The famous scenery for Hongqiao Airport has also received its new version 2.0. You simply must have this. Moreover, the author’s Chinese blog provides us with detailed installation instructions, which saves me from waffling on too much here.

One small thing to add: the download link for this Russian Ruscenery library is right here. Just click the link to download and copy it to the Custom Scenery directory.

Therefore, after installing the library and the scenery, you should add these two lines to scenery_packs.ini:

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/ruscenery/
SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/ZSSS_Hongqiao/

Alright, let’s test flight this. To the right is the China Eastern maintenance center? To the left is the airport fire station. Creeping forward a bit more reveals the terminal; seeing the word “Shanghai” confirms I haven’t gone to the wrong place. After all, I haven’t been to Shanghai myself for over 30 years, so I’m a bit unfamiliar with the place, hehe.

Just wandering around the airport, is that a Xiamen Airlines 737-500?

Let’s take off and circle around the airport. Oh, the machine suddenly slowed down; it seems this scenery really consumes video memory. My machine isn’t quite up to scratch anymore…

You can see the ground markings are very rich. I'll need to find some materials to study the Hongqiao airport ground chart when I have time.

Accidentally spotted many skyscrapers in the distance. Is this the legendary Bund? Alright, let’s fly over and take a look. That looks like the Oriental Pearl Tower, I guess. Today’s unexpected harvest. Later I discovered this is because I had previously installed a Shanghai city scenery. If you are interested, you can download it from here.

So the scenery_packs.ini should look like this:

SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/ruscenery/
SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/ZSSS_Hongqiao/
SCENERY_PACK Custom Scenery/Shanghai_City/

Alright, that concludes the brief introduction to the Hongqiao Airport (ZSSS) scenery 2.0. Thanks to developer shanemontoya for the excellent work!

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