My, My...Why I waited so long to get this. Flying from New Mexico to Arizona; then to California and finally to Las Vegas Nevada. It's like a Christmas gift for your eyes.It's nothing like your typical flat, photoscenery. It is actual a feast of scenery with hills, curves, and live running water.Simply ASTONISHING !!!!

You'll say the opposite if you buy the Miami and Ft. Lauderdale tiles, lol.

My, My...Why I waited so long to get this. Flying from New Mexico to Arizona; then to California and finally to Las Vegas Nevada. It's like a Christmas gift for your eyes.It's nothing like your typical flat, photoscenery. It is actual a feast of scenery with hills, curves, and live running water.Simply ASTONISHING !!!!

Yes, it sure is! Love flying around MegaSceneryEarth's California State! L05 - Kernville is a nice little airport in the midle of the mountains to fly into in the DC-3.Cheers,- jahman.

You'll say the opposite if you buy the Miami and Ft. Lauderdale tiles, lol.

No Kidding Jim. What a train wreck the MSE FLA series is.....

I agree. The southern californa parts are really beautiful. I have all tiles from KLAX to KLAS, and it makes for a stunninmg flight. I also have them up to KSFO, but I find them less good up there due to some strange disoclorations here and there in the urban areas that look unrealistic. For the rest I have the Denver, Chicago and NYC City packs, of which I think the NYC and Denver cxity packs look very nice. The Chicago one is plagues by clouds on the photoscenery, which isn't that bad if it's far from an airport, but if there is one right on the approach path of runway 9R, than that's a bummer. As for the Florida parts, I don't have them myself, but judging by the coverage map on the MSE website, there's lots of clouds on those tiles - which is terrible to look at...So overall, I'm really happy with the tiles I have, but there's a reason I don't have any of the others.

I have LA and LV and they are stunning indeed.

Megasceneryearth = USA??

If I was going to go the Photo-real route, I'd go the SimSavvy route.For $299 you get the entire US at 50cm on a 2TB USB 3.0 external Hard Drive that you keep. Just to get the entire state of California with a 160GB hard drive on Megascenery is $308, (You can though return the HD for $80 off). This to me is a no brainer, the math just doesn't add up with MegaScenery.

The reason I never started with simsavvy is that I remember it being fairly low res. So the images are at a much higher resolution than previously I understand?

MSE sceneries also use autogen and have beautiful night textures.

Bingo! on the Mega for autogen and night textures. For me, that makes all the difference. I picked up just about all the MS when they were 50% off... a great deal IMO. Like most said here, Florida is below par but I wanted the keys to match up with my Key West scenery. Really like Utah, Colorado, Oregon and Washington. SoCal is their gem but I even like the rest of California. Very immersive. Too bad they haven't expanded the catalog.I keep trying Sim Saavy samples but I just don't get the WoW factor like Mega.For those interested in photoscenery here's a tip. I just bought several of the Newport Hawaiian Island series at 50% off at simMarket. I wasn't expecting much from what little feedback I could find on them but for $8 bucks an island at 1m how could I go wrong. Actually, I was pleasantly surprised. They do have night textures though a little weak on that end but still very flyable.What I then found was some addon Hawaiian scenery by a simmer named Charles Reid. He has created the entire islands of Maui and Molokai. I mean he placed what must be 99% of complete autogen and custom buildings for the entire island matched up to the real world. I was so impressed I dropped him a line of thanks. He said spent six months just hand-placing every building for Maui alone. So when you combine the Newport photomesh with this in the same folder you get amazing results. And then I threw in all the FSDreamteam Hawaiian airports (designed by my good friend Frabrizio), which are/were also at 50% off. I would highly recommend this combination.

One thing that turns me off about the MSE scenery is that they don't cover all seasons especially fall and winter. Nothing beats flying in the fall colors of New England or the winter mountains of Montana, Colorado, etc. I realize this is a lot more texture data but it would be nice to fly in realistic winter scenery when it's really snowing out your window rather than summer scenery. I may though consider some of the tiles in areas that pretty much stay the same all year round such as Florida. Tom

MSE sceneries also use autogen and have beautiful night textures.

That might be true in areas like California, but all I can do if judge by the area I have which is in Central Florida, an area I think we all can agree was not their best! Textures are blurry, color is all wrong. Autogen is next to none buildings, even at extreme autogen settings, it does have an impressive amount of trees in forest areas though. Night lighting to me is too uniform and dull, I still prefer UTUSA night lighting! (Not the 3D, which I also like but cost too much in performance).

MSE sceneries also use autogen and have beautiful night textures.

I can't stand the autogen, I think it's poorly annotated in all the areas I've seen even on max settings. Not surprising - to be fair accurately annotating satellite scenery in even a small way is a monumental task. Night textures are great all around. Another thing MSE has over SimSavvy is masked water textures so you get the FSX water coming through the scenery for all the larger water features, which I like. Although here too MSE has been found to be extremely lacking in some areas. For instance part of the Delaware River running along NJ is masked but part of it isn't. UTX layered atop MSE helps expose more water features though. Maybe it works the same way when layered atop SimSavvy as well?