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Best Looking Default Airport

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I agree on Quito.  The one that really blew me away was Paro (VQPR).  You just have to survive the approach.  🙂

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Randall Rocke

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15 hours ago, Benjamin J said:

In MSFS it’s at a point where sometimes I skip on the third party sometimes because it’s no noticeable improvement over the default

I've gone a step past this:  when MSFS launched I assumed I needed to buy 3rd party airports because coming from FSX/P3D, this was a given as default was absolute garbage.  Well...I immediately purchased 5 airports for MSFS, then discovered the performance hit was not worth the change in quality and uninstalled two of them!  But truly--addon airports just have a very hollow ring to them as the default ones are often nothing short of fabulous, if a little too good, too new etc than their real world counterparts.  Fortunately pricing is reasonable now for good 3rd party airports and I will like buy a few more, but not many.  I am travelling to Peru and Columbia in May and so flew from Lima to Medellin CO the other day and once again am blown away by this sort of realism and quality--it's really getting hard to tell an aerial photograph from a screenshot from MSFS:

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4 hours ago, RandallR said:

I agree on Quito.  The one that really blew me away was Paro (VQPR).  You just have to survive the approach.  🙂

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Oh yeah, Paro is another of the good ones.

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@RandallR I parked the TBM right in front of the King and Queen photo at Paro in my last flight video! I was pretty impressed with the clarity and detail of the entire airport. (see my sig)

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My vote goes for Stockholm Arlanda, incredibly detailed and beautifully done!

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Keep these coming!  

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Aircraft used in MSFS 2024:  Fenix A320,  Aerosoft CRJ, FBW, WT 787X, I-Fly 737 MAX 8, Citation Longitude.

 

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On 3/14/2022 at 9:25 AM, xender said:

SEQM! Quito

To me that one is amazing

Agree!

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Regards,
Steve Dra
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One to check out - http://www.airnav.com/airport/KFHR

Friday Harbor.

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Honolulu is nice.

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Beautiful KBUR !

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On 3/14/2022 at 10:10 AM, SP2472 said:

Don't forget Atlanta, better than it's payware competition.

Darryl

Highly agree!

Waited for YEARS for someone to get the elevations right.....taxied by the Delta maint hangar many, MANY times in real life....it sits down in a little gully and when you taxi by, depending on the day...you see a nice lineup of Delta tails, almost at eye level.

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Now they just need to fixed the reversed image on the hangar door. 🤔

The static models are from the excellent LatinVFR static package....seriously increases the realism at tons of airports...not just the fact the models are good, they are EXACTLY where they should be at every major airport.  @LVFRicardo and his team did a great job on it I think!

 

Regards,
Steve Dra
Get my paints for MSFS planes at flightsim.to here, and iFly 737s here
Download my FSX, P3D paints at Avsim by clicking here

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7 hours ago, skully said:

My vote goes for Stockholm Arlanda, incredibly detailed and beautifully done!

And if you only get one addon package...make sure its of @skully's home airport!

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Here I am with the DC-6 making a top secret delivery to the "Janet" ramp....I was surrounded by MIB when I shut down, after the cargo door opened they swooped in and took a few boxes marked "Top Secret, deadly force is authorized to prevent looky loos"...threw them on a Janet flight...and off she went.....

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I know the guy who painted these planes and flew them in these missions...rumor is they neuralized him after his Janet flight and he now can't remember how to paint.....a shame, I heard he was pretty good at it.🤔

Top photo is MSFS, bottom is P3D v5 with the default KLAS scenery....doesn't look that bad...until you compare it to the top pic. 😉 

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Regards,
Steve Dra
Get my paints for MSFS planes at flightsim.to here, and iFly 737s here
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Another phenomenal default airport....

 

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Regards,
Steve Dra
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Download my FSX, P3D paints at Avsim by clicking here

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SEQM

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