanic terrain, as well as, of course, the amount of sunshine they get per year. Some of the airport approaches, however, are classed as amongst the most dangerous in […]

Kastrup v3 from Scansim

Copenhagen’s Kastrup airport (EKCH) is now available from Scansim at version 3, in different releases for Microsoft FS9 and FSX plus L-M Prepar3D. In addition to the detailed airport, ground textures and animations (which do mean that the scenery is not compatible with DX10 preview in FSX), the packages come with several versions of the […]

Aruba 2012 from Tropicalsim

Aruba 2012 is the third rendition of the airport from TropicalSim, for Microsoft Flight Simulators 9 and X, as well as Lockheed Martin Prepar3D. The new version brings the 2007-vintage techniques and standards of the previous version up to date and includes new terrain mesh, coastlines, landclass and roads as well as photorealistic ground textures […]

Glacial landings to test your skill

Aerosoft would like to lead you to Switzerland today. Users of Microsoft FSX who fancy a little more challenge than the usual tarmac runways or open water landings might like to check out “Swiss Glacier Pilot“, which provides landing strips on the Kanderfirn, Petersgrat, Jungfraujoch, Clariden and Wildhorn glaciers, plus missions and a Piper Super […]

Cozumel International from LatinVFR

“Cozumel International Airport is situated in the island of Cozumel, Quintana Roo. It is located at the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, very near to Cancun. The island is about 48 km (30 mi) long and 16 km (9.9 mi) wide, and is Mexico’s largest Caribbean island. This remarkable island has many interesting aspects […]

Cancún 2012 for MS FSX

Aviation Multimedia Studios have today released the 2012 version of their Cancún International Airport scenery for Microsoft FSX. Second only to Mexico City in terms of traffic amounts, the real world airport is the gateway for many travellers to and from the country and Aviation Multimedia Studios have recreated much of the area around the […]

Colombian destinations for FS9/X

Entusiastas de la Aviacion only started selling their first Colombian airport product through simMarket earlier this month, with the release of San Gil – Los Pozos for FS2004 and now they have followed this up with the release of the same airport for FSX and Quibdo, once again for FS2004. Both airports feature custom structures […]

France Touristique Mayotte Airport for FSX

The French departement of Mayotte is an island off the coast of Africa, near Madagascar which, while it may be in the midst of international politics, makes for another interesting trip off the beaten path for Flight Simulator X pilots to visit. France Touristique released photoreal scenery of the entire island a while ago (available […]

Xiamen Gauqi promo video uploaded

You may recall that we announced the release of Pacific Islands Simulation’s version of Xiamen Gauqi airport in China for FSX. The developers have now uploaded the above promo video of the airport to give you a better idea than static screenshots can. As previously reported, if the video gains your interest, you can find […]

Taxi2Gate release a test of skill for FS9 pilots

Toncontin airport in Honduras serves the capital city of Tegucigalpa and is renowned as one of the most difficult and dangerous approaches to any airport on the planet – in spite of improvements to try and resolve some of the issues over recent years. Taxi2Gate have now developed the Central American airport for MS FS9 […]

UK2000 Glasgow released

Gary Summons from UK2000 scenery has released Glasgow airport as part of the “Xtreme” series, for Microsoft Flight Simulators 9 and X. The airport, which is available from simMarket, here, serves Scotland’s largest city and as with many UK airports, started out life as an RAF station during World War 2. In 1966, the airport […]

FSX expands East again

It’s nice to see more developers moving away from the usual North American and European destinations in FSX and Pacific Islands Simulation are at the forefront of the move. Their latest scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator X is Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport (IATA: XMN, ICAO: ZSAM) in China’s Fujian Province. It includes custom buildings and […]

Aerosoft Bari for FSX

Following yesterday’s release of scenery for X-Plane 10, Aerosoft once again prove the depth of software they can develop at once by releasing a scenery for its primary competitor as well, in the form of Bari in Italy. One of the group of airports that make up the “Aeroporti di Puglia“, Bari is a popular […]

Aerosoft add Swiss destination to X-Plane

Aerosoft are continuing in their plans for X-Plane scenery domination by redeveloping their Zurich scenery from its previous Microsoft only platforms into X-Plane 10 format. The scenery is presented with all the usual Aerosoft features, including high resolution textures and lots of little touches around the aprons and buildings such as vehicles, baggage/cargo and taxiway/runway […]

Oryxsim Kelowna for FS9/X & P3D

Kelowna International Airport in Canada’s Rocky Mountains is the latest release from Oryxsim, for Microsoft’s FS9 and X, as well as Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D. In addition to high resolution ground textures, the scenery features numerous custom structures, static aircraft and the interior of the terminal is also modelled. For FSX/P3D users, the scenery is compatible with […]

DRZEWIECKI DESIGN – MIAMI CITY 2012 X for FSX review

This group has been busy over the past couple of years releasing some high quality Polish airports for FS2004 and FSX. Miami City 2012 X is their first venture into the territory of cityscapes first releasing a version for FS2004 and now this one for FSX. Miami is the 42nd largest city in the United […]

UK2000 Scenery – Cardiff Xtreme EGFF v1.02 for FSX review

12 miles west of the city of Cardiff in the village of Rhoose, Wales is where you will find Cardiff International Airport. It is the only airport in Wales that offers international flights. Its history can be traced back to the early 1940’s when it was used for training by the Royal Air Force. Its […]

Article/Review: Ultimate City: London

“How about some tea with scones and jam? Well that sounds jolly, old fellow!” I dare say that everybody will have recognized this stereotype. It’s of course an upper class Englishman in a black suit with a nice hat and a walking stick. He uses that walking stick to calmly cross the river Thames, using […]

Destination Greenland in FSX

INET.GL have returned to provide FSX fliers with a new destination on the island of Greenland, Kangerlussuaq, which may be better known to some as its previous identity of Sondrestrom AFB while in use by the US Air Force. These days, Kangerlussuaq is Greenland’s primary air transport hub and this scenery includes a custom, detailed […]

GSNext Beauvechain Airbase

GSNext have hopped over the border from their recent French airbase releases, to develop Belgium’s Beauvechain air force station for Microsoft FSX, as it appeared during the 1980s. With the help of a technician who was based there at the time, the scenery features F-16s, F-104 Starfighters and some visiting AlphaJets, in addition to the […]

LivingFS Thailand/Cambodia 30m Mesh

LivingFS are continuing to improve the generally very low quality mesh of the FSX world with the release of their latest package covering the South Asian countries of Thailand and Cambodia. As can be seen from the screenshot linked to the left and others on the simMarket product page, the 30m ASTER data used to […]

Shez Ansari Ontario Int Airport V2

In a Press Release, developer Shez Ansari has announced the release of version 2 of his Ontario International Airport (California, USA) scenery for FS2004. As a virtually complete reconstruction of the previous 2006 version of the scenery, Version 2 is a standalone full download available by searching for the filename “ont2012.zip” at Avsim or flightsim.com.

Prague Scenery from VACC-CZ

Thanks to simFlight.de reader Andreas König amongst others for advising us of this; a few days ago a new free scenery of Prague Ruzyne airport (LKPR) for FS9 and FSX was uploaded to the website of VATSIM’s VACC CZ. Although the scenery is released presently as a dual-platform and as such has minor issues working […]

Aviasim Products at simMarket

Two new products for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 have made their way onto simMarket’s virtual shelves this weekend from Aviasim, Saarlouis-Düren in Saarland, Germany, and Leicester Aeroclub Revisited in the Midlands of England. Both products feature photorealistic ground textures and detailed custom structures, with BGL lighting and, in the case of Saarlouis-Düren, the up-to-date airfield […]

Tropicalsim Flores for FS2004

Following their release of Flores for FSX, the team at Tropicalsim have now made it available for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 as well. The island, part of the “Occidental” segment of the Azores, features new coastlines and landclass, with photoreal scenery around the airport itself. For full details, please click here.

LATINVFR – LATIN HUB CARACAS SVMI for FSX review

Simón Bolívar International Airport of Maiquetia, ICAO: SVMI is an international airport located in Maiquetia, Venezuela which is about 13kms from Caracas. It is the busiest international airport in the country with two runways; 10/28 @ 11,438ft and 09/27 @ 9,930ft. As a point of interest both runways are sloped but runway 09/27’s slope is […]

Stewart airport from Orbx

The buildings may look a little run down, but we’d guess that this is quite probably going to be the best looking airport you’ve ever seen in a flight sim. Stewart airport (CZST) in British Columbia, Canada, is the latest release from Orbx to support their “FTX Pacific Fjords” base package. Already known for the […]

New scenery from openVFR

A new press release from freeware scenery team “openVFR” has been received today, detailing a number of new sceneries that have been released. “Last week the openVFR team finished the development of some new  Scenery AddOns for Microsoft Flightsimulator X.  After the new release of openVFR Germany now you can download the new openVFR versions […]

Greenland mesh upgrade for P3D

Anyone who has looked at most of the world’s default mesh in almost any sim will know how inaccurate the default mesh and coastlines are, without significant second or third party input. Well, in Greenland‘s case, it’s worse than most. The reason? SRTM data, which is often used as the basis for mesh upgrades, doesn’t […]

Key West gets the Newport treatment

FSX photoreal scenery developers Newport have released their latest package, covering the area around and islands off the coast of Key West in Florida, USA. Recreated in 1m/pixel resolution, the scenery uses photoreal textures for the water, as well as the land, which are then blended into the default water as you reach the scenery […]

More Screenshots of AMS for X-Plane

Mathijs Kok from Aerosoft has today posted more images of their upcoming Amsterdam Schipol for X-Plane to the preview forum. The ten new images show everything from tulips and roadsigns to 737s stacked on a ramp, so whether you are a user of Laminar Research’s sim, or just interested in what Aerosoft have been up […]

Aerosoft Yekaterinburg X… For FS9/2004

Yekaterinburg (also known as Ekaterinburg) is, according to the product information for this Aerosoft scenery, the fourth largest city in Russia, with 1.4 million inhabitants. It’s  also, we’re willing to bet, somewhere else in the FS world that next to nobody has visited… Would be we right? Well, as you might have guessed, Aerosoft want […]

Hong Kong scenery enhancement

With thanks to Jürgen Hemmann for the link to this, Jacky Wan and Alton Yeung have posted a beta of their FSX scenery for Hong Kong to the Facebook pages of VATSIM’s Hong Kong VACC. The in-development freeware scenery provides photoreal coverage for the Semi-Autonomous Region, along with updated mesh, improved coastlines and more. If […]

Fightertown comes to FSX

Mile High Simulations are another new scenery developer, who have chosen to open their doors with a classic representation from the 1980s and a very famous film. Miramar Naval Air Station (now a Marine Corps Air Station) was the home of the Naval Fighter Weapons School… or, in the words of the 1986 film, TOP […]

Drzewiecki Design Polish Airports Vol. 3

Drzewiecki Design have added a further three Polish airports to their extending collection, this time releasing Poznań-Ławica Henryk Wieniawski Airport (EPPO), Bydgoszcz Ignacy Jan Paderewski Airport (EPBY) and Wrocław Copernicus Airport (EPWR) for Microsoft Flight Simulator 9/2004 only. All three airports have high definition buildings and texturing, static aircraft as well as compatibility with AI […]

Cardiff/Caerdydd from UK2000 Scenery

UK2000‘s next “Xtreme” airport for Microsoft Flight Simulators 9 and X is EGFF – Cardiff International Airport, with a customer base covering Wales’s capital city, plus the entire south of the country and parts of western and southern England as well. Although usually home to low cost and charter carriers, the same as most UK […]

Imagine Sim Delhi for FS2004

India’s busiest airport, New Delhi’s Indira Ghandi International Airport (VIDP), has now been made available for users of Microsoft’s Flight Simulator 2004. Imaginesim’s latest release, covering the airport, includes custom runways and ground polygons, an interactive docking system and many other features. To see more, click here.

GAP3 2012 X boxed version available

For users that prefer their airports to come with packaging wrapped round them rather than as downloads, Aerosoft‘s updated German Airports 3 2012 X package is now available from simMarket in the boxed edition as well. In case you missed the download version release, the new GAP3 2012 X package includes new versions of the […]

Limesim visit Brandenburg Airport

Reported over at the Aerosoft forum, here, German scenery developers Limesim were fortunate enough to recently get a private visit to Brandenburg Airport in Berlin, allowing them to start development on a scenery of it for Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D. What’s particularly unusual about this trip is that Brandenburg Airport isn’t actually […]

Atlantic island destination from Tropicalsim

The Azores archipelago is interesting from an aviation perspective both as a relief from the tedium and fear of long over water flights in smaller aircraft, or as a very popular tourist destination for the airliner pilot. Tropicalsim’s Flores Airport (LPFL) is their latest release for Microsoft Flight Simulator X, including not only scenery for […]

FScene4X Patch

Ruud Faber of FScene has been in contact to announce a patch for users of his replacement ground textures for FSX. “For those simmers who own FScene4X TotalPack, FScene4x-Europe or the FScene4X-TwinPack2, Ruud Faber – developer of the FScene replacement ground textures – offers a small but “must-have” patch. Once installed the landscape pattern in […]

GEX Atlantic/Pacific Tropics boxed version

The Ground Environment X series of replacement textures for FSX are well known for their improvements over the default Microsoft texture tiles and the Atlantic/Pacific Tropics region is now available as a boxed set. Including updates to both North America and Europe GEX regions as well as the new coverage, the product uses 1m/pixel coverage […]

Soekarno-Hatta for FSX from BDOAviation

Following yesterday’s release of the FS9 version, BDOAviation’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport scenery is now also available for Microsoft Flight Simulator X. As we posted yesterday, the scenery of the Indonesian capital’s airport features low polygon buildings with high-detail textures to be FPS friendly and includes moving vehicles and transparent terminal windows amongst other things. For […]

New foliage for FS developers

Trees. A very useful tool for the everyday pilot, as they can be used to judge height above the ground, show wind direction and, if you’re in the situation to need them, believe it or not, they can make the difference between a survivable crash and a fatal one. They’re also something of a discussion […]

BDOAviation release Soekarno-Hatta Intl.

It seems that the South Asian countries are finally getting a little more attention these days than they did, which is good for pilots who are getting bored of flying around the primary hotspots for add-on sceneries of Europe and the USA. Adding to this is the new release from BDOAviation, covering Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, […]

Imaginesim Delhi testing complete

ImagineSim have today issued a press release to announce that their scenery of New Delhi (VIDP) is out of the test phase and will be ready for release within “a few weeks”. The first release of the scenery will be for FS2004, with a version for FSX joining it on simMarket approximately one month later. […]

Paro Intl, Bhutan, for MS FSX

The Kingdom of Bhutan isn’t somewhere that most people have probably visited in Microsoft Flight Simulator X, but the release of Thai Creation‘s version of Paro International Airport will hopefully expand fliers’ horizons to venture into the Himalayas. Situated in a valley 6km from Paro itself, the area has been covered with 60cm/pixel photoscenery and […]

Aerosoft German Airports 3 2012 X

Aerosoft have updated their German Airports 3 X package, incorporating Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin-Tegel, Paderborn-Lippstadt and Luebeck, under the name “German Airports 3 2012 X“. If you have previously purchased GAP3, or any of the individual airports, through simMarket, then the update is free. Simply log in to your account and download the new version. If […]

Flylogic’s Lugano for FSX – Updated!

It seems were a little early, announcing the boxed version of Flylogic’s Lugano scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator X, as both that and the download version are now available to purchase. With AESLite providing some life to the photo-textured buildings and ground polygons, seasonally textured trees around the airport and optimisation to work with the […]

Review of AEROSOFT – FRANKFURT-HAHN X for FSX

Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, ICAO: EDFH is located in the western area of central Germany next to the town of Hahn and approximately 120 km from the city of Frankfurt. During the Cold War era Hahn Air Base as it was known at the time was a frontline NATO air facility used by the United States Air […]

Vidan Design EKSI – Saeby Airfield

We’re used, by now, to seeing pretty little rural airfields recreated for Microsoft Flight Simulator X, but the majority of them tend to be in the United States or Canada – perhaps as much due to the sim’s user demographics as anything else. Well here’s a nice change fom that trend, in the form of […]

29Palms Phenick Field standalone

You may have seen the recent release of 29Palms’ Phenick Field as part of the Golden Age Simulations Ryan PT-22 Recruit package release. It is now also available as a standalone package for Microsoft Flight Simulators 2004 and X. Located near Newark, Ohio in the United States, Phenick Field is as the associated aircraft package […]

Ford Airport Project for FS2004

Garry J Smith, on behalf of the Ford Tri-Motor Project, has announced the release of Ford Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004, to accompany the aircraft after which the project is named. “The scenery package is for the Ford Airport aircraft factory circa 1930’s – in Dearborn MI – it has been rendered as close […]

Review of DRZEWIECKI DESIGN – KRAKOW BALICE EPKK 2012 for FSX v1.1

John Paul II International Airport Kraków-Balice, ICAO: EPKK, is an international airport located in the south of Poland in the village of Balice which is near the city of Krakow. Originally known as Kraków-Balice Airport it was renamed in 1995 to honour Pope Paul II who had spent many years of his life in Krakow. […]

Flightbeam adds more KPHX previews

The title says it all, really; Flightbeam Studios have added some more screenshots of their upcoming Phoenix Sky Harbor (KPHX) scenery for MS FSX to their website’s news page. To see all the screenshots so far, visit Flightbeam Studios.

Phuket International for FSX

Thailand’s Phuket Island is a huge draw for both internal and external tourism to the South East Asian country – so much so that the island’s airport has grown to become the second busiest in the country, handling nearly 3 million passengers a year, A_A Sceneries have now developed a FSX scenery for the airport, […]

Freeware Mesh for X-Plane

Andras Fabian of alpilotx.net has released a series of HD mesh upgrades for Laminar’s X-Plane 10 simulator as freeware. Covering much of North America and a swathe of Europe in addition to the Canary Islands, the sceneries are available along with more information from here. For more screenshots, Andras has two galleries of screenshots uploaded, […]

France VFR Haute Normandie at sM

France VFR’s Haute Normandie title has come to simMarket, covering the area with the developers’”VFR Regional” range allowing them to “generate the most realistic and dense environments ever seen. It does not intend to model real world accurately but to create a copy “as real as it gets” on a massive scale. It will evolve […]

Nairobi International for FS2004 released

New from Orientalsim comes Nairobi International Airport in Kenya, Africa for Microsoft Flight Simulator 9/2004. Featuring all main buildings modelled in gmax with “semi-photorealistic” textures, this African gateway is a familiar sight for travellers, with many major and regional airlines operating to and from it. UK readers may also know it as one of the […]

Taburet Prague for X-Plane 10

Taburet‘s attempts to cover European cities with photoreal textures continues, this time covering Prague in the Czech Republic. You probably know what these are by now, so we’ll just refer you to the product page at simMarket.

Onet Valley – WIII for FS9

Microsoft Flight Simulator 9/2004 developers Onet Valley have released their scenery of Soekarno Hatta International Airport (WIII) in Indonesia. Located near Jakarta, it’s the country’s largest airport with three passenger terminals and a single freight terminal, all of which are created as custom 3d models in this scenery, set against a custom gmax ground poly. […]

Orbx Stark’s Twin Oaks updated

Orbx scenery developer Bill Womack has released a “Big update” for his 7S3 Stark’s Twin Oaks scenery, part of the large number of additional airfields available for the FTX NA Blue Pacific Northwest package. The update weighs in at 200Mb, so they’re not joking about the “big”, but it does feature a number of improvements […]

“Ultimate Africa” Terrain mesh for FSX in Development

Fabio Trojan of ESC Sceneries has been in contact, to announce that they are working on a high quality mesh covering Africa, initially for Microsoft Flight Simulator X. Pretty much anyone who has flown in Africa in the sim and knows anything about the majority of the continent in the real world agrees that it […]

Review of Flightsim Development Group – Djerba X for FSX

Just off of the coast of Tunisia is the island of Djerba. At 514 sq kms the island is the largest island of North Africa and goes by the nickname “Djerba the gentle” for its white sand beaches, sunshine and warm Mediterranean waters. The island is a popular destination for tourists from Australia, New Zealand […]

German Airports: Frankfurt Hahn X

Although actually nowhere near Frankfurt (it’s over 100 kilometres away!), Hahn is counted as the city’s second airport and, unlike Frankfurt airport itself (Frankfurt am Main), Hahn is primarily used by low cost, rather than major national, carriers. The history of Frankfurt Hahn, is however, very similar to that of Frankfurt am Main. Built after […]

KDCA for FS9/X/P3D Released

One thing that simFlight’s staff would never think to call Washington DC is “Tropical”, but, nevertheless, developers Tropicalsim have created a rendition of its Ronald Reagan National Airport for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004, Flight Simulator X and Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D. DCA is an interesting airport. Situated only 3 miles from Downtown Washington, it is the closest […]

Amsterdam for X-Plane from Taburet

The next release from Taburet for X-Plane 10 invites you to visit the canals and byways of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. With the help of OpenStreetMap and Bennyboy’s OSM2XP, Taburet has blended and edited the city to create an autogen-driven city that claims “all that is around you in real life is there for you […]

FranceVFR Haute Normandy

In a Press Release received last night, FranceVFR have advertised their latest product, Haute Normandie for Microsoft Flight Simulator X. According to the Press Release; “France VFR is proud to announce the release of our first new generation VFR photoreal scenery for FSX, based on the incredible 3D Automation technology ! This technology allows to […]

Friedrichshafen in a box

Following on from the recent release of German Airports – Friedrichshafen as a download product, Aerosoft have now released the boxed version as well. Versions for both MS FS9 and FSX are included, with all the detail, documentation and AESLite components that customers have come to expect of the series. For more details, click here.

A Postcard is received from Puerto Vallarta

As previewed in a Press Release a short while ago, Pacific Islands Simulation have released their FSX scenery for the Mexican coastal resort of Puerto Vallata. Centred around the Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport (IATA: PVR, ICAO: MMPR), the scenery also stretches out to provide photoreal textures and mesh for the Banderas Bay/Valley area […]

Review of Aerosoft – Corfu X

Late last year Aerosoft released a nice little scenery addon; Corfu X. This scenery is a detailed recreation of the airport of Corfu plus the entire island of Corfu. The island of Corfu is the second largest of the Greek Ionian Islands with an area of 613 sq kms and a population slightly more than […]

German Airports 1 flies into Friedrichshafen

Aerosoft’s German Airports scenery team have been hard at it again, this time releasing Friedrichshafen, on Lake Constance (Bodensee) right on the Southern border of Germany. As usual from the GAP series, Friedrichshafen features photorealistic textures, AESLite to bring the airport some life and compatibility with the full version of Airport Environment Services. For more […]

Review of UK2000 – East Midlands Xtreme v1 for FSX

East Midlands Airport, EGNX, is situated between the cities of Derby, Leicester and Nottingham in central England. The site was originally a Royal Air Force station used during the Second World War but was decommissioned in 1946. It was eventually purchased by local government authorities in 1964 and was reopened for passenger traffic in 1965. […]

Butnaru’s KMIA for X-Plane

As user take-up and developer expansion of Laminar Research’s X-Plane 10 increases, we’re finally starting to see the world improving to a better state than default. The latest airport to be enhanced, by Butnaru, is Florida’s Miami International Airport, KMIA. Quite apart from being a popular holiday destination, Miami is also the primary entry point […]

Review of TAXI2GATE – LA HABANA, CUBA – MUHA FSX

  José Martí International Airport, ICAO: MUHA sometimes referred to by its former name Rancho-Boyeros Airport is located about 15 kms southwest of the city of Havana, Cuba. The airport serves as the country’s main national and international gateway for air travelers. The airport has four passenger terminals and a cargo terminal. The only runway […]

East Midlands goes XTREME

Newly released by Gary Summons of UK2000 scenery, East Midlands airport lies pretty much geographically in the centre of England, on the site of the old RAF Castle Donington and with approaches or departures over the top of Donington race track, which is as famous for its annual rock festival as it is for drivers’ […]

More French Airbases from GSNext

The accompanying image may be from Toul Rosières, but in today’s new releases list at simMarket, you’ll also find Toulouse-Francazal from French developer “GSNext”, both for Microsoft Flight Simulator X. Both sceneries feature custom made models and photoreal ground textures, but unfortunately the documentation only comes in French, so once again a translation website might […]

Aerosoft Altenrhein available

Newly released by Aerosoft for Microsoft Flight Simulator X is the Swiss airport of Altenrhein in the Canton of St. Gallen. Starting with small roots, Altenrhein has grown to become a commuter and business airport with even its own airline, People’s Vienna Line, operating to Vienna twice daily. The product is available in both download […]

Detroit X Released

Following the “imminent” announcement earlier this week, Aerosoft have now released their latest “US Cities” title for FSX, covering Detroit in Michigan, right on the border with Canada. With more that 1000 major buildings included, hi-res imagery (up to 20cm/pixel) and the complete delta of the St. Clair River, this is not a small package. […]

Review of Aerosoft – German Airports 2 2012 X

Aerosoft have recently released an update to their German Airports 2 scenery calling it German Airports 2 2012 X. I did not have the original release so I can’t comment on how much of an improvement there is over the original release. Here is what you get; EDDG Munster/Osnabruck, EDDK Cologne-Bonn, EDDP Leipzig/Halle, EDDV Hannover […]

Poitiers Airport for FSX

Thierry Massieux is still a relatively new name to the FS world, but having delivered his first two sceneries to simMarket within a half a month, he’s certainly made an appearance! This second package covers Poitiers-Briard Airport (LFBI) in the Vienne region of Western France. Featuring photorealistic textures and compatible with the “Scenery Box 86” […]

Review of LatinVFR KMIA Miami International Airport v1.1 for FSX

Miami International airport, ICAO: KMIA, is located 13 miles northwest of the city of Miami and is the primary airport serving south Florida. The airport originally opened in 1928 and was known as Pan American Field. In 1945 the City of Miami purchased  the airfield and it was renamed to 36th Street Airport and later […]

More Freeware Sceneries (AKA The Editor Being Slightly Cheeky…)

It’s bad form to advertise your own stuff on the news page, I know… Especially when what you’re advertising isn’t really that good, but hey, indulge me for thirty seconds and then you can be politely sarcastic (but keep it within the rules, please!) via the “comment” button below if you want. For some time […]

New Scenery Releases for both FS9 and FSX

You thought we’d take Christmas day off? Well, no… We know that not everyone celebrates the festival so I haven’t even opened my presents yet and I’m here posting news! Happy Christmas to those who observe it and have a good Sunday for those who don’t! 😉 Anyway, these two were actually released yesterday so […]

FSX Slovenia Terrain Mesh Makeover

We’re sure that when most people visit the area around their homes in default FSX scenery, one of the first things that they notice is that the hill with the distinct crest in the real world has become ‘somewhat rounded off’ in the sim, or that the local river valley has  simply vanished! The reason […]

Aerosoft Frankfurt-Egelsbach for FSX

Most people have heard of Frankfurt’s main airport, which apart from anything else used to be one of the busiest military airports in the world alongside the huge amounts of airliners, but it’s much smaller GA neighbour, Egelsbach, may well come as a surprise to many. Opening as a grass strip in 1955, the airfield […]

Aerosoft – Madeira X updated for FSX review

Originally released back in 2008 Aerosoft recently re-released their Madeira X scenery incorporating a number of scenery enhancements. To quote from the Aerosoft New Releases and Updates Forum here is the post from Shaun Fletcher. “We have just released a brand new version of Madeira X! The scenery has been completely overhauled and now offers […]

UK2000 – London City Xtreme EGLC for FSX

UK2000 have recently released a very detailed addon of the London City airport for both FS2004 and FSX; my review is of the FSX product. The London City airport (ICAO: EGLC) is a relatively young airport having been officially opened in 1988. It is the fifth busiest of the London area airports and the 14th […]

BAJASIM – LA PAZ INTL AIRPORT MMLP for FSX

Manuel Márquez de León International Airport (ICAO: MMLP) is an international airport located at La Paz, Mexico. La Paz is the capitol city of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur which is located on the peninsula which bears this same name. This location is an important destination for tourists flying into the area. The […]

Orbx – FTX Essendon Reviewed

For this review, I took a look at Orbx’s newest Australian release. Melbourne’s Essendon Airport. If you have any other Orbx products, or even just read some reviews, you know what Essendon has to live up to. So, has it?

Review – Aerosoft Iceland X and Keflavik X

In this review I will be looking at two products from Aerosoft; Iceland X and Keflavik X. Iceland also known as the Republic of Iceland is an island country with an area of 103,000sq kms in the North Atlantic. It is sparsely populated having only about 320,000 inhabitants and of those almost two thirds live […]

Orbx – FTX YSCB Canberra Reviewed

Australia is the region that made ORBX famous within the flightsim community, and rightly so: their scenery products are among the best there are. Although they’re also working ‘in’ North America and New Zealand, they haven’t left Australia entirely. Let’s take a look at one of their more recent Australian airports: Canberra Airport.

Review of Aerosoft – Anchorage X for FSX

Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, ICAO: PANC is located in Anchorage Alaska. The airport is quite large and occupies 4,500 acres; it has two passenger terminals one domestic one international and several cargo terminals. The airport has three runways; 7L/25R @ 10,600ft, 7R/25L @ 10,900ft and 14/32 @ 11,582ft. It is the most important airport […]

FS Dream Team Releases KLAX

FS Dream Team’s eagerly awaited KLAX package for FSX has been released and is available for purchase via their website. Features include: Fully customized ground and runways in high resolution. NEW Volumetric pre-rendered Lights, Shadows and Ambient Occlusions without any fps impact. NEW Ground shader technology with 100% “Pure FSX” code. NEW Bump mapping and […]

Review: ImagineSim Denver KDEN

Europe has always been the place to be for FS enthusiasts. Just about any country has at least one airport modeled for it, but most have multiple, especially in Western Europe. Flying to the UK, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Norway and Denmark, you will always find a place to land your plane. Germany […]

Aerosoft Corfu X Download Available

We mentioned yesterday that the arrival of Aerosoft’s latest scenery was due imminently, well now it is out and available for purchase via simMarket. Corfu is one of Europe’s most popular tourist destinations and, as a result, at peak times, Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport can be a very busy place indeed. In spite of “interesting” […]

FS Dream Team Previews KLAX

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j5lmhV3exw FS Dream Team has a preview video available of their KLAX project. Impressive work!

FCS Downloads at simMarket

We can’t really call these “new”, as they have been available in boxed versions and direct from the publisher for some time. Now, however First Class Simulations/Contact Sales have added a number of their download titles to the large array of products available for you to purchase via simMarket. The seven new products cover aircraft […]

London Luton from Eiresim Released

Eiresim Luton

It might not be particularly close to London, but many people who have travelled through to or from the UK on low cost airlines will know the airport code “LTN” from their tickets and baggage tags. Classed as “London’s Third Airport” after Heathrow and Gatwick, London Luton (EGGW) is, indeed, one of the country’s major […]

Review: Bornholm Island 2011 FSX

The Danish island of Bornholm is located in the Baltic Sea 37 kms south of Sweden and 140 kms east of Denmark. The main industries on this island are fishing, arts and crafts and dairy farming. In the summer with the nice weather tourism becomes an important element of the local economy. The island has one […]

Review: Aerosoft – Mega Airport Zurich 2012 for FSX

Aerosoft have just released their latest Mega Airport for FSX. Titled Zurich 2012 it is a detailed recreation of Switzerland’s largest international airport. The airport is located north of the large metropolitan city of Zurich which is on the north eastern tip of Lake Zurich.

The airport has gone through a number of major changes in the past decade. With the demise of Swissair in 2002 the airport saw a substantial drop in traffic. The airline has since been resurrected by Lufthansa which took it over and renamed it Swiss International Air Lines. Since then the level of traffic has been steadily increasing.

Aerosoft – Nice X Cote d’Azur for FSX review

This review is based on the latest 1.1 update from Aerosoft to their Nice X Cote d’Azur airport scenery that was originally a while back. I never had version 1 installed on my PC prior to doing this review so I cannot make any comparisons or comments to the earlier version of Nice X.

LATINVFR – LAS AMERICAS – MDSD v1.1 for FSX review

Las Américas International Airport, MDSD, is the second busiest airport in the Dominican Republic with approximately 3.4 million passengers using the facilities in 2010. Opened in 1959, it was originally the official airport of Santo Domingo. The airport was renamed in 2002 to “Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas- José Francisco Peña Gómez (AIJFPG)” but is most commonly referred to as “Las Américas International Airport”. The airport has a single runway 17/35 that is 11,002 ft long making it the largest in the country and one of the largest in the Caribbean. The runway is capable of supporting the new Airbus A380.

Orbx — FTX KCMW Cushman Meadows review

Cushman Meadows is the latest addition to Orbx’s series of great scenery products. But this time, they took a different direction than what we’re used to. Instead of picking a real life airport, and modeling it into the craziest details and gorgeous features, this time, Bill Womack let his imagination run wild, and designed his personal dream-airstrip. So, after Aerosoft’s Andras Field last year, Orbx now brings us the second high-end, fictional scenery add-on for FSX.

Review of Drzewiecki Design – Polish Airports Vol 2 for FSX

This is the second multi airport release from this group and like the first they have modelled in great detail three Polish airports; Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport (EPLL), Szczecin-Goleniów Airport (EPSC) and Zielona Góra Airport (EPZG). The package is availale for both FS2004 and FSX. My review is of the product released for FSX.

Review of FlyTampa’s Chicago Midway v2 for FSX

Chicago Midway International airport, KMDW, is the second largest passenger airport in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Located in the southwest side of the city the airport was originally opened in 1923 as Chicago Airpark with a single runway and was used primarily for airmail services. In 1926 the city of Chicago leased the land for commercial purposes and in 1927 renamed the airport to Chicago Municipal Airport. In 1949 it was renamed Chicago Midway Airport after the Battle of Midway from World War II.

Review: UK2000 Scenery Gatwick Xtreme v3 for FSX

Gatwick airport, EGKK, is located approximately 46 kms south of the city of London in the United Kingdom. Originally opened in the 1920’s it served as an aerodrome up until 1933 when it was approved for commercial flights. They were eventually halted in 1936 after two fatal accidents called into question the airport’s safety. Between 1936 and 1958 it was used as a civilian airfield and as an RAF base during the Second World War.

Aerosoft – German Airports 1 – Stuttgart X for FSX review

Stuttgart, EDDS, is an international airport located 13kms south of the city of Stuttgart which is the capitol city of the state of Baden-Württemberg in south-west Germany. The airport has a single 10,974ft runway 07/25 and four terminals with a capacity of 12 million passengers. In 2009 just under 9 million passengers used the airport, well under it’s current capacity.

Aerosoft – Weeze X for FSX

Weeze airport also known as Niederrhein airport is located about 3 kms southwest of the small municipality of Weeze in the Lower Rhine, Niederrhein region of Germany.

Originally known as RAF airbase Laarbruch it was the home to a variety of RAF Squadrons up until it’s closure in 1999. In 2003 it reopened as a civilian airport under the name of Weeze Airport with a single runway 09/27 @ 8005ft long. Today it is mainly used by low cost carriers such as Ryan Air. In 2008 just over 1.5 million passengers used the facilitie

Aerosoft – Barcelona X for FSX review

Barcelona Airport, LEBL, also known as El Prat Airport is located 10 kms southwest of the city of Barcelona Spain on the beautiful Mediterranean. The airport has three runways 07L/25R @ 3,352 m, 07R/25L @ 2,660 m and 02/20 @ 2,540 m. The second largest airport in Spain behind Madrid-Barajas Airport it serves mainly domestic routes and is a major hub for Spanair. In 2009 it served an estimated 27 million passengers.

Review FlyTampa – rebooted v2 for FSX

Tampa International airport, KTPA, is located just west of Tampa, Florida. The airport has three runways; 10/28@6,999ft, 19L/1R@8,300ft and 19R/1L@11,002ft. The airport has a centrally located main terminal with 4 satellite (airside) terminals around the outside that are connected via an elevated APM, automated people mover system. Tampa was the first airport to employ this type of configuration. With over 16 million passengers using the facility in 2009 it was the 26th busiest airport in North America as far as passenger traffic goes.

FranceVFR – Alsace VFR for FSX review

The latest regional scenery release from FranceVFR is Alsace VFR for both FSX and FS2004. This review is of the FSX version.

Occupying the north-eastern most corner of France this scenery covers approximately 10,000 sq kms and includes some beautiful landscapes. Of the 26 regions it is the fourth smallest and has a population of just over 1.8 million inhabitants.

Aerosoft Munich X review

Aerosoft’s Munich X is a very detailed depiction of the Franz Josef Strauss airport in Munich Germany.  The airport has been thoroughly and meticulously recreated using high resolution photo real ground textures along with intricately detailed structures and objects. To cap it off they have also populated the entire area with dynamic vehicle traffic. The […]

Review: Aerosoft Antalya

Scenery-wise, Europeans have a very easy life. For just about every country at least the biggest, international airport is covered with high quality scenery, and if you live in Western Europe, you are blessed with dozens of sceneries for airports, big and small. FranceVFR has done a good job modeling many French airports. UK2000 has covered many UK airports. The Netherlands is blessed with the great NL2000 freeware scenery that covers the entire country with high quality satellite imagery. Germans also have a reason to be pleased due to the efforts of Aerosoft.

We all know Aerosoft. They have done many great sceneries and are one such company that will never be forgotten. However, recently, they have started extending their reach to faraway destinations, such as Cuzco in Peru, Dutch Harbor in Alaska and the Maldives. Recently, Aerosoft has also started on a trip to Turkey, with Antalya for FSX and FS2004. This is the focus of this review. Please note that I review the FS2004 only!

Review: UK2000 VFR Airfields Volume 1

78 airports for $50 (37 Euros)!!! That’s 64 cents or 0.47 Euros each! OK, what’s the catch? Can this be real? Do I have to sign-up for three years to get this rate? No, it’s not like one of those bad cell phone deals. It’s solid airport scenery priced to go.

Review: Blueprint CYYZ – Toronto International

Blueprint Simulations has done an airport of which I am very familiar, Toronto International, formally known as Lester B. Pearson International, CYYZ. I live in Toronto so I thought I’d review this scenery.

FranceVFR LFST Strasbourg for FSX

FranceVFR LFST Strasbourg

The French developers group at FranceVFR upgraded their regional airport scenery Strasbourg Entzheim for FSX. This pack comes with high definition photoreal day and night textures, specific autogen, 3D objects and realistic runways and taxiways. The aera covers 40 sq. km smoothly integrated in the default scenery, or compatible with the larger photoreal scenery from […]

Review: Aerosoft Approaching Innsbruck

What airports are the nicest to fly into? The really big ones? Where you see planes taking off, landing, taxiing, being serviced at the gate? Or perhaps smaller airports. The ones which are cozy, where various types of GA aircraft are standing on the ramp, waiting for their owner to fly them to some remote island. Maybe you like whatever airport, as long as they are in some special location? Think Kai Tak, in Hong Kong. If anything, the approach to that airport is (or has always been, since it’s now closed) one of the most exhilarating approaches one can fly.

Making The Most Of Winter

That guage in the bottom right reads -16 degrees!

“Me, I was a natural in a plane. But in snow? One minute I’m humming along, the next, my fuel line’s gummed and I’m skidding and banging against a frozen creek.” – Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce, 2008, Viking Canada With the bad rap snow has been getting lately, it’s hard not to long for […]

FSAddon Releases FenceBuilder Pro

Francois from FSAddon Publishing reports “……. Yup, we’ve finished it and FenceBuilder Pro for FSX and FS2004 is now available on simMarket and will also be on our own site on Saturday! FenceBuilder Pro will let you place fences, walls, lamp posts and basically anything that can be placed in a repetitive line. It takes […]

Video From Flightsim Greenland

Ulrik Motzfeldt from Greenland tells us that “…. FlightSim Greenland have published a video for Kulusuk (BGKK) Project at YouTube. The project has over 20,000 sq.km new mesh, coastlines and islands. Custom buildings, corrected airport and much more. Visit FlightSim Greenland at www.flightsim.gl. You can watch the video at YouTube here.

simMarket Round-Up 03/09

New addons have been added to our favourite flight and train sim outiffter over this past week: GERMAN RAILROADS – AUFGABENPACK GR-2 ROLLBAHN GERMAN RAILROADS – AUFGABENPACK BIGGETAL 2006 In German only but unmissable to the true train lover, this are mission packs for MSTS and the German Railroads package. TRAIN-WORLD/AEROSOFT – AN DEN UFERN […]

Olissipo, Lisbonne, Lissabon, Lisbon, Lisboa for FSX

The westernmost capital of the European mainland now finally shines in FSX lights with Aerosoft‘s latest scenery release titled Mega Airport Lisbon X. While the FS2004 version of the Lisbon scenery has been available since last November, we had been waiting for it’s appearance in FSX since then. Originally developed by Michael Kopatz, the conversion […]

SAMSOFT – THE VERY SINGAPORE FSX

Add a new Asian destination to your FSX flight schedule now; Samsoft‘s installment the Singapore for FSX follows the FS2004 release of the title in 2005 and continues their line up of far-eastern airport sceneries: “The Very Singapore X scenery package produces the Singapore Changi Airport and the Singapore city skyline, as well as some […]

Denmark Freeware Scenery Released

Kim Dahl writes that “…… I would like to inform you that we have just released a new version of Denmark Scenery, available here. There are versions for both FS9 and FSX! Among the new features is the little airstrip at Avedoere, with propably one of the most curved runways in FS…..”. Be sure to […]

Papua New Guinea Scenery Nearing Completion

Bush pilots can start looking forward to a new challenge – as can everyone who is interested in this part of the world! Pacific Islands Simulation are a scenery development team currently working on their Papua New Guinea project. So far they have created some twenty airports and airfields in what must be a bush-pilot’s […]

First Preview Shots of VFR Germany 3

Aerosoft have announced the upcoming release of their third scenery addon in the Germany VFR series. VFR Germany 3 covers the whole southern part of the country from the Black Forest in the west to Bavaria and “Neuschwanstein” Castle (and of course on the the border with Austria) in the east. As with the previous […]

Orbx Has Finished Austrailia

Orbx have announced completion of their FTX: Australia series with the release of FTX: AU Red Central Outback. This now completes a highly immersive series of scenery addons that all fans of the “Down under” will enjoy. For more information about the FTX: series and how to acquire them, visit the Orbx website and folow […]

Review: Samoshin Natural World Trees V2 (in FSX)

Wondering what to do with the “crinkling” Christmas presents? Well if there is some loose change left over, you might like to try this interesting texture modification addon by Alexey Samoshin. Having read both negative and positive comments about this addon, we thought it might be worth a short review to help you judge better. […]

New releases from France VFR

Two new releases from scenery developers FranceVFR via simMarket today, one for each of the latest versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Firstly, for FS9, there’s Brest Guipavas (LFRB), an airport about as far West as you can go in France without getting very wet indeed, at the tip of Brittany.  The scenery includes approximately 40km² […]

Elblag (EPEL) aerodrome scenery for FSX

A freeware scenery of Elblag (EPEL in Poland) aerodrome was released yesterday. The scenery works only in FSX. It contains phototextures (all seasons and night textures). So, if you are interested in VFR flights, download the scenery and have fun.

France VFR Flight Pyrenees Atlantiques

France VFR has announced its latest release in the FLIGHT Series: the Flight Pyrenees Atlantiques BasePack and AutogenPack. It represents the 2nd section of the French Pyrenees mountains, containing the Western part of it through 19 000 sq. kms. For more details and to purchase the scenery, it can be found on simMarket as two […]

Heathrow Xtreme for FS9 by UK2000

Gary Summons, known for his many detailed sceneries has released his Heathrow Xtreme scenery over at simMarket.com. Heathrow Airport is the busiest international airport in the world and this scenery is certainly the most challening scenery UK2000 scenery has ever made. This scenery is compatible with FS9. The FSX version is announced for January 2009. The […]

Review: FranceVFR’s St Maarten & St. Barth – FS9 & FSX

We are publishing a series of reviews originally written for and published in PC Pilots Ireland Club quarterly ‘PC Pilot’ magazine. We thank their president and friend Terry McGee as well as the reviewer for the opportunity. This FranceVFR’s St Maarten & St. Barth – FS2004 & FSX scenery review was written by George Markham […]

Toussus Le Noble now for FSX

FranceVFR has now released the FSX version of their Toussus Le Noble scenery: “LFPN ovides an extremely detailed Parisian airport, including ground and buildings high definition day and night textures. The scenery covers about 60 km2 and adds the airport an extended photorealistic area including specific autogen and VFR landmarks” simFlight had posted images from […]

Haifa and Dead Sea Photo-Real Sceneries

Ron Shani informs us of the availability of two Israeli sceneries he has created for FSX, namely the airport and city of Haifa LLHA and the Dead Sea, where you can fly along its shores, salt pools, surrounding mountains and canyons. Ron has made two movies illustrating his work and those can be seen on […]

Lake Como By Taburet

Raimondo Taburet has ‘rworked’ the Italian Lake Como, situated just south of the Alps. He writes “…. Comogen is a photorealistic add-on to completely rebuild the beautiful Como Lake in the Italian Lombardia region. The lake has been completely manually rebuilt to fix water elevations to match the surrounding terrain mesh and it is also […]

It’s here: FLYTAMPA’s Hong Kong Kai-Tak

If this is not the one ‘eagerly’ ‘long-awaited’ ‘spectacular’ ‘fantastic’, etc, etc product then I don’t know what is?! 🙂 🙄 Yes, join us when we announce FlyTampa’s Hong Kong Kay Tak Scenery for FS2004 and FSX-SP2. It is available now! Get it here at simMarket. There is no product page at FlyTampa‘s website yet, […]

simMarket Announces Macau X Available

To add to your FSX collection, also now available from the simMarket shop is Samsoft’s Macau X scenery. Covering both the city and airport of this Southeastern Chinese territory, more details can be found on the product page or by clicking on “Read Full Story” below.

Photoshoot: Mega Scenery Frankfurt 2008 – FSX Version

We have posted a full gallery of screenshots from the final FSX version of Aerosoft‘s Mega Scenery Frankfurt 2008, due to be released sometime on Friday. The screenshots were made by Frank Schmidt and installed addons were ActiveSky, MyTrafficx, , FSGlobalX and VFRgermany, Feast your eyes after the jump….