I picked up this airport for some South Pacific Island hopping and installed it in 2024. Airport itself looks fabulous but just beyond the perimeter fence of the airport is many excessively tall trees. In fact landing from the west one tree is so tall you end up hitting it as you are about to touch down. At first I probably would not be annoyed about it except when I see photos of this scenery package it hardly contains any trees and the few that do show are not tall at all. So I am thinking something must be messed up with my install but not sure what? The latest update from Kiwiflightsim supposedly fixed the tall tree problem but it is still present in my install. I don't have any aftermarket tree packages installed. It is all default unless another scenery package is causing the conflict but I don't have this issue anywhere else.

In fact the entire island seems plagued with over abundance of trees and some of them are very tall.

Some pictures of what I am seeing....

What they show in the product pictures and looks about right..

Can't see the pictures as presumably you used imgur. (If you host pics on PostImages everyone can see them).

So it's likely that the rogue trees are outside the exclusion zone of the scenery, and are thus generated by MSFS2024.

One solution to all problems like this (but it does require a cost) is to pick up Bijan's Seasons Enhanced. It's among the best buys I've ever made for MSFS2024. Sorts out all types or hazardous trees and just makes the whole world look amazing.

With regards to the videos you saw, it's possible they were using Seasons Enhanced, as a lot of people do now to fix this problem.

There are some other solutions; some free, that just blanket shorten the size of all trees. But Bijan's pack does it all properly and offers so much more too.

https://secure.simmarket.com/bijan-habashi-seasons-enhanced-by-bijan-msfs24.phtml

Edited July 26Jul 26 by JYW

3 hours ago, JYW said:

Can't see the pictures as presumably you used imgur. (If you host pics on PostImages everyone can see them).

So it's likely that the rogue trees are outside the exclusion zone of the scenery, and are thus generated by MSFS2024.

One solution to all problems like this (but it does require a cost) is to pick up Bijan's Seasons Enhanced. It's among the best buys I've ever made for MSFS2024. Sorts out all types or hazardous trees and just makes the whole world look amazing.

With regards to the videos you saw, it's possible they were using Seasons Enhanced, as a lot of people do now to fix this problem.

There are some other solutions; some free, that just blanket shorten the size of all trees. But Bijan's pack does it all properly and offers so much more too.

https://secure.simmarket.com/bijan-habashi-seasons-enhanced-by-bijan-msfs24.phtml

I was not aware that only I can see the pictures hosted by imgur. I put them in PostImages so hopefully that works.

Hopefully this works...

Looks like this is a bug in FS2024 and FS2020 but FS2024 is apparently a lot worse. Within the perimeter of the airport everything is fine but trees galore outside of the airport and even on the mountain tops.

After much research after posting this thread you have a few utilities that help this situation. The one mentioned above by Bijan and another one available on the Marketplace called Real Trees Size by 4Simmers. Both products seem to fix the problem well. As far as tree sizing they probably do the same exact job so work the same. Bijan gives you additional features that will be useful plus I have purchases his products in the past with favorable results. I think I get a discount from those other purchases so I will likely go that route.

Some localized tree fixes on flightsim.to but nothing for the Cook Islands or Rarotonga specifically!

Perfect, can see the pics now 😎 Yes, that is a problem!

I used to have the 'smaller trees' addon from the Marketplace too. It's ok but very uniform. Bijan's Seasons Enhanced is on another level. He updates it almost weekly too, constantly adding more and more accuracy around the world.

I'd highly recommend it, and huge trees will be a thing of the past! The actual seasons depictions from the addon are fantastic too.

Picked up the Bijan's Season Enhanced utility this evening but unfortunately I can't test it out since M$ is currently experiencing server issues.

It looks like the utility is completely automated I don't see a way to launch any sort of outside program. It just sits in my Community2024 folder!