AEROSOFT - US CITIES X - LOS ANGELES FSX P3D. REGISTRATION KEY. This product does not have a registration key, you can simply execute the downloaded file to install. Product information 'US Cities X - San Francisco' Based on an extensive aerial image it will have all the major buildings and landmarks plus all the heliports that are inside the covered areas. It is clearly intended to fill the gap between the default scenery and very high dense city scenery such as Manhattan X, London VFR or Venice X.

Introduction and a bit of History

The Official Trailer for US Cities Los Angeles by Aerosoft I would really appreciate a rating from you guys, it would really help support the videos I put ou. Aerosoft US Cities X: Los Angeles 1.00 Manual Page 3 of 19 INTRODUCTION US Cities X is a series of city scenery that should be positioned between the high end city scenery like Manhattan X and the default scenery. It is intended to give the user who likes to explore the world new destinations. Irvine and Santa Ana are affluent suburban cities in Orange County south of Los Angeles County. Aerosoft accurately depicts their numerous office buildings, hotels, condominiums, shopping centers, boulevards, and freeways compared with real-world photos available on the Internet.

Los Angeles - (City of) The Angels - the second most populous city in the U.S.A., after New York, and known to everyone as, simply, L.A. Originally founded as a mission in 1781, the pueblo La Reyna de los Angeles slowly grew into a ranch town under Spanish, then Mexican rule, which ended in 1847 when California became a U.S. Territory. Since then, L.A. has expanded and now has nearly 10 million people living and working within its county boundary - a population bigger than 44 individual U.S. states!
To most of us, L.A. is the home of Hollywood and Walt Disney, but it is also the focus of international trade through its ports, which handle more than 25% of the container traffic entering the U.S. L.A. also boasts the highest (AGL) helipad in the world on top of the U.S. Bank Tower (310m/1018ft), which brings us conveniently to the Aerosoft L.A.-X Scenery, which, combined with detailed photo-scenery renditions of 16 of L.A.'s local airports, boasts a total of 143 its city's helipads! Read on to find out more...
Download and Installation
At 2.33 G-bytes, the Aerosoft-U.S.-Cities-Los-Angeles-FSX is a fairly hefty download, so, if your connection speeds aren't the fastest, you may have to resort to an over-night download. Subsequent installation is straightforward with the requirement to enter your purchase registration details, which is sent via email after payment has been processed. Prior to installation, however, you will need to refer to the manual (available free from the Aerosoft website) and establish the level of scenery density your computer will support. Once you know this, you can proceed with the installation of the scenery.
As with other Aerosoft scenery products, your US Cities - Los Angeles will be placed in a separate 'Aerosoft' folder within FSX rather than in the FSXAdd-on Scenery folder. The new scenery takes up 2.66 G-Bytes of disk space. After you've checked this, you're ready to fire up FSX. Once it is running, you will need to adjust several of the FSX settings for Graphics, Scenery and Traffic - the latter is particularly important. Another look at the Manual is mandatory at this point, otherwise you may suffer with poor frame rates - you have been warned!
Exploratory Flight around the Los Angeles Area

Normally, once a new add-on is installed, I would throw caution to the wind and just jump into my favourite helicopter and, well, take off. But with an area approaching 2,000 square miles, the Aerosoft L.A. scenery really requires a more systematic approach, so a flight plan was appropriate, I thought. A good starting point would be Catalina Island's 'Airport in the Sky' (KVAX), where the manual boasts a sloping runway and full rendering of the whole of the island. Next, I wanted to go to Disneyworld in Santa Ana, via John Wayne airport (KSNA), followed by the Queen Mary at Long Beach. Up the coast to Santa Monica and Malibu before crossing the hills into the San Fernando Valley, for Van Nuys (KVNY) and Bob Hope (KBUR) airports. Hollywood next - The Bowl and, of course, The Big Letters, before heading to Downtown L.A. via the Dodger's Stadium. Here's the plan from Tim Arnot's Plan-G:

With all those helipads to investigate, it had to be a helicopter - Surprise, Surprise! But with frame rates in mind, I chose the default Bell 206B JetRanger, rather than a more complex model. Selecting an early afternoon take-off, I found myself at KVAX, together with a number of tourists and their G.A. aircraft. Soon I was in the air above KVAX and following the coast, southwards down the eastern coast of Catalina towards Avalon. KVAX is very realistically executed, particularly the runway's 'blind summit'. The island terrain is quite spectacular - with ravines and gullies, and small bays along the coast. The photo-based ground texture is populated with plenty of scenery objects - houses, sheds, cars and boats - making the island feel inhabited. The port of Avalon, where most of the tourists to the island arrive by ferry, is neatly depicted, with the Casino on Sugarloaf Point and the harbour full of yachts.

Catalina Airport

Avalon Port

Just south of Avalon is Pebbly Beach, where there's a sea-plane base and power station, and where I found one of Island Express Helicopters' heliports - their other heliport is at Long Beach, by the Queen Mary Hotel. The heliport at Pebbly Beach look very good, but parts of Pebbly Beach don't achieve this high standard, particularly some of the power plant buildings, which look more residential than industrial.

Pebbly Beach

Pebbly Beach Heliport

From Avalon, I headed east towards the mainland, some 25 nautical miles away. Landfall was at Huntington Beach, home of, possibly, the most famous pier in the surfing world, but I was disappointed to find no appropriate scenery object and some rather basic default suburban scenery inland of the beach.

Huntington Pier

Huntington Default Ground Texture

On, towards John Wayne airport, the first major airport I was to visit, and a pleasant surprise! The airport and the surrounding area is built up from photo-real ground textures, and virtually every building is present, which makes the simulation almost completely immersive. Whilst, on closer inspection, some of the buildings correspond more to a retail park than an airport, the overall effect is quite convincing. While circling KSNA, I noticed some large buildings about a couple of miles north-east. On closer inspection, I found the now disused NAS/Marine Corps Air Station, Tustin (KNTK) and its enormous hangars, which housed the U.S. Navy's airships, or Blimps during and after WWII, after which it became home to the helicopters of the Marine Corps. Most recently, the hangars have been used by Hollywood movie makers but, sadly, Tustin is destined to re-developed for housing and business use.

John Wayne KSNA

Tustin KNTK Ex NAS Airship Base

Turning north-east, it's about 6 nautical miles to Anaheim and the Disneyland Theme Park. Here I was to find Walt's treasure trove: Sleeping Beauty's Castle, Magic Mountain and Mickey Mouse's Ferris Wheel. From around a thousand feet, the place looked quite the adventure it's made out to be - the simulated view being as good as a visit to the real thing, if you ask me!

Disneyland Magic Mountain and Sleeping Beauty Castle

Disneyland Mickey's Ferris Wheel

A short time after turning west, towards Long Beach, I was passing over Los Alamitos (KLSI), which started as a Naval Air Station during WWII, before becoming an Army Airfield shortly after the end of the Vietnam War. Several military helicopters were visible on the ramp, by the main buildings. A couple of minutes later, I was at Long Beach (KLGB), looking down on the site where Douglas had manufactured so many DC-3s and C-47s. No longer required by Boeing, who took over McDonnell Douglas in the 1990s,

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