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Neil Birch has been working for years to build a complete collection of small 'microlight' airfields in the northern UK. None of these are included in the default Microsoft product.
Northern Microlights features some 40 additional small airstrips, strewn with home-built objects to make them look more lively, and also featuring photographic textures for the fields themselves.
Neil has written the product in remembrance of his son, Darren Neil Birch, and added an extensive Tour Book to enjoy flying over the English countryside and finding the small airstrips. He also included a complete Airstrip Listing.
The author emphasizes that the use of Horizon Simulation's VFR Scenery Volume 3 or Just Flight's VFR Vol. 4 will greatly enhance your flying pleasure and make this a true VFR product. It CAN be used without these products of course, but you will need to use Microsoft's default VFR landmarks and roads for navigating. Less accurate.
Neil writes in his Intro ".....Inspired by Bryan Lockyear's `Farm Strips Guide' The majority of the strips are `Artistic License'. All of the strips have an NDB (in case you can't find them), simply activate your GPS and you will see them. Most of the strips (where applicable) have vehicle traffic. All of the fields have sounds (see back of book). All of the fields can be selected in the GO TO AIRPORT menu (important see end of book).
Join the exciting world of microlight flying. Enjoy to the full the fantastic VFR Scenery from Horizon Simulations. Finding and landing at some of these strips is an achievement and will certainly increase your navigation and flying skills enormously.
The strips are at most times barely visible and undulate, slope andat times lean. Just as in real life.
To enjoy the flights in the book I would strongly recommend Bryan's guide book can be purchased from all good pilot stores and get yourself some good maps.....".
Northern Microlights is published by FSAddon Publishing 'as is'. Since Neil had already finished the product when he came to us, we did not subject it to our normal beta testing routines and all support will therefore be provided by the author himself, with FSAddon just providing the marketing services.
Neil has used FSDS and GMax for his object development, obviously resulting in some limitations imposed by those products. |
