I'd like to get a nice payware scenery located somewhere where there's sun and palm trees! I like the looks of Lago's Honolulu and newer Punta Cana sceneries, but I'm having a hard time deciding between the two. Could I have some opinions on this matter? I'd like to hear about your other favorite payware tropical sceneries as well.Thanks!-Scott

hi scotti really like the 3 islands of the west indies sceneries.very nice looking and some quite difficult approaches into small island airports.check them out on www.flight1.com best wishes steve

Thanks for replying, Steve! That scenery does look very nice. I really like the look of the coral reefs that were placed around the islands. The airports look nice too, but I heard somewhere that they weren't very accurate, what do you think? Thanks again for your input.-Scott

You won't go wrong with Lago Honolulu, Lago Punta Cana and Fly to Caribe 4 and 5. (Barbados, Havana and some other nice ones).Really great stuff!Lee

I have to recommend the IWI series. I don't know about the accuracy since I live nowhere near the West Indies; but it is where I like to fly to "get away from it all" (as much as you can do that in a simulator).There has been a patch promised for a couple of months now (to fix some minor issues); but Flight1 is very slow about ever releasing any patches/updates nowadays. Never the less, all of the volumes are worth having.

They're quite accurate.Not photoreal, but that doesn't matter to me.They're also not extremely finely detailed (doors are textures, nor 3D models for example), but unless you're planning to drive around in a car who cares? From a short distance they look just great and performance is a lot better this way.

Thanks for the input so far, everyone! IWI does look very good, I downloaded the video. One odd thing is that the autogen doesn't look very dense, though. I think I'm leaning more towards Lago's Honolulu, since that's an area that I spend a lot of sim time in already. But one other scenery that I came across is World Sceneries Amazonia Defenders scenery. Looks like some pretty cool jungle bush flying in some of those small airstrips. Does anyone have more info? Screenshots would be nice, too!Thanks -Scott

Remember that most Caribbean islands are rather barren in real life!I've been to Curacao myself a few years ago and there's areas that are just barren rock with some thorny shrubbery (in fact, just those plants the wild goats can't eat are left outside the gardens and farms over large parts of the island).

The only thing that turns me off on the IWI sceneries are the textures are not photoreal and look washed out, a big negative for me. Regards, MichaelKDFWhttp://www.calvirair.com/mcpics/PBTMCa.jpgCalVirAir International VACougar Mountain Helicopters & Aviation[link:www.cgrmtnhelos.com]Cougar Mountain Helicopters

I think they're a bit too green but otherwise they represent the area well.The multicoloured buildings and bright coral reefs are quite authentic.Like I said, I don't really mind it's not photoreal.Photoreal looks good at one distance and one distance only and that's the distance at which the photo was taken (corrected for any scaling done obviously).

Just a suggestion, but Bill Melichar has put a whole host of great freeware pacific island sceneries in the avsim library. Also if you are so inclined, Bill and Lynn Lyons did a yeomans job on their Golden age hawaii scenery and that comes with a flying boat to boot!Eric

As Steve "the bear" just posted in his top picks, Kazuo Kawamura has made some freeware Polynesian sceneries that are available at flightsim.com. I haven't tried them, yet, but they look pretty good. - Matt D.

I got the IWI volume 1 after spending 9 days in St. Maarten. It's very accurate- Almost felt like I was back there. I can literally see the town where I stayed. The individual house is not there, but the peninsula that I would go snorkeling around every morning is. The Carribean is very green by the way- On a sunny day it looks quite real, although the weather can be very incliment, and it looks darker than the scenery- but who cares. I used to watch planes take off and fly right over the house out of Grand Case, and that airport is even depicted well.