MatthiasKNU

Dear friends! It's always difficult to give a release date that you then can't keep. But this time it worked out, and Argentina is ready! As always, here are a few pictures: As always, you can find the entire overview here: http://www.fsxforum.de/viewtopic.php?t=19503 Requests as always by PN please! Many greetings and a nice weekend to you all!

Guys, really, thank you all so much! To be honest - as much as I appreciate your support - hard disk space is not a problem here on my site. I myself have 8 TB installed in my FS-PC, of which approx. 4 TB are occupied by P3D (P3D+Airports+Photosceneries) and another 1.5 TB by MSFS. I have another 6 TB in my workstation, where I develop the sceneries. The two biggest problems are actually the high electricity costs and the server storage space. At the moment, however, I am planning to double the server storage space - also with regard to South America.

First of all, thank you all very much! Well, just send me a PM, that's easier 😉 Thank you! Well, due to the copyright of the aerial photos I cannot make the downloads (exception: Spain) available freely for download. If you like, you can of course create your own photosceneries - alternatively, you can simply write me a private message... 🙂 If you are just downloading one of the few autogen packs, you will need a seperate photoscenery - but not, if you write me a PM. BUT: The Overview map also covers both - all areas marked as green, are available as Photoscenery+Autogen-package. Well, to be honest, I only use ScenProc for the Create* commands. The entire pre-processing of all the data (and there is a hell of a lot of data that goes into a scenery!) happens in my Python scripts, which communicate with ArcGIS Pro via the ArcPy interface. Just as a house number: the next country to come soon is Argentina. The final file size will be about 25 GB. But for this 25 GB scenery I had to process more than 3800 GB of data.

Dear friends who are all still happy with P3D! Today I just wanted to introduce you to my work of the last few years - yes, years. Some time ago I even created a thread here - somewhere - but I can't find it anymore... 🤐 First of all the following: I'm not the type who likes to advertise his stuff. The reason for the post here is actually that I was told again and again (actually, also more than years now...) that I should do more advertising. For example here, because there are still many P3D fans active here who might be interested... That's why I'm just going to do that now! So, what have I done? Well, what many others have already done - created photosceneries. With autogen, of course! Very briefly, how does one get the idea to create photosceneries? Well, back then, nearly 10 years ago (remember the time back then, that was before ORBX released something like TE Netherlands!), I wanted to enhance the approach area for my home airport EDDM a bit. After a lot of reading, trying, deleting and trying again, I had created an area that covered about 40x20 km around Munich Airport. Everything was created completely manually, every autogen building was placed by hand. Many people were enthusiastic about it at the time and asked if I could create something like that for XYZ airport . And yes, in fact I wanted to do that. Shortly after, I visited Namibia (and that was really great!). But I didn't like the flights in the sim (remember, at that time there was no openLC Africa!). And that's when I had the idea to create a photorealistic Africa. It was a huge project, I never thought I could finish. I have to say the following about this: I was in my geography bachelor studies at the time. And an important part of it is, of course, the use of GIS software. I wanted to combine this so that the creation of the sceneries would be easier. And that's what I did, and created all of Africa photorealistically - in high quality and with accurate autogen. After I had 800 GB of photosceneries for Africa, I thought - why not other regions? In the meantime, a lot has happened here. I now use Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 OLI data to detect vegetation, which I refine with vector data, including OSM. For buildings, I have chosen an AI approach, so that I can also extract building footprints from the RGB images using a convolutional neural network (with the restriction that it only really works well in Africa, as I have trained the model here). Therefore, in the meantime there are more than 10 Python scripts á 1000-5000 lines of code with which I can create my sceneries - semi-automatically. In the meantime, I have created all of Europe and Africa, and I am working on South America. The server storage space is still a problem. Due to the increased costs, I had to remove Central Africa and all my Asian sceneries from the server - even though I am working on making everything available again. So, a lot of text... It's probably best if I just show pictures - across the world, so to speak. Athens Marrakech El Oued Algiers Cape Town Ouagadougou Somewhere in Ghana Somewhere in Sierra Leone Bulgaria Currently working on Brazil France Frankfurt Serbia Tirana Naples Poland Germany Namibia In the meantime, my sceneries - of course! - also come with comprehensive night lighting. Furthermore - and I think this is not unimportant: How big are the sceneries? Well, I have installed a 4 TB HDD for my sceneries (whole Europe, Africa, half of South America, part of Asia, altogether approx. 60 million km²), on which approx. 2.7 TB are occupied. A lot of information - including a current overview map - can also be found HERE and HERE. For questions regarding the download, please write me a private message (preferably in the FSXForum or at FSDeveloper)! Now, in conclusion, I have no other option but to wish you all a wonderful weekend!

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Thanks a lot you all! Snow, Rain and Icing is a feature which comes with the FSLabs 😉

Hello everyone! A few new pictures of the last 3 months: Approaching Inverness: Arrived at Tenerife South Pushing back at Alicante Landed at Krakow Leaving Tromso for a hop to the Canarias Night landing at my homebase Munich Snowy Munich Cleared to land RWY 07! Ready for takeoff at Amsterdam Approaching Bristol Night landing at Manchester

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Hi! The scenery is a photoscenery, my Project Africa... 😉

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Windhoek Hosea Kutako to Walvis Bay: Leaving Windhoek to the East, turning around. Here over Windhoek itself, in the south you can see the Windhoek Eros Airport: Passing the great Escarpement Descending, a few dunes of the Namib are in sight: Over Walvis Bay harbour: Turning into final The last few meters: Have a nice weekend everyone!

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Hi, everybody! Today I went on a longhaul flight with the AS A330 and wrote a tripreport about it. DLH 594 EDDF/FRA (Frankfurt am Main/Germany) -> DNAA/ABV (Abuja/Nigeria) Airbus Industrie A330-300 D-AIKO, MSN 989 While we are just getting to our aircraft, the handler is already loading the food for the almost 6 hours flight into the Airbus. While the IRS is alligning, we can take a look at the OFP. Here is a short overview for the air traffic controllers: We take off on Frankfurts Runway 25C, then turn south to follow the ANEKI departure. From there, we actually just continue south, across the Black Forest, the Swiss and Italian Alps, Genoa, then across the Mediterranean Sea, passing Corsica and Sardinia towards Algeria. There we pass the Atlas Mountains, the cities of Constantine and El Oued, between Tamanrasset and Djanet further towards Niger. There we continue via Agadez and the former capital Zinder to Nigeria, where we fly over the city of Kano in the north. Then we start the approach to the 22 of Abuja. We'll take 40 tons of fuel with us. That is already well calculated, only about 31.5 tons are needed for the flight itself. But you never know how the thunderstorms will be over Nigeria, so an additional reserve will not hurt. Time to have a look around the plane. But all good, there is even time for a small photo: As we are unfortunately still in the middle of the Corona crisis, we don't have many passengers with us, only 153, but we can take a bit more freight with us, 23.7 tons. This brings us to ZFW of 162 t, which is quite a lot for the A330. In the meantime the boarding is almost finished and we are picking up our IFR clearance. A little bit surprising we get the RWY 18, and not the 25C. But good, it is quickly changed. After the boarding is completed, we also get the Pushback Clearance and are (almost) on time. From stand A50 we are allowed to push a pretty good bit up to N7: Meanwhile we start the engines, so that we can taxi to runway 18 without delay after pushback. We haven't even been to the holding point yet, they told us: "Lufthansa 594, wind 160 at 6, Runway 18, clear for takeoff!" And of course you don't have to be told twice, let's go! At a Vr of 165 kts we take off, Positive Climb, Gear Up! The climbout from Frankfurt was a bit boring because of clouds. Over Switzerland, however, the clouds have cleared up and a great alpine panorama was to be seen: But also some minutes later, over Italy, everything was full of clouds again. After not even 2 hours in the flight we reached the African mainland, here a picture over Algeria, shortly after we flew over the third largest city of Algeria - namely Constantine: ... After that, nothing comes except of sand for the time being: The Sahara. After some time clouds come up again, the ground becomes a bit greener and looks more inhabited again. A good time to enter our approach to the MCDU. As planned it will be the RWY 22 in Abuja, will be a really nice and comfortable approach. The outside temperature is 32°C, so it will be really pleasant... Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, has 2.7 million inhabitants and is located northwest of the airport. The airport... Wait, we just started our descent. The airport has 2 terminals and handles about 2 million passengers per year - it is the second largest airport in Nigeria after Lagos. It has a runway which is 3600 meters long, more than enough for our A330: And as we sink through the clouds, the landscape becomes greener and greener: And then we are already on the ILS, which leads us to runway 22: Flaps one - flaps two - gear down! Approx. 2000 ft AGL we come out of the clouds and the airport is already in sight in the distance! Well, and with soft -103 fpm we bring our A330 also on the ground! Unfortunately there are still no really good airports for Accra, Lagos, Abjua, & co, so unfortunately only the default P3D and GSX flair... Yeah, that's it from my side again! I hope you enjoyed the flight again! Many greetings Matthias

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Hi guys! A few pictures of various Airbus flights... Have a nice weekend everybody!

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Hi all! A few more easyjet flights across europe: Tivat: Marrakech: Gatwick: Hurghada:

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But otherwise all those lights wouldn't have fit on the picture 😆

Good morning! As promised, I am trying to post more regularly! Today a picture, at the climbout from Faro in the morning: Have a nice week everybody!

Thank you all a lot! I will try to show pictures more often!

Hello everyone! I just realized that I have not shown any photos since September! 😱 I'll have to do it now! Sorry, there are really a lot of pictures, there has been a lot of them accumulated the last time! And despite the difficult time at the moment, I wish everyone a Happy Easter!