Reviews (by Morten)

In general a nice work for such a complex airport! However several issues are still present here, even after this update. Framerates are still not exactly impressive - Probably because of reusing old outdated FSX textures...and severe scenery crash still occurs, as mentioned in other reviews here. Leaving out photoreal *.bgl files, as suggested by one of the reviewers here won't help out the this crash issue whatsoever for me - indeed frustrating, after spending more than an hour setting up flightplan and the aircraft itself, etc. Then entering the taxiway on the way for the runway and suddenly CRASH to the scenery, which means starting all over again! Several interaction with the friendly and responsive A_A Sceneries support in this regard, unfortunately hasn't solved anything. What finally did help for me however, was simply to turn OFF the P3D stock airport *.bgl file, which obviously seems to be in conflict with the dews work - don't remember anymore the exact name of the stock P3D airport file, which I found via the good old Airport Design Editor app.

A need little perle, made with care and passion! However, for some strange reason, spots from light poles are completely missing. Hope to see this in an update, making everything completely perfect.

Yes, important night lights are indeed missing! Also the biggest terminal is complete dark. I have also contacted their support without any response.

Unfortunately a completely useless addon. The product isn't ready yet for sale at all! The product comes along with a manual installation guide, witch turns out to be hopelessly insufficient and way too complicated and nerdish for us regular consumers!

FPS friendly, so thanks for that! But textures however is quite overdone with unfortunate cartoonish/Water-color effect to the downside. Night light beam effects from light poles are missing.

Was a little late here, realizing RFscenerybuilding's free update to P3Dv5! This offer in itself represent a rare generosity. Thank you dews, much appreciated!! Furthermore realizing that this generosity is actually not limited to this scenery alone but ALL of of your v4 work as far as I've seen so far!! The installation transformation is however rather complicated to understand from the instruction texts, as many fixes during the past years involve this scenery. Final V5 is nevertheless stunning in every way! So the efforts pays out in the end!!

Perfect in all the way, except for some rather funny smoke effect from a certain chimney - we'll live with that however..

Professional in every in every way - short but true, in every sense!

Descent pro development! Taxi Lights and lights in general however could be better.

Confusing installation options...! Not an usual option from usually quite steady TropicalSim - all of a sudden a strange installation choice of choosing from old textures and a native P3dv5 texture setup witch of course is most wanted! Point is however, that those P3Dv5 native textures are great to framrates, but absolutely unacceptable regarding to texture details. Impression is that this product actually isn't ready yet.

Indeed great professional work.Good framerates / alias uptodate textures!! Though missing rays from light poles.

Nice standard work. FPS however not exactly impressing considering the relatively small size of the airport.

WOW,WOW!! This is really one of those (sadly) seldom profound and perfect developments, which FULLY and TRULY understand how to intelligently deal with the balance of keeping details to a professional moderate level, witch of course means acceptable framerates - BUT at the same time not leaving out any details to AFCAD data, perfect lighted taxiways and realistic light beams from light poles! What goes for actual authentical airport environment, I must admit I can't tell - however for this TECHNICAL pro stuff this is really a bargain considering this relatively low price!

Horrible FSX textures, obviously reused in this development. Primitive work, which is practically not flyable because of unacceptable low framerates. Though cheap, anyway a complete waste of money.

WF Scenery Studio is simply amazing regarding to profound professionalism!! Bringing in first class, uptodate, textures, originally made for P3D vers.4 - however, because of their intelligent and professional approach to ALL of their work, their first class textures, nevertheless, will fit right into P3D vers.5 as well - and that is without any necessary updates (fees!), whatsoever!! Framerates are kept to a minimum in both vers. 4 and 5, despite usually huge airports, including indeed complex geometry! Mind you, that those qualities aren't only limited to the current Shanghai Pudong. The exact same success level is also present in for instance: Zhengzhou Xinzheng Intl Airport and Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, etc..

FlyTampa professional as always - everything 99% perfect!! Just again, occasionally issues with light beams from light poles pointing directly horizontal, instead of down...weird.

Great professionally work!! However texture work resulting in pretty close properties towards the P3Dv5 max.limit of 7.1 GB VRAM, with PMDG aircraft!

Indeed impressing surrounds! However pretty bad Framerates - all seems to be based on old FS2000 texture files. Quite disappointing.

Deeply professionnel work in every sense! Intelligent modelling leading to fair framerates. Perfect light settings. Haven't yet found anything negative here!

Going from less success when first introducing Envsound to fantastic airport sound effects with the latest update!!!! Simply amazing! A facility that has been missing all along through all the different sims at all time. In general these guys has delivered top quality addons in every sense. On top of that an intelligent and quick update facility. Thank you guys!

Totally agree with "ZI" perfect PBR effects - very seldom this ACTUALLY turns out to a success based on the the present P3Dv4 conditions! Textures and everything seems to be perfectly dedicated to P3Dv4 (leaving any old fs2000 textures, or even further behind outdated textures far behind) - which means that textures and framerates are definitely perfect! As a night flyer I just could wish for more dedication to setting up light poles properly with realistic light beams from the poles.

Another of those few profound designs, keeping an intelligent balance between detailing and performance! Indeed a nice work - including realistic night lighting!

Hey! Rocksteady, professional development! Intelligent design with brand new textures which means fps friendly environment (especially for us with multimonitor setups). Precise AFCAD environment. Just minor problems result in 4 instead 5 stars: missing light beams from light poles and missing marshaler/or similar approach facilities at gates.

I Agree fully with Robert Shofner. Much wonderful detail here, but way too low fps - disregard version 1.0 or 1.1. Lack of intelligent priority here. Besides, light from light poles are totally missing.

Very nice indeed. Just one important wish - so far I noticed that terminal buildings are completely dark during dusk/dawn. Please include light textures into buildings during dusk also!

Nice work worth 5 stars! But the 2 times registration process is very annoying: Registration during install and then one more time inside the addon manager. After registration and adding features inside the addon manager, the manager keeps saying that the scenery is not added into the library, which is obviously not true! So because of this installation mess I can only give this package 3 stars.

Nice work! Intelligent balance between detail/fps.

Great work! Good framerates considering the complex situation here! Nightlights almost there. Apron spots not realistic, "poodle" alike - leaving out one star for that reason. Please learn from the RF Scenery Building developers - the masters of light settings!

Alec Roberts: "I especially like the night lighting!" Indeed, RFS are MASTERS in that discipline!

A masterpiece in any way! Furthermore RF is one of the very few developers who master the skill to put up night lighting to an absolute realistic perfection!! Please let RF be a reference to other developers who most often don't master night lighting in an acceptable way, unfortunately with ridiculous results.

Again!!,RFscenerybuilding developers being profound into creating realistic light settings!! No light beams looking like MUSHROOMS as usually seen in almost every other payware scenery addon! Thank you!

WOW!!!!, FINALLY developers being profound into creating realistic light settings!! No light beams looking like MUSHROOMS as usually seen in almost every other payware scenery addon! Thank you!

As Johnny Walker wrote this scenery causes fatal OOM errors with ex. FSX PMDG aircraft. It's a no go with HD 2048 textures as the only option. You guys need a program for adding alternative lower texture resolutions as every other scenery developer these days having HD textures as an option. Because of repeating OOMs 50NM before landing I've never seen your actual work yet, so only 1 star from me.

Nice scenery. However unfortunately unintelligent design: Ridiculous amount of VAS!!

Yes indeed, those runway lights are definitely a problem! Especially those lights at the end of the runways are terrible - looks like solid painted wood or plants sticking up from the surface. Whatever mistake causes this, Flytampa got to fix this as it certainly pull the level down from something that in any other aspect is a stunning development. As a frequent night flyer and because of this issue, I'm seriously considering rolling back to ScanSims airport version which is less ambitious, but on the other hand simply a masterpiece in dealing with light settings!

Big disappointment! This is really not worth the money. Poor texture and bad light work. As I understand it, this developer is fairly new on the market. In that perspective I don't understand why they don't choose smaller airports to start out with until they become more skilled and experienced about what it really takes to develop an airport of this size and within that kind of price range.

Works, even better than the previous version and has less impact on the VAS issue. I see lots of criticism here. Mostly because some folks don't pay enough attention to the installation guide. This addon is indeed complex and if you don't follow each and every step closely the installation will not turn out successfully. Furthermore FS-developers in general are struggling with frustrating new releases of P3D, FSX Steam, X-Plane, which all are expected to be included in every new addon release these days! I bet if P3D, once they started out, had desisted for a more clever approach to a new FS concept, I guess EVERYONE by now had chosen P3D once and for all! Instead they took a silly choice and stayed too close up to the old FSX. Staying with a clearly inadequate 32 bit engine, instead of taking a step up to 64 bit, is one remarkable example of their fatal judgement. In other words, Prepa3D isn't prepared at all!