C AviationWhat add ons should I buy to make my FSX look like yours If you are new to Flight Simulator or Prepar. Most important add ons basic improvementsMesh. Weather add on set. Spitfire For Fsx' title='Spitfire For Fsx' />Terrain improvements. Area sceneries. Photosceneries. Airport suggestions. Quick glance on aircraft market. Tools. Introduction. People ask me how to make their FSX look like mine. The answer is easy its all about add ons and configuration. Today I will focus on add ons. I need to warn you yes this is a disclaimer  I have strong personal preferences that affect my judgement. I will not try to be objective here. I do not feel that I have to. I am presenting my set up. My is the operative word here. That means that you may find some other suggestions some of them equally good or even better. But if you like my screenshots this is why they look as they look. Ads and your donations help pay for keeping this site online. Thanks for your support Obligatory starter set. FSX users. Prepar. Neo Geo Roms Metal Slug 6 Final Boss. FSUIPC all users free. Read more. Read more about the first steps in upgrading your FSX. The part concerning FSUIPC is also applicable to all P3. D users. People using the legacy FSX non steam versions should also read the beginning of my tweak guide to know how to install UIAutomation. Core. dll. Mesh freewareI strongly recommend freeware Free. Mesh. X. Read my review of this add on. Ads and your donations help pay for keeping this site online. Thanks for your support Weather. Weather add ons can be divided into two groups Weather engine. SA-model.jpg?resize=600%2C300' alt='Spitfire For Fsx' title='Spitfire For Fsx' />The weather engine Active Sky Next is responsible for weather data and cloud drawing. ASN injects winds, clouds and precipitation into the Flight Simulator and manages weather changes while you fly. A good weather engine I consider ASN to be very good uses real time, real world data to keep your weather as realistic as possible. Sur Simviation FSX HMS Majestic class carriers CVL Updated, HMSCVLMajesticclassV. FSX de Lazarus Starkweather avec. Free Flight Simulator X Aircraft Jets for Download for Microsoft Flight Sim X FSX Freeware Airplanes. This includes real world winds at all altitudes. Cloud and sky textures. Texture software like REX 4 Texture Direct HD with Soft Clouds that I use replaces default low resolution clouds with images that are much sharper and much more detailed. In REX 4 you can choose clouds that are 5. Spit-T9.jpg?resize=600%2C300' alt='Spitfire For Fsx' title='Spitfire For Fsx' />Together with new cloud textures REX 4 gives you new sky colors daytime, dusk and dawn and new water textures. It also improves runwaytaxiway textures at default airports and some payware too. Better sky color and HD clouds. There is some confusion between REX 4 TD and Soft Clouds. REX TD uses sharp textures that look great form a distance. Soft Clouds add on ads clouds that appear to be volumetric although they are not. You can spot both types on the image below. I suggest you buy REX TD with Soft Clouds both add ons can be purchased separately. Some HD clouds and some soft clouds next to PMDG Boeing 7. Moon. For high definition moon during night flights download a freeware Moon. HD add on. I described it in Moon, roads, rocks for FSX. FSX P3. DAll add ons I mentioned here work with FSX including Steam Edition and Prepar. Ground Textures. Basically you have two options. You can go with a freeware ground textures or you can buy them. Example Programs For 8051. In my opinion  freeware and payware add ons have nothing in common there is such a difference in how they change users experience. That is why I strongly recommend the payware solution. If you do not have money for FTX Global consider using freeware add ons. Freeware ground textures. I wrote three articles about replacement textures for FSX Freeware Grass. Payware ground textures ORBX FTX Global Base. If you can afford it normal price  AUD9. Christmas Sale price  AUD6. FTX Global Base from ORBX. For details read my review. In short this add on will completely change your experience in FSX P3. D almost all ground textures will be replaced. FTX Global Aerosofts Twin Otter. Realistic terrain  area sceneries. Global and large area sceneries. ORBX published FTX Global Vector. This scenery replaces default FSX vector objects roads, rivers, coastlines with an updated set. ORBX also offers their FTX Global open. LC Europe and CanadaAlaska. This add on replaces the default landclass terrain type definition and ads new textures improving FTX Global Base. LC Europe. Regional area sceneries. ORBX made several regional area sceneries. They do the same as GlobalVectoropen. LC set but they do this better they take changes much further. You can choose Northern California local photosceneryI reviewed some of those sceneries If you are not decided to pay for such scenery I suggest you try a demo from ORBX. You can use Tasmania Australia and Olympic Peninsula Washington state, USA under FSX and the latter scenery under P3. D. I really enjoyed flying over Tasmania you can even install ORBX freeware Launceston Airport with this scenery. Photosceneries. Sceneries based on aerial images are a different kind. They show the real world image of the ground but they are usually more expensive and they take a lot of space on hard drive. I recently reviewed Apart from Mega. Scenery. Earth which offers almost all states of U. S. and several European countries you should get familiar with Blue. Sky. Scenery this website provides the best freeware photosceneries of the USA. Also Netherlands and Italy have a good freeware photosceneries. Aerosofts Catalina and freeware photoscenery of Italy some nice clouds from REXBluesky Scenery. Tomtom Voices Mr T'>Tomtom Voices Mr T. Airports. It is difficult to give you a simple suggestion on what you should buy first. I will not suggest a single airport its entirely up to you. I will only suggest that if it is your first payware airport you should buy something that you really like and you should not go for a cheap product choose high quality instead. Look for an airport that has good reviews here or elsewhere. Take a look at the screenshots if you like them there is a better chance you will like the product you bought. My scenery reviews One of my favorite airports Palm Springs. Sky color thanks to REX Texture Direct. If you are looking for something extraordinary pick one of the airports I rated with 6 stars Comanche over Palm Springs. Monterey Airport. Freeware airports. If you wish to try some add on airports for free there are several I can recommend. Zegrze Pomorskie 5 review is a small ex military airport in Poland. Its quality is superb. Heringsdorf by Captain. Give them a try. If you like Heringsdorf there is a payware Magdeburg from the same developer read my review of Magdeburg Airport. Freeware Zegrze Pomorskie Aerosofts Lightning. A2. As Piper Cub in Heringsdorf. Payware airport developers that I can recommend based on my personal experience alphabetical order2. Palms and 2. 9Palms together with Captain. Aerosoft. Akesoft. Drzewiecki Design. Flight. Beam. Flytampa. ORBXUK2. 00. 0Vidan Design. Aircraft. I know that it may be confusing when you look at all those aircraft and wonder which one should you buy. Let me share my favorites with you. Top quality, immense realism. There are two brands that assure you of the top quality its A2. A and PMDG. A2. A offers general aviation and historical aircraft. They have made the best Cessna 1. FSX. They also made my favorite Piper Comanche. In earlier planes they sold Accu. Sim the realism expansion pack separately like in this Spitfire  Accu. Sim for Spitfire. Currently in recently published general aviation planes Accu. Sim is built in the base product. A2. As Cessna 1. PMDG makes airliners. I have their 7. 77, 7. Jetstream 4. 10. 0. They are all great.