The Quai du Large heliport in Cannes, fully remastered for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.

Four years on site

I spent four years at the Quai du Large. I built this scenery the way I know the place: every element is where it belongs, as it really is, down to the safety notice board.

Remastered for Flight Simulator 2024

This is not a simple conversion: the scenery has been fully remastered for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. The textures bring out the materials: concrete pad, breakwater, rusty hulls, wear and dirt.

A living scene

A number of animations still unmatched for a heliport. From the pier entrance to the end of the breakwater, everything moves: automatic gate, barriers, retractable bollard, windsocks, lighthouse, people, seagulls, building-site cranes, fireworks.

Harbour boats

Boats leave their berth and come to moor at a free berth, with consistent navigation inside the port.

The lighthouse and the site cabin, inside too

The interiors are modelled. Climb the lighthouse stairs up to the lookout, and step into the heliport staff's site cabin.

The yacht

A yacht in its own right: it sails, you land on it, take the lift down, and walk on it even at sea.

1. Out to sea: the large yacht leaves the port and sails several routes off Cannes.
2. Land on board: once the helicopter is down, the lift lowers it into the hangar, then the hatch closes above it.
3. Walk on board, at sea: you can walk on deck and inside while it is sailing, which Flight Simulator does not allow by default.
4. Inside the yacht: the long table and its little train, the kitchen, the lounges, the museum and the cinema.

Down to the smallest detail

The attention to detail goes as far as the owner's Ferrari, parked on the pier.