It is my pleasure to inform you that Seychelles4XPlane is now available from our publisher Aerosoft. Our newest scenery package for the flight simulator X-Plane features a detailed rendition of the 115-island archipelago of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean: One of Maps2XPlane’s most extensive and complete X-Plane add-on, developed in cooperation with Albert Ràfols. Wether you…
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Seychelles4XPlane – The Airfields
After informing you in the previous posting about the two largest airports – the Seychelles International Airport and the regional Praslin Island Airport – let’s today have a closer look at the thirteen additional airfields which will be included in the Seychelles4XPlane scenery package: The thirteen additional landing sites are spread over the smaller islands of the…
Seychelles4XPlane – The Airports
In the last couple of postings in the development blog we talked quite a lot about The Landscape and The Helipads. Now it is finally the time to inform you about the airports which will be part of the Seychelles4XPlane scenery package. First, let’s have a closer look at the two largest airports – out of…
Faroes4XPlane – Four Seasons
About a year ago we successfully released our popular Faroes4XPlane scenery package, featuring the archipelago of the Faroe Islands, high up in the Northern Atlantic Ocean, between Iceland, Norway, and Great Britain. If you haven’t enjoyed Faroe Islands XP so far, a reminder that the extensive scenery package features not only a custom terrain mesh, country specific…
Seychelles4XPlane – The Helipads
Like the previous scenery packages, Seychelles4XPlane will not be just a conventional airport scenery. It’s very important to us, that our sceneries offer a complete experience for all kind of flight simulation enthusiasts: That means also for the Seychelles4XPlane scenery package – in addition to detailed airport renditions – not only to feature a realistic landscape, but…
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…
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…
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