Hawaii Photoreal Vol 1 + Vol 2 + Vol 3 FSX & P3D

Hawaii Photoreal brings together Flight Sim Jewels’ three freeware volumes for FSX and Prepar3D. The 1-metre-per-pixel photographic coverage includes Niihau, Oahu, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Maui, Molokai, Molokini and Hawaii, also known as the Big Island. Coastlines have been masked, imagery artefacts corrected and colours balanced.

The package combines photo textures with autogen and night textures, except on Molokai. It includes George Keogh’s Hawaiian Airports, Ray Taburet’s Hawaii 10m Mesh, Charles Reid’s landclass, Hawaii Autogen Vegetation BETA and Hawaii Extra Contents.

The airport updates add buildings, runways, taxiways, night textures, vehicles, people and animated objects. Locations include Molokai PHMK, Lanai PHNY, Hana PHHN, Kalaupapa PHLU, Kapalua JHM, John Rodgers PHJR, Barking Sands PHBK, Ford Island NPS, Kaneohe Bay PHNG, Princeville, Port Allen, Waimea and Upolu. Fixes address water features near PHBK and the conflict between Kapalua and Charles Reid’s autogen.

Installation: the download is split into eight parts. Extract all contents of hawaii_photoreal_vol_1_vol_2_vol_3.zip to one folder, then run hawaii_photoreal_vol_1_vol_2_vol_3.exe. A download manager that can resume interrupted transfers may be useful for this large archive.

If the scenery does not appear after installation, check its activation in the scenery library and the write permissions for Scenery.cfg. The installer must be able to update this file; Windows account restrictions can prevent that step.

The authors also offer a separate PLUS edition. To explore this package’s coverage, a route linking Kona PHKO, Kahului PHOG, Molokai PHMK and Lanai PHNY provides several different islands to compare. Kahoolawe has no airport in this presentation.

Big Island — PHKO

Maui — PHOG

Molokai — PHMK

Lanai — PHNY

Kahoolawe

Images from Prepar3D v2.3