75: Maps – FTX AU Airports – Tasmania

Tasmania
Here is the Australia Airport Map for Tasmania with Orbx Default, Orbx Enhanced, OZx Enhanced and Ant’s Airplanes Enhanced Addons.

Right Click to copy the following URL and add it to Network Link in Google Earth.  Content will be updated when maps for other states and territories are uploaded. Continue reading

74: Maps – FTX NA Airports

Map for all airports from FSAddon’s Tongass Fjords (TFJ); Orbx’s Pacific Northwest (PNW), Pacific Fjords (PFJ), Central Rockies (CRM) and Northern Rockies (NRM) have been uploaded.

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70: Maps – FTX NA Landmarks

One of my favorite places to fly in FSX is the North America area covered and enhanced by FSAddon and Orbx paywares, which include FSAddon’s Tongass Fjords (TFJ); Orbx’s Pacific Northwest (PNW), Pacific Fjords (PFJ), Central Rockies (CRM) and Northern Rockies (NRM).

Lately, I’ve been customizing maps for all these regions as a whole.  In addition to re-grouping and re-categorizing Landmarks, Points of Interest and Airports from these addons, I am also adding sceneries from Return to Misty Moorings (RTMM) and other FTX NA-compatible freewares to these maps.

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65: Maps – Netherlands Airports

Netherlands Airport - Schiphol EHAM, Amsterdam

The whole of Netherlands scenery and airports enhanced by NL2000’s version 4.x, plus Amsterdam, Lelystad and Rotterdam from Aerosoft, and Venlo from Martin Schrijver.

64: Adding Network Link in Google Earth

I have used jpeg images and Google Maps to plot geographical locations of my scenery add-ons in my posts.  However, the result is far from expectation, not to mention a lot of time and efforts were spent on converting the data into appropriate Google Maps format and jpegs.

Starting from the Scenery – Switzerland Airports and Scenery – Caribbean Airports posts, a url of the corresponding Google Earth file will be provided in all Scenery posts (older posts will be updated gradually).

By adding the url to Google Earth via Network Link, not only the map-display result is matching of what I am having, the scenery data can also be updated automatically once the master file is revised.

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57: Safest Approach to Install Addons

I normally pay extra attention when adding addons to my system because the performance of FSX sometimes is so allergic to tinny tiny stuff added to it.

No matter the addon is a scenery or an airplane, we mostly don’t have sufficient prior informantion about what will be added to, and in particular what will be overwritten from the system.

To  minimize the risk of uncertainty, I normally take the dummyproof approach described below to “quarantine” the content of the new addon in the first place.

The logic behind is: Continue reading

54: Free Scenery Downloads

Reminded by Henk that I have now added PW Sceneries from Striking Software which I forgot to include to this Free Scenery Downloads page.  Anyway, it’s been updated and just click banners to go to the home page of specific developer.

Total: 15 sites Updated  on: 7-March-2012

♥ = My Favorite   ♦ = FPS friendly    (scale of 10)

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Ants Airplanes by Antony Lynch offers dozens of high quality sceneries and airports all over Australia.  However, they need Orbx’s payware to render the best sceneries quality.
10 ♥ – 10 ♦

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BlueSkyScenery offers high resolution photorealistic sceneries covering the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Utah’s Red Rock Country, the deserts of southern Nevada, Sierra Nevada and California.
7 ♥ – 10 ♦

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52: Maps – Caribbean Airports

Caribbean Airports

Enhanced Airports in Caribbean areas.

51: Maps – Switzerland Airports

Switzerland Airport - Sion LSGS

Enhanced Airports and Small Airfields from FlyLogic Software.