Like many flight simulator pilots, Shawn Weigelt enjoys flying over his home territory and had long awaited some truly great scenery of Washington State in the US. Orbx has answered the called for X-Plane 11 with TrueEarth US Washington. It's a huge package, perhaps larger than some can even run, but it turns out to be worth the wait and a pleasure to fly.

Sometimes it's nice to look at a somewhat older product and see how it compares with the latest. Patrick Putlend does that by looking at Airport Anchorage for X-Plane from Aerosoft. He finds that while it shows its age in some areas, it's still a scenery he'd recommend that realistically creates an unusual and scenic location worth flying into.

There are plenty of older add-ons still worth using and in this review Meng Yu looks at one of them. DC-8 Jetliner Series 50 To 70 from Just Flight lets FSX and Prepar3D pilots fly one of the pioneering jet airliners. The pack includes the later versions, and all of them, with some interesting differences between the variants including two quite different cockpits.

X-Plane scenery is largely built around libraries of objects and probably no library is more important that OpenSceneryX. It includes a well organized collection of buildings, objects, static aircraft, people, flags and much more that can be freely used by designers. In this interview we talk with Austin Goudge, the man behind the project, and learn about its origins, inner details and future plans.

Orbx returns to their roots with Australia v2. This massive scenery covers the entire continent, 3.1 million sq mi (8 million sq km). It has lots of photoreal areas but also numerous bridges, marinas, lakes, parks, cities, road and rail networks... MrYorkiesWorld offers a report on this scenery that he scores as a 10 out of 10.

Not many scenery add-ons are so ambitious as to cover an entire continent, but Antarctica X from Aerosoft does just that. This cold southern continent actually has quite a few runways serving the research stations there. The scenery for FSX/P3D offers detailed versions of the most important bases, lower detail version of lesser runways, and improvements continent-wide. Plus as a bonus, a Twin Otter aircraft on skis, giving you a suitable airplane to explore with. Reviewer Meng Yu enjoyed exploring this new part of the world.

Aerosoft lets you fly to a beautiful part of Italy with their Airport Genoa XP scenery for X-Plane 11. Reviewer Paul Mort paid a visit and enjoyed both the detailed airport and the surrounding city scenery. He was impressed with the large and detailed area included and the accuracy and placement of scenery objects. Despite some minor flaws he listed this as recommended for X-Plane pilots.

Drzewiecki Design has treated us to scenery all around the world, for FSX, Prepar3D and X-Plane. In this review Michael Hayward takes a look at an X-Plane package of their home country of Poland. Polish Airports Vol. 1 includes some of the major airports in the country, in very nice detail using the latest scenery techniques. Michael especially enjoyed flying them at night. [NOTE: This and all Drzewiecki scenery is now on sale at the FlightSim.Com Store]

Just Flight has been around for a long time -- founded as The Associates in 1996, the same year FlightSim.Com opened. During that time they've developed a reputation for quality add-ons for the full range of available flight simulators. In this interview, Martyn Northall tells us about the company's history, its current products and plans for the future.

The Where In The World series challenge from Ron Blehm continues. Despite some good clues, last month proved to be unusually difficult, so congratulations to those who figured it out. So this month we have a northern airport with an interesting approach. Can you figure out which airport it is?