Update of Antarctica4XPlane Add-ons

What a great and very welcome surprise: Paolo released updates for his Antarctica4XPlane add-ons. His seven scenery packages feature updated and new research stations, base camps and airstrips – overall there are now 20 locations for you to explore: Someone could say now: Why we need such a huge update at the end of the…

Svalbard4XPlane Sightseeing

In the last couple of weeks, I toured around Svalbard4XPlane and enjoyed the scenic landscape. The about 61.000 square kilometers of terrain mesh are covered with two texture sets: one for a summer- and one for a winter-representation of the landscape. And here is now a selection of snapshots I made. Shown is a winter-…

Aspen–Pitkin County Airport for X-Plane

Stairport Sceneries released their Aspen–Pitkin County Airport for X-Plane. Worth to mention, not only because of the detailed representation of the airport, but also because Maps2XPlane had the honor to develop a custom elevation model for Stairport Sceneries. The custom elevation model is the basis for the in the scenery package included Photo-Mesh as well as for a patch of…

Reviews of Svalbard4XPlane

I’m pleased to announce that Svalbard4XPlane was reviewed from various news websites and got absolutely amazing critics: FlightDeckX.com voted Svalbard4XPlane directly into the Top 3 – Best of 2017, and particularly for german speaking readers I can recommend the Review by simFlight.de. You need more information about Svalbard4XPlane, then take a look at the articles…

Svalbard4XPlane is released now!

Maps2XPlane in cooperation with development partner Stairport Sceneries is proud to announce that the Svalbard4XPlane scenery package is now available from our publisher Aerosoft. Get ready to explore the 61.000 square kilometers of the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard. Enjoy the overwhelming landscape in the Arctic Ocean in either a realistic summer or winter representation and choose…

Further Svalbard4XPlane Features

The mesh features of Svalbard4XPlane were already announced and now it’s also the time to publish some information about the airports and heliports that will be included in the Svalbard4XPlane package: You can look forward to the following locations: The Barentsburg Heliport (ENBA) and the Pyramiden Heliport (ENPY), the Ny-Ålesund Airport (ENAS) and the Svea Airport (ENSA), and…

News about Antarctica4XPlane

It’s been awhile, since my last news about Antarctica4XPlane, my Antarctica Terrain Mesh Scenery for the flight simulator X-Plane. It’s winter on the southernmost continent and due to the darkness and rough weather conditions at this time of the year, almost all antarctic researchers went home for a break. But why not use the opportunities…

Bergen Airport for X-Plane

Today I have the pleasure to announce the release of the Bergen Airport for X-Plane. It was developed by one of my new development partners: Stairport Sceneries. For the realization of their Bergen Airport, I had the opportunity to provide them a high realistic elevation model for the airport area. The primary goal was to…

Prince Edward Islands Adventures

As an add-on for my Prince Edward Islands Mesh, community member Ralph developed and released his Prince Edward Island Adventures Scenery for X-Plane. The Scenery Package contains the SANAP’s Meteorological Station at Marion Island, as well as two fictitious airfields. Details can be found on his download page.

New Antarctica Scenery Add-ons

The current season in Antarctica is approaching its peak and it is thus an appropriate time for the release of further research stations: I’m proud to announce that Paolo released two brand-new Research Station Scenery Packages complementing my Antarctica Mesh Scenery. The packages contain amongst others: Comandante Ferraz Station and Machu Picchu Base, McMurdo Station (on the image above), Scott Base and…

Mario Zucchelli Station

Paolo released a new Antarctica Scenery package! It contains the Mario Zucchelli Station, a permanent Italian Research Base, located at the Terra Nova Bay. Nearby you will find the Jang Bogo Station and Enigma Lake, with a challenging Skiway. Have fun exploring!

Signy Research Station

Besides the development of the Antarctica Terrain Mesh for X-Plane, I begun to create first 3d-models and released my first Research Base Scenery: The Signy Research Station, located on Signy Island, a small subantarctic island on the South Orkney Islands, operated by the British Antarctic Survey.