I'm curious as to when or if those of us in smaller communities (i.e. Halifax) can expect VFR scenery of some type for our area. Or is it such a large effort that only the heavily populated areas will be done because there are more potential customers?billg

Hi billg. A short for you know who? ;-)If you do a search in the library here, using Halifax or Nova Scotia for keyword you will find those addons produced for this area. You could also look for Heather Sherman's neat site at http://fly-heather.avsim.net/gallery_SceneryCanada.html and click Nova Scotia, PEI and New Brunswick to see what's available in the area. I would suggest you first install the landclass file you will find there. Next get yourself a copy of Joel Gill's canada_road_system.zip. It is much better to install this global file rather than individual provincial road system files from the same author.Then you could install some of the specific airport seneries you may find above. I guess that, even if the Confederation Bridge is not specificaly related to NS, should be a must for for any Maritimer ;-)I made a Google search using - Flight simulator Nova scotia - for keyword, and came up with this link: http://summerville-novascotia.com/NovaScotiaCoveredBridges/ (I bookmarked it!!) a nice site about NS wood covered bridge and other oldies, within which I found an other link: http://summerville-novascotia.com/Flightsim/ with few sceneries for the area, most for FS2002 and some adapted to FS2004.But your post title "How big a job is "VFR" scenery?" opens a he... of a door!!I'm not about to answer this as there are as many ways to it as there are designers. But in short, I would say producing a 'decent' small regional airport would require anything between 100 to 200 hours for someone that is relativaly at ease with the basic design tools. It depends a lot on the level of detail one is after. Mind you, there are scenery addons I have seen that must have taken many times the values I suggest above.For example, st-georges-de-beaucev1.zip, the sole scenery I ever uploaded, last year, was made in my spare time between february and june 2004. I estimate it took me somewhere around 150 hours of desing time. But never realy counted the time to be true :-)Now there are scenery enhancement tools, Rwy12, Lago FSE to name those, that permit to improve to a certain extent the look and feel of an existing area without having to go through the whole desing learning process and still yeild interresting results. Hope this will, at least partly, answer your questions.Hugo

Also don't forget Flight1's Ultimate Terrain which adds details like better roads, railroads, rivers, waters, landclass etc. everywhere in the coverage area (currently the US and Canada in two separate products).