V.C. Bird TAPA : not the scenery of the year

The airport of V.C. Bird Intl in Antigua and Barbuda island is an interesting choice. In Caribbean region, designers are usually diving on the same places ; St-Martin Princess Juliana, french islands. From my recollection, this is the first time in my simmer's life i can fly there ! Interesting choice but not an easy task to depict this declining airport that has nothing really signicative apart a decommissioned runway.

Zones of conflict

Oh its not a joke. Latin VFR, Tropical Sim and Intersim Studios might have definitely plunged themself into a terrible war. The war zone ? Caribbean, South America and maybe Central America soon. In last october, i already wrote an article on this. But things are getting worse. It is a fact that designers are interested by the same airports ; Sao Paulo Guarulhos, Montevideo, La Havana etc.

MWCR Owen Roberts revamped

Latin VFR has released a major update for its Caymans islands scenery. The modifications are strictly limited to the main airport, Owen Roberts, which have been renovated. Ground terminal has got high definition textures and a better rendition of wear and oil marks. Some front buildings have been improved with photoreal textures, and -hourra - the hideous "playmobils" marshallers have also been removed. Around the runway, old and bad photo-like textures have been replaced by nice-looking grass fields and during departure, you will have to watch out for the turned on seagulls* dancing around 80 feets over the runway. This free update is a nice addition for those who already bought the Caymans. If you want to buy the product, check first if it has been duly updated to the V2. It was not the case in my usual webshop.

* Ok, that's new, someone wrote me to explain that they are not Seagulls but Snowy Egret or maybe the red-footed Booby...

Cayo Coco MUCC test

The prolific teams of taxi2gate and Intersims have just released Jardines del Rey airport in north of Cuba a couple of days ago. Screenshots don't show that but MUCC has a very long runway of 9842 feets. Heavy liners can land there without a problem. The scenery itself is just made of a few buildings. The main terminal is well depicted (especially the front side) with some photorealistic textures on windows figuring passengers. Okay its not the state of the art but the place is beautiful, with flowers and trees everywhere (at full autogen). I did not see any AFD file for Ai traffic but My traffic put 2 regional aircrafts on the parking.

The airport is a good start for a lot of destinations ; Montego and Kingston, Nassau, Caymans, Miami and Tampa and others cuban airports. The weak point : it is surrounded by a lot of fences which tend to flicker and sparkle, especially where they are side by side. It might be my settings but developers (who will possibly read this post) are totally free to comment and explain this effect.

Quality 7/10 FPS 9/10 Interest 8/10 Package 7/10

Montego bay under a microscope

Don't be misguided by the title. Latin Vfr's Montego Bay scenery is a pretty large area in a 20 x 10 km square, from the Montego bay itself to the Rose hall resort along the coastline 15 km east of the airport. This time, the designer added a lot of resorts hotels along the hills, giving a pleasant place to land (in a larger airport than Norman Manley).
Considering the work done, the price is decent. Considering quality, i would say that next time, Latin VFR might try to raise its standards. Just to point out my idea, i put a picture to be compared with the real one. I would say that some time, textures color choices seem unfortunate but one possibility is that developers did not get all photo materials, except for this one. Anyway a lot of us were waiting for this MKJS airport. It is winter, enough of icelands (hmm..) and let's go look for the sun.
Overall quality 7,5 FPS 7,5 Interest 9 Package 9,5

Color of these bricks don't match with real ones.

Left : very nice details of grounds

Right : a lof of resorts added everywhere.

! These pictures are not the best (see Latin VFR forum) but these ones are there to point out relevant details.

Surprise...from Montego Bay !

Scoop from Latin VFR... Montego Bay Sangster MKJS to be released shortly.
I really like Latin VFR. Maybe they could not restrain themself from making noise over Tropical Sim (who just released LEBB). Anyway, it is a nice surprise. More screenshots on their forum.