Reviews (by Chris)

I've been flying using this for a while and I'm going to give the headsup on what I truly think. Firstly this is a 25 Gig download and is a MASSIVE improvement on the stock FSX scenery and the resolution is good enough down to about 1500 feet. There's a definete lack autogen and objects but you can always download free products that would definitely help and some of the great freeware airports out there (FTX free German airports blend well and the usual payware from Aerosoft et al would be fine (although unless the freeware states I would advise some third party mesh for your favourite areas. The fields and urban topography look fantastic -especially when combined with my REX softclouds. Now for the criticism. Some of the coastal blending is not as good as the Megascenery US titles. There are patches of default bleeding through - especially in the northern baltic coastline island chains such as Borkum and Nordeney. One island is completely white! I have detected a couple scenery tiles where there are clouds covering the topography and those that do not blend well with the adjacent tiles where a little re-toutching or colourisation would not have gone amiss. As I haven't flown the whole of the scenery I can only speak for the 'corker'as you fly west out of Barth. It's a shame that more attention to coastal detail in Megascenery European areas is not quite up to scratch. It's almost as if being a US company, 'oh it's Europe so it doesn't matter so much' Other than the above niggles I would advise anyone who enjoys flying in Germany with 'as-real-as-it-gets' views from above 2000ft, to get this title as long as you have the hard drive space to accommodate. I've given it 4 stars and it wouln't have taken much to get the 5 had thet addressed the above issues.

Nice little airport and I got it cheap at 7 euros so I shouldn't complain BUT there is a caveat! If you have a ATI graphics card and/or a less than powerful PC you WILL have issues with the waterclass. The developer even states in their manual that the water doesn't blend properly on certain ATI graphics cards. Shame they didn't put that in their write-up because I wouldn't have wasted my money. Also they even have the gall to say that they will not answer email support on issues like this that are mentioned in their manuual. Other than that it would have been a great place to fly but I get really put off by lurid green squares off the coast. I certainly won't be buying any other titles of their scenery.

I recently wrote a review for this product and was completely honest about it from my point of view. I was not too impressed with wasting my hard earned cash on such a waste of time. Obviously Sim market don't publish reviews which they consider to be damaging to sales and developer relations. Sim market admin.....am I right? I hope I am mistaken.

I can see why Virtualcol lowered their price. Nice Visual model externally but for me, that's about all. There have obviously been issues with the earlier version. Startup procedures and flight planning, FMC etc. are too complex for the casual simmer yet for the diehard pilots among us the virtual cockpit is too basic. There are issues with the menu driven pop up panels and system failures. OK for the price but if you just like to get in and fly, stay away.