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EHM-2383 Ian:
Dominic
I have just about decided to go for your recommendation on Ground Environment. Just one question though. Does this give an improvement to the look of towns and cities eg. when flying over London is it in any way recognisable as London? Maybe I am looking for too much!!!

Ian

EHM-1465 Dominic:
Hi Ian,

GE does improve the look of towns and cities in a generic way - it makes the urban textures look more realistic than default textures - but it doesn't affect the placement of these textures which is down to the landclass data. This landclass data is changed by the use of addons such as Ultimate Terrain Europe (payware also by Flight1) or you can get freeware improvements for landclass as you can see HERE - scroll down to the bottom where it says UK Landclass (lots of other good freeware addon scenery here too).

Or you can get one of the addon London sceneries such as Visualflight London (payware)which you can find HERE - these older FS2004 sceneries are harder to find now as many have been replaced by FSX only versions but a web search might turn up others. These will obviously give you a much better rendition of London ;)

Or try and pick up an old copy of JustFlight's VFR photographic scenery (Volume 1 covers London) on eBay such as THIS ONEwhich looks great for VFR flights but does have limitations (no autogen etc)...

EHM-2383 Ian:
Hi Dominic
Can I just check with you? I have downloaded and tried to install Ground Environment. This leads to a screen asking me to tick parts that I want eg. Global Coverage- Day; Global Coverage-Night, etc. I have done this and get the message that files have been installed. Do I then just tick the EXIT on this screen and that should be it?

I am wondering if I have missed a step or something as the environment around the airport when I go into FS9 doesn't look any different to it was before!!!

Ian 

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