| Introduction
The light version is a replacement for the regular version, you can choose which one you want to download. The light version does not include the stadium to save some performance.
Thun Airfield in the Bernese Oberland is considered to be one of the most beautiful airfields in Switzerland with its magnificent panorama of the Alps. It is located about 15 miles southeast of Bern, the capital of Switzerland, not far from Lake Thun on the northern edge of the Alps.
The site originally served as a military airfield but was decommissioned in 1955 and has since been used as a civilian airfield for light aircraft and gliders. The original military affiliation of the airfield is still visible today due to its direct location in the middle of the military area and has been faithfully recreated in the scenery by several details. The first aeronautical activities in Thun were mentioned in 1910.
Thun Airfield has two 800 by 30 meter (2600 by 100 feet) grass-runways in parallel with a 14-32 orientation. One is meant to be use for gliders, the other for piston aircraft.
This is a highly detailed airfield with all buildings and ground textures created as accurately as possible. The airfield contains many small details to give life to the scenery. All the main buildings on and near the airfield have been modeled as accurately as possible. The scenery contains photorealistic ground textures for the airfield and surrounding area with a resolution of 10cm/per pixel.
We are sure you will be enchanted by the ambience and atmosphere of landing at this airfield.
Features
- Over 30 individually modeled objects and buildings
- Full PBR Textures
- Color corrected ortho imagery (10cm/pixel)
- Custom ground textures
- High resolution textures
- Very high level of detail
- Enhanced circuit area
- Custom runway and taxiway markings
- Custom animated runway indicator (Lande "T")
- Custom Windsock
Guide
Make sure you check the user guide inside the zip file for instructions on how to install the scenery and some more information.
User Reviews
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Write a reviewTHEOLI4D
Thanks a lot for the Light Version. Without the stadium, it performs really well on my system in VR.
With the stadium, it's a desaster in terms of FPS.
Maybe one day you could do a frame friendly version of the stadium. It's kinda strage that this is such a crazy frame killer.
Maybe too much geometry or too many seperate objects. I don't know.
MSFlightAma
Well done! Thank you Very much!
PAPYDANIEL66
bonjour, merci de France belle scène
Schoch
s beste wo's je hetz gitz
LarsVatsim
mightydog
Great freeware scenery! Such great attention to detail! 😍 No frame problems at all on my medium PC.
Tarval
Fantastic and exquisite scenery, thanks for sharing! ...mb simulations, could you improve, when you have time and interest, the INTERLAKEN scenery? Thank you!!
mbsimulations 6 month(s) ago
Thank you!
The airport of Interlaken is no longer in use since several years already.
paranovski
Vielen herzlichen Dank für das Update für Thun!
Kiwi0ne
Any chance for a SU9 update please? 😊
mbsimulations 7 month(s) ago
Is there anything wrong since SU9?
Harald777 7 month(s) ago
Working fine on SU9 here.
Highfly80
Hallo
Nach wie vor bin ich begeistert von eurer Umsetzung des LSZW. Leider habe ich immer noch ziemliche Performance Einbrüche. Eben habe ich mir LSZW noch einmal frisch heruntergeladen und installiert. Das Problem besteht leider immer noch.
Lustig ist, dass die Einbrüche ausschliesslich passieren, wenn die Stockhornarena ins Blickfeld, resp. den Bildschirmbereich gelangt (Egal ob unmittelbar davor, oder aus weiterer Distanz wie Interlaken oder Reichenbach oder Bern, sobald man richtung Arena blickt, geht die Performance runter). Flieg ich über die Arena hinweg, sobald sie hinter/unter dem Bildschirmrand verschwindet läuft alles flüssig, auch der Flugplatz. Also muss es m. E. an der Arena liegen. Ist euch dieses Problem bekannt?
Gibt es im schlimmsten Fall die Möglichkeit, die Arena weg zu löschen?
Viele Grüsse
Daniel
mbsimulations 6 month(s) ago
Hallo Daniel
Wir haben gestern eine neue Version veröffentlicht. Versuch mal die Light Version, in dieser wurde die Arena entfernt. Leider kann ich es selbst nicht prüfen da ich keine Performanceprobleme auf meinem System hatte. Aber ich hoffe es bringt etwas. Ich versuche nun eine Lösung zu finden, dass die Arena nicht so performance hungrig ist in Zukunft. Aber für den Moment ist das hoffentlich ein Workaround.
Highfly80 6 month(s) ago
Hallo
super, vielen dank für die Light-Version! Mit dieser hab ich tatsächlich deutlich weniger Probleme!
Herzliche Grüsse aus der Region LSZW
Daniel
THEOLI4D
Any hope for an updated version with better performance? Would be great 😊
mbsimulations 6 month(s) ago
Check out the newest update and download the light version. I cannot verify it myself because I did never notice any issues so I see no difference. But I hope it helps.
FSC229
Hi - mittlerweile ist der hässliche Schutthügel am Nordende des Platzes weg. Gibt's dafür vielleicht bald ein Update? Danke für die Top-Arbeit!
mbsimulations 1 year(s) ago
Wir werden das aktualisieren ja 😊
mbsimulations 6 month(s) ago
Sorry das es so lange gedauert hat, aber das neuste Update für Thun ist jetzt verfügbar und der Hügel wurde entfernt.
fsnews24
Good work!
You can find a review here:
https://flightnews24.de/2021/09/26/klein-aber-fein-lszw-thun/
mbsimulations 1 year(s) ago
Cool, danke! 😊
Steeler
A very nice PDF manual is inside the package, which just underlines the passion for detail that went into this airport addon!
You just gotta love the "Conny's Flugplatz-Beitzli" sign (but why is it closed? 😞 )
It worked for me with the current Sim Update 5, however I noticed that there is no "dirt effect" (which has been introduced with SU 5) when landing (unlike with the unmodified scenery). Perhaps some "material properties" need to be adjusted, to make it really a "grass runway"?
Also, while I am not the person who measures frames per second I did notice some "jerky movements" around the airport. Perhaps the resources (textures?) could be optimised further, as others have suggested? Because the "frame drop" (subjectively measured, as I mentioned) seems a bit too much for such a tiny - but cute and absolutely lovely! - airport.
Keep it up the good work!
Mountain_Marmot
a lovely frame killer for VR! once again... you should learn how to compress images! example: the roof from the stadium and the other old roof are about 10-17 MB you can compress those textures to less than 1 MB - this is a flightsim not a walksim guys! 😉
THEOLI4D 1 year(s) ago
I agree. A great scenery but not usable in VR 😞
Hermann
Vielen Dank!
Freude herrscht!
Hermann
Hermann
Danke Marco!
Leider ist bei mir der Windsack zu gross!
Hermann
mbsimulations 2 year(s) ago
Danke für den Hinweis Hermann
Offenbar ist der Windsack kein Standard Element, er wird mir je nachdem gar nicht mehr angezeigt, wir werden da was eigenes machen müssen, daran arbeite ich im Moment gerade noch... Eigentlich war ich der Meinung ich hätte ihn wieder entfernt. Ich werde später einen Hotfix veröffentlichen und den Windsack der jetzt drin ist wieder entfernen. Sobald wir dann den Windsack korrekt haben werde ich die 1.2 veröffentlichen.
THEOLI4D
Are the performance issues in VR solved?
Unfortunatelly this airport was dreadful to the performance in VR. Had to remove it.
Has this been improved?
mbsimulations 2 year(s) ago
I am not sure how performance is in VR since I do not have a VR headset to test this. Personally I get about the same performance as with the default scenery. Maybe the upcoming sim performance improvements might help VR performance.
THEOLI4D 2 year(s) ago
The VR performance clearly goes down as soon as you fly close to the airport (or start on it). I think the textures are just too extreme. Or there is too much geometry, I don't know.
The same thing can happen on other very large airports. But for a small airfield like this, the VR performance is pretty bad unfortunatelly.
Sonosusto
It did work for a time but since it has not been updated in a while, I will leave it with 4 stars for now. Otherwise amazing work!
mbsimulations 2 year(s) ago
Thanks for your rating. Did you experience any problems?
ue09387
One word: Perfect.