I wish Phoenix and Tucson had gotten a face lift with the upcoming update. We have clear sky’s and a lot of great VFR scenery!
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Someone really needs to give us a good PHX airport. TUS would be a nice bonus too. Flightbeam is okay, but outdated, same with MisterX over at Xplane.
This next update is NOT the North America upgrade (like Japan), so I wouldn’t expect anything to be different in AZ.
However, some of the updates may increase the effiency of the software, allowing you to up some sliders in the graphics settings, which may increase the enjoyment of the scenery without sacrificing frame rates.
I always recheck my FPS after an update. If it goes up by 5 or more fps, I’ll look to see where I can move something from mid to high, or high to ultra.
It’s good to use the same flight for this. If your home area has more than 1 airport, take the same loop - about 10 minutes, various terrain, city vs urban - and compare. Fly low and slow since thats more scenery intensive than FL300 
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I would love a hand crafted KSDL. It’s my home airport and has been for 30+ years. I love that place, but it rarely gets any love from third party devs, at least that I’m aware of.
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Do you mean in the next big update like Japan that comes maybe in January? Maybe Feb… nobody knows at this point when.
US update is due in November - update 7
Source? I have not seen this info anywhere.
i say wait until the new world update, this one will USA then check it out to see if it have improved
Just confirmed in the dev Q&A
Flightbeam mentioned in forums they ARE redoing KPHX (KIAD as well).