Quite a bit sooner than I had imagined, the Microsoft/Asobo team has presented us with yet another World Update, this time featuring France and Benelux. Once again, it’s a vast amount of data that includes three handcrafted airports and no fewer than 109 new points of interest (POIs). On top of that, photogrammetry data of the cities of Paris and Amsterdam have been added, with some visual and logical improvements for 100 additional airports. Then finally there’s a new landing challenge at Notre Dame de la Salette and a bush trip based within the Pyrenees and the Alps areas.
While the title says France/Benelux, the product also includes small pockets in other places around the world. For example, some of the POIs are set in remote destinations such as French Guiana, Guadeloupe and Martinique. Also, if I’m perfectly honest, I didn’t realise that Benelux was a politicoeconomic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation, comprising the three neighbouring states of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Installation
Just in case you don’t see the new scenery in your simulator after downloading the first 23.26GB of the update, you also need to go into the Marketplace and downlo…
