Hi all,

I think I need scenery for Heathrow, and when it comes to scenery in the UK, I never know which one to get. It looks like the two current options are: 

• Aerosoft Mega Airport London Heathrow Professional P3D
• UK2000 Heathrow Extreme V3

Are there any other options, and are the ones above the most current versions from each developer/publisher?

I typically fly will full AI, so I am looking for scenery that looks good, but also performs well. Because of my addiction to AI, performance is probably most important. 

Which option is the best for me?

Thanks!

Aerosoft. 

Definitely Aerosoft

For me it’s quite FPS friendly too considering it’s so busy 

I have both and settled with Aerosoft, too. I also found it better integrates into the ORBX environment, should you use it.

Kind regards, Michael

Sounds like Aerosoft is the winner.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Yes it’s the winner, buts it’s not Aerosoft it’s Simwings. Please don’t give credit to them for it. 

Now that’s petty. 😛

I want to ask a related question.. 

I'm on p3d v5..  and i want to get a UK airport other than EGLL that lets me fly heavies (BA, VS).. want to stay away from LHR owing to Fps.. my other options are EGKK and EGCC..  do i have good airports that are v5 ready? 

i'm guessing flying out of gatwick will be a better experience than out of LHR which c'd become a slideshow.. 

can someone comment on how simwings LHR performs in V5?  see my sig for pc specs.. can my system handle LHR or should i get gatwick instead?

27 minutes ago, flycln said:

Now that’s petty. 😛

Not really. Aerosoft is a shop. They don’t have programmers developing scenery. SimWings developed EGLL so should get the credit. Aerosoft provide the support forum.

11 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Not really. Aerosoft is a shop. They don’t have programmers developing scenery. SimWings developed EGLL so should get the credit. Aerosoft provide the support forum.

I assume SimWings isn’t a completely independent developer of these sceneries because Aerosoft actually has its name on the product. So they don’t just sell it but are also the publisher. Which leads me to believe Aerosoft also provides some funding. 

6 minutes ago, flycln said:

I assume SimWings isn’t a completely independent developer of these sceneries because Aerosoft actually has its name on the product. So they don’t just sell it but are also the publisher. Which leads me to believe Aerosoft also provides some funding. 

I don’t know how they divide up the responsibility and funding, sorry. When I’ve had problems with Aerosoft supplied scenery they just pass the message to the developer but in my last complaint nothing was ever done to fix an obvious error. The fix was supplied by another customer.

9 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I don’t know how they divide up the responsibility and funding, sorry. When I’ve had problems with Aerosoft supplied scenery they just pass the message to the developer but in my last complaint nothing was ever done to fix an obvious error. The fix was supplied by another customer.

Wow, that sounds like what ORBX is doing right now. 

Seeing inibuilds and simmershome provide fixes for bugged ORBX sceneries is bizarre.
 

ORBX still hasn’t fixed ESGG and LOWI for P5D. And some of the others took weeks when inibuilds had already released fixes. 

 

I understand you’re a little frustrated with Aerosoft but ORBX is even worse in my book. Have they ever added the Axams church landmark to the XP11 version of LOWI? They said they simply forgot to add it at first and at least never fixed it in the months I was still using XP11 a lot. 

Edited June 16, 20205 yr by flycln

UK2000 Heathrow V3 (which I have)  - according to the site, the latest installer was dated 22 April 2020 covering ALL P3D versions. I might assume that any updated AFCADS etc. would be included...😎

8 minutes ago, flycln said:

...but ORBX is even worse in my book.

Agreed. They still haven't sorted out Terra Flora (I had Turbulent's V1 or V1.2 for FSX), no luck after licence transfer allegedly..

@flycln, not much experience of ORBX scenery to comment but I’m aware we are drifting away from the topic title. 

Apologies, Ray..😥