…what a coincidence! I had just finished a flight in my trusty (and rusty) P-38 from Mestia to Batumi. After landing in Batumi, I saw that SimMarket offered a payware version of Mestia.
So I decided to buy and install it and flew right back to Mestia.
So far, I had used the FS.to freeware scenery of Mestia and was quite pleased with it. Of course I was curious to find out if the new payware version is worth it‘s money…
The „new“ Mestia has a perimeter fence, a new building on the north apron, a parking lot and animated horses grazing on one side of the runway. The interior of the terminal & tower is not nicely detailed, with 3D people inside. The runway looks like it is painted with white color, so not very realistic - I don‘t know yet how it will look in summer.
And yes, there are some birds that circle the threshold in a menacing manner - as a matter of fact, they fly in formation and look a bit like hawks made from steel…
It is a nice scenery and I absolutely love to fly the challenging approach into Mestia, but… the freeware scenery gave me a nice terminal building too, and the runway surface in winter looked better. Are the additional details mentioned above worth the money for the payware scenery? Well, not really, in my humble opinion…
But then: I love flying in Georgia, and the Mestia payware is an upgrade over the freeware version, so don‘t regret my purchase :-)