Advice on Scenery

[AndyZ]

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

[Hagar]

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

[AndyZ]

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

[Hagar]

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.

[AndyZ]

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

[dave3cu]

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.

[krylite]

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)

[AndyZ]

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