Reviews (by Sunil)

Bought this pack and installed the spring + fall update that came along with the download. The difference is quite substantial! An excellent effort by Bijan who is also very helpful if you need further tweaks to the biomes where you usually fly. I asked him to change the density of trees in the area where I fly and within an hour I had a new version with me. Let me try and break it up for those of you who need further information on this implementation: The whole of earth is now divided into 3 types of environments; Summer in the Tropicals, Spring in the northern hemisphere and fall in the south. It all works pretty fine, almost, but the tropical areas looked a bit too yellow for my liking. When I contacted Bijan, he was kind enough to explain how to tweak the files further to get the look I desired. There are however some limitations to such a modification, I am presuming, due to the limitations of the SDK and Asobo's implementation itself. Getting the perfect vegetation types and colors for multiple regions might not yet be 100% possible, but it can get darn close with something like this! Hats off Bijan, keep up the awesome work!

I would say this is one of the best scenery add-ons 'out there' for a few very specific reasons. But before that I would like to say where I am coming from. One issue with the new Flight simulator was summed up brilliantly well in one of the forums. An individual said that 'The new FS2020 falls 'just' short on the dynamics and details of aircraft, air environment and flying experience for the pilots and super-enthusiasts. It is mostly fine for the regular enthusiasts with a few tweaks here and there, and some of them like it while others don't. For those coming in for virtual tourism (yes a lot of new people are joining for this!) the details fall short, very suddenly, once they are at ground level. I am a combination of the latter two and probably lean a bit more onto the virtual tourism angle now after seeing what the sim can do... Over to the review. These are the areas where I think this scenery stands out: 1) Ground level poly and detail (non-airport areas): The beach and it's animated characters provide a sense of added realism. One can use the camera to go to ground-level at the beach and just watch the waves from the shack or hotel there (maybe add some music in the background..hahaha). The buildings close-by are also modelled in such a way that one can stand at the terrace and watch the airport and beach areas. Very nice indeed! 2) Animated characters: So many of them! And they are not airport staff! 3) Night environment in the modelled areas: The night lighting at the beach shacks and surrounding buildings are very atmospheric (for lack of a better word!) Conclusion: Overall very nice product for general aviation and virtual tourism. Don't think there is anything like this elsewhere. Cant talk about the finer aspects of the flight experience to and from this airport yet and I am still evaluating it...