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Russia Anyone?

dandog

dandog

Charter Member
Does anyone have any scenery suggestions for Russia? It seems to be the area with the least amount of scenery add-ons. Microsoft left it the usual waste land. I also noticed it to be well under represented on the member map as well. I guess one leads to another or vice-versa. I enjoy using FSX as a means of getting a general flavor for areas all around the globe. Right now, Russia is BORING!

Thanks for any ideas.
 
As a Soviet-era aviation enthusiast, I know of some pretty nice sceneries for Russian airports in FSX!

The Freewarescenery.com website has the full list, but this is a selection of some of my favorites.
http://www.freewarescenery.com/fsx/russia.html

First...the one I use the most....

St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport (ULLI)
http://www.ulll.avsim.su/
Click "download" on the left side (it's in english) and it should shoot you to an Avsim.su download location. The zip file has the main FS2004-era scenery, along with FSX conversion files. It's one of my favorite locations to fly into in FSX due to it's closer proximity to "the West" than pretty much any other major Russian airport. Let me know if you need help figuring out how to install it.

The rest of the airfields are spread out all over the place and can be pretty remote, but they look nice....

Berezovo
http://www.avsimrus.com/files.phtml?action=download&id=36943

Moscow Domodevo
http://www.avsimrus.com/files.phtml?action=download&id=49779
Update to Domodevo
http://www.avsimrus.com/files.phtml?action=download&id=50328

Moscow Vnukovo
http://www.avsimrus.com/files.phtml?action=download&id=44098

Moscow Sheremetyevo (there are a lot of nice version available for this one, I am currently using this file)
http://www.avsimrus.com/files.phtml?action=download&id=39031

Tolmachevo, Novosibirsk (One of the most detailed freeware airports for FS2004. This is an FSX conversion. Still looks great!)
http://www.avsimrus.com/files.phtml?fileid=45182

Perm
http://www.avsimrus.com/files.phtml?action=download&id=49266
Update to Perm
http://www.avsimrus.com/files.phtml?action=download&id=49439

Khanty-Mansiysk
http://www.avsimrus.com/files.phtml?action=download&id=29882

Sokol
http://www.avsimrus.com/files.phtml?action=download&id=15907

Here's one of my other favorites....Rostov-on-Don (URRR) near the Black Sea:
http://www.avsimrus.com/files.phtml?action=download&id=42342


Also be aware of Aerosoft's two payware Russian airports, Yekaterinburg and Norilsk.


So...that's a start, let me know if you want me to add more.


EDIT: Here's some Russian (and European) mesh... http://simsturman.narod.ru/
 
This is a good site too. http://www.freewarescenery.com/fsx/russia.html. There are quite a few airports, but flying between them all could be a little bit less than exciting. I was hoping for some regional addon or landclass that I might have missed. I have down loaded 10 scenery's from various sites and will see how that goes.

Thanks for the suggestions and I will look through everything that I can. If I feel something is a 'must' scenery, I'll post back.
 
Thank you everyone. I think I am getting somewhere. Now another question. How do I rename an airport? Some of the airports are showing up as the bogus non-cyrillic characters in FSX. By reading translated descriptions of the airports, I can get a name in English characters. Now I just need to rename the airports so they show up as something I can read in FSX.

Thank you.
 
OK, figured the renaming thing out. Using ADE to rename. I believe I am up to 168 airports in 'Russia'. It would be nice to have 'UT-RUS' or 'GEX-RUS'. How about ORBX-RUSSIA. I guess I am intrigued as MS left the country so devoid of anything. Moving forward.
 
dandog said:
OK, figured the renaming thing out. Using ADE to rename. I believe I am up to 168 airports in 'Russia'.
Click to expand...

If it's any help...

Renaming.
A small note of caution, if there is a cvx file associated with your renamed airfield you may well find that there are missing flattens and/or excludes after the renaming.

There are some airfields duplicated between the two sites I pointed to, though not with the same folder names.
It is therefore easy to download two copies.
If you install them all into the same folder, you should see a warning that the files already exist and avoid a duplicate installation.

One or two which are claimed to be FSX native seem to be in folders ending in Fs2004.zip, they may be fine but also they may not be very framerate friendly.

Some of the downloads don't have the associated ALT file included, so the airfield is in a trench or on a plateau.
You will need to make your own.

Regards,
Nick
 
If Russian language is a problem there is also a mirror site (of AvSim.su in English): http://www.avsimrus.com/ , though not everything has been possible to translate in English. I don't speak Russian either but for me it took only a couple of days to learn Russian alphabet. It helps a lot because Russian is far nearer the English than for example my own language Finnish.

Pekka
 
I am OK with going on the Avsim site as Google will translate well enough. Its just that I do not like seeing an airport named "Å«½n¡d 諽«¼¡á Öpa«ó«" in the FSX airports list. If there is a work around for that, it would be appreciated.

I dl'd from varioius sites and tried to get the most diverse set of airports as possible, all FSX, and no duplicates. It is interesting that a file on Avsim.rus has been re-uploaded so as to be compatible with ORBX World.
 
On Russian sites they naturally write readme- and other public file's names and text inside them with cyrillic letters. Downloading these to English or other language using computers the text appear something like Âíóêîâî, Àýðîïîðò, Ìîñêâà (for example).

I found on Internet this site: http://2cyr.com/decode/?lang=ru where there is a cyrillic decoder. When you feed onto it the line

Âíóêîâî, Àýðîïîðò, Ìîñêâà

you'll get in Russian line

Внуково, Аэропорт, Москва (which means in "western letters" Vnukovo, Aeroport, Moskva)

Unfortunately I didn't find there a straight decoder into English (English to Cyrillic is included). So "Внуково, Аэропорт, Москва" has yet to be feeded onto some Cyrillic-English decoder.

Perhaps someone knows a decoder where there is possible straightly get translation from "mumbo jumbo" to Russian and further English?


Pekka
 
Thanks for the tip, Moscow UUDD is working fine with FTX Global, even in DX10 mode, with no tweaks involved...

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Here with Samdim An-24B (for FS9, works ok in FSX, but no VC (Dzies made a nice 2D 16:9 panel)

cx0b.jpg


Here with the old FS9 Vitamin Tu-154M, and a nice AI Ilyushin Il-76 in the background (included in UUDD).

mgpk.jpg


Here the Suprunov Design Yakovlev Yak-40. By the way, the SD Yak-40, once payware from the late Igor Suprunov, is now available as a freeware file at Avsimrus. A FSX port-over version is currently in progress by Andrey Vinogradov... Works quite fine, with an occasionnal FSX crash when unloading. Thanks to Steve DX10 toolbox, the An-24, Tu-154M, and Yak-40 are also working in DX10 (except some glass textures, which are missing or too transparent, I tried many fixes, to no avail).

kpjh.jpg


FS9 version: 50079-yak40-2-2-2-full-free-fs9.zip @ avsimrus.com
FSX port-over forum thread: http://www.avsim.su/forum/topic/131582-як-40-для-fsx/
v3.4 Download links: http://yak40.except.pw/files/ (MFSX-Yak-40_3-4.rar)
 
vonstroheim,

Was it you who posted some links some time ago here regarding freeware TU-154's that have fully functional VC's but were simple systems wise(as opposed to the PT TU-154 series)? I've looked high and low for that thread and seemed to have lost the bookmark.
 
StormILM said:
vonstroheim, Was it you who posted some links some time ago here regarding freeware TU-154's that have fully functional VC's but were simple systems wise(as opposed to the PT TU-154 series)?
Click to expand...

Sean is the real PT Tu-154B-2 (native FSX) specialist: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?71886-Tu-154B-2-Training-Session-(TU154-101)

For the old FS9 Tu-154M version by Vitamin, can't find the original thread, but I kept some links:

Tu-154M model with VC by Vitamin (aka Alexis)
23722-154-vit.zip @ avsimrus

Panel with FSX compatible gauges by Dimitri Danilov
17784_PANELTu-154mFS9PS.zip @ avsimrus

Blue panel option (with some updates) by Kalle Heinonen
vitamin_vc.zip @ flightsim
 
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