Here’s my review of Bristol Airport (EGGD) by PilotPlus.
As usual, there’s plenty of video content for you to make your own opinion if my (very positive) commentary doesn’t cut it for you
There are very few things to complaining about for me. One is the untouched ortho on the streets and parking slots outside of the airport’s fence, which can feel very blurry and pixelated. Another is no obvious way to remove the static aircraft.
As for the rest, it’s a great, great job. Beautiful modeling, great texturing, fantastic interiors, it’s accurate, the iconic bumpy runway is there, and it actually plays ball well with AI traffic, which is not super-common nowadays. Definitely recommended to anyone who cares about flying in the UK.
When I move the camera around. I have a 10900 with a 3080 so it shouldn’t occur. It doesn’t occur at other heavy duty airports. I just think a bit of optimization on their part will do the trick. Still, it’s quite a scenery!
Actually, I think that’s more on the sim’s side. When you are at the terminal, the terminal itself is all around you. With the way the new rendering works, what you’re not looking at is unloaded from memory, and then reloaded when you move the camera .
This means that with a terminal that “wraps” around your aircraft, moving the camera loads in memory a lot of objects, which can cause stutters.
With the world update there’ll be a setting that lets you load more of the scenery that’s not in sight, trading off some topline framerate. That should help with this.
Yes, WU6 will add a slider that lets you control how much gets discarded when not in view. Ultra=all cached no matter where you look (may affect overall FPS). Personally I’ll be setting it to high.
Edit: oops, just saw Abriael’s note above. Ah well.
Whilst I am sure this does look like a lovely airport - I have unfortunately not been able to olad it.
I have reported it to Pilot Plus - I have Oxford and SouthEnd so I know the quality they produce - but this airport is having a very weird effect on MSFS for me. I can only load it with not mods with a Cessna.
PC spec if fine, that’s not the issue…blue bar loads, engine sounds play but the screen does not change and I have to CT ALt DEl out
Hi great review, just a quick question in regards to purchasing the mod of the official website PilotPlus.io, you mentioned that “The latter option comes with its own installer” what do you mean by own installer? is it not just a case of purchasing and dropping it into the community folder? Or does it have an installer launcher window like Orbx?
