Realistic scenery is all very well, but there really is no substitute for the real thing! Just Flight's VFR Real Scenery is an incredible program that uses the very latest digital aerial images of the UK to transform Flight Simulator X into the real landscape you can see from the air. We’ve teamed up with Infoterra Ltd, a leader in the provision of aerial data, for the use of the GeoPerspectives™ countrywide archive, and the result is four brilliant photographic scenery packages for Flight Simulator X that bring the real landscape straight to your PC.
With pin-sharp resolution, impressive night lighting and ‘real’ water effects, this scenery is a must-have for anyone who wants their virtual aviation to be as realistic as possible!
SPECIAL FLIGHT SIMULATOR X & VFR REAL SCENERY OFFERS
If you don't have Flight Simulator X (Deluxe Edition) yet, here are several great offers! FSX Deluxe sells at £49.99 in the shops and each volume of VFR Real Scenery will cost you £24.99, so there are some great savings to be made...
FSX (Deluxe) and VFR Real Scenery Vols. 1 & 2
£59.97/€89.95/$119.99 - Save £40 and earn 600 Just Rewards points!
FSX (Deluxe) and VFR Real Scenery Vols. 1, 2 & 3
£74.97/€111.95/$149.99 - Save £50 and earn 750 Just Rewards points!
FSX (Deluxe) and VFR Real Scenery Vols. 1, 2, 3 & 4
£89.99/€139.95/$179.99 - Save £60 and earn 900 Just Rewards points!
All these offers are for a limited time only, while stocks last; postage in the UK is free and the offers are available exclusively from this website.
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ALL FOUR VOLUMES OF VFR REAL SCENERY - SPECIAL OFFER
Volumes 1, 2, 3 & 4 - complete coverage of England & Wales
£74.99/€111.95/$149.99 - Save £25 and earn 500 Just Rewards points.
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DEMO'S
VOLUME 1 (SOUTH EAST ENGLAND)
This 100Mb demo covers Shoreham and part of the south coast of England. It also includes three pre-saved flights so you get flying immediately in the area covered by the Volume 1 scenery.
VOLUME 3 (WALES & SOUTH WEST ENGLAND)
This 108Mb demo features an area around Snowdon and Caernarfon, and three flights are included to provide quick access to the area.
VOLUME 4 ( NORTHERN ENGLAND)
This 110Mb demo features Lake Windermere and Coniston Water in the Lake District.
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VIDEOS
VOLUME 1 (SOUTH EAST ENGLAND)
A video of a sunny afternoon's flying in the area covered by VFR Real Scenery Vol. 1 - South East England.
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VOLUME 3 (WALES & SOUTH WEST ENGLAND)
Enjoy this leisurely flight over some of the area covered in Volume 3 - Wales & South-West England.
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VOLUME 4 (NORTHERN ENGLAND)
The original video of the Lake District in VFR Real Scenery Volume 4 - Northern England.
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LONDON
A Police helicopter flying over Central London, and the Tiger Moth flying over the M25 - complete with moving traffic!
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MICROSOFT SERVICE PACKS
Microsoft has issued Service Packs for Flight Simulator X; improving many features and a fix for a bug in the original version that caused photo scenery to display incorrectly in the distance. To ensure the best performance of VFR Real Scenery it is highly recommended that you download and install the updates, available here.
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VFR REAL SCENERY DVD-ROM PRODUCTS
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All four volumes are now available - covering the whole of England and Wales!
You can order them from this website now for only £21.99 per volume.
Click on the pack shot to order!
- VFR Real Scenery uses 25cm aerial photographic data of England and Wales to create a high resolution scenery optimised for 1m display in Flight Simulator X.
- The software includes 9.6m digital terrain data to vastly improve the accuracy of the relief in Flight Simulator X.
- Main water features are individually rendered with Flight Simulator water effects. You can land a seaplane on the lakes and rivers in VFR Real Scenery!
- VFR RS includes the options to load the scenery in sections or at lower resolutions for more modestly specified PCs.
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VFR REAL SCENERY DOWNLOAD PRODUCTS
These are smaller areas of VFR Real Scenery, available as Downloads only. Each of these packages includes all the features found in the DVD-ROM VFR Real Scenery add-ons – high resolution images, ‘real’ water, improved night textures and updated terrain relief.
VFR Real Scenery - London
£12.99/€19.95/$24.99 (Download size: 1Gb)
This 1Gb Download covers the entire area within the M25 (over 1,200 square miles).
Note: This London scenery area is included in the VFR Real Scenery Volume 1 (South-East England) DVD-ROM package.
For full product details and screenshots, click here.
VFR Real Scenery - Birmingham, Coventry & Wolverhampton
£9.75/€14.50/$19.99 (Download size: 840Mb)
This 2,400Km2 area covers Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Kidderminster, Tamworth, Nuneaton, Stourbridge.
Note: This Midlands scenery area is included in the VFR Real Scenery Volume 2 (Central & Southern England) DVD-ROM package.
For full product details and screenshots, click here.
VFR Real Scenery - Isle of Wight
£9.75/€14.50/$19.99 (Download size: 100Mb)
VFR Real Scenery of the Isle of Wight, covering an area of approximately 900km2. Includes the entire island - Newport, Cowes, Ryde, Sandown, Shanklin, Yarmouth and Ventnor.
Note: This scenery area is included in the VFR Real Scenery Volume 2 (Central & Southern England) DVD-ROM package.
For full product details and screenshots, click
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VFR Real Scenery - Cardiff
£9.75/€14.50/$19.99 (Download size: 217Mb)
VFR Real Scenery Cardiff covers an area of approximately 1,600km2. The scenery features the entire city of Cardiff with outlying towns including Barry, Caerphilly, Bridgend and Llantrisant.
Note: This scenery area is included in the VFR Real Scenery Volume 3 (Wales & South-West England) DVD-ROM package.
For full product details and screenshots, click here.
VFR Real Scenery - Leeds/Bradford
£9.75/€14.50/$19.99 (Download size: 293Mb)
VFR Real Scenery of the Leeds/Bradford conurbation and outlying towns including Guisely, Ikley, Cleckheaton, Rothwell, Halifax and Keighley. The scenery covers an area of approximately 1,500km2.
Note: This scenery area is included in the VFR Real Scenery Volume 4 (Northern England) DVD-ROM package.
For full product details and screenshots, click here.
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REVIEWS
The VFR Real Scenery series has been a great hit with FS magazine and website reviewers as well as buyers...
"If you are looking for some scenery enhancement, to improve your VFR capabilities, with smooth running graphics, then you will have to add this ensemble to your collection... the detail and superb effects gained amaze me" FlightSim.com
"This is beautiful scenery to fly over, and the more you see of it, the more you look forward to seeing it again... High frame rates... Careful matching of source photographs with waterways, airport runways, and taxiways... Detailed terrain mesh improves highway overpasses and hedgerows... Colors are rich but not over saturated" Avsim.com
"I consider this release from Just Flight as the pinnacle of all their scenery expansions... Sharp detailed imagery with natural colouring... Night lighting effects are also included and they are stunning when flying over the pockets of civilisation... Frame rates are excellent throughout... In a single package, offering huge coverage, Just Flight has provided some of the finest scenery in the UK" PC Pilot - 90% review score and Classic Product award
"Superb resolution, delivering quality night lighting and glistening water effects... When installed into FSX it actually runs quicker than the default scenery!... Another masterpiece of programming...stunning quality and scenery that actually speeds up your sim!" Astraboy.com
"It's a must have" Flight Times
"I would recommend this scenery... when it comes to low and slow, VFR Real Scenery for FSX is just great" PC Flight
"If you are into low and slow VFR flying, then I could not recommend this product highly enough... An awesome add-on that will transform the way you see and even think about the ground below you" Avsim.com
"Water effects and night lighting looked great... As far as the looks of the product goes, outstanding!... The experienced VFR simmer will think they are in VFR heaven!" FarmBoyZimsFlightSims.com
"Road placement within FSX is spot on... The terrain detail is much improved... It certainly adds interest and a greater degree of realism to low level cross country flights... I’m sure that once you try VFR Scenery you’ll not want to fly without it"
FlightSimX.co.uk
"Just Flight’s idea of real does not disappoint... with realistic visuals, highly defined landscapes, great night lighting and water effects this really is 'As real as it gets!' All this and increased performance, what more could any Flight Simulator enthusiast ask for. Amazing!" SimNewz.com
"Night lighting textures have been individually applied to each area of the scenery for extra accuracy and realism, and they are miles ahead of the default night lighting... I’ve never seen trees and fields that look as realistic as this in FS before, it’s just breathtaking... The amount and quality of the detail that has been packed into this add-on is stunning, and Just Flight have once again raised the bar with regards to what is achievable within FSX" FS Station.com
FAQs & COVERAGE BY VOLUME
Q. I've seen stuff about 25cm data, 1m data, 2m data and 1.2m data. What does it all mean - I'm confused?
A. These values refer to the amount of ground represented by each pixel. To put it simply, if something is being displayed at 1m this means that each individual ‘dot’ in the image represents a 1m square of the ground. In FS2004 the only level available was 4.8m and this meant that something the size of a normal house (say 12m x 20m) could only be shown using 8 dots. Although quite impressive, you couldn’t see all the detail that was in the original images.
Flight Simulator has gone from 4.8m to 1m and now the same house will be shown using 240 dots allowing much more detail to be seen. Similarly a normal road displayed at 4.8m will only be 2 dots wide and little more than a vague line in the scenery. At 1m the same road will have enough detail to show separate carriageways and even individual cars.
Although the FSX detail settings refer to the various levels as 1m, 2m, 5m and so on, this is in fact just a rounding off of the true internal levels used by the simulator. The actual values are 1.19m (‘1m’), 2.38m (‘2m’), 4.75m (‘5m’) and so on.
Q. So where does the 25cm come in?
A. When we say ‘25cm data’ we mean that the original digital images are at a resolution of 25cm per pixel. That's pretty accurate! These 25cm images are then optimised to be displayed at 1m per pixel in Flight Simulator X. The higher the original resolution, the better the quality will be when processed to a lower resolution. 1m gives the best compromise between appearance, performance and file size.
Q. What is terrain mesh and elevation data?
A. The visual scenery you see when flying in Flight Simulator is all built upon a basic framework (a 'mesh') that represents the height of the ground at any point in the world. This provides the three-dimensional relief model of hills, mountains, valleys, cliffs, depressions, plateaux and so forth, upon which all other scenery objects and ground textures are placed. The vast majority of the area of the default relief model of England and Wales in Flight Simulator X is set at 76m between each reference point so this means that there are no relief detail changes between points 76m apart. This creates a very "soft" terrain where mountains that should be craggy appear as smooth rounded hills and individual features that fall between the points are lost completely. VFR Real Scenery includes reference points that are just 9.6m apart which provides a far higher resolution than the default. Even small ground features now become visible.
Q. OK, I understand the 'mesh' but I've seen mesh quoted at 9.6m and 10m
- what's the difference?
A. FSX uses a simplified set of values in the scenery settings options to avoid making things too confusing and making it easier for the user to visualise. When adjusting the Mesh Resolution slider in the Scenery options you will see values like 38m, 19m, 10m, 5m, 2m offered. These in fact are the simplified labels given to the real values. If you select the 10m setting then the actual resolution selected will be 9.6m. Mesh described as "10m mesh" is actually 9.6m mesh when used in FSX.
Q. Are the VFR Real Scenery DVD-ROM and Download add-ons fully compatible with Service Pack 2 and Acceleration Pack?
A. Yes - All VFR Real Scenery add-ons will work without any problems if you have either of these installed - both in normal DX9 mode and also in DX10 Preview mode.
Q. What areas do the volumes cover? Here are some of the key towns featured in each volume: Volume 1 – South East England Volume 2 – Central & Southern England Volume 3 - Wales & South-West England Volume 4 - Northern England VFR Real Scenery London Airports around London included within VFR Real Scenery London are: London Heathrow, London City, Biggin Hill, Denham, Northolt, Leavsden, Hatfield, Elstree, Fairoaks and Stapleford. |
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