Missing Hangars and Buildings
Posted: 21 Jan 2009, 06:15
Thanks to all at MAIW for populating the skies of FS9 with MILITARY aircraft! One of the MAJOR deficincies in FS9 has been resolved..
Prior to installing ANY addon scenery, I reconnoitre the area to check out what it looks like...to enhance my appreciation of the NEW addon scenery AFTER installation.
As a rule, I've noticed that MAIW packages add AFCADS, and AI planes. Sometimes with special, tailor-made sceneries included. But not often. So what one sees is an airport with a superb AFCAD, excellent AI to liven up the airfield...but NO buildings of any sort!! What a pity...
This morning, I've just installed MAIW Oman Hawks...visited the two airfields...and again NO visible buildings. Which DOES detract from the overall effect. Sometimes, I've noticed that the hangars/buildings placed there by Microsoft are missing afterward...and no replacements supplied by MAIW.
Please, don't get me wrong....MAIW is dedicated to populating the SKIES with AI traffic...NOT designing Airport sceneries. Which is great!
But what's the harm of adding a few scattered buildings/hangars(even default objects would suffice) to project a 'semblance' of a simple airport...NOT a bare one, undressed from any buildings?? After all the effort and trouble and care MAIW goes to fill in these HUGE gaps left by Microsoft...what's a few more hangars, huts etc. ?? Yet they WOULD make quite a difference....for instance, the Oman airfields seemed rather bare and unreal without a SINGLE building in sight...except for the Control Tower.
After installing and flying around MAIW packages like the Hill AFB, which is so rich in scenery details...and Fightertown USA etc. , I cannot help feeling the HUGE disparity between Hill AFB and Oman... One airport is magnificently constructed and enhanced....whilst others by MAIW are completely devoid of ANY buildings..
Nonetheless, I do enjoy the extra AI traffic and am indebted to every one at MAIW for dishing out all these amazing packages....as FREEWARE !!!
Sincerely,
Ronald Falzon (Island of Malta - Mediterranean Sea - EUROPE)
Prior to installing ANY addon scenery, I reconnoitre the area to check out what it looks like...to enhance my appreciation of the NEW addon scenery AFTER installation.
As a rule, I've noticed that MAIW packages add AFCADS, and AI planes. Sometimes with special, tailor-made sceneries included. But not often. So what one sees is an airport with a superb AFCAD, excellent AI to liven up the airfield...but NO buildings of any sort!! What a pity...
This morning, I've just installed MAIW Oman Hawks...visited the two airfields...and again NO visible buildings. Which DOES detract from the overall effect. Sometimes, I've noticed that the hangars/buildings placed there by Microsoft are missing afterward...and no replacements supplied by MAIW.
Please, don't get me wrong....MAIW is dedicated to populating the SKIES with AI traffic...NOT designing Airport sceneries. Which is great!
But what's the harm of adding a few scattered buildings/hangars(even default objects would suffice) to project a 'semblance' of a simple airport...NOT a bare one, undressed from any buildings?? After all the effort and trouble and care MAIW goes to fill in these HUGE gaps left by Microsoft...what's a few more hangars, huts etc. ?? Yet they WOULD make quite a difference....for instance, the Oman airfields seemed rather bare and unreal without a SINGLE building in sight...except for the Control Tower.
After installing and flying around MAIW packages like the Hill AFB, which is so rich in scenery details...and Fightertown USA etc. , I cannot help feeling the HUGE disparity between Hill AFB and Oman... One airport is magnificently constructed and enhanced....whilst others by MAIW are completely devoid of ANY buildings..
Nonetheless, I do enjoy the extra AI traffic and am indebted to every one at MAIW for dishing out all these amazing packages....as FREEWARE !!!
Sincerely,
Ronald Falzon (Island of Malta - Mediterranean Sea - EUROPE)