I removed Orbx Cityscape Sydney, and the photogrammetry is fine.
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Wow this is amazing!
Been looking forward all week to flying it. Adelaide before WU21 looked awful, terrible pg over a fairly small area of the city, and the whole of Adelaide and surrounding hills was a ridiculous red colour. No more!
Adelaide now looks absolutely fantastic. The quality of the new pg is unreal wirh amazing detail, the colours are excellent, and the coverage is vast.
Iām so glad we got a really good Australia WU.
Reading the release notes I didnāt have such high hopes:
South Australia
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Adelaide: The coastal capital of South Australia, a planned city surrounded by lush parks.
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Woodcroft: Picturesque suburb of southern Adelaide.
OK I thought, theyāve done the city and inner suburbs again, but why Woodcroft for a southern suburb? I know it very well, itās fine, but not one of Adelaideās top 10 prettiest suburbs, it seemed such a random choice. And why such a small area?
Iāve come to the conclusion someone was playing a practical joke. Sure Woodcroft is now pg but so is the ENTIRE of Adelaide and suburbs, not even just Adelaide, but surrounds too. Even more odd to call it out!
The pg goes way south to fully include Aldinga town and McLaren Vale which are not in Adelaide. It goes far enough inland and into the hills to cover Stirling. This area is HUGE. All of the area in this screenshot is continous pgā¦
Thatās 70km from North to South (right to left) and up to 25km from West to East (top to bottom). All of it, simply amazing! Curiously the scan seems to have been taken no later than 2023 which shows the lead time on these things.
My top tip, go and fly around McLaren Vale, a world renowned wine region. It looks amazing, with 7000ha of vines, most of it now in the pg/tin. Right, itās not just the buildings added, the land, rocks, cliffs they are tin now too.
TIN well known structures to look for (they are there) include the top of Mount Lofty with the obelisk and the fire observation tower, the dāArenberg Cube (how cool would it be to get that modelled as a POI), and even TIN right down to the Big Buddha (actually the Nan Hai Pu Tuo Temple of Australia behind Sellicks Beach).
I ran out of time to look at anything else but if this is the quality of WU21 and beyond then itās going to be amazing.
Can someone please just fix the trees? It looks so weird. There are some gum tree species with straight tall trunks but they are the exception not the rule, none of the regular trees look anything like what the sim is rendering. I thought MSFS2024 was supposed to bring local biomes?
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Iāll get slammed by admin no doubt but I agree. it seems to be the easy option.I would much rather they iron out the bugs than give us eye candy but in fairness it seems like we all have different issues as far as bugs go. yesterday none of the clickable options on the in game menus worked today theyāre fine.
Oh well thatās the way of things.
My Personal Comment & Observation
WhiIst I agree that there are many additional areas of the worId that could be improved by a World Update, my understanding is that there are two broad options for Microsoft when creating WUs:
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Purchase existing commercial data from companies such as Vexcel - you can see their coverage on their website, here. Unfortunately, it does not show coverage for many areas in the world where users would like to see a World Update. India, however, is shown - so maybe we will see one or more of the 50 major metropolitan areas that they mention on their webpage in a future WU (there is a wishlist topic for an Indian WU here, should users care to vote on it).
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Commission the work for a specific area. Jorg talked about this back in the March 14th 2025 Developer Livestream, where he says it takes getting the right type of camera(s) to the locales and have them there for a āyear or twoā, and āmy plan is to capture the planetā.
So, while waiting for that, I think updating existing areas with the latest data seems to me a good way to keep WUs coming. Iād rather have updated existing locales now, rather than waiting for a few years for WUs in new areas without any updates of existing areas until after the new areas are released.
And back on topic about the this WU - I flew around Botany Bay and north along the coast to Cessnock (YCNK) last night. Great visuals, great performance except for a small area when approaching downtown Sydney where the sim was having a hard time streaming in the data fast enough. I was noticing rates of between 160 - 180 Mbps at that point. My ISP (starlink) can download at a faster rate, so it may have been that the servers were just unable to deliver the data fast enough.
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Those arguments stopped making sense when Asobo included Cuba in the Caribbean WU.
Thereās obviously other ways to properly make POIs, hundreds (if not thousands) of independent scenery addons say itās possible
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Cuba was included?
check it out. And it has tons of interesting POIs like the Embassy of Russia in Havanaā¦ so, the āgovernment permissionā and the āwe need data from airplanes flying overā argument is very hard to believe
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Scenery addons from a third-party are different. Also getting a US registered aircraft to fly over Cuba and capture data for the sim isnāt going to happen, lol.
exactly my point. Thatās why I donāt believe in the arguments Asobo is making to justify the lack of other regions in World Updates
Well itās much easier to get data (and good data) for other regions. That is why we have seen multiple WUs and CUs for some regions. Demographics also play a role.
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demographic plays a part up to a point. Itās not very attractive to fly to regions that look like sceneries for FS2002 until you find them appealing - South Korea, Greece, Turkey, Mexico, Argentina and many other regions have been honestly excluded for years
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Well it goes back to the possibility that getting data worth placing in the sim might be difficult. I do recall something is being done for South Korea.
And southern Africa
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Itās a shame they missed the opportunity to fix the Midway Point and Sorell Causeways. I notice this every time I fly into YMHB. Itās weird just seeing the lights hanging over the water like that .
The only payware Townsville YBTL is by MFSG, right?
I thought Impulse had Townsville airport on their roadmap once as Impulse has an excellent city landmarks pack for Townsville?
A missed opportunity for Gaya-Townsville is a nice airport.
Happy with World Update 21: Australia.
Happy you can use the Showcase Camera to explore the interiors of the WU21 handcrafted airports without being bumped to the roof, unlike with WU7 handcrafted airports like Longreach YLRE which bump you to the roof when exploring with the Showcase Camera, a regression to be fixed in a future Sim Update.
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Thanks for sharing the link to Vexcel, I was not aware they had public website!
Be aware though the coverage per country vary greatly. France is well covered with both detailed city images and lower definition for rural area, but for South Africa itās a couple of cities and nothing else. For India the page is just a placeholder to announce future availabiltiy of the main cities in India, nothing yet! Surely it can drive expectations on future WU when itās out 
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Some very impressive scenery, Cargo still being treated like an ugly stepchild.
I have yet to fly, Iāve only looked at screenshots. I look to fly into one of the major airports from Japan tomorrow. One comment I have about this update as I have about MSFS (20 and 24) in general is that Cargo still feels like an afterthought. For instance the cargo area at Darwin (DRW/YPDN) is stil depicted as general avation small spots when Boeing lists the airport as 747-8F capable. There are very few airports inside of Oceania or in the whole world with actual designated cargo areas.Iād like that to change, especially when world updates happen.
I also resonate with those who would like to see more of the world given deeper development, thought I am generally gobsmacked with the beauty of the basic treatment overall.
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I completely understand that only a very small percentage of players (maybe 0.01%) will ever actually go inside this terminal and look at the arrivals board. So I get why it might not seem important.
But stillā¦ why? 
Broome International Airport (YBRM) is a small regional airport in remote Western Australia. The arrivals board is currently filled almost entirely with post-Soviet airlines:
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Uzbekistan Airways
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SCAT Airlines
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Air Astana (multiple flights)
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Red Wings
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Aeroflot
In real life Broome has almost no international traffic at all. Seeing this many CIS carriers here feels very out of place and breaks immersion for those who do notice it.
I know many Gaya developers are from Russia/CIS and thatās totally fine, but it would be great if more regional airports could get airline schedules that better match their real-world location.
Thank you for all your hard work. Just wanted to give some constructive feedback.
Screenshot attached.
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