Fly for Real in Golden Scenery

Welcome to Australia's southernmost mainland state – Victoria -- and its capital, Melbourne. Victoria is famous for three things: the gold rush, the Ned Kelly gang, and delicious wines. It also hosts the annual Australian National Airshow. But there's a lot more when it comes to scenery, including the magnificent Great Ocean Road which is counted amongst the most scenic coastal roads in the world.

Silver Screen Fame

The story of the Kelly gang claims to be the world's first full length feature film and was, of course, filmed within Victoria's scenery, as was the recent remake Ned Kelly. Victoria was also portrayed in the Picknick at Hanging Rock, which not surprisingly features Hanging Rock, a rare volcanic rock formation. The Man from Snowy River was filmed in the scenic Victorian Alpine Region, and Mad Max was also filmed at several locations in Victoria.

Our Promise

Whether you explore the scenic and rugged Victorian Alps in the east or the tamer volcanic mountain ranges and rock formations in the west, every single flight in Victoria should give you plenty of enjoyment and is as close to the real thing as possible - that is our promise!

Visit Famous Nature

The state of Victoria is the size of about 237,000 sq km, which is a bit smaller than the UK and the same size as Minnesota. It offers plenty of scenery, of which the Great Ocean Road is the most famous, attracting seven million visitors a year. This statistic is amazing considering that the whole population of Victoria barely tops five million! Almost one-fifth of Victoria's total area is protected. Over one-third of its area is covered in forest and there are a total of 36 national parks. If you want to experience scenery at its finest, look no further. This scenery add-on will deliver.

Explore the Rugged Alps

Victoria includes the southern part of the Great Dividing Range, Australia's longest mountain chain. Part of the Great Dividing Range is made up of the Australian Alps, which include Australia's highest mountains and form much of Victoria's eastern part. The highest peak is Mt. Bogong which is just a few metres short of 2,000 m. To experience this area for real, you need a 20 m mesh, which gives you all of the realistic mountain details.

Fly Above Dormant Volcanoes

To the west you will find an ancient field of now dormant volcanoes and the Grampians amongst other mountainous regions of volcanic origin. The Grampians are well known for their almost vertical sandstone formations and the highest peak tops 1,100 m. If you want to experience these, you need the 20 m mesh. With the 20 m mesh, you'll also find the craters in dormant volcanoes and you can also find ancient lava flows - this is the detail that this mesh offers.

This scenery add-on lets you experience all of this almost like you could in real life. There are dozens and dozens of places to explore in this scenery. You have the freedom to explore Victoria without ever visiting - this is the next best thing to booking a holiday and hiring a real plane.

Essential for Your Real VFR Flight

Mountains of Victoria is a mesh product. Mesh basically 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 Incredible Realism

There is absolutely no doubt that our mesh blows away what FS2004 offers by default. There is no comparison. But what sort of difference 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. 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. Our mesh doesn't have any of these issues.

Notice all the detail in this 20 m mesh snapshot. This comparison is done at Mt. Feathertop, one of Victoria's tallest mountains.

The SRTM mesh in FSX shows a lot less detail due to the 90 m SRTM resolution, and one can barely make out the main ridges.

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 Geomatic Technologies, which delivers Victoria'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? Do you want an exhilarating flying experience combined with stunning scenery from Australia? 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!