The Landscape of Seychelles4XPlane

After the announcement of our new scenery package Seychelles4XPlane, let’s now take a closer look at some key features, starting with the landscape: Our Seychelles scenery package for the flight simulator X-Plane will be shipped with a custom terrain mesh, which features the entire 115-island archipelago in the Indian Ocean, and will be covered with a generic, […]

Milan Malpensa Airport for X-Plane

Windsock Simulations’ conversion of David Rosenfeld’s Milan Malpensa Airport is now available from publisher Aerosoft. Milan Malpensa XP features a highly detailed recreation of the second largest airport in Italy for X-Plane. Key Features: Accurate models of all buildings, the tower, and terminals 1 and 2; Apron with exact ground markings; Detailed 0,50 m/px ground textures; Orthophoto of the […]

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

Notice: This is one of the articles in the series of articles describing the chronology of my initiative to aim for a common and official workflow to edit existing X-Plane terrain meshes. A summary about the why and the how can be found in the most recent article. During the development of the tool to […]