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JD Scenery has released Grand Strand Airport Scenery for Flight Simulator X:

Introducing Grand Strand Airport KCRE for FSX! The Grand Strand Airport is located just minutes from the shores of North Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. The airport gets its name from its location in the “Grand Strand”, a 60 mile stretch of beach from Little River to Georgetown, South Carolina.
The “Strand” is a popular vacation spot, bringing in over ten million visitors per season. It is home to many theme parks, restaurants, and other attractions, including its beautiful clean beaches.

The Grand Strand Airport is the main general aviation airport of the region, and is home to the Ramp 66 FBO, Chippewa Aerospace, and Barnstormer Flite Signs. The airport is towered with a 6,000 ft. runway. CRE is host to extensive banner tow operations during the summer months, with the far side of the field being used to lift banners into the air, where they are flown along the beaches, advertising for local businesses.

JD’s rendition of Grand Strand Airport accurately models all existing facilities; including the Ramp 66 FBO, the maintenance shop hangars, The Chippewa Aerospace hangar, FAA control tower, and the various instrument and visual navaids such as the on-field VOR, ILS equipment, and VASI lights.

Much attention to detail is given, from the adjacent mini-storage complex, all the way down to the welcome mat at the door to the terminal. High resolution textures ensure crisp, clear visuals. The scenery takes a minimal hit on your frame rate count, and blends in well with the surrounding scenery.

TropicalSim has released a bundle for Flight Simulator X consisting of 13 airports.

Included airports

• Maceió Intl’ Airport SBMO
• Rio de Janeiro - Galeão Intl’ Airport SBGL
• Rio de Janeiro - Santos-Dumont Airport SBRJ
• Salvador Intl’ Airport SBSV
• São Paulo - Congonhas Airport SBSP
• Aruba Intl Airport TNCA
• Bonaire Intl’ Airport TNCB
• Cancún Intl Airport MMUN
• Canefield Airport TDCF
• Curaçao - Hato Intl’ Airport TNCC
• Melville Hall Airport TDPD
• Nassau Intl’ Airport MYNN
• Punta Cana Intl’ Airport MDPC

Aerosoft has added another airport to their German Airports 2 collection - Leipzig/Halle:

Leipzig/Halle is the last airport covered in the German Airports 2 collection and as always this is state of the art scenery design.

Continuing in the tradition of the German Airport Series, Leipzig/Halle is featured with its latest and up to date layouts, buildings, objects, runways, taxiways, lights, and navigation aids. Just like the real life airport.

A high definition aerial photograph has been used for ground texturing making the airport and its surroundings seem absolutely realistic. The GA Team have also included the Dynamic Airport Enhancement Services Lite Edition by Oliver Pabst as was the case in earlier releases such as Hanover and Frankfurt. Numerous moving vehicles on the apron and the nearby `Autobahn´ create a lively atmosphere!

Even with this whole range of objects, details and features, the framerates remains excellent.

Features

• Detailed representation of the airport and immediate surrounding
• All navigation aids included (ILS,VOR/DME,NDB,ATIS)
• Photorealistic day and night textures
• Taxiway bridge over highway
• Animated trains and train signals and announcement on the train station
• Over 2000 cars on the surrounding roads (actual number depends on time of day and framerates
• AES Light to provide vehicle traffic in the platforms (new…. Cars now detect aircraft and give way)
• AES TrafficTool
• Based on aerial image (April 2008)
• New DHL included
• Porsche plant near Runway 26R
• New engine test hangar
• Surrounding includes small roads and small villages
• AGNIS docking system
• Ground textures with Mipmaps
• Extensive manual
• Original DFS-charts
• Compatible with AES (Airport Enhancement Services)
• Compatibel with Ultimate Terrain Europe
• And much more

All customers of this version are eligible to a FREE UPDATE to the FSX version of Leipzig/Halle as soon as its released!

France VFR has added to their extensive library of add-ons with the release of LFPN - Toussus Le Noble airport.

France VFR is proud to announce you its latest release, the first in an upcoming Airport series High-definition, representing the Airport of Toussus le Noble (LFPN, Département 78, North of Paris) in FS2004 version.

The Toussus Airport (LFPN) scenery is developed in extremely detailed way, including building textures, high-definition ground textures as well as the corresponding night textures.

France VFR emphasises the difference within the previously developed airports: Toussus is the first one realized entirely in high-definition for FS9 and FSX conform to new airport design concept charts. The two versions of FS2004 and FSX are sold separately with possibility of upgrading to FSX (FSX release: July 2008)

Both versions are stand-alone products and entirely compatible with other BasePack scenery (or the upcoming regional scenery) and fully compatible with any Mesh of your choice.

For further information, please visit our web-site: www.francevfr.com

Price: 19.90 € ($ 29.90)

Scruffyduck Software has updated their Airport Design Editor to version 1.3.

We are pleased to announce the update to 1.30. This contains several fixes and some new functionality. Is is available from versions 1.20 thru 1.26 using Help > Check for Updates. Note that this is not a full installation and requires version 1.20 or later to already be installed.

New

• Screen capture tool to capture thumbnails for library objects or generic buildings
• Users can now save any of the 80,000+ generic buildings in FSX and use them as required to modify or enhance other airports.
• ADE now has a Library Object Manager that allows users to work with object libraries. Includes the ability to add custom libraries
• Short cut keys for Open ADE File, Save File, Compile Airport and Exit ADE.

Changed

• ADE can now make automatic checks for new versions. Manual check for update now uses new method matching automatic check
• Adding Library Objects is now a one step rather than two step process to add library objects

Fixed

• Bug that caused CTD when adding a fuel trigger
• Bug that resulted in some airport objects not being loaded into ADE