Fly and Experience World Famous Scenery

New Zealand's magnificent mountains have gained world fame as Middle Earth's mysterious Misty Mountains and the fiery Mt Doom. Imagine yourself flying over this stunning landscape that has been chosen by Hollywood's directors for several recent blockbuster films. Join simmers worldwide who are in absolute awe of what this scenery offers.

Our Promise

Whether you get lost in the jaw-dropping mazes formed by the mountains of fiordland, visit the panoramic mountain backdrops framing the idyllic southern lakes, race up the dramatic glaciers that twist their ways up into the icy snow fields of the Southern Alps, or visit the amazing landscapes of the North Island that have been shaped by active volcanoes, every single flight in New Zealand is spectacular and as close to the real thing as possible - that is our promise!

Visit World Heritage Nature

New Zealand is a country about the size of 268,000 sq km, which is a bit bigger than the UK and the same size as Colorado. It is world famous for its scenic landscape which changes dramatically from one area to another, and attracts over two million tourists per year - an amazing number considering the whole population of New Zealand is less than four million! A whopping one-third of New Zealand's total area is protected, and the country boasts 14 national parks, five of which have world heritage status. If you want to experience scenery at its finest, look no further. This scenery add-on delivers.

Explore Fiery Mountains

Sitting right at the edge of the Pacific and Australian tectonic plates, New Zealand is almost entirely made up of mountain chains. This defines why this high resolution mesh makes all the difference in your sim. There are 19 peaks that top 3000 m, including Mt. Cook at 3750 m. Sitting across a tectonic plate boundary means that New Zealand is geothermically active, which translates into dozens of volcanoes. Some of these are very active, including the 2700 m high Mt. Ruapehu, which last erupted in the late 1990s and scared hundreds of skiers off the mountain. With the 20 m mesh installed, all of these volcanoes have real craters, something the free SRTM meshes can't offer.

Soar above Icy Glaciers

New Zealand also features spectacular glaciers. The Tasman Glacier, at a length of 29 km, is the longest. Close by, you can find two glaciers that are among the most accessible in the world, and they extend right into the rainforest below - an awesome sight. These glaciers attract 1,000 tourists daily, and you can hear the buzzing of helicopters overhead. Also worth visiting are the numerous fiords and sounds that make up coastal areas of jaw-dropping beauty. In fact, Milford Sound (which confusingly is a fiord, not a sound) is probably the most famous scenic spot in New Zealand.

Essential for Your Real VFR Flight

Mountains of New Zealand is a mesh product. Mesh defines the shape of the mountains in Flight Simulator. A good quality mesh can turn a landscape of generic uninspiring hills into an exciting landscape with dramatic mountains full of mindboggling ridges, cliffs and deep cut valleys. It can make mountains look much more realistic, giving you the immersive feeling of really being there while you observe a much more complex network of light and shadows created by rock outcrops and other natural irregularities that don't exist in low quality mesh. For many VFR pilots, a good quality mesh is essential for an enjoyable VFR flight.

20 m Gives You an Incredible Realism

There is no doubt that our mesh blows away what FS2004 offers by default. There is no comparison. But what sort of differences can you expect compared to other freeware meshes or to the FSX default? These meshes are derived from the freely available SRTM meshes. SRTM meshes have a resolution of 90 m. Compare this to our resolution of 20 m. This means that our resolution is four and a half times better. This is like comparing a one megapixel digital photo camera to a four and a half megapixel photo camera.

Experience a Mesh without Flaws

On top of that, SRTM is often plagued with groundbreaking issues. Regions that have been covered by clouds during SRTM data capture can look nasty. A perfect example of this is the area of Milford Sound in FSX which is essentially unusable. Our mesh doesn't have any of these issues. We offer a freeware 75 m mesh, which is superiour to any SRTM mesh. Even if you do not decide to purchase the 20 m mesh, go ahead and download the 75m mesh. We want to make sure that you get some reasonable quality time in your Flight Simulator. Don't waste time with any SRTM meshes, your sim time is too valuable!

Notice all of the details in this 20 m mesh snapshot. This comparison was taken at Mt. Aspiring, one of New Zealand's tallest mountains.

The 75 m mesh shows less detail. The main ridges are still visible, but the whole structure is simplified by a significant amount.

The SRTM mesh in FSX shows even less detail due to the 90 m SRTM resolution, and it is even harder to make out the main ridges. The area in the top left has been wiped out by cloud cover and has no detail at all.

How Do We Beat All the Other Mesh Products?

You're probably asking yourself how we can create a mesh that's superior to other available meshes. Our secret is that we are an exclusive licensee of top quality commercial data. Our data provider is the geospatial company Geographx Ltd., which delivers New Zealand's highest quality terrain model currently available. Their customers are professional entities who rely on high quality and accuracy on a day to day basis. The good news is that we supply you with the very same terrain model. The accuracy of this data is between 10 m and 20 m over the whole area. There are no flaws such as missing areas or spikes and sinkholes which you tend to get in free meshes. You can absolutely rely on this data to give you a real flight sim experience.

Use the Same Scenery that the Pros Use

When we say this scenery is real, we do mean REAL. Our scenery is used in professional flight sim environments where data quality and reliability is of uttermost importance. What that means for you is that this mesh really is as close to the real thing as possible. Mt. Cook Airlines has used our data to evaluate a GPS approach used by Qantas into Queenstown Airport - to discover their own airplanes would crash into the nearby mountains if they used this approach. Westpak Rescue Helicopters is using our data to plan and simulate real-life rescue missions. Flight Experience is using it to enhance their simulator operations. A significant number of real-life pilots are using our data for cross country flight training and planning. Do you dream of flying for real? Why not enhance your experience the same way real pilots do?

Great Support for Life

Many scenery developers take your money and you never hear from them again. We are different. We don't just want to sell you our scenery. We want to provide you with an exciting real flight sim experience, and for us, this means going beyond a one-time sales transaction. When you buy one of our products, you receive lifetime support. Whenever possible, we will respond to your e-mails within 12 hours, but often enough, we can get back to you within three. We frequently receive e-mails from customers who confirm that our service is miles beyond that of other flight sim add-on developers or retailers - a fact that we are very proud of.

We Get You Flying

You will get your own personalised access to our support backend, where you will receive updates, special freebies, and tips & tricks. You can also join our monthly newsletter in which we bring you exciting news like new freeware releases relevant to our scenery, tips on how to further enhance your enjoyment of our scenery, and fun cross country tours you should try with our scenery. We provide an ongoing relationship so you receive maximum value from our sceneries. We don't sell you something you use once and then forget about you like so many other add-ons, but with our scenery you will want to come back again and again for a very long time.

Fly for Real

Want to find out how we built a solid fan base of customers who love our sceneries? Want to know why we are consistently rated the top scenery add-on for New Zealand? Do you want an exhilarating flying experience combined with some of the best natural scenery our planet offers? If you enjoy a great VFR experience, we honestly believe that this scenery is for you. Get your copy now and find out why flying in our scenery is almost as good as flying for real!