Interview France VFR part 1/2

Laurent Dupouey, CEO of France VFR granted us a full interview. Here find the english transcription. The part 2 will be published tomorrow.

Photo / Courtesy Ouest France journal, april 2010. Laurent Dupouey,
chief manager and Georgia Bluteau, his commercial executive assistant.

Airdailyx : Laurent, on the french market and in Italy, new meshs and sceneries designers have recently emerged, maybe two or three years ago (France Touristique Scenery, Scenery Box and Real Earth X in Italy). Technically, how far are you still getting ahead of them ?
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L.D. : First of all, this is our whole range of products that keeps us ahead, thanks to our products quality content but also through our recognized brand image as well. Technically, we have reached seven years of experience and customers feedback. But in the meantime, we have also acquired a large amount of high resolution rasters and vectoring datas that are helping us to develop all kind of new tools and technologies ; "auto-positioning" autogen or algorythms-based 3D. As a matter of fact, all these datas and technics give us today strong opportunities that competitors can barely reach until now.

Airdailyx : You are almost ready to release VFR Rhône-Alpes region including some of the most amazing french landscapes (Mont-Blanc). What will be the new benefits of this product compared to earlier generation in 2005 ? Will the airfields rendition be as much detailed as before ?
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L.D. : VFR Rhône-Alpes will get a much more detailed - and dense - autogen, and a lot more 3D-buildings (including regional specific textures). Airports for instance, will get high definition textures and more objects than ever in our range of products.

After Britain, Nord Pas-de-Calais and Alsace VFR, France VFR is

finishing Rhone-Alpes, the french largest region including french Alps montains.