Introduction

Berlin has always been a place thatI've wanted to travel to in real life. The culture, the food, thescenery, its history, it's all there to be experienced! Unfortunately,at the moment, I'm having to settle for a virtual tour of thisbeautiful city due to the fact that my real life is so busy atpresent! Hopefully, one day though, the 'MrYorkiesWorld' clan, willget to visit this stunning location for real!

Up until a few weeks ago, I'd only really had the pleasure ofvisitingFrankfurtin P3D V4 (also by Aerosoft), but I'm excited to say that thanks to myfriends over at FlightSim.Com, I can now visit Aerosoft's version ofBerlin too, and I'm excited to be writing a review of this fantasticand very detailed piece of scenery for P3D V4.

As ever, I like to keep my reviews relatively short and to thepoint! However, unlike my previous reviews, I will not be including avideo. Instead I have decided to use a series of screen shots, which Ihope you will enjoy. With that said...let's get straight into it.

Coverage Area, Detail And Textures

So let's talk about scenery coverage. Upon first glance, it wasquite clear to see that the package included some surrounding areasaround the main Berlin Tegel Airport. The ground textures looked good,but were not perfect. I tend to use Orbx FTX Global, Vector and OpenLCEurope (although I don't currently have them installed in the sim),and these do help a little, but I still noticed some things were alittle blurry.

The scenery also seems to have different types of textures comparedto those of Orbx. This is expected with most sceneries, however I didnotice that you can sort of make out pretty clearly the "lines" whereOrbx ends, and Aerosoft begins. I assume this could be worked on atsome point by the developer and possibly added as a fix of some kind,but this can, of course also depend on what other scenery packagespeople are using, and whether or not they are using Orbx productsetc.

When it comes to textures, the actual airport itself boasts somereally nice, high-resolution textures throughout. The runways andtaxiways looked great, and the terminal buildings and jetways alsolooked stunning. These tend to look equally as nice in the daytime asthey do at night, and other products such as Chris Bell's Black Marblehelp to bring things together even more and make things lookamazing.

An important factor to take into account, is that this scenery alsocomes with a pretty accurate AFCAD, but this can be improved on quitea bit with the help of a quick download from the Aerosoft Forums, andincludes more parking spots, etc.

Performance And Compatibility

So as expected from the title of this scenery, Aerosoft BerlinTegel Professional is specifically designed for Prepar3D V4. I'm not sureif this would work with any previous version of P3D because theproduct pageclearly doesn't state any other compatibility possibilities other thanP3D V4.

Moving on to performance, and I have to say, I didn't really noticeany kind of performance drop. Even with quite a lot of traffic, andheavy clouds, frame rates stayed at a respectable level. However, Ihave heard that some users have experienced issues with frame rates,but on my system, running the latest version of the sceneryeverything was smooth. For reference, my system is as follows: IntelCore i9 9900k, a GTX 1080TI, and 6GB of RAM. Considering the size ofthe scenery, I was very pleased with the performance.

Configuration Tool

Aerosoft (as with many of their recent sceneries) have included arather handy configuration tool for Berlin. This tool allows you toturn certain things 'on or off' in the scenery, such as staticvehicles, dynamic lighting effects, highway traffic, etc.

It's very easy to select the options you want and then save themwith just a few clicks. You can customize things exactly how you wantthem to be, including the option to enable or disable the PhotorealArea of the airport and some of the surrounding areas. A great ideaand something which will benefit those users will low end hardware.

Features List

So as ever, Aerosoft like to keep us in the know about whatfeatures they've included in their products before we purchase them,and the product page for this scenery gives a whole host ofinteresting features:

• AFD optimised, frequencies and approaches adapted based on recent charts
• Jetways are now movable via CTRL+J
• Reworked ground layout
• Buildings and objects optimised for Prepar3D V4 for increased performance
• Improved lighting and added dynamic lights
• Runway and taxiway lights compiled into one object, added day switches and corrected Mat and Ani (Flashes)
• Corrected parking positions
• Fixed terrain errors
• Optimised AGNIS, lighter and more precise
• Optimised AESLite for P3D V4 (shadow support, etc.)
• Extended Config tool "EDDT Traffic"

System Requirements

Now onto the boring parts. For those of you who are interested inthe system specifics, Aerosoft have kindly listed these as well:

• Lockheed Martin - Prepar3D V4
• Windows 10 (64 bit)
• CPU: Quad Core with 3.5 GHz
• RAM: 16 GB DDR4 RAM (2666 MHz)
• Graphics card: 4 GB VRAM, DirectX 11
• Disk space: 2.5 GB free disk space
• Download size: 1.5 GB

Overview / Rating

So it's time for the final verdict, and I have to say I wasimpressed with most parts of this product. The scenery is verydetailed, looks great and feels immersive, but some of the texturescould do with being improved on.

Overall, I'm going to award this scenery a healthy 9 out of 10,with the only real downside being the above mentioned textures.

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