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Reviews (by Bradley)

TAXI2GATE - OTHH-V2 P3D4-5

TAXI2GATE - OTHH-V2 P3D4-5

After years of waiting for a v4 ready compile and update of this scenery its finally reached P3D. No new techniques or major improvements that really catch the eye to be honest HOWEVER there have been additions of construction areas around the airport where expansion continues to progress, there is also now runway light guidence stuctures in the water which was missing from V1. I still feel like the dynamic lighting is alittle too bright/harsh...im not sure which it is but it just looks alittle OTT but nonetheless at least theres dynamic lighting regardless right?! The afcad is acceptable but for AI nuts it will require a heavy edit which is soon to show up over at AIG in the afcad section of the forum. I would love to see T2G spend alittle more time just tweaking at finer details which has always been their weakness for me. Its good to have Doha back anyway so thanks for the v2 rendition. For those with lazy eyes i doubt you'll be able to tell the difference between v1 and v2 tbh.

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FLIGHTBEAM STUDIOS - LFBO - TOULOUSE-BLAGNAC AIRPORT P3D4-5

FLIGHTBEAM STUDIOS - LFBO - TOULOUSE-BLAGNAC AIRPORT P3D4-5

Nice work overall, there are a few things that stand in v1.00 that may get looked into down the line with an update but the static aircraft havent got an option to be turned off and it would seem doing it manually also removes a few other items that ideally isnt what you want. Be good if there was an option to have static primers and painted jets to be turned on or off and then a separate option for the Aibus Beluga models. Reason being, there are AI Belugas on the market to be used and these actually fly to other destinations rather than circuits around toulouse like the primers would. My other observation was the surrounding area seems to have odd mesh appearences in places that almost look like they need flattening? As said its a good scenery, the Afcad needs alittle work again for AI traffic but overall a nice project.

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TAXI2GATE - KMCO P3D4-5

TAXI2GATE - KMCO P3D4-5

After installing the patched 2.01 (v2) download of this well overdue update for Orlando i was left feeling as usual that the preceeding reviews were as always very over hyped and written moreso in the height of excitement at just getting an updated version of KMCO finally. The airport indeed looks good, does it appear to have evolved or improved in techniques from modelling to texture baking since the last version? No. I cant quite help but feel that T2G just arent that bothered about that extra bit of detail EVER. Again i sometimes wonder where the eye for detail is when it comes to these reviews from others as they seem to either ignore or totally miss areas that have been overlooked again. In front of the main centrepiece terminal there is space for cars to park by the hundreds, not a single car is modelled. Infact its just a grey blob...Bit weird looking. Around the airport should be various hangers and small buildings many of which are not modelled. The Afcad is decent but out of date with regards to the airlines allocated to the 4 satellites....Examples are AZUL, Icelandair, Edelwiess, LATAM, American Airlines (Heavies), National Airlines, Emirates, Swoop, MagniCharters and Air Canada Rouge. Now if you use AIG traffic youll notice alot of these parking remotely and away from the gates...Thats down to an afcad not fine tuned. The manual PDF is basic and almost pointless. It doesnt specify what needs to be done to get it to work with ORBX Orlando Cityscene which would help users in P3Dv4 and i also noticed very minor flickering of the taxiay bridges over roads/freeways. The performance isnt bad, i understand Orlando can be demanding but if you setup is tuned the way mine is and others that create content theres no reason these areas above couldnt be brought in to enhance what many have waited so long for.

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WF SCENERY STUDIO - SHANGHAI PUDONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ZSPD P3D4.5-5

WF SCENERY STUDIO - SHANGHAI PUDONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ZSPD P3D4.5-5

I echo all of the others here raving about this rendition of ZSPD. It is very very good! I have their Hong Kong airport too and although the price is quite steep it it worthy of the price tag. Great detail, awesome texturing and baking, and its just a generally very well made product. This is on par with our premier devs like Flytampa, Flightbeam and Simwings. There is an improved AFCAD on AIG for AI traffic users so airlines park better to terminals theyre meant to be at. I look forward to ORBX OpenLC Asia to further enhance the area around the airport. Go for it! You wont be dissapointed.

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WF SCENERY STUDIO - HONG KONG INTL AIRPORT VHHH P3D4-5

WF SCENERY STUDIO - HONG KONG INTL AIRPORT VHHH P3D4-5

Very nice scenery indeed, looks great at night, good small details in various places. Lacks a good afcad which is now edited over at AIG Alpha India Group ; ) and also could be improved in areas like the construction site and other areas where building is going on. This is a nicer version of VHHH over T2Gs in my opinion and is also better in regards to housekeeping and the installation.

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DRZEWIECKI DESIGN - RJAA TOKYO NARITA P3D4.4-5

DRZEWIECKI DESIGN - RJAA TOKYO NARITA P3D4.4-5

My pet peeve with DD is they refuse to blend their work to ORBX Global textures, i raised this frustration with their Vol.5 Polish Airports pack released in Jan this year...being a v2 product effectively youd hope that they would have thought okay heres an area to improve on...But no so their work sticks out like a sore thumb on approach and departure. Here the airport looks great, good texturing with room for improvements but a decent effort indeed.

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AEROSOFT - MEGA AIRPORT BEN GURION P3D4.5-5

AEROSOFT - MEGA AIRPORT BEN GURION P3D4.5-5

Its funny what pleases some people, im the 3rd to comment on this scenery and i must say im baffled at the opinions above. The scenery isnt bad and its probably the better out of any to offer thus far but i really wouldnt have called it amazing and excellent with its 'attention to detail'. At 22GBP im trying to work out how its pricing itself at a Simwings level price? Indeed it captures details here and there but theres no persistence with this. The screenshots on this product listing display my point exactly. Screenshots 1 to 5 show the scenery looking fairly decent but image 6 shows the sparse lack in autogen around the airport and what you get is flat photoscenery as a base with nothing or very sparse autogen on top. Image 7 shows the lack in baking and texture detail on the terminal and parking area for vehicles. Image 10...Brilliant a UPS building with no 3D cars or trees/vegetation and vast amounts of flat space around it. Maybe i just expect FlyTampa like quality and if im gonna pay for something its got to be worth me handing my cash over for it especially if its over 15GBP. The game for quality and detail is HIGH nowadays; this scenery has the ability to be good but it needs enhancements in finer deatil and what you see outside the airport. This is to me the weakest Mega Airport release to date and i have no idea what the two previous reviewers might have been smoking or what their idealogy of amazing is...but it defo isnt this scenery sorry.

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AEROSOFT - SIM-WINGS PRO HAMBURG P3D4.5-5

AEROSOFT - SIM-WINGS PRO HAMBURG P3D4.5-5

THIS is the Hamburg EDDH you want for you P3D. Simwings Pro range really is exceptional. Gorgeous detail, texturing and baking with great emersion and FREE UPDATES! I have long waited for Hamburg and knew Simwings would deliver, it is alittle pricey agreed but it delivers with great FPS and fits in with ORBX Germany and also has a config tool to help setup the scenery to your preference. Honestly a great piece of work again. The Afcad needs work in regards to those using AI traffic as it currently allows Biz and Government planes to park at the terminal but there will be an AFCAD update for this on the Alpha India Group forums by myself soon which will greatly improve this.

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AEROSOFT - SIM-WINGS PRO MUNICH P3D

AEROSOFT - SIM-WINGS PRO MUNICH P3D

Maybe ill timed in some eyes but i must say this is a gorgeous rendition of Munich which outweighs T2Gs version. There are obvious attentions to detail here that T2G continue to ignore or miss out in their work and as often as i have brought T2G work i have always been ready to replace their scenerys with those from Simwings for example in this instance. The housekeeping of the installation here is excellent, updates are easy and clean and its just an overall better package. Simwings will be bringing us Hamburg in August too and you can bet your dollar it will be a touch better than JustSims version and updates will come free!!!

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DRZEWIECKI DESIGN - POLISH AIRPORTS VOL1 X (V5) FSX P3D

DRZEWIECKI DESIGN - POLISH AIRPORTS VOL1 X (V5) FSX P3D

The review isnt to spite DD but i do feel this latest update to the 4 airports here is not massively different to the last version which i also owned. I feel the installer is alittle vague in the sub options given when it comes to knowing exactly what things will look like after install (comparisons pics needed) and if you dislike and wish to run the settings again there is no config tool so you have to run the whole installer again!? I also experienced annoying issues with night lighting and a weird option to turn the runway lights off; you think your turning off the lights for day time ops but in fact it appears they turn off for day and night so if you are flying to any of these airports after sunsut look luck locating the runway! Very weird. This can obviously be altered by running the installer again but i dont really get the point in the option being there to start with. I also feel like the photo image that these airports sit on which includes a large area around the airfields are alittle washed out and not very well matched to ORBX OpenLC Europe. They also have inconsistences with allowing the night street 3D lights (ORBX) to populate roads so what you get is a glowing photo base at night which tries to make up for the 3D lights which are unable to be included. The modelling of airport buildings and detail is very nice, i feel like there could be more vegetation added to these packs as some look alittle sparse in areas and a few more trees could really enhance further. An improvement to match ORBX EuropeLC colours would be nice and an exclude to allow for better street lighting with the lighst offered by ORBX would make me add an additional star.

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JUSTSIM - ANTALYA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LTAI V.2 P3D4.4+

JUSTSIM - ANTALYA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LTAI V.2 P3D4.4+

Technically this is actually v3.....v2 was released as an beefy update sometime ago and required us to pay for the update. I mark this with 3stars as i have v1 and didnt upgrade to v2 or this version yet. The scenery is good in v1 and screenshots here in v3 look good but lacks finer deatil where ramps meet the under image.

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UK2000 SCENERY - LUTON 2020HD FSX P3D X-PLANE 11

UK2000 SCENERY - LUTON 2020HD FSX P3D X-PLANE 11

I like it, the HD series do look better, Garys screenshots may not always sell the actual product to its full potential but they do look good and i still think they have a secure place in P3D today regardless of other devs about. Luton here is updated and to its current state. The only issue/gripe i have is the lack in AI spots for GA aircraft on the ramp areas and the inaccuracy of some gate assignments but thats fixable via ADE or via uploaded ADE improvements over on AIG in the acfad section. Roll on Stansted & Gatwick!

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AEROSOFT - MEGA AIRPORT LONDON HEATHROW XTENDED FSX P3D FS2004

AEROSOFT - MEGA AIRPORT LONDON HEATHROW XTENDED FSX P3D FS2004

I think alot of these low ratings are based on users with little to no experience with the sim prior to what we have today being P3Dv4 and v5. When this version of Heathrow came out the sim was still in a 32bit program. London is situated in a heavy area consumed by 5 large airports and many small GA airports. If you use AI traffic and a weather program along with the popular at the time London VFR or even without you were asking ALOT! The scenery was of course going to be heavy on FPS and this would have been the same had FlyTampa or Flighbeam done it; so this isnt a Simwings issue. Now we are on a 64bit sim which has been tuned in a way that allows for more power this scenery peforms much much better and still looks great. The reason it gets 4 stars and not 5 is i feel today it could do with a revamp, improved texture baking in areas and reworked runway and taxiway textures. Other than that this is a very nice rendition of Heathrow.

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A_A SCENERIES - SUVARNABHUMI INTERNATIONAL FSX

A_A SCENERIES - SUVARNABHUMI INTERNATIONAL FSX

The scenery from my eyes and i think i sum it up perfectly if i do say so myself are the following. The terminal modeling and ramp areas are very very good but thats it! So what you have is a half baked package because all the following areas let it down massively and is why i have not bought this or class it as a serious payware product. The base image is washed out and blurry, the road textures and highways are poorly textured and aligned, a lack in texture baking in many areas, too many flat open spaces that could have been filled with autogen and trees, i also think if your going to include the greater area outside the airport which seems to be the case here you really have to commit to it and it looks lazy here and depends too much on the base image which as i said is washed out and grainy. Car parks and finer details are lacking and in now way is this a HD style product. Also in regards to AI traffic, you wont get AI traffic if your using older AI flightplans as P3D doesnt have VTBS included. The sim database is older than VTBS in real life just like OTHH in Doha so most traffic AI wise will fly to the previous airport which is represented in the sim; that being VTBD in Bangkok (now operates domestics flights only). You will need to edit AI flightplan data to change airlines from flying into VTBD and get them to fly into VTBS which isnt a quick fix; alot of airlines fly to VTBS!

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FSPXAI - BOEING B777 P3DV4V5 AI-TRAFFIC

FSPXAI - BOEING B777 P3DV4V5 AI-TRAFFIC

Probably one of my fav FSPX models to date, in regards to the review below with 1 star....If your not an AI traffic enthusiast which i can tell you probably arent then yes its basically a model that comes with house colour textures and a paintkit for making textures HOWEVER if you do some very basic homework you'll find that Missi is very much part of the AIG AI traffic community and virtually every 777 livery you would want for current day airlines are posted on various AIG painters websites for free download....So your review might want to re-review? Missi; thankyou for such a great model!

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FSPXAI - AIRBUS A380 P3D4/5 AI-TRAFFIC

FSPXAI - AIRBUS A380 P3D4/5 AI-TRAFFIC

Massively important dev to the AI world, this guy builds brilliant models that look fantastic and in such a small amount of time considering just how complex the art is anyway! Love your work Missi! Please throw in a FSPX Concorde!!!! This A380 model is a must have for your AI!

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TAXI2GATE - VHHH V2 - HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT P3D

TAXI2GATE - VHHH V2 - HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT P3D

Taxi2Gate rise from the dead?! One of my personal favourite airports in Asia (SOMEONE DO BANGKOK PLEASE!!??) The new rendition is nice and is if anything as it suggests, its an expanded and updated version over the original. I wouldn't say there are any major improvements to their work techniques. There are still slightly lazy areas that are typical to T2G style we know of for those shaper eyes out there and i doubt those habits can be ironed out. It also looks like they decided against keeping the awful photobase of Lantau Island which is a good move i think as it looks better without it in this v2 version. Disneyland Hong Kong isn't included in the scenery radius. It is certainly good to have so many new gates with this one and it equally looks good at night and performs exceptionally well with high density AI too. The new bridge looks like it needs more texture baking or something as it just looks alittle off texture colour wise to everything else. Its good to have VHHH in P3Dv4 and v5 officially! Role on OTHH, KMCO, KSEA, MMMX updates please!

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