I am wanting to find some photorealistic add-on scenery which will provide a remote crop dusting airstrip with a hangar, grass strip, and a wind sock along with some large photo-realistic fields to spray.  I pilot the Alabeo C-188 Ag-Truck that has been re-painted and numbered to look just like the one flown by a good friend of mine who tragically died in a fatal wire strike incident back in August 2014.  I don't have much $$ and can't afford really expensive products.

3 hours ago, Will Crump said:

I am wanting to find some photorealistic add-on scenery which will provide a remote crop dusting airstrip with a hangar, grass strip, and a wind sock along with some large photo-realistic fields to spray.  I pilot the Alabeo C-188 Ag-Truck that has been re-painted and numbered to look just like the one flown by a good friend of mine who tragically died in a fatal wire strike incident back in August 2014.  I don't have much $$ and can't afford really expensive products.

Will,

I moved this to Hangar Chat from the Bargain Hunters Shack as that section is for people to post sales. 

You also didn’t mention which sim your using, FSX, P3D, XP?

http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/profile/19698-aviacion-agricola-simulada/

 

Crop dusting discussion, and payware suggestions here-

http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/topic/20035-cropduster-scenery/

13 hours ago, Will Crump said:

I am wanting to find some photorealistic add-on scenery which will provide a remote crop dusting airstrip with a hangar, grass strip, and a wind sock along with some large photo-realistic fields to spray.  I pilot the Alabeo C-188 Ag-Truck that has been re-painted and numbered to look just like the one flown by a good friend of mine who tragically died in a fatal wire strike incident back in August 2014.  I don't have much $$ and can't afford really expensive products.

If you can master the learning curve, FSEarthtiles is a good program for making your own photoreal scenery.  I have also uploaded scenery of Colorado to Avsim's file library, thus you can have thousands of square miles of farmland to fly in.  Just go there and search for "Colorado Photoreal Scenery".  The eastern part of Colorado will certainly have the airstrip you are looking for with plenty of photoreal farmland.  There are eight files in all that you will have to download.

Best Regards,

John

 

Actually, there are quite a number of freeware scenery that you're looking for... around the world (I don't think you mentioned where you are or in what area you were looking for scenery).  In fact there are photo real as non-photo real, and not only for airports but for surrounding areas as well.

Below is a link to a searchable website which will provide you with info and links to many airport and area scenery, and there are screen shots for some scenery to give you an idea of what it looks like.  AFCADs/AFCAD updates aren't usually provided in these lists, but actual scenery (scenery with custom built buildings, etc.) You find area scenery at the bottom of the individual country lists.  Now, these lists don't contain ALL the scenery created for FSX/P3D, but it's the most comprehensive list I know about.  With that in mind, it's also helpful to Google which ever airport you are searching for

LINK:  http://www.freewarescenery.com/fsx.html

Best wishes.

 

If you are looking to spend as little as possible and still have good quality photo and airport scenery, XP11 is your best option.

2 hours ago, GCBraun said:

If you are looking to spend as little as possible and still have good quality photo and airport scenery, XP11 is your best option.

I agree, Ortho4XP is easy to learn and use to create high quality photo scenery, I've created scenery that extends from the US/Mexico border up into southern British Columbia using Ortho4XP and Xplane 11.10 is a quality sim program which has many strengths, such as its autogen, landclass, mesh and overall rendering of the atmosphere..

John

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Yeah, it is really great. I have 40% of the world (most of NA and SA, the whole EU and NZ) now with photo scenery without spending a dime. For the rest of the globe, I use the high-quality HD Mesh v4, which is very acceptable for the price (free). I don`t go crazy on the resolution, so I`ve managed to accomplish this using about 5Tb. It is really a remarkable experience when you can do long-hauls over high-quality photo-scenery.

 

11 minutes ago, GCBraun said:

Yeah, it is really great. I have 40% of the world (most of NA and SA, the whole EU and NZ) now with photo scenery without spending a dime. For the rest of the globe, I use the high-quality HD Mesh v4, which is very acceptable for the price (free). I don`t go crazy on the resolution, so I`ve managed to accomplish this using about 5Tb. It is really a remarkable experience when you can do long-hauls over high-quality photo-scenery.

 

My US West Coast scenery takes about 100GB, ran out of space but I am happy with what I have, I can fly from Vancouver to El Paso entirely within my Photoreal scenery, which is a nice flight using the default Cirrus or the Carenado PC 12.  Austin upgraded the Cirrus which now has a fully functional GPS, so after I hand fly my takeoff I slave the autopilot to the GPS and enjoy the ride until I hand fly my landing.  If I want to go lower and slower my favorite route of travel is Reno to Ontario, which offers breathtaking views of the Owens Valley.  I first used Bing as my source, but then switched to USA_2 for my scenery, which I feel offers more muted, yet realistic scenery colors.  One favorite VFR flight is out of Pt. Angeles in Washington, up and over Olympic National Park.  Another is over the North Cascades National Park in Northern Washington, which I call "America's Alps".  I keep Xplane and my Photoscenery loaded on its own partition, in case I ever wish to port the scenery to a larger hard drive so I can add on to it.

John

 

 

If you go to the Carenado products page for FSX and look up the Alabeo Pawnee there is a "free scenery" box to download Cottonwood Airport in Illinois, photoreal scenery specially designed as a cropdusting base airport with surrounding fields. Even though the Pawnee is an Alabeo product, I could no longer find this freeware field option on Alabeo's new website, so try going through the Carenado site instead.

John

Check out FTX/ORBX, see the freeware there, numerous airports available

9 hours ago, DaveCT2003 said:

Actually, there are quite a number of freeware scenery that you're looking for... around the world (I don't think you mentioned where you are or in what area you were looking for scenery).  In fact there are photo real as non-photo real, and not only for airports but for surrounding areas as well.

Below is a link to a searchable website which will provide you with info and links to many airport and area scenery, and there are screen shots for some scenery to give you an idea of what it looks like.  AFCADs/AFCAD updates aren't usually provided in these lists, but actual scenery (scenery with custom built buildings, etc.) You find area scenery at the bottom of the individual country lists.  Now, these lists don't contain ALL the scenery created for FSX/P3D, but it's the most comprehensive list I know about.  With that in mind, it's also helpful to Google which ever airport you are searching for

LINK:  http://www.freewarescenery.com/fsx.html

Best wishes.

 

Thanks for the speedy reply, Bob!  I am in Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee, which is about 1 hour and 5 minutes east of Memphis.  I am using FSX. It would be most true-to-life to have scenery in West TN or NW Mississippi in the "Delta" which includes a remote strip with hangar and windsock along with some photorealistic cotton fields to spray. I'll look into the suggestion you offered.  Never can tell what I might find.

18 hours ago, Penzoil3 said:

http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/profile/19698-aviacion-agricola-simulada/

 

Crop dusting discussion, and payware suggestions here-

http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/topic/20035-cropduster-scenery/

Those ORBx scenery packs are expensive. I'm only making $8 per hour and can't afford those.  I have watched videos on YouTube where hispanic FSX ag aviation enthusiasts have created photo realistic fields of wheat and sunflowers, but I can't ever get them to tell me where to get them. I'm having to scrounge for freebies for now.

10 hours ago, Cactus521 said:

If you can master the learning curve, FSEarthtiles is a good program for making your own photoreal scenery.  I have also uploaded scenery of Colorado to Avsim's file library, thus you can have thousands of square miles of farmland to fly in.  Just go there and search for "Colorado Photoreal Scenery".  The eastern part of Colorado will certainly have the airstrip you are looking for with plenty of photoreal farmland.  There are eight files in all that you will have to download.

Best Regards,

John

 

Thanks, John! I have  the page pulled up now.  Do I have to manually place these files in specific folders or are they executables that do all that for me? Is there a "read me" file in each archive that tells where the files have to go?

10 hours ago, GCBraun said:

If you are looking to spend as little as possible and still have good quality photo and airport scenery, XP11 is your best option.

If one already owned XP11, that might very well be true. However, XP11 ain't free, so claiming one might "spend as little as possible" seems a non-sequitur...