I am having some doubts purchasing some additional airport scenery. I never owned a SimFlyers airport, but from what I have read their sceneries are slightly outdated and a bit of a resource hog.Are they still recommended? I am thinking about getting KPHL, KDFW, KATL, maybe more...Thanks!

KPHL is o.k...KDFW and KATL are real framerate killers...The only sceneries I'd recommend from Simflyers are KPHX and KLAS. Everything else is a no go especially if the airport in question has been done by another developer like Cloud9 (KLAX).Simflyer's KDFW is one of the worst performing sceneries in FS history (and that's taking into account two versions of FS. KDFW was originally released for FS2k2)... Imaginesim is the new Simflyer's as the designer of the worst performing airports in the Simflyer's stable has his own company now. KEWR is the worst performing airport from Imaginesim and very reminiscent of the older Simflyers performance. Beware with either Imaginesim or Simflyers... Always read these forums or ask before purchasing from either of these two developers. It'll save you allot of grief in the long run... :-)

I have all of the Simflyers sceneries and what you have heard is correct. KPHX and KLAS are the best ones available. Other than those, I would save your money. KATL and KDFW are not massive improvements from the FS2004 default.

Thank you. Hmmm, i might just settle for KPHL, since there doesn't seem to be an alternative out there and KPHL is my 'home' airport anyway.

They were ok back in FS2002I have a lot of them, but here are the ones that were just dogs in FS2004: VERY POOR PERFORMANCEKATL (stick with the default - its not that bad)KEWRKDFW (stick with the default - its not that bad)KORD (stick with the default - its not that bad)EDDF (the Areosoft one is amazing)LIRF (get the ISD one instead - its free!)EGCC (I use UK2000 now)Here are the ones that are just "ok" You can live with the FPS on these:CYYZ (only one around - wish somebody else would do it)KJKFKPHLHere are the good ones: Credit where credit is due - these are goodKLASKPHXEdit - KPHL is very out of date and not many gates avaialble (cant fix with AFCAD either)There is another designer with KPHL in the works....may be worth waiting for this one:www.projectupgrade.net

>I am having some doubts purchasing some additional airport>scenery. I never owned a SimFlyers airport, but from what I>have read their sceneries are slightly outdated and a bit of a>resource hog.>>Are they still recommended? I am thinking about getting KPHL,>KDFW, KATL, maybe more...>>Thanks!all the ones you mention are real frame rate annihilators. I regret buying them. ricardo

The only one I own by them is KLAS and its easy on the frames and looks great.

KLAS isn't bad, but it would be MUCH Better if someone else would do it. Same with Toronto. It's outdated now, but no one else has decided to do it. ####, if FLyTampa, Cloud9, Aerosoft, anyone like that would do it, I'd snap off 500 Pics for them, easy :)

"...I'd snap off 500 Pics for them, easy :) ..."Hmmm, are these rampside pics? If so, I know someone who might be very interested in these. Adam

I generally agree with the above comments, KPHX is the best Simflyer's scenery, with KLAS second. KPHX is their most recent product, so hopefully the trend is on their side.

Simflyer's has been taking the last year and a half to produce KMSP. This is another airport I wish Cloud9 or FlyTampa would do.I can't come down too much on Simflyers considering until late they had a very good track record for releasing scenery. OSS on the other hand hasn't released any of their promised scenery that's been touted about extensively in these forums over the last 2 and a half years (Kansas City Intl for example). OSS to date has the longest development cycle next to SSW. In fact I'd put OSS a close second to SSW (A310) of all the available FS developers. Don

If someone needs pics of some of these places, I currently work for AC Jazz and I am based in CYYZ until August 1st.

HI Jack,Could you send me an email please? As I said, I know someone who may well be interested in getting pics and it's not just for viewing ;) Thx,Adam

I would love someone to do a good Toronto Pearson, i'm sure it would be greatly in demand.Paul.

Just an FYI, Simflyers has just released a new collection of their past airports. "Ocean" something (sorry, can't remember where I saw this). Believe you get 6 airports for $24.99... 4 bucks a pop. I think if you have a fast enough system it's not a bad deal, but then again you neeed a very fast, top of the line PC to get good FPS with these.Just wanted to throw this out there.