5 minutes ago, gregmorin said:

Fly Tampa's KBOS was designed for P3DV4 and is spectacular.  Anything else by Flight Beam or Fly Tampa for major airports. For regional airports, LOWI by Orbx Jarred Marshall or any of the other regional airports he has done.

Greg

 

Personally I can’t agree more with Regards to KBOS and I’m surprised it hasn’t come up earlier in this thread. To me it’s the best addon airport out there currently. The texturing in that airport captures the real thing in a way that I haven’t seen any other addon quite do. I’ve found approaches into KBOS to be incredibly realistic, with the way the runways and taxiways look from a distance.

other than that I completely agree width the others. Flightbeam in my mind really is pretty much the best developer out there currently, closely followed by Flytampa. I also tend to like FSDreamTeam a lot. That trio probably represents the very best in scenery designers at this time and over time I have ended up buying almost all of their sceneries.

I like the new Aerosoft EDDF and the Orbx YMML.

1 minute ago, Bluestar said:

I like the new Aerosoft EDDF and the Orbx YMML.

Good call on Aerosoft's EDDF. The amount of action on display (apron vehicles, cars/lorries on the Autobahn, aircraft movements on all 3 parallel runways) makes it feel like the most 'alive' airport in the sim for me.

Visually, FlyTampa's KBOS is stunning (especially with Aerosoft's US Cities - Boston add-on during the daytime).

Looking forward, finger's crossed that FSDT's KORD is as good as it promises. If it is, I think it’s going to set the new benchmark and force all the top developers to catch-up.

FSDT O'Hare KORD V2, when released. Check Ytube vids.

Bit surprised by people mentioning KBOS -- my understanding was performance was pretty disappointing?

My vote goes to Flightbeam KSFO. As others have said, they're really in a league of their own.

James

4 minutes ago, hmuller said:

FSDT O'Hare KORD V2, when released. Check Ytube vids.

When it is released is the key phrase.... All we have now is 2018 and from what I've seen it looks pretty complete.  However, they are so vague with dates it might be another 6 months!

7 minutes ago, honanhal said:

Bit surprised by people mentioning KBOS -- my understanding was performance was pretty disappointing?

To me it appears to be a small, but quite vocal minority who cannot appear to get good performance for whatever reason.
Shame really, as it's my best performing 'top developer' scenery.

It can't get any better than Flightbeam's KSFO coupled with Orbix Nor-Cal.

....Have to give a shout-out to Latin Vr's latest version of KSAN

ORBX LOWI

3 hours ago, Chock said:

I'd say it was the Latinwings/Pilot's recently released Almeria Airport (LEAM). Lots to recommend it in terms of value for money, what is included and what makes it worth flying there...

Geographically, the descent to finals for LEAM from northern departure points takes you close over the snow capped Sierra Nevada mountains (these go up to 11,400 feet in places), coming from the south you've got Africa and the Mediterranean, so scenically it is an amazing area of Europe to visit even with default scenery. It's the driest region in Europe too, so flying weather is good most of the time. This airport scenery includes 750 sq km of photo terrain @ 4k resolution, airport itself has animated personnel on the ramp, and also includes scenery for the harbour at Almeria, custom autogen for Almeria city, it has 3D lights and all that malarkey too. ILS equipped runway of 10,500 foot length located almost at sea level, so you can fly anything in and out of there. And all that is only 23 quid, which is pretty unbeatable value for an airport which works in P3D V4/V3, or FSX although there are specific versions for each.

here man, let me fix that for ya; strike out should read: a sierra nevada

Dude! there's only one Sierra Nevada and it lies in California. Yeah, you might notice it coming in from the east into KSFO -it's the range that tops out at 14,000 ft. and slopes into the worlds most productive agricultural region in the world ....yup, that's Silicon Valley to the left as we turn for shot final into San Francisco.   <----- sorry chock, i couldn't resist. 🙂

Flightbeam of course, newer FlyTampa and maybe this...

http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/127688-k%C3%B6lnbonn-airport-preview/&page=6

Lots of US airports listed, and having each one listed above I have to say that FlyTampa's Amsterdam is likely the highest quality addon and best value for the cost that I've seen!

Sure, ORBX Innsbruck is very nice, but Amsterdam is just in a class of it's own IMHO.

One thing about Amsterdam... it's a bloody huge airport and yet the frames are terrific there even with everything in the scenery turned on and maxed out.  This is a very good indicator that Fly Tampa's Atlanta is going to be a winner.  As you may know, the larger the airport the more frame rate issues are likely, and Fly Tampa has shown us that they can do it.

Bringing things home to my continent (the US), I'm a little surprised that nobody mentioned SunSkyJet Philadelphia (KPHL).  I've flown in/out of Philly so many times that's it's not funny, and worked on this project with SSJ.  The fidelity of the scenery is OFF THE CHARTS!  We'll have working jetways as soon as FSDT's GSX Version 2 is out as well!  If you haven't seen that they've done with GSX, head over to their website. Our booth (FS Reborn) was next to the FSDT booth at the Flight Sim Expo so I was able to spend a lot of time with Umberto... and GSX V2... amazing stuff!

Speaking of SunSkyJet, I'm fairly sure their long anticipated Detroit Airport scenery will be released later this year.

 

 

1 hour ago, FunknNasty said:

here man, let me fix that for ya; strike out should read: a sierra nevada

Dude! there's only one Sierra Nevada and it lies in California. Yeah, you might notice it coming in from the east into KSFO -it's the range that tops out at 14,000 ft. and slopes into the worlds most productive agricultural region in the world ....yup, that's Silicon Valley to the left as we turn for shot final into San Francisco.   <----- sorry chock, i couldn't resist. 🙂

Well since we're fixing stuff, allow me,..

Sierra Nevada is a Spanish colloquialism which means 'Jagged Snowy Mountain', identifying the Californian mountain range as a Sierra Nevada, was done by the Spanish Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, he being the first European to navigate the West Coast of North America. When doing so, he described the mountains in the distance which he saw whilst sailing along the coast as being 'jagged like a saw and covered in snow'. He did so by using the Spanish word for 'saw' which is sierra, combined with the Spanish word for snowy, nevado.

So any jagged snow covered mountain can be referred to as a Sierra Nevada if you are speaking Spanish, which Cabrillo was of course, he being from Spain, thus it's a pretty safe bet that since a Spanish Explorer would have seen Spain before he saw the West Coast of America,  the mountain range in Southern Spain is the one which had that name first, since there are areas of California which were not fully explored or mapped until as recently as 1912, the Sierra Nevada being one of those.

Loads of US place names are derived from names given to them by European settlers and explorers, that's why there's a Boston in the US, and a Washington, and a Birmingham and a Manchester and a New York and a Paris etc, etc.

Edited June 13, 20187 yr by Chock

Hello al,

I have devoted the next three weeks to read all the flowing and glowing mentions of the wonderful array of Australian Airports mentioned in this topic. The love given to this continent by all developers is truly outstanding.

Please regard this response as a little bit of tongue in cheek and bear in mind that I am a very very very slow reader.

Regards

Tony

Flightbeam, FlyTampa, PacSim, DD  and for small airports, Godzone, Turbulent Designs, UK2000 and Digital Design.

Edited June 13, 20187 yr by ZKOKQ