Great job!

 

Payware quality for sure.

 

Will certainly be donating a couple of bucks for the effort that was put into this package.

Great looking scenery. Nice job.

One question. Jetways not activated though? Not a criticism,the scenery is too good to criticize. Just asking.

 

Jack

 

Yeah, they're just static for now. I'll probably go back and make native FSX style custom jetways and I'm pretty sure AES might do them too.

-Thanks!

Ian

Ian.........

Thanks for the quick reply. Sounds like a plan! In the meantime, rolling stairways won't hurt for a while.

Have you been in touch with Oliver re being added to the next (or whenever) AES upgrade? That would be a good thing.

Anyway, very, very, nice work.

 

Jack

Great work Ian. I've DL and will install later today. I like to fly over the old native scenery first and capture some screen shots before installing new scenery. I lived in southern NJ and IRL flew out of So Jersey Regional from the mid-80's to mid-90s. I now live near Easton, MD (which as a legit jetport and relatively simple by the way could use some FSX attention), no longer fly IRL, but routinely fly FSX over KILG, KPHL, and the Philadelphia area on the way back and forth to Utica, NY (Rome KRMG) in simulated flights to see my daughter and grandkids (grin!), so I am looking forward to seeing the extra detail in your project surrounding KPHL.

 

A funny sidenote here. In the earlier screenshots on the SunSky site a couple of months ago I noted a stadium at the foot of a bridge and along the Delaware river. I thought it was either the Walt Whitman bridge or the causeway bridge near the navy yard. I laughed at what I thought at the time was a badly misplaced football stadium and noted the absence of the other stadium (baseball) and the arena (basketball and hockey). Then I roamed the general area on Google Earth (IRL) and found a soccer (and perhaps lacross) stadium I was totally unaware of at the foot of the more distant Commodore Barry bridge to the west.

 

I have found that stadium to be right at 6 miles from the tdz on KPHL 09R and almost 7 miles from 09L. That is an incredible distance from a freeware airport for such a notable visual approach cue. That is a most significant observation about this project and its results! Visual cues like that are sadly still missing from many payware airports, instead usually only being found in payware city projects.

 

Also BTW fellow members. Compare this effort to that of the much less significant Wilmington, Delaware (KILG) payware by X-Simulations and Drawbridge, and then only for X-Plane. Ian has done incredible work and deserves support in the way of donations.

Impressive scenery. Good work guys.

Wonderful work! Well done!

 

DJ

fppilot.....

Near Easton? Oxford by any chance? I sailed out of Oxford for many, many years and spent much time in Easton over the years. As a matter of fact, one of the managers of the Oxford Boatyard flew out of the Easton Airport.

 

Jack

Jack,

No, I'm the other direction. About 9.5 miles NNW of KESN on Bennett Point peninsula below Queenstown, just 1/4 mi off the west bank of the Wye river. Wish I had Ian's scenery skills. I'd love to see an accurate rendition of KESN with it's unique operations center facility. Don't even know how to get started.

 

Many thanks for all of your time and effort for giving the FSx community one more great airport. Making it free is most appreciated.

A couple of payware developers could take a cue from this one...

Nice work! If I may be critical and extremely nitpicky - the color saturation on the stuff surrounding the airport is a little excessive. There's a strong green hue to the phototexture. I'd change that to a more natural level, other than that the scenery rocks!

 

edit: oops one more thing - a lot of RJ's parking at Atlantic... any ideas on how to stop that from happening?

$FREE.00 and Awesome! :yahoo:

 

Freebee!!!

 

Cheers,

I have posted 20 of my own FSX before and after screen captures on my photo repository at Smugmug. Here is a link:

 

http://fppilot.smugmug.com/

 

There are two relevant gallaries there. One contains the "before" and another contains the "after" shots. You can click on the medium sized image at the right to see a larger version, and once in the larger version you can advance up and down through the images with the control at the top. There is also a slideshow button toward the top right. I have now added captions to each photo.

 

As someone who lived in the Philly area for 13 years and flew out of KPHL often, I have to say I am amazed at the amount and accuracy of the detail. I love the incredibly improved bridges and the detail in the Philadelphia Port area.

 

This is right up there with the best payware I have, and it appears to be extremely frame-rate friendly.

 

Ian, you will shortly see a generous donation from me! Intentionally more than I have paid for other scenery add-ons! And it is much deserved!

 

Here is one direct image to peak curiosity!

 

Nice work! If I may be critical and extremely nitpicky - the color saturation on the stuff surrounding the airport is a little excessive. There's a strong green hue to the phototexture. I'd change that to a more natural level, other than that the scenery rocks!

 

edit: oops one more thing - a lot of RJ's parking at Atlantic... any ideas on how to stop that from happening?

 

Altantic and Terminal F are the only issues I have (I do agree about the grass saturation but it's minor)

 

Atlantic and Terminal F definitely need some AI assignment tweaking.. My Atlantic is a jet parking lot and Terminal F turned into a partial GA terminal. In real life Atlantic will have a random RJ or two sometimes but it's pretty rare and it's usually parked up against the perimeter out of the way. The rest is usually GA and business jets.

 

Terminal F filled with GA

 

 

Atlantic filled with various jets and some GA

 

Another teaser screen capture:

 

 

Citizens Bank Park, Lincoln Financial Field, Wells Fargo Center, and the age-old Spectrum.