Aerosoft has been on a roll recently with their Helgoland scenery. First the release of Helgoland Professional for P3D v4, then previews of the scenery in Aerofly FS 2, and now finally a trip back home to where it all began for Helgoland; FSX!
Aerosoft has realized that their previous Helgoland X scenery has grown old, but is still a very popular destination. In light of this, they have decided to create a worthy and up to date successor, Helgoland v2 brings a higher level of detail and countless new as well as new exciting features and options. Large parts of this scenery were created from scratch for this new version as well!
I’ll skip the explanation on the history and background of Helgoland because we have covered it many times in the past in previous articles, so I’ll skip right to the good stuff.
New features of this version include an entirely updated Duene island layout, new image material with improved resolution, runways and aprons with high resolution textures, improved rain effects, and much more! A full feature list can be found at the bottom of this article.
Helgoland v2 for FSX is available from the Aerosoft shop as well as Simmarket, both for a price of 15.08 euros, with the scenery being compatible with FSX and FSX-SE.
New features:
- Entirely updated Duene island layout:
- New image material, improved resolution
- Runways and apron with high-resolution textures (~5cm/pix)
- Improved rain effects
- Updated airport buildings with restaurant terrace and transparent tower windows
- OLT hangar on its correct position plus some smaller corrections
- Thousands of vegetation objects and vegetation on dunes added
- Hundreds of beach chair added
- New bungalow settlement added
- Seals at the beaches added
- ATC functionality added
- Updated island cliffs with more realistic textures
- Updated aerial imagery to match 2018 status
- Offshore “Südhafen” energy company buildings with clutter
- 4 offshore wind parks with 4 platforms and their helipads
- Detailed offshore maintenance heliport connected to the SAR heliport:
- Very high ground resolution for both helipads
- SAR heliport details added (improved fences, signs, etc)
General features:
- Extremely detailed scenery
- 1 meter resolution mesh (so you see the smallest dunes near the airport)
- Very good performance
- Animated sea gulls (better not hit those!)
- Sounds linked to scenery objects (waves, bird, ships and even the sounds of the church bells at noon)
- Extensive shipping traffic (on shipping routes, ferries, and traffic to the wind parks)
- Helgoland-Düne airfield (with extremely short runway)
- SAR helicopter base of the German Navy (start of your rescue mission)
- Mittelplatte oil rig
- German Navy frigate (moving and landable)
- Detailed aerial images
- Missions
