by Bell206freak » Mon Dec 27, 2004 8:12 am
If at all possible, try looking for 38.6m or 19.2m scenery terrain mesh. 76m mesh is good in its own right, but when I had the Olympic Peninsula 76m terrain mesh installed, some very-well-known terrain features of Mason County, Washington appeared washed-out and dull in appearance. It's something akin to making a sharp knife go dull. However, when I downloaded and installed Raimondo Taburet's 38.6M freeware terrain mesh for the West Coast, those very same features appeared much like they do when I look at them every day -on days weather permitting- from my yard. (Mainly, I'm referring to the twin peaks of Mt. Washington and Mt. Ellinor just north of Lake Cushman.)
I at first was very uncomfortable with even messing with Flight Simulator 2004. For the first month I had it, I never even installed additional aircraft. But one day I found a pretty accurate version of the MD500E helicopter and ever since, I've installed at least five GB of add-on scenery and add-on aircraft. I've even created my own scenery and I'm working on enhancements for that scenery add-on as well as repaints and other Washington State scenery improvements for FS9.