My favourite purchase for 2003....

[timjohns]

An excellent addon! Do you know that you can improve performance for the VFR scenery by playing arounf with the fs2004 cfg file? I have done and it's improved the experience imensley. All the details are on the visual flight forums.

[VFR_Steve]

I have found these settings work a treat:

TERRAIN_ERROR_FACTOR=80.000000
TERRAIN_MIN_DEM_AREA=10.000000
TERRAIN_MAX_DEM_AREA=100.000000
TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=19
TERRAIN_TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=8
TERRAIN_AUTOGEN_DENSITY=2
TERRAIN_USE_GRADIENT_MAP=1
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_TEXTURES=0
TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=12.500000
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=40.000000
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS=4

Regards,
Steve

[Mr Furrow]

.....has to be Visual Flight's VFR photographic scenery for England. I treated myself to the full set. Armed with a large scale road atlas that also shows major physical features and landmarks I go VFR at about 2kft agl/100 KIAS all over the country.

It's not perfect by any means. Sometimes it's slow to load the next setion from disk, and it doesn't look too good at less that 1500 agl. If you're flying high & fast it's a waste of time. But the thrill of flying over well known places for those of us who will never do it reality just can't be beaten.

Here's an example over the lake district. If you have the knowledge (or the right map) you can even navigate by footpaths here :)

Cheers
Jon