I love FS9 and at this time do not intend to move to FSX. But there certainly are times when the FS9 world seems to lack a little, and there are several makeover packages, both freeware and payware, that attempt to improve that situation.At the moment I can think of Environment Indigo on the freeware side and ASG, Ground/Flight Environment update, Ceilosim and FS-eXcell for payware. I know there are others, maybe many others.Is there any consensus as to which of these is best in terms of visual improvement, ease on frame rates, and amount of disk space used? In the same way, I've been using Airport Environment Upgrade (excellent, IMO!), but also see that airland1 is supposed to be very good and don't know whether I should think about switching over.I'm looking forward to upgrading to something to make my world look better and will appreciate any comments, advice, or opinions.Long live FS9!...DaveDave JonesFort McCoy, Florida USA

I always used Real Environment Professional (Freeware) and GEPro and Flight Environment (both payware) and they seemed to make a huge difference to all aspects of FS9.

The airland1 addon is very nice indeed - very nice runway textures - the winter ones are very well done. IMO

yup, I second Airland runway textures. You can use the airport enhancer then just copy over the airland runway textures, thats what I do.I also use GEPro, FE, UT USA, AS, FSGlobal, and many payware and freeware airports.

HeyaJust downloaded and gave Real Environment Professional a go. Makes a huge difference to FS9. Like the new textures. :(

I always used Real Environment Professional (Freeware) and GEPro and Flight Environment (both payware) and they seemed to make a huge difference to all aspects of FS9.

FS Global is a good mesh addon. I think it's still available for FS9

I love FS9 and at this time do not intend to move to FSX. But there certainly are times when the FS9 world seems to lack a little, and there are several makeover packages, both freeware and payware, that attempt to improve that situation.At the moment I can think of Environment Indigo on the freeware side and ASG, Ground/Flight Environment update, Ceilosim and FS-eXcell for payware. I know there are others, maybe many others.Is there any consensus as to which of these is best in terms of visual improvement, ease on frame rates, and amount of disk space used?In the same way, I've been using Airport Environment Upgrade (excellent, IMO!), but also see that airland1 is supposed to be very good and don't know whether I should think about switching over.I'm looking forward to upgrading to something to make my world look better and will appreciate any comments, advice, or opinions.Long live FS9!...DaveDave JonesFort McCoy, Florida USA

I just recently installed "FSGENESIS" FS9 Bundle mesh and it has made a world of difference and on top of that goes Ultimate Terrain Canada Alaska, USA & Europe and on top of that goes Ground Environmant Pro and a host of freeware & payware airports and also HDE - High Definition Environment v1.0 for FS2004 this is available on Avsim I think and gives you real kickass cloud and other stuff too. I cannot promote "FSGENESIS" enough this is the foundation that many many simmers use and the advantage aside from what it does for FS9 is it gets updated and FSGlobal does not. Oh and you can try it out first, John

Thanks for all of this advice. Looks like the most-mentioned favorites are Real Environment Professional, Airland1 and FSGenesis mesh. So I shall proceed in that direction......Dave

Thanks for all of this advice. Looks like the most-mentioned favorites are Real Environment Professional, Airland1 and FSGenesis mesh. So I shall proceed in that direction......Dave

Is there any specific order that these scenery files need to be in the file library?ThanksRob

SNAP! :( Using Real Environment Professional (Freeware) and GEPro, S-Combo. Makes a real difference to the whole experience.

I always used Real Environment Professional (Freeware) and GEPro and Flight Environment (both payware) and they seemed to make a huge difference to all aspects of FS9.

Don't forget about Land Class! Good Land Class can make a whole new sim out of FS9. When your are going for FSGenesis mesh why not trying their Land Class products too? I have bought their US Land Class and I'm very enthusiastic about it.But there are also many other payware and freeware Land Class products available. Check the AVSIM library. There are loads of Land Classes for worldwide local or regional areas.Wolfgang

I can vouch for gepro, for a improvement throughout the entire world i would go with GEpro, flight environment, and if the budget agrees some terrain mesh.Those are the ones i would chose if i can only have a few add-ons for fs.

The airland1 addon is very nice indeed - very nice runway textures - the winter ones are very well done. IMO

Where can I find info on airland1?

Where can I find info on airland1?

Im pretty sure I got it from the library here. I tried searching for it but couldnt find it. I have the file, so I can send you it if you want if someone doesn't find a link.

I love FS9 and at this time do not intend to move to FSX. But there certainly are times when the FS9 world seems to lack a little, and there are several makeover packages, both freeware and payware, that attempt to improve that situation.At the moment I can think of Environment Indigo on the freeware side and ASG, Ground/Flight Environment update, Ceilosim and FS-eXcell for payware. I know there are others, maybe many others.Is there any consensus as to which of these is best in terms of visual improvement, ease on frame rates, and amount of disk space used? In the same way, I've been using Airport Environment Upgrade (excellent, IMO!), but also see that airland1 is supposed to be very good and don't know whether I should think about switching over.I'm looking forward to upgrading to something to make my world look better and will appreciate any comments, advice, or opinions.Long live FS9!...DaveDave JonesFort McCoy, Florida USA

All you need:Flight1's Ground Environment ProActiveSky Advanced (the best weater program hands down)ZINERTEK - ULTIMATE AIRPORT ENVIRONMENTZINERTEK - ULTIMATE WATER ADVANCEDI use ActiveSky 6 clouds/sky texture which gives you custom options to play around with. Not sure about the above Activesky Advanced product as I've never had a need to change anything after my initial custom setup. Another option for a great sky is:ZINERTEK - ULTIMATE WEATHER FX (until REX for FS9 comes out)These options should have FS9 looking close to FSX...As far as Traffic goes a combination of Flight1's Ultimate Traffic, freeware World of AI, and freeware GA Traffic should have you all set concerning the FS9 world.