We took our games industry experience to recreate the KIAD in stunning detail, starting with our full airport survey done ON-SITE to bring you the best, and most accurate recreation of KIAD's atmosphere. KIAD was designed for FSX and Lockheed Martin's PREPAR3D the most detailed rendition of Washington Dulles ever, exclusively built for flight simulation. Welcome to Washington Dulles International Airport, the gateway from the Nation's Capitol to over 125 worldwide destinations! KIAD is one of North America's busiest airports with more than 60,000 passengers on a typical day.

High tech optimization for best performance.

New terminal buildings have been modelled, aprons and taxiways have been completely re-drawn to more closely represent the real world airport. A complete re-make of the default airport utilising Airport Design Editor 1.50.18. Tucson Arizona International Airport (KTUS), Arizona (AZ).

Custom made, hand placed dense forests surrounding airport FSX Tucson Arizona International Airport Scenery.

Nearly 12,000 acres (50sq/km) of custom buildings/textures!.

Animated runway guard hold short lights.Completely custom ultra realistic see through windows with dirt, reflections and smudges.Stunning 2048x2048 High Definition textures throughout airport.Dynamic Lighting (Prepar3D v4, v5 only).NEW!Reworked and updated ground textures including realistic water puddles.NEW! Version 2.0, uses Flightbeam Manager (No Addon Manager, Couatl required).Compared to the numbers that we used to have 10 years ago, I find this depressing. Now cut them down again to about 5-10% and you have a good estimate of the potential paying customer base. Cut those numbers down significantly to account for people returning to the same thread a couple of times. Look past the total number of threads or posts and check out the actual number of views = clicks that those threads are getting. Just look around you, this very webseite. Anyone who is investing large amounts of money into the addon market is taking an awful risk. All that you can hope for is a little compensation for your efforts. It is what it is - your chance to become one of the successful 'few' as a developer is very very low. Thousands for a really good one.Īs a frame of reference: creating the FireFighter X was an effort of 1600 hours to date by a professional programmer with 35 years of experience. A halfway decent payware scenery or aircraft that people will actually want to buy will require an effort of several hundred hours. There is not much that can be done in 10 hours. I know the time figure is more.especially for hobyist developers who do not always work at a proffessional time rate but it is the effective time for the product that counts, not I took 5 years developing this. If that developer has only spent 10 hours on developing the product and from that makes $9000 (say 3 years life) he has been well rewarded. In some categories it is enough to sell 2 (two) licenses per week to stay at the top of the list. Only very few developers can make a sustained living based on this market alone, and even the most well known companies are actually very small (10 people is already a large outfit).ĭon't be fooled by all those lists of best sold addons in the shops. The product is sold as 2 Products in One. It's has been created with great attention to visual quality and performance, using the latest available programming techniques, both in FSX and FS9. Then again, some are very lucky and land the big hit right with their first product- and vanish again after a few years. Dallas-Fort Worth ( see the Wikipedia article here ) is a scenery developed for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX) and Flight Simulator 2004 ( FS9 ). An unknown dev trying to sell on his own may be looking at less than that. It helps when he manages to sell them through ORBX, Aerosoft or the likes. A small developer can expect to make around $3000 - 5000 a year if his addons are reasonably popular. The flightsim addon market is often overrated. something to update default airport buildings) and that'd only be the same effort as making a few airports but I'd sell a lot more. But, for example, I could make a replacement texture addon that has global appeal (e.g. The effort and cost involved in doing a detailed airport is less than most aircraft, which somewhat offsets the smaller potential market. Beverley) then the market shrinks even more since the heavy metal folks can't use it. parts of Africa) that doesn't leave many potential purchasers within that scope. If I do an airport in a less wealthy country with fewer simmers (e.g. Leeds Bradford with 3.6m passengers per year) my market is going to be 75%+ people that live within 400 miles. If I make a good but smaller airport for that aircraft to visit (e.g. If I make a good rendition of a popular aircraft, most simmers globally would be interested (e.g.

I don't think airport scenery is very profitable compared to other types of addons, beyond major international hubs and holiday destinations the appeal of any particular airport is fairly localised.

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