Free Scenery Fixes and Addons

Bomber_12th

Bomber_12th

SOH-CM-2023
Free Scenery Fixes and Other Addons

Until the fixes come through Asobo/Microsoft themselves, this guy has been going through Iceland and Alaska fixing many of the lake and river heights and tree issues in those areas:

Iceland: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/freeware-iceland-water-height-and-tree-coverage-fix/212134

Alaska: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/updated-alaska-water-fix

An additional cool piece of scenery by the same individual, Dead Cow Lakebed Airstrip and Fly-in: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/freeware-dead-cow-lakebed-airstrip-high-sierra-fly-in/191430

Here is a fix for the Missouri River: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/missouri-water-fix

Photgrammetric Stonehenge: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/stonehenge


A large number of freeware addon liveries and airport scenery can be accessed from the https://www.msfsaddons.org/ site, and there seems to be new items every day.

When installing any of these addons, it is just the most simple process of dragging and dropping the folders into the "Community" folder within your main MSFS installation location. You don't have to mess with the Asobo/MS content. This is also the same location that any other payware/freeware addon plane/scenery is installed to as well.
 
Moderators?? Can you please pin this thread so that it may be accessed and added too with ease for everyone. I feel that for the time being at least, this is going to be a very important thread..
 
Freakin' awesome... thanks Bomber!

sigh

And here, I thought I wouldn't be doing any scenery modeling... wishful thinking

Speaking of which, I do have models of the hangar and American Heritage museum at the Collings Foundation field I created in SolidWorks and figured out how to import into FSX GMax.

And, come to think of it, a FS9 model I believe of the Haystack Observatory in Westford that desperately needs to be properly modeled as it's a landmark that can be seen for many miles in the Nashua, NH/Metrowest Boston area. I wonder if it's usable. Somebody made it for me many years ago and said I could use it in scenery I was creating for the area.
 
Trying to keep up with all of the latest freeware scenery releases. A few of these are repeats of those already previously posted (from here on I won't be repeating any going forward), and some are brand new as of just today and yesterday. Please add more to this thread that you know of/come to find.

AIRPORTS:

Palmer's Island (YPLI) in Australia: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...eeware-airport-YPLI-Palmer-s-Island-Australia

Yambaitok Aistrip (AYYZ) in Papua New Guinea: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/...-yambaitok-aistrip-in-papua-new-guinea/220260

Nerlerit Inaat Airport (BGCO) in Greenland: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/bgco-nerlerit-inaat-airport-greenland

Machmell Fisheries Bushstrip in British Columbia, Canada: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/airport-machmell-fisheries-canada

Quatam River Bushstrip in British Columbia, Canada: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/airport-quatam-river-bushstrip

Scotts Island (WV08) in West Virginia: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/scotts-island

Sandane Airport (ENSD) in Norway (V2.0): https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/freeware-airport-ensd-sandane-airport-anda/200541/10

Bad Hersfeld Johannesburg Airport (EDEN) in Germany: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/airport-eden-johannesberg

Unalakleet Airport (PAUN) in Alaska: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/ziggy-paun

Munster Airport (LSPU) in Switzerland: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/lspu-airport

Dead Cow Lakebed in Nevada: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/freeware-dead-cow-lakebed-airstrip-high-sierra-fly-in/191430

Chrcynno (EPNS), Konstancin (EPKU), and Karczew (EPKQ) airports in Poland: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/epns-chrcynno-nasielsk

Fairways Airport (OG20) in Oregon: https://orbxdirect.com/product/og20-msfs

Freeware Airports Megapack (continuously added to): https://forum.capjoan.dev/forumdisplay.php?fid=16

Woolston Moss Airstrip in the UK (account sign-up required): https://www.msfscommunity.com/index.php?/file/9-woolston-moss-warrington-airstrip/

Coal Aston Airfield in the UK (account sign-up required): https://www.msfscommunity.com/index.php?/file/10-coal-aston-airfield/

Ince Airstrip in the UK (account sign-up required): https://www.msfscommunity.com/index.php?/file/8-ince-airstrip/


SCENERY LANDMARKS:

Sydney Harbor Bridge: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/sydney-harbour-bridge

Stonehenge: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/stonehenge


SCENERY ELEVATION FIXES:

Another new update today (8/27) for hundreds of Iceland lakes/rivers/trees fixes: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/...and-water-height-and-tree-coverage-fix/212134

Alaska water/river height fixes (hundreds) updated as of yesterday (8/26): https://forums.flightsimulator.com/...-anchorage-and-southern-national-parks/201218

Bergen, Norway with over 400 elevation adjustments: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/scenery-bergen-norway

Missouri River elevation fix: https://www.msfsaddons.org/freeware/missouri-water-fix

A fix that levels out a hill near EFHK Helsinki Vantaa Airport: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ayw1sp3l5532pd0/baddweapon-scenery-efhkhillfix.zip?dl=0
 
These are all very nice indeed! I need to start looking into this SDK myself and make or redo stuff.

I wonder how these corrections may conflict with future updates from Asobo.
 
Dimus said:
These are all very nice indeed! I need to start looking into this SDK myself and make or redo stuff.

I wonder how these corrections may conflict with future updates from Asobo.
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I have been following the threads over at FSDeveloper on MSFS. They are coming up with some good tools.

If folks at Asobo are smart they will get approval for the DYI's to use the existing fixes as updates to the game.
 
What's so great about these scenery fixes and addons is that, as the person installing/using them, nothing actually gets modified in the Asobo/MS game files (no manual editing of anything, no having to make "scenery library" changes, etc.). Even with the elevation fixes, just like the addon airports/liveries/aircraft, all you're doing is adding a folder of files to the 'Community' folder, never touching or modifying the official sim files. If you decide to remove the scenery/addons at any time, all you have to do is delete or move the folder(s) out of the 'Community' folder.

Also, here are a few more new ones (wish we could edit older posts):

AIRPORTS:

Paderborn/Lippstadt Airport (EDLP) in Germany: https://www.aerosoft.com/en/flight-simulation/news/1st-aerosoft-dlc-for-the-new-msfs-for-free

Cypress Island Airstrip in the San Juan Islands, Washington: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/...d-airstrip-san-juan-islands-washington/226880

Voss Airport (ENBM) in Norway: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/freeware-airport-enbm-voss-airport-bomoen/226539
 
I need someone to re-create Edwards AFB and environs like we had for FSX. Guess I should post that request in the forums.
 
Bomber_12th said:
More:

AIRPORTS:

NAS North Island (KNZY) in California: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/...knzy-north-island-nas-halsey-field-usa/219539

Oxford Airport (EGTK) in the UK: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/freeware-airport-egtk-oxford-airport/227947

Svalbard/Longyear Airport (ENSB) in Norway: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/freeware-airport-ensb-svalbard-longyear/228829
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I downloaded North Island, but don't have any USN aircraft to fly from it. I see the freeware Hornet, but after having read how uncontrollable it is, and other bugs, I am holding off getting it. NC
 
Yep, we're not even two weeks into the release of this sim yet. Some of what is being released right now is by folks just having fun experimenting to see what can be achieved in a short period of time with an SDK that is not yet finished. Back when FSX was released (October 2006), it took four months before the first real quality addon aircraft was released for it (Robert Bruce's Bristol Fighter).

MSFS is going to be the biggest game in town for a long time to come, and we'll see brand new and exceptional aircraft developed in-time, probably unlike we've ever seen before (just look at the default aircraft in this sim compared to the default aircraft in any other flight sim to-date). Even from the perspective of Asobo/MS, in their own words they're only just getting started themselves with this sim.
 
Thank you, Ted! There is a lot to keep track of.

I noticed a lot of the scenery addons in the Reddit pages are available here (another site I have now bookmarked): https://flightsim.to/

Here is I believe a newer version of the Machmell Fisheries Bushstrip scenery, in British Columbia, Canada, that had been released some days ago (you'll want to remove the old version first, if you already have it installed): https://forums.flightsimulator.com/...s-2020-v1-by-metropolisexbox-ry4nflint/239501

Another update to the Iceland fixes (over 1,000) released today. It now also includes the addition of Reykjavík Cathedral, Harpa concert hall, Brautarholtskirkja, and a dc3 crash site: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/update-8-31-freeware-iceland-overhaul/212134
 
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Just noticed my 'Community' folder, where all of the addons go, is already up to containing 48 main folders and 21 GB of "stuff" (everything free except for one small payware airport).
 
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The Iceland fixes are very nice. Still some work to do there. Waiting for someone to do the Edwards test center nicely.
 
Installing...

Can someone tell me how they installed the Sydney Bridge and Tower? My MSFS is on the D: drive, where it was pointed during installation, and consists of the main folder and then two others inside: Community and Store. That's it. The installation instructions say to go to %localappdata%, then go to Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_RANDOMLETTERS\LocalCache\Packages\ and place "aw-airport-ensd-anda" into the Community folder (these are on the C: drive here). For me, there's no Community folder in that location, much less a /community/addon_folder/addon_files.

Created these addon folders in both the D: and C: locations, and no luck.

And what's the "aw-airport-ensd-anda" that's mentioned?

Hope you can help! :)
 
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