The scenery LFMD Cannes - Mandelieu Airport (IATA: CEQ, ICAO: LFMD) is an airport serving Cannes area, mainly for business aviation and during the Festival de Cannes, the airport is heavily used by movie stars. Its two runways (1610m and 760m) and a big apron makes it a perfect place not only for small and medium general aviation aircrafts, but also for bigger business jets. Due to its attractive location, close to the famous Cote d’Azur, City of Nice, Monaco and Saint Tropez it is a quite busy place.
We will find there custom high resolution textures, custom build 3D buildings, detailed terminal, apron and a large number of surrounding buildings (high detailed). We will also include some new features. For more realistic scenery FlyDesign is using UP42 digital satellite imagery for texturing ground and other objects, as well as custom photographs acquired from airport authorities (press pack), or made on our request, or by ourselves.
Scenery Features:
Airport, completely new 4K buildings with all detailed,
I'd say this is a functional but not a pretty airport made to standards of products before MSFS.
The most obvious detractor is lot of low-resolution satellite or air photography imagery plastered over the place, leading to very low-resolution and artifact-laden markings, especially on the areas other than the main apron. Ground markings on the helicopter spots are almost unreadable, and even the runway centreline on 17/35 looks crooked during the takeoff run.
Building textures and modelling are made to a similar standard with no close-up details, but at least some effort has been made to make some buildings appear to be "living" through a use of glass-paint windows. Add to that some of the worst cutout palm trees I've seen since Links 386, and I'm not impressed.
Eine wirklich gelungene Umsetzung des Flughafen Cannes. Ich hatte den Airport schon unter Xplane von Flydesign und war sehr zufrieden. Es geistert hier auf Simmarket noch eine Version von LFMD rum, wobei diese Version hier absolut vorzuziehen ist. Nun, ich besitze beide Versionen und Flydesign hat´s einfach richtiger gemacht. Man merkt jedoch, das hier eine Portierung stattgefunden hat, denn die Möglichkeiten von MSFS 2020 sind nicht ausgeschöpft. Schaut man sich Firenze von Gaya an, oder die Orbx Airports, dann sieht man was schon jetzt machbar ist. Aber, wenn man diesen Airport will und ihn so sehr mag wie ich, dann ist man mit der Version von Flydesign sehr gut bedient.