Washington Landmarks MSFS is a package of Washington D.C. landmarks. It includes roughly 1500 custom-made buildings and other points of interest like monuments, bridges, trains, stadiums. Explore custom-modeled areas such as The Mall, West End, East End, Waterfront, U.S.G., Crystal City, and Rosslyn - all in full PBR and with epic night textures. Have you ever been to the Oval Office in the White House? This is your chance! Additionally, an optional enhancement pack for 4 airports around Washington is provided (KADW, KCGS, KVKX, W32) as well as a dozen of landable helipads.
Washington, D.C. was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1791, President Washington commissioned Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant, a French-born architect, and city planner, to design the new capital. He based his design on plans of cities such as Paris, Amsterdam, Karlsruhe, and Milan that Thomas Jefferson had sent to him. L'Enfant's design also envisioned a garden-lined "grand avenue" approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) in length and 400 feet (120 m) wide in the area that is now the National Mall. On August 24–25, 1814, in a raid known as the Burning of Washington, British forces invaded the capital during the War of 1812. The Capitol, Treasury, and White House were burned and gutted during the attack. Most government buildings were repaired quickly; however, the Capitol was largely under construction at the time and was not completed in its current form until 1868. Washington had an estimated population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's population to more than one million during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is a part, has a population of over 6 million, the sixth-largest metropolitan statistical area in the country.
SCENERY FEATURES
A high-quality model of Washington D.C.
Over 1500 custom-made buildings incl. the whole downtown, bridges, stadiums, harbors/marinas, trains, memorials, and other objects; all FPS-friendly, with night textures and PBR effects
Airport enhancement package including KADW Joint Base Andrews, KCGS College Park Airport, KVKX Potomac Airfield, and W32 Washington Executive Airport with custom-made airport buildings, custom ground layouts and static aircraft.
Overall a great addition to MSFS! The pack improves many areas of Washington D.C. and really makes what would otherwise be highly illegal VFR touring over well White House, a pleasureable experience.
That said, with the release of Microsofts/Asobos USA Update, some of the landmarks in this pack leave some space for improvement. Whilst overall Drzewiecki Design offers more intricate textures than the vanilla sim, the texture resolution on the Linconln Memorial and Washington Monument in particular is actually lower than that of the vanilla alternatives.
There are great pluses as well though, namely the White House and the Capitol building are much better modelled and are actually placed correctly onto the map, unlike the vanilla game which sinks them too much into the ground. Also the many museums and other administrative buildings in the area get a huge upgrade with this pack. The pentagon seems more or less the same in quality when compared to vanilla.
All things considered, this is still a great pack, great addition and great value. I would hope that Drzewiecki Design push out an update in the future to bump up the resolution on some of these landmarks however. Recommended!
Juste Magnifique.... en fait même si la qualité graphique de MSFS ne nécessite plus qu'on se précipite pour acheter des décors comme ce fut le cas sur les anciens simulateurs ( pour avoir quelques autos de plus et quelques bâtiments il n'est plus nécessaire d'avoir a surcharger le programme FSMS de base d'addons qui créent conflits et plantages lenteurs de chargement) vue que le simple FSMS de base donne un bien mieux rendu et est plus fluide que tous les addons de scenerie passé . les "way points" de cette qualités toutefois sont extrêmement plaisants a avoir en fait FSMS manque juste cruellement d'avions vintage a mon goût ..
Some terrific scenery. You can even go inside the oval office of the White House and check out everyone's favourite president in action with Mike Pence and Melania Trump chilling out. Great stuff!
Great scenery, Washington DC have returned to his true beauty, I have flown over the city and it is magnificent, but the Jefferson Memorial is half buried in a round autogen. Hope you will correct it soon. Thank you.