The latest freeware scenery released is simply amazing. It’s not an airport, but a whole city! Let’s talk about Madrid’s representation in X-Plane.

“ahí está, ahí está, la Puerta de Alcalá” sang Victor Manuel some years ago. And from today you can sing it overflying  Madrid in X-Plane too!

It’s really pleasant for me to talk about a city I visited in June (don’t kill me, I liked more Barcelona and Valencia) and I really enjoyed! During my sightseeing in Madrid I toke A LOT of pictures the I used to compare the scenery by SUR4714 (Fabio H. in his  everyday life) to the real city.

I don’t know if Fabio lives in the main city of Spain, but I ensure you his work is amazing. Everything looks special and you can recognize the “Wanda Metropolitano”, the “Santiago Bernabeu”, the railway stations and the skyscrapers of the modern city.

I spent a lot of time overflying “Parco del retiro”, for personal reasons as I spent a whole day there, but every critical angle of the city is redone perfectly, and take benefits of the PBR technology (even if it works also on X-Plane 10).

I was afraid for my GPU and CPU while downloading this scenery, because I already use Spain UHD for my landscape, and it’s natural to think that a huge 3D scenery could eat your fps like anything.

I’m happy to state that this scenery is incredibly optimized. The fps loss on my machine is quite unnoticeable, but we know that every pc is different, and I cannot ensure you will get the same performance even if your pc could be the same of mine. If I could, probably I’d be up in the sky…

Let’s look at the official video presentation of the scenery:

What you’ll need to install and enjoy  this scenery in the right way.

To run the scenery you’ll need a huge amount of libraries (master libraries must be updated) look at the list below:

3D_people_library
CDB-Library
ff_library_extended_LOD
FJS_Scenery_Library_v1.7
MisterX_Library
NAPS_library
OpenSceneryX
R2_Library
The_Handy_Objects_Library
world-models
XAirportScenery
Europa library
R2 Library
RD Library
GT Library
plus another library that is not mentioned on the file topic. You can download here

Maybe too much, but it’s hard to get a more detailed scenery for free (you can donate to “my friend” here) without the help of exernal libraries… Even if I totally disagree the “lego brick” technique, in this case I must give merit to the developer: He used external libraries to integrate custom buildings and keeping superb performances.

The link to download this amazing package is here. and you can subscribe the official spanish X-Plane group on Facebook here

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EDIT: Fabio is also developing Barcelona, review as soon as it’s released!