Flying in Europe

[ScottyB]

Hi guys,

Have any of you done much flying in Europe? I have done next to none. What is it like? What scenery is good to get (payware or freeware)? Any definate addon airports that I should get?

It looks a fun place to fly, with various terrain and a lot of short hops with 737's, A310/20's etc

Cheers
Scotty

[Ian Warren]

Time for a Virtual OE .. http://www.freewarescenery.com/fs2004.html , choose your destination and you cant go wrong .

[ScottyB]

But i'm on a real OE as we speak! Thanks Ian!!!

[Alfashark]

Tons of freeware, and a mountain of payware out there... If you're using FSX I highly recommend shelling out for Switzerland Pro and Austria Pro.
Two smallish countries, stupidly high resolution mesh and photoreal textures

Some screenshots I found quickly online rather than dig through my Fraps folders:






Aerosoft have done a swag of airport sceneries for FSX and FS9 that can/will blow your mind although quite a few of the freeware sceneries are becoming of similar or equal quality now.

[Ian Warren]

Steve , Wicked Screen with your MAAM B-25 , Fantastic

[deeknow]

QUOTE (Alfashark @ Jul 25 2011,6:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

If you're using FSX I highly recommend shelling out for Switzerland Pro and Austria Pro.
Two smallish countries, stupidly high resolution mesh and photoreal textures

Holy molely, at 130eu it better be good, certainly looks the part.

BTW, does anyone have the european versions of either Ultimate-Terrain-X or Ground-Environment-X? Its not clear to me what the actual difference is between them, even after reading a couple of reviews and forum posts, I do a lot of European flying and want something to improve the default mesh and landclass which seems pretty ghastly.
see:
http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=utxeurope
http://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=gexeurope

[Alfashark]

I think it's well worth it - all up the Swiss Pro alone is a shade over 16Gb, so they've really gone to great lengths for a country you can cross in 2 minutes at supersonic pace

[zkcav]

Depends on where you want to fly in my opinion: I generally do flying in the west and I find developers try to do the best for their own country. Below is list of what I’ve got and happy with all of them.

I've got Horizon photo realistic for Scotland Vol 5 and Vol 4 with Scotflight for smaller airports and mil airfields plus UK2000 for the larger ones.

UK2000 for UK major airports Aerosoft for London airport and city plus Heathrow. Just flights photo realistic London was a waste of money - no 3D objects and it only looked good from above about 2-4000 ft.

For France I'm running France VFR mesh and a few regional airports plus a few regions packs. Aerosoft for Orly, De Gaulle and Nice. Avoid the FS9 versions that have been ported to FSX though they aren’t that flash.

Aerosoft for Germany, Austria and Switzerland both regions and airports, except FS DreamTeam for Zurich and Geneva.

Holland go for NL2000 freeware but massive download but well worth it - the entire country is covered in a lot of detail. A/S Rotterdam and Amsterdam are a lot more detailed than NL2000’s version – but you get what you pay for I guess.

Hope this helps some - Paul

[ScottyB]

Thanks for all the info guys!

Jeez, imagine "New Zealand Pro"!

[Shamrock55]

Don't forget to drop in to Ireland on your tour of Europe. There isnt much payware scenery available right now apart from some airports by EireSim but its a lovely small country to fly around with some nice mountains on the west coast or a good place to base yourself from to explore the UK, Spain and France. Some friendly VATSIM controllers up there too