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So happy to finally have an Oakland scenery in Prepar3d! The terminal is nicely modeled and the default AFCAD has mostly correct parking spots for AI traffic. Dur-
ing the day, the terminal looks great, the ground polys are nicely modeled (even though the ground textures by the gates could use work). The cargo area for FedEx west of the terminal is accurately modeled along with the engine run up area just to the south. I love using the scenery and flying into Oakland! There are, however, some minor problems with the airport that can hopefully be fixed in a coming update. At night, the terminal glows very bight and there is no dynamic lighting. It's just very strange to have a bright structure on top of dark ground. I have noticed as you pull onto runway 30 you can see an underlying texture of runway numbers from the default runway. Cloudberry included a custom ini file to replace the static jetways with the custom GSX ones. I was unable to get it working and had to manually add GSX jetways (Not sure if others were able to get their file working). The only other area that I have noticed that could really use some love are the gate areas. In the real world there are lines denoting the safety zone for each gate along with stop lines for certain aircraft types, both are missing in this scenery. I really do love Oakland and truly enjoy flying there. A few of the things I have noted are nit picky but I hope that Cloudberry sees some of them and possibly adds/fixes them in a coming update to really make this airport top notch!

I'm one of those casual pilots that don't like to spend hours reading manuals with hundreds of pages or taking hours to go from a 'cold and dark' state to a 'ready for taxi' condition. I like to jump in an aircraft, toggle some switches ON or OFF, for the sake of some realism, and be flying in no time. Also, highly complicated aircraft in my system takes a large amount of VAS and FPS, so I tend to steer away from them. I'm not a fan of huge aircraft (mostly 'tubeliners') and not a fan of little aircraft also (mostly GA). So VirtualCol gives us mid-range aircraft, like this one and others, that is not small or huge enough, that has modern cockpits instruments and so forth. Does this aircraft fly well in FSX? Well, I'm not a real life pilot to know exactly what it does but the flying conditions suits my needs. I'm giving it 3/4 stars because I think VirtualCol could have spent more time refining the textures they made. For example, look closely and you'll find some misaligned lines outside the aircraft (the left side doesn't always match the right side); the virtual cockpit could have been more detailed, not in functions, but in textures, colors and letters. You can refine all these flaws but it takes time and knowledge to do it. In a nutshell, with this product you get a lot of different liveries (the real intention of this product IMO), a really unimpressive virtual cockpit, and some flawed textures. However, in the end it gets the job done.