Scenery generator generates old scenery

[Ivo de Colfmaker]

Hi,
Just did a flight from KCOS to SEQM Quito  in Equador,
This airport is open from  19/02/2013  and is the successor  to SEQU,
It is a high elevation airport,  7910 feet , and surounded by mountains.
It would look nice on Prepar3D  for the scenery, however, to my surprise I landed in the trees, the scenery is still of the old airport, on a different location.
Odd though that a flightsim recently developed   has 3 year old scenery


Once again PSX  is one step ahead !

[G-CIVA]

The 'guts' of something even as new as p3D are FSX vintage.

Head to here & under 'E' search Ecuador to find a very basic freeware of the airport that will cater for your needs ...

http://www.freewarescenery.com/fsx.html

[Ivo de Colfmaker]

thanks Steve,
installed it and it seems ok,
give it a try  this evening.
ivo

[brian747]

Apologies for a degree of necroposting, Ivo, but I have just been thinking about doing a PSX trip to Quito, somewhere I haven't visited since SEQU closed and was replaced by SEQM (not as much fun, which is why I stopped visiting). The idea suggested itself because I have only just discovered that in February last year Aerosoft produced some nice-looking scenery for the old SEQU airport in the midst of the city (elev. 9,175 ft).

Here's SEQU on a Google Map from 2011:



(Compare that with the Aerosoft video of their scenery — https://youtu.be/kXkk9H62cy8).

There's also an excellent 'Pilots Eye' video of an SEQU landing here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpyhxPLBJY0  (The video features an MD-11, but you can't win 'em all — and it's an interesting video by any standards).   

Back to reality.... Unfortunately (but entirely predictably) sure enough when I checked PSX the nav database currently contains only the new (also named Mariscal Sucre) SEQM airport.   

So unless someone has developed a way of adding the old SEQU (complete with its sloping runway), then the idea wasn't a good one, sadly. SEQM replaced SEQU in February 2013, and the earliest Nav database for PSX that I can find in my archives is 1403 — although I couldn't be sure about compatibility with the latest PSX version anyway.

Hey ho, it was just a thought, but I thought it might be worthwhile adding the information to your thread for general (Quito) interest....   

Cheers,

Brian