I am looking for recommendations for scenery for north america. At the moment I will be focusing my flights on larger jets (737 etc)and like to fly routes from the NYC area either up to Boston or cross-country to vegas & LA. I will also like west coast flights from LAX to places like San Francisco and San Diego. I noticed FSDT has a number of airports I tend to use (JFK, LAX, Vegas) and I may pick up Boston from Tampa. What additional scenery would be good for North America? I also like to do short hops in Europe (e.g. London to Paris etc), but I am trying to gradually build up to that and thought it would be wise if I focus on NA first.

Get FSDT's KLAX, KLAS, KDFW, KORD, KFLL and KJFK. Also FlyTampa's KTPA and KBOS. LatinVFR's KSAN. FlightBeams recently released KIAD, KPHX, and KSFO. Also LatinVFR is getting ready to release KMIAv2 pretty soon so you could add that as well. Lastly, for another large hub there is ImagineSim's KATL.

 

I have all the sceneries above and would recommend all of them and it will cover most of the large hubs in the US except for KSEA, KDEN, KSLC, although there is an ImagineSim KDEN, FlightBeam just announced that they are doing KDEN next so I would recommend waiting for that version over the ImagineSIm one.

 

That should keep you busy for a while and empty your wallet a bit until the next round of airport sceneries are released for the US.

You can't go wrong with FSDT and FlyTampa (btw both got some airports in Europe, too), and probably Flightbeam. A few of LatinVFR's sceneries are nice, too. What I'd really recommend - although not exactly North America anymore - is FlyTampa's St. Martin, it's a great place for both airliner flying and some short GA island hopping, plus it has the quite challenging approach to Juliana airport. Besides that, I have nearly all of FlyTampa's products, and they are top quality without performance loss.

For FSDT, I'd suggest you try their demos first, because some - especially the newest releases -  can be quite hard on performance, although I don't have any problems with their McCarran (and Geneva, for that matter).

 

If you really want to start flying in Europe, too, UK2000 and Aerosoft will be the way to go, as there's not much else. But be warned that Aerosoft has great differences regarding the performance and visual quality between their airports - so in this case do some research and ask for advice/opinions. In addition to that, I'd point out what cmpbellscj already said: Stick to one area at first, because it'll keep you occupied and it'll cost a lot of money already if you buy a few sceneries!