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Hi

I'm new here. I've just got FS2004 for Xmas and have happily cruised around in my Cessna. I am very keen on getting scenery as realistic as possible. I notice that in the 'Settings' area there is a  Scenery Library with what appear to be aerial photos of eg Paris etc.  How do I activate them so that I can see them from my plane?

Any other tips on realism would be appreciated.

thanks
Andy Z

Hi Andy. The Scenery Library is used for activating addon scenery. You can download the files from the Scenery section here. To install them check out my Scenery Clinic. http://www.simviation.com/lair/fs2004sc.htm

thanks for a very prompt and helpful reply !!.

Is the scenery automatically visible once I have installed it. I.E. what I see from my window is the photo based scenery ? Sorry to be stupid.

Andy

Glad to help. The scenery should be visible once you activate it. Follow the instructions in my tute. As you're new at this it might take a while to figure out but it's surprisingly easy once you get the hang of it.  Any problems please mail me.

thanks for a very prompt and helpful reply !!.

Is the scenery automatically visible once I have installed it. I.E. what I see from my window is the photo based scenery ? Sorry to be stupid.

Andy

Hi Andy, welcome to SimV

The included 'aerial photo' scenery(s) are on by default (check mark in box), and this is what you see in your fly-over.

There's also commercial scenery addons such as FSGenesis (www.fsgenesis.net)and FSScenery. See the scenery addon topic further down this forum. avsim.com has a whole bunch of reviews of addons commercial and freeware but they seem to give most commercial addons at least 3 star ratings... and 5 star AOEs are the best such as pdmg(www.precisionmanuals.com)

Thaks for the advice everyone, I am off to get some add-on scenery now.
Happy New Year
Andy