Moin guys,
anybody knows good freeware stuff and airports for the south pacific area?
Fiji,Tonga, Solomon Islands or French Polynesia for example?
Yep I think I have everything available for the Pacific as that is where i sim fly and personally spent a lot of my life on an off for real so I have a keen eye for the scenery there.
For Fiji, Tiberius Kowalski for the Western Area and Laurie Roach for the main airports.
Tonga there are a few just do a search for Tonga.
Tahiti has been done by quite a few folks, so it is a matter of whom you think does the best but there is a Tuvelo X A and B which is superb.
Solomon Islands, there is a really great freeware Solomon Islands X they have their own web site.
Raratonga there are a few.
Vanuatu there are a few.
New Caledonia there are some good free ware airports and scenery available.
Samoa, American Samoa has a specialist realist but the Eastern non US protectorate is not available.
Kirbati is available.
Nieu is available.
Easter Island is available.
Cook Islands are available.
Guam, Midway, Johnston Atoll are all available.
The only area I have not done yet is Hawaii but I do not go there often preferring the arc from Australia through to Easter Island but there is great Hawaiian stuff available as well.
Basically you can cover the whole Pacific which I have done starting with Japan and working across the Aleutians and then southwards all the way to Antartica.
I only can offer one word of advice, If you really want the Pacific and the rest of the world to shine then you have to have ORBX Global and Global Vector. Orbx has fixed up the landmass outlines and by turning down the autogen you get a very very good representation of the Pacific. There is another addon I use REX Weather because it also allows you to modify the ocean and water textures particularly the coral areas, most of the scenery show bright blue bits near most places but reality is that this is not that common and places like Tonga and Tahiti are surrounded by deep water as are there harbours, so with Rex I have been able to get a most common set of these type of textures which gives a real feel to what you see.
Most of the above freeware stuff is in the airport category with the exception of Tahiti, Tuvalu, the Solomons and parts of Fiji.
If you would like a detailed list I will see what I can do for you.