MSFS 2004 Addons Sammelthread [Angebote - Sammelthread]

Most veterans of Flight Simulator will remember Bill and Lynn Lyons, makers of the freeware and payware brand Custom Classics. The typical Lyon's package was about $12 and included one or more vintage aircraft, animated scenery, and some kind of boat or automobile. When you purchased something from them, it always had your name on it somewhere; that was the custom part.

The Lyons are retired now, and all of the Custom Classics are freeware; you can find them by searching for the authors? name in the AVSIM file library. But Bill Lyons was not only a gifted modeler; he was also a generous teacher.

Bill Ortis, who made the package under review here, was a student of Lyons, and it shows in his work. His Bugatti Pylon Racer, which staff reviewer Marc Radford wrote about several weeks ago, was a Custom Classic in all but name. It was inexpensive, featured vintage airplanes, came with custom scenery, and included two ground vehicles.

The package under review here, Operation: Valkyrie, is made from the same pattern, only on a bigger scale. The airplanes are bigger, the models are more complicated, there is a water vessel as well as a ground vehicle, there is much, much more scenery, and whereas the Bugatti package came with 18 mission flights, Operation: Valkyrie has 65.

Together, the missions add up to a story and a career. It begins with a young German pilot learning to fly gliders. Soon, he is inducted into the Luftwaffe and learns to fly powered aircraft, first a single-engine trainer and later a six-engine transport. In the process, he becomes involved with a high-level conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler. This is where fiction merges with history: there was a conspiracy in real life, and its code name was Operation Valkyrie.











b-moll

Created in Gmax
Custom drawn platform
Five animated airbridges:
Tu-154
A 310
Boeing 757
Boeing 767
Boeing 737 (700-800-900)
Five animated platform parkings:
Tu 134
Yak 40
An 24
Il 96, 86
Fokker 100, 70
Two types of park systems:
Electronic docking system
Airport personnel
Animated flags of five countries
Animated ground objects:
Buses, taxies, trucks,
refuellers, luggage cars, ladders.
Animated doors of repair shed
Textures based on original pictures made by author himself
Scenery contains original AFCAD file.



polda66cz

Maastricht-Aachen airport is a busy regional airport on the Dutch/Belgium/German border. It`s popular with cargo companies and low cost carriers (like GermanWings and RyanAir) because of its location. It is close to many major cities and the industry heart of Belgium and Germany.

It´s also the airport that EUROCONTROL choose as its home base because of this central location. Next to the cargo and passenger flights the airport has two flying school and a lot of general aviation traffic.

The version that Andras Kozma made for Aerosoft is a small marvel of state of the art scenery design. Even though nearly all buildings and structured are modelled in great detail and textured with photographic textures the framerate remains remarkably high and fluent. Unlike many other airports it also got a very lively feel to it with many animations. It´s a perfect location for you regional flights around Western Europe and online flying.


Aerial image coverage with 15cm/pix resolution
Photographic textures on all buildings
Very good framerate
Immediate surrounding included
Many animations (including motion capture human figures)
Traffic on most major roads
FSX, FS2004 and Prepar3D installer included
Compatible with AES (Airport Enhancement Services)
Compatible with NL2000 (see manual about that)
No online activation needed










polda66cz

Most veterans of Flight Simulator will remember Bill and Lynn Lyons, makers of the freeware and payware brand Custom Classics. The typical Lyon's package was about $12 and included one or more vintage aircraft, animated scenery, and some kind of boat or automobile. When you purchased something from them, it always had your name on it somewhere; that was the custom part.

The Lyons are retired now, and all of the Custom Classics are freeware; you can find them by searching for the authors? name in the AVSIM file library. But Bill Lyons was not only a gifted modeler; he was also a generous teacher.

Bill Ortis, who made the package under review here, was a student of Lyons, and it shows in his work. His Bugatti Pylon Racer, which staff reviewer Marc Radford wrote about several weeks ago, was a Custom Classic in all but name. It was inexpensive, featured vintage airplanes, came with custom scenery, and included two ground vehicles.

The package under review here, Operation: Valkyrie, is made from the same pattern, only on a bigger scale. The airplanes are bigger, the models are more complicated, there is a water vessel as well as a ground vehicle, there is much, much more scenery, and whereas the Bugatti package came with 18 mission flights, Operation: Valkyrie has 65.

Together, the missions add up to a story and a career. It begins with a young German pilot learning to fly gliders. Soon, he is inducted into the Luftwaffe and learns to fly powered aircraft, first a single-engine trainer and later a six-engine transport. In the process, he becomes involved with a high-level conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler. This is where fiction merges with history: there was a conspiracy in real life, and its code name was Operation Valkyrie.











b-moll