MSFS Honolulu, Hawaii & Surrounding Area Scenery

This is a complete replacement scenery pack covering the entire city of Honolulu, Pearl Harbour, and a large coverage of the surrounding areas in Hawaii for the Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2020 release.  This pack replaces the default scenery and brings it up to an even higher level of detail with better accuracy and higher resolution textures.

The scenery has been based on sources external outside of Microsoft (Bing Maps) and has a LOD (level of detail) of between 19 and 20.  The City of Honolulu and Pearl Harbour are baked at LOD19 while downtown Honolulu and Pearl Harbour are baked with LOD20 data.

The scenery is a complete replacement of the default and many users are already highly rating this freeware pack claiming it's much better than the default Microsoft offering.

The pack is put together and released by the freeware developer steveli and it is free of charge to download and use in MSFS.

The developer has also stated that it has been tweaked and optimized to run on pretty much any machine - be it a top-end all bells and whistles or a normal PC you can buy in the store - you should have no issues with frame rates (FPS).  Having said that, Microsoft released a Sim Update that seemed to help with the FPS issue of these photogrammetry scenery packages which also plays a part.

The scenery add-on captures Hawaii and Honolulu in stunning detail and the vibrate green colors around the volcanic island are perfectly represented.  I've always found Hawaii in any flight simulator to be very colorful and vivid and this mod certainly sticks to that memory.

All Packs, One File

The freeware release available from Fly Away Simulation includes all packs needed to experience the whole scenery area.  Some other sites that list this file release it in parts.  The one you download from here will include all parts (1-6) and is a complete, single download pack with no need to source or search for additional files or releases.  It's a complete package with a single download.  The developer originally released this scenery in 6 parts - they are all included and are listed below;

• Part 1: Honolulu west, downtown, and PHNL surrounding area,
• Part 2: Waikiki and downtown area
• Part 3: Honolulu downtown, East area, Kaneohe Bay Marin Corp air station
• Part 4: Pearl Harbour
• Part 5: Pearl Harbour and Pearl City
• Part 6: PHNL and Kalaloa Area

This is a very large download and while it's easy to download (all in one pack), we recommend a download manager should your connection get interrupted.

Finding the scenery

If using simply GPS, the coordinates are: 21.3099° N, 157.8581° W

Best Airports to Fly From/To

If you're wanting to start/stop flights at airports in and around the scenery coverage area, the best places to take off from and land at are;

Major Airports

• Daniel K Inouye International Airport, Honolulu (PHNL)
• Molokai Airport, Ho'olehua (PHMK)
• Lanai Airport, Lanai City (PHNY)

Smaller/Light Airport/Airfields

• Kaneohe Bay MCAS (Marion E. Carl Field) Airport, Kailua (PHNG)
• Kalaeloa Airport, Kapolei (PHJR)
• Wheeler Army Airfield, Wahiawa (PHHI)
• Dillingham Airfield, Mokuleia (PHDH)

Installation

Once you have downloaded the archive, simply browse into the MSFS Scenery Files folder and copy the following folders into your MSFS community folder:

• Hawaii_honolulu_Part1
• Hawaii_honolulu_Part2
• Hawaii_honolulu_Part3
• Hawaii_honolulu_Part4
• Hawaii_honolulu_Part5
• Hawaii_honolulu_Part6

Once that's complete, you should be able to load the scenery and perhaps use one of the starting airports listed above.  However, if you know Hawaii and the Honolulu area, you will know just where to start in the sim.

About the Developer

This freeware scenery package for MSFS has been developed by steveli and they have allowed republication on any website providing they are credited correctly.

The developer does publish a public donation page for their freeware work and if you like this pack, you can donate to the developer using this PayPal link.

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