by: Farhad Mashregh-Zamini

I'm sure there are many people like me who like cold weather and wonderful North Pole landscapes.

For many of us, flying over this quiet and mysterious landscape is a dream.

Unfortunately for many of us this dream cannot come true in the real world, but fortunately, we have a flight simulator like X-plane 11 and a scenery add-on like Svalbard from Aerosoft, which covers this area with over 61000 km² and 5 airports and heliports in virtual reality, that makes this dream come true.

A scenery with snow, or without it, makes the environement of this island real.

Although this package is an expensive package with about 45 euros and it has no major airports like Heathrow or O’Hare but the mega-large natural landscape and the precise work of this software maker makes it acceptable to pay this price.

In the past i have flown to different and diverse big and small cities in the real world but i have never seen such beautiful and different landscapes.

Flying smooth with more than 60 fps makes flying in this area pleasant and when flying we forget the difference between the real and the virtual world.