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Do you like flying VFR and watching the World below you? Do you sometimes feel that something is missing? We Love VFR is here to help you. We Love VFR is a free add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator that adds thousands of new VFR-friendly objects. In this version, you get communication, radio, and tv antennas, chimneys, cooling towers, radar domes, construction cranes, and satellite/radio telescope dishes. I have plans for many more.
What's new in this update?
- Reworked handling of construction cranes. Now we include only sites older than one year, but not older than 4. Also, verified all cranes near runways.
- Added more accurate data for Austria with verified all smokestacks and all other objects over 100 m.
- Added some more crosses in the Alps.
- Fixed one of the smaller chimneys' LOD issue.
- Incorporated data correction requests made by users.
Looking for America? Download Region 2 here »
Region 3 (Asia, Middle East, Australia and Oceania) is here »
What does We Love VFR include?
- Over 150 000 objects were placed in region 1.
- Coverage of all Europe, Africa, and part of the Middle East.
- In this version mobile communication, tv, and radio antennas, chimneys, cooling towers, flare stacks, large and mountain top crosses, radar domes, construction cranes, and satellite/radio telescope dishes.
- Smoke and steam effects for chimneys and cooling towers - wide and temperature dependant
- Puffin AI* - correct placement and appearance of objects**
- Included detailed obstacle data from 30 countries (list below)
- Over 100 custom models
- Lower spec PC friendly
- Much more planned
Need power lines and ski lifts?
Be sure to check out fantastic add-ons by mamu82 like the latest Powerlines and Solar Farms! With We Love VFR and his add-ons you basically get a full VFR package for a great price of $0 ;)
How to install it?
Find your „Community” directory and just copy "a-puf-we-love-vfr-region1" there. That’s it. That’s it. If you’re updating my addon, remove the old version before installing the new one.
If you have a conflicting addon refer to the included ReadMe file.
If you don't like smoke effects, or they somehow kill your fps, first of all, report it here or on discord, but then you can download the "no effects" version of this add-on.
Warning: To get satellite dishes/radio telescopes you need to have installed "USA Points of Interest" by Asobo, from the official World Update USA. It's available in the marketplace for free.
It's not a beta anymore but I don't have much time for testing so...
...don't be mad if you see any errors, just report them to me so I can fix them ;) If you see an object that you know but its appearance, join our discord and report it there. I'll try to add/fix it for the next version. You can also join our beta testers team.
Countries with upgraded data (other countries use OSM data and manually added data from wiki or users):
Albania, Armenia, Bahrain, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Croatia, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Gabon, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauretania, Montenegro, Niger, Poland, Portugal, Rwanda, Serbia, Spain, Slovenia, Togo
Note to creators: Because of fs.to ToS BS (so many abbreviations!), and me modifying files with every update I've removed consent on using my assets in other add-ons. This doesn't mean I don't want you to use them! Just contact me and I will provide you with source files and assistance :) I'll try to prepare the separate library soon, to make everything compatible forever (I must change ALL GUIDs in one region for compatibility reasons, so it may break some sceneries). The library won't be available at flightsim.to, so check my discord for links. I'm sorry for any inconvenience.
Known Issues:
- in very rare cases there might be an office building instead of a chimney (I don't mean cooling towers, these are not implemented in the mod at all... yet). Same with the office building in place of the demolished cooling tower. This is a case of mismatched data between Asobo and OSM and has to be fixed manually. Report it in the comments or in discord.
- most of my objects are switched off on photogrammetry to avoid conflicts. Unfortunately, photogrammetry boundaries are sometimes different than real photogrammetry coverage. Because of that objects that are close to photogrammetry areas might not appear at all. If you find an object like this, just report it to me so I can switch it on.
*Not really AI. Just quite complex conditions, but AI sounds a lot better.
**Depends on data availability.
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disinto
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dustninja
Eine wahre Bereicherung für VFR-Flüge in niedriger Höhe und detailliertem Kartenmaterial.
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Roadrunner52
Orbx don't cover enough masts to uninstall your mod when flying in the UK as they still miss over half of them, but the ones they do cover are duplicated by yours.
I've asked Orbx in the past with Great Britain Central and North about add on clashes, even supplying pictures but they never responded so I don't think we'll get a solution from them.
It's very frustrating! One of the half of the package, the castles, cathedrals, churches, historic buildings are very welcome additions. But they also force us to have another 300 masts, satellites, ships, chimneys, lighthouses etc that PCVR users will already have and they just ruin those features with duplicates. I wish they would have .bgl files for major item groups so we could turn off the objects we don't need. Specifically I want to disable all Orbx ships and communications masts as they just duplicate what other add ons are already doing better.
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KevinBrook
67° 21' 49,63" N 26° 37' 50,59" E
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FinalLight
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thebritishpenut
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JonMSFS
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neefoo
it annoys me as LPPR is my home airport and i fly there all the time 😊.
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drukqs
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CCVA022
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DandySwing
Jsut one question: in real life when I fly alogn the tyrrenian coast north of Rome there is the prominent powerplant of Montalto di Castro with trall chineys taht works as a very clear refernce in the area.
YEsterday flyiong over it I did not see any change from the normal scendery. Could you check if that area is covered? I checked on map and I have POI marks in both kazakhistan and Florida Keys so I guess the installation is working per se...
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