Glad I saw this thread. Not buying now for sure...gonna go with BEV.

OK - The forums will be back. They're just doing server maintainance.As for the coverage area..one user posted coverage area minus water. Which is not realistic IMO. They can release "Megascenery Volume 7, Atlantic Ocean" if they want and cover 50,000 sq. miles of ocean..it's up to us to decide if we buy it. They have the right to include water bodies in their figures.The figures for Vol. 5 were indeed off, but keep in mind that it was thanks to Megascenery's OWN COVERAGE MAPS that this was determined so while the numbers were off, the map CLEARLY shows what's included in the scenery.BTW, BEV and Megascenery are two different products that do completely different things.

Not so. The figures clearly state "22,000 square miles of photo-scenery - 5,000 from aerial photographs and 17,000 from satellite imagery" for Volume 5. Similar wrong figures quoted for other volumes aswell.Ocean is not photoscenery, and from what I remember about the post, there were quite large areas of ocean included in some figures, almost doubling one of the scenery packages size from reality, one which I have and I'm not happy about. The other I have also was vastly over stated and I based a decision to buy it over another package which, had I known at the time and being on a very limited budget, I'd have changed my decision.

I don't purchase Megascenery for the stated square miles. I purchase it for where it covers. The maps have done a good job of depicting this. If their statements on coverage milage are wrong, then they should be updated. But it does not change what I expected when I purchased it as far as coverage.Tony

I understand your point Tony, but I did make a comparison between the megascenery California package and the competing VFR California package based upon the stated coverage figures and features/quality. Looks like I made the wrong decision because of bad information given by megascenery. That's what annoys me.How would the reaction be if two similar aircraft were being marketted, one with 5 liveries and the other with 3. Based on that you might choose the one with 5 liveries, but how would you feel if when you got the aircraft you found out it only had 2 liveries ? I'd imagine there would be similar annoyance.From what I remember megascenery are overstating what you get by a very large amount on all but one of their scenery packs! How they have got away with it for so long I don't know.

"How they have got away with it for so long I don't know."Probably because people don't care. A quick glance at the coverage map tells you if the city/airport/region you're interested in is inside the coverage area.Horizon's/Visual Flight's Norcal scenery is indeed superior to Megascenery because they used high-res images from Airphoto USA (same source as Megascenery is using for their "new" Socal scenery) while Megascenery used low-res satellite images.

I certainly see your point when it comes to comparing two competing products, Andy. In this case, like JimmiG, I went with the Horizon product based on the higher resolution over a much larger area, even when MeagaCity was factored in.Tony