MSFS scenery

MSFS UK Missing Piers Scenery

UK Missing Piers Scenery restores coastal navigation landmarks with hand-crafted, manually placed models of iconic British piers, from Bournemouth and Boscombe to Southport and Walton-on-the-Naze, many with night lighting and select animations. Designed for Microsoft Flight Simulator, it steadily expands coverage to fill gaps in the default coastline.

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United Kingdom

Flight Simulator 2020

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A long wooden pier extends from a large building over calm blue water, with a sandy beach and parked cars nearby.

A coastal pier with several colorful structures extends into calm water, bordered by a sandy beach and a densely built urban area.

A long pier with multiple buildings extends over the ocean, with a white main structure and distant coastline visible to the right.

A long pier extends into a calm blue bay with several ships and boats visible in the distance under scattered clouds.

A long pier with a terminal building extends over calm blue water, with several ships and boats visible in the distance under scattered clouds.

A coastal city with dense urban development and green spaces stretches inland from a sandy shoreline, featuring a long pier extending into the sea.

A coastal town with dense residential housing sits beside a wide expanse of blue ocean, featuring a long pier extending into the water.

A small airport features a main terminal, several hangars, a control tower, multiple taxiways, and large parking lots surrounded by green fields.

A long bridge extends from a coastal city across blue water, connecting to a large platform with several buildings and vehicles.

A long wooden pier with several buildings extends over calm blue water toward a sandy shoreline lined with houses and trees.

A long pier with a large building extends from a sandy beach into calm blue water, with a dense cityscape in the background.

A long pier with several buildings extends from a sandy beach into calm blue water under a sky with scattered clouds.

A red-trimmed building labeled Saltburn Pier stands at the edge of a calm sea, with a long wooden pier extending over the water.

A long pier with several buildings and a colorful tent structure extends from a sandy shoreline into calm blue water, with city buildings behind.

A long pier with a blue train extends over calm blue water toward a shoreline with roads, parking areas, and scattered buildings.

A coastal cityscape stretches along a sandy shoreline with two piers extending into calm blue water under scattered clouds.

A long pier labeled Grand Pier extends over calm blue water, with a building at the end and a town on the right shoreline.

A long pier with white tents extends into calm blue water, with parked cars and small buildings along the shoreline.

A coastal scene shows a long pier extending over calm water, with a funicular railway descending a grassy hill toward a beachside building.

A long pier with a rectangular building at its end extends over calm blue water toward a distant shoreline with city buildings.

A long pier extends from a coastal city into calm water, with several ships visible on the distant horizon under scattered clouds.

A red and white funicular railway descends a steep green hillside toward a pier building on a calm coastal shoreline.

A long pier with a red-roofed building extends over a sandy shoreline, with a parking lot and several cars in the foreground.

A floating amusement platform features inflatable slides, trampolines, and bumper boats, with calm water and a hillside town in the background.

A long wooden pier with a large building extends over the water next to a sandy coastline and a densely built town.

A long pier extends from a sandy shoreline into calm blue water, with residential buildings and trees visible in the background.

A long pier extends into calm blue water, with industrial buildings and green hills lining the shoreline under scattered clouds.

A long industrial pier extends into the water near a sailboat, with a coastal town and scattered clouds in the background.

A wooden pier with railings extends over calm blue water toward a shoreline with scattered buildings and green hills under a partly cloudy sky.

A large wooden pier extends into calm blue water, with a sandy shoreline and coastal town visible along the right side.

A seaside pier extends over the water featuring a trampoline area, climbing wall, colorful inflatables, and several lamp posts along the edge.

A long wooden pier extends over calm blue water, with an orange boat docked beneath a covered section under a partly cloudy sky.

A long wooden pier with green railings extends over a sandy, grassy area toward a row of low-rise buildings under a blue sky.

A waterfront town features a pier with a large building extending over the water and residential neighborhoods stretching toward distant hills.

A large white pier building with multiple towers extends over calm blue water, with a coastal town and green hills in the background.

A pier building labeled Southwold Pier extends over calm blue water, with parked cars lined up in front and scattered clouds overhead.

A long pier labeled Walton Pier extends over calm blue water under a partly cloudy sky, with the building's yellow facade in the foreground.

A long pier with white buildings and yellow domes extends over calm blue water near a coastal town and sandy beach.

A long pier with several buildings extends into calm blue water, with sandy shoreline and scattered structures along the coast under a partly cloudy sky.

A coastal town features a prominent clock tower, clustered buildings, and a pier extending into calm blue water under scattered clouds.

A large pier with a modern building extends over calm water at sunset, with distant hills and dramatic clouds in the background.

A wooden pier with benches and railings extends over calm blue water, ending at a small building and a vintage clock.

A long wooden pier with a few small structures and cargo containers extends over calm blue water toward a distant green shoreline.

A wooden pier extends over the water toward a building with colorful waterslides, with cliffs and buildings visible along the distant shoreline.

A long pier with domed-roof pavilion buildings extends over calm water beneath a sky filled with layered, textured clouds.

A large white pier building labeled Sandown Pier extends over the water, with arcade signs and a boardwalk visible at the entrance.

A coastal cityscape features a long pier extending into calm blue water, with sandy beaches and various buildings along the shoreline.

A long pier with two buildings extends over calm water, with a coastal town and a church visible in the background.

A large pier building with arched windows extends over the water beside a curved shoreline and a tree-lined road.

A long wooden pier with white buildings extends over calm water, featuring railings, lamp posts, and a small observation platform.

A long pier structure with a tower and colorful domes extends into calm water, with city buildings and trees visible along the shoreline.

A seaside pier extends over calm blue water, with signs for fish and chips, family amusements, and picnic tables under blue umbrellas.

A large white pier building with a curved roof extends over calm blue water, with a coastal town and hills in the background.

A long pier with a blue tram and a modern building extends over calm water under a partly cloudy sky.

A domed pavilion labeled Penarth Pier Pavilion stands at the edge of a pier extending into calm water, with a sailboat and ship visible in the distance.

A seaside amusement pier features a carousel, a large red and yellow slide, a ghost train ride, and several small attractions.

A small orange and blue boat is docked at a wooden pier with cylindrical tanks and a blue-roofed building nearby.

A seaside pier building with a "PIER" sign and dates 1865 and 2014 stands at the edge of calm water.

A seaside pier extends over the water with a large arcade labeled "Funland" and a fish and chips stand in the foreground.

A coastal town with dense residential areas borders a calm sea, featuring a long pier extending out from the shoreline under scattered clouds.

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Expert Overview

This comprehensive add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 enhances the UK coastline by introducing detailed, hand-placed pier scenery that was either missing or incomplete in the default release. Featuring a wide variety of piers from locations such as Boscombe, Bognor Regis, and Southport, it significantly improves the visual realism along popular seaside regions while also including features like night lighting and an animated funfair ride.

Each pier has been meticulously modeled without any automated processes, ensuring unique authenticity and careful attention to local details. Developed by veteran enthusiasts Keith Hackett and Kevin Base, this ongoing project is regularly updated with new piers, promising flight simmers a continuously expanding collection of iconic UK landmarks that immerse you in the coastal landscapes like never before.

The start of a series of releases bringing famous UK piers to the Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2020 release that are missing or incomplete from the default MSFS install.

Bournemouth Pier scenery displayed in FS2020. This scenery pack adds missing or incomplete pier structures from around the UK. The list is extensive with the major piers already included but the developers have stated that their long-term project is to cover every missing pier in and around the UK coastline.

We will continue to update this release on Fly Away Simulation as they become available.

All of the piers included in this pack have been hand-crafted, hand-placed, and generated manually - not using any AI or automation. They are as realistic as possible within the constraints of the current MSFS SDK.

Piers included so far

Boscombe - Dorset
Finally, we also have the Boscombe pier in the sim next to Bournemouth, UK
Bournemouth - Dorset
The famous pier at Bournemouth beach. Not perfect but it gives you a better orientation when flying over Bournemouth. I also replaced that huge tower at EGHH Bournemouth Airport with a smaller one.
Bognor Regis - Sussex
Includes night lighting. Unfortunately, it has some MSFS light orbs that can be seen over the pier at night, these are stock items that unfortunately cannot be excluded with the current state of the SDK.
Britannia - Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Includes night lighting and an animated funfair ride. Part of my UK Piers project. Tested with sim update 7.
Burnham - Burnham-on-sea, Somerset
A handcrafted model of the shortest pier in the UK, Burnham Pier. Includes night lighting.
Clevedon - Clevedon, Somerset
Includes night lighting and partial terrain re-modeling to make it sit better with the MSFS terrain.
Cromer - Norfolk
Cromer Pier stands on the north Norfolk coast, approx 25 miles from Norwich. At the end of the pier, there is the Cromer Lifeboat station ready to serve those in peril out in the North sea. The pier is 151 meters long and was voted National Pier of the Year in 2015. Contains lighting so that you can find it at night too.
Deal - Kent
Includes night lighting.
Eastbourne - East Sussex
The pier was partly burnt in 2014 but I have left it intact.
Hastings - East Sussex
A handcrafted model.
Paignton - Devon
Contains night lighting.
Penarth - South Glamorgan
Includes night lighting although the night lighting is not as good as I would have liked due to the current SDK not allowing live changes to be seen.
Ryde - Isle of Wight
Includes night lighting.
Saltburn - North Yorkshire
A handcrafted model of Saltburn pier and the adjacent funicular railway for MSFS. Includes animations and night lighting. This package will override the pier that exists within the ORBX Great Britain Central addon. Do not rename the folder of this package otherwise, it will not override the ORBX pier.
Sandown - Isle of Wight
Includes night lighting.
Southport - Merseyside
Southport Pier, at 1,109 meters long, is the second longest pier in the UK (after Southend Pier) and is unusual in that it extends inland to traverse a lake. Originally built in 1860 it has undergone many changes, like most piers, due to storm damage over the years.
Southwold - Suffolk
The pier was built in 1900 for Steamship passengers to embark/disembark from. If you have never visited the current pier it is well worth stopping by if you are in the area as it has the wackiest entertainment in the shape of the "under the pier show". The model contains lighting so that you can find it at night too. This is part of a series of UK piers, so look out for others too!
St Annes - Lancashire
St Annes Pier, south of Blackpool, Lancashire, UK. Includes night lighting.
Grand Pier - Teignmouth, Devon
Most of the images I found to work with showed the pier in a state of refurbishment so for the time being that is how I have represented it. The end of the pier looks like some decking planks are missing during the works.
Walton-on-the-naze - Essex
Walton Pier is 793 meters long and Is the second-longest pier in the UK. It has a large undercover amusement arcade that takes up most of the front portion of the pier. The Walton and Frinton Lifeboat is stationed near the pier head.
Grand Pier - Weston Super-Mare, Somerset
Contains night lighting.
Worthing - Sussex
A handcrafted model of Worthing Pier for MSFS.

Installation

Simply unzip the archive and move the contents (all of the subdirectories) of the UK Piers Files folder into your MSFS community folder.

Developer

This scenery add-on was developed by several developers including (and mainly) Keith Hackett and Kevin Base. The release of this file on Fly Away Simulation was requested by the developers in previous email correspondence.

Currently, the developers do not publish a public donation page or contribution link. If this changes, we will add it to this listing.

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uk-piers-msfs.zip

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749.53 MB

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How to install this mod

MSFS scenery

Extract the downloaded archive

Use 7-Zip (free) or WinRAR to extract the ZIP to a temporary folder. Don't install while still zipped — the simulator can't read inside ZIP files.
Locate your MSFS Community folder

All MSFS add-ons live in the Community folder. Microsoft Store / Game Pass version: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Community\. Steam version: %APPDATA%\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Community\. Tip: enable Developer Mode in MSFS to see your exact Community folder path.
Copy the scenery package into Community

Drag the extracted scenery folder into your Community folder. Photogrammetry and large mesh packs can be 1GB+ — ensure you have disk space.
Restart MSFS

Close MSFS completely and relaunch. The new content appears in the Content Manager, on the World Map, or in the aircraft/livery selector.
Always read the included readme

Every mod ships with a readme.txt or README file. It tells you exactly where files go, what dependencies are needed, and any quirks specific to this add-on.