Work in progress – Seychelles4XPlane

It’s time to inform you about our plans for our upcoming X-Plane scenery covering the Seychelles, an archipelago country in the Indian Ocean: Like the previous scenery packages #Svalbard4XPlane and #Faroes4XPlane, our new scenery package #Seychelles4XPlane will not feature just a single airport: You can look forward to a photo-realistic custom terrain mesh covering the entire […]

Editing X-Plane Meshes: Implications and Limitations

More and more developers of X-Plane add-ons decide to bundle custom-edited terrain meshes with their scenery packages. However, many of these developers aren’t aware of the implications which come with the edit and re-distribution of existing terrain meshes. In this context, Andras Fabian a.k.a alpilotx – the author of the fantastic HD and UHD Meshes – wrote […]

Porto Airport for X-Plane

I have the pleasure to announce, that Rui Silva released under the brand Área77 Simulations his first scenery package for the flight simulator X-Plane: It features the Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport a.k.a. Porto Airport. But that’s not all: Also landmarks in the neighborhood of the airport as well as two heliports are included in the scenery package. Key […]

Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport for X-Plane

The home airport of Aerosoft can now be explored in X-Plane with Paderborn XP! The highly detailed recreation of the Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport and its surroundings was developed by Stairport Sceneries and features a custom edited terrain mesh by Maps2XPlane. The Paderborn region is covered by an extended orthophoto and at the airport itself you can […]

Reviews of Faroes4XPlane

You’re wondering what independent reviews have to say about Faroes4XPlane? Stephen from X-Plane Reviews summarizes: “[…] the scenery is a very worthy addition to your X-Plane simulator […] For one the scenery is extremely challenging on approaches […] but also visually it is very comprehensive and dynamic […]”. Read Stephen’s extensive review of the initial release and […]

Minor Update for Faroes4XPlane

Due the Extensive update of Faroes4XPlane last month received such fantastic feedback, we decided to prepare a further (minor) update with some fixes and additions: added some previously missing power-line-segments (on land) added (over-water) power-line-segments between the islands placed dozens of additional church- and lighthouse-objects fixed the sea traffic network to avoid floating boats/ships Faroes4XPlane is […]

Extensive Update of Faroes4XPlane

With its launch last December, our region-based scenery package Faroes4XPlane received amazing critics. Reason enough for us, to invest even more efforts to improve and extend our rendition of the Faroe Islands for X-Plane. Based on the feedbacks we got, the Main Objectives for an update were quite clear: Vegetation, Autogen, Landmarks, Harbors and Marine Traffic. In more detail, […]

A tool to edit X-Plane Meshes: Add-on DSF-to-GIS

During the development of the tool to edit existing X-Plane terrain meshes, I coded also an exporter for in DSF encoded triangular irregular networks. This exporter was initially meant for debugging purposes, but I develop it further and have now some kind of a DSF-to-GIS tool, which I would like to introduce briefly: Input: Single […]

Munich Airport for X-Plane

With the Munich Airport, ShortFinal Design a.k.a MisterX6 released his first European Airport for X-Plane 11. Like with the previous products, also this scenery package is full with details – it will take days to explore all of them. Take a look at the impressive feature list as well as the stunning snapshots: Accurate models for all buildings with […]

Krabi Outback Mesh and Scenery

After the release of the Phi Phi Islands and the Poda Group Islands, Stefan a.k.a. monoblau continued the Krabi4XPlane project and released now an extensive scenery package for the mainland, called Krabi Outback Adventures. Without revealing too much, your visit of the Krabi outback will definitely be an adventure. So much things to explore, but see yourself: […]