What’s amazing about flightsim.com is that they’re still kicking after alllllll these years. My 23 year old FS98 texture add-on is still on there, just the same as it always was with working download links and thumbnail image. They have files going back more than 30 years on there even. It’s a historical monument at this point. I’ll go and visit there now just for nostalgia purposes. One of the last places of the “original internet” that remains largely the same and isn’t a mess of broken links.
oh wow! i didn’t know the website existed for so long! honestly i first came across with it once MSFS startet
totally agree, flightsim.to is a new gen addons hub just like msfs is a next gen sim.
great job to all those behind that website, i find it very useful and the site is arranged in a way that makes sense and allows content to be easily found.
their avatars rock too, the only downside is the Google Earth based photogrammetry towns I download from their site is a frame rate killer and that’s absolutely not their fault !
I didn’t realize they were using Google Earth based photogrammetry. Interesting.
Is it better than the Bing satellite based photogrammetry ?
Of course they do, PG towns in flightsim.to are 100 percent Google based, which is way better than Bing especially in coverage and quality and updated-ness too but the PG addon coverage undoubtedly depends on the author’s own choice and liking.
However, since they are not optimized for MSFS, most of them are ■■■■ hefty on the frames and make your sim un-flyable.
Another discrepancy is that Bing PG streams from Azure, whereas you have to keep those giant Google PG towns on your hard disk.
Excellent site and I too thank them very much for their efforts. I only discovered them at the end of 2020 and must have downloaded at least 100 addons. Unless anyone can telk me different, there is no better place to get your MSFS addons and long may that continue, I hope.