The MegaSceneryEarth Minnesota V3 featuring unsurpassed image sharpness, scenery color and clarity, improved scenery features with accurate additional water bodies and topographical data and the latest aerial imagery available taken in 2017.
Fly the entire state - BORDER to BORDER - of Minnesota in photoreal detail.
Minnesota is a MASSIVE 86,938 square miles in size and has 488 airports. You'll see everything that you see in Minnesota in real life in the scenery.
As an added bonus, we now provide all the VFR and IFR charts in digital PDF format to enable you to get the most out of your scenery. This includes four Sectionals, four IFR enroute charts, a Terminal Area Chart, and a 495 page book of Instrument Approach plates, Airport Diagrams, SIDs and STARs, and an Airport Facility Directory. The charts are downloadable along with your scenery files.
Some of the cities and landmarks you'll get to enjoy as you explore Minnesota include:
Cities: Minneapolis, St Paul, Duluth, Rochester, Bloomington, Plymouth
Lakes & Water Bodies: Upper Red Lake, Lower Red lake, Mille Lacs Lake, Vermillion Lake, Rainy Lake, Lake Of the Woods, Leech Lake, Lake Superior. Minnesota is also known as the "land of 10,000 Lakes"!
Mountains & Hills: Eagle Mountain (2,297 ft), Lima, Brule, Pine, Misquah, Kelso and a total of 50 peaks above 1500 ft.
State Parks & National Forests: Chippewa national Forest, Superior National Forest
Major Rivers: Mississippi, Minnesota, Rainy, Red, St Croix.
Discover the rest of it all for yourself! There's a LOT to see!
THIS TITLE COMES WITH A FULL SET OF FAA AERONAUTICAL CHARTS FOR Minnesota IN PDF FORMAT.
Here's what you get (download links for charts will be given to you with your product download):
SECTIONAL CHARTS: Chicago, Green Bay, Omaha, Twin Cities
TERMINAL AREA CHART: Minneapolis/St Paul
LOW ALTITUDE IFR CHARTS: ELUS-11/ELUS-12, ELUS-13/ELUS-14, ELUS-27/ELUS-28
HIGH ALTITUDE IFR CHARTS: EHUS-01/EHUS-02
AIRPORT FACILITY DIRECTORY: A FULLY INDEXED 64 PAGE PDF BOOKLET
APPROACH CHARTS & AIRPORT DIAGRAMS: A FULLY INDEXED 495 PAGE PDF BOOKLET
Features New AtmosCLEAR™ Image Clarity with PerfectCOLOR
Minnesota imagery is processed using our proprietary AtmosCLEAR™ and PerfectCOLOR image processing techniques. AtmosCLEAR™ is a post production image processing technique that simulates the image being photographed in a vacuum to eliminate all atmospheric haze and artifact. It's clear of atmosphere. PerfectCOLOR results in a near perfect replication of the real world color. The result from both processes is a crystal clear mathematically optimally contrasted image with near perfect color.
Fly Minnesota Both Day and Night
Minnesota blends seamlessly with FSX and Prepar3D night scenery so that dawn and dusk feature a blend of aerial imagery and night lighting while the scenery transitions to full day or full night where all default FSX night scenery displays.
Selected Minnesota Hydrography
If the water body is greater than 5 sq km, then its shorelines are hand etched pixel by pixel for highly accurate shorelines. Wide rivers also have hand etched shorelines and banks. The raw photographic water body is left untouched with the result being an authentic variety of different water colors that highlight specific properties e.g. mineral lakes whose color is maintained. Where possible water surface artifact is removed from the image. For users who like to see the water bodies as they are, then simply turn off the simulator water effects and you will see the native aerial images of the water bodies as you fly. Specific characteristics of narrower rivers require that we do not apply water effect to narrow rivers and creeks for a better scenery result.