Since summer of 2009, NL2000 has been legally founded as an association, which was ratified at the solicitors' office. The motivation behind this step was that NL2000 contains information, files and pictures which are copyrighted by third parties, and in some cases we have signed contracts to procure these. This association is the legal vehicle with whom these deals are signed. While being formal, the team will keep it's rebel way of operating. We try to achieve the utmost in scenery design, and breaking boundaries of innovation to create the most realistic scenery possible.

One of the new features in NL2000 V4.0 will be a terrain scenery based on aerial photographs from 2005. Not only are these photos more recent but have more lively colours and better contrast.

Because a lot of users still fly FS2004, we decided to release these new photos for NL2000V3.0 as well.

With this new set of photos NL2000 V3.0 gets a proper facelift. The coast line, beaches and rivers are all more accurate as well. We did not change anything to the airports or 3D objects, we are reserving that for V4.0.

Note: after installing NL2000 V3.0 special edition the following two updates are also necessary:

• Service Pack 1 for NL-2000 Version 3.0
• NL2000V3 Christmas Release 2007

AFB Leeuwarden has been completely revamped in version 4. We weren't allowed to release a photo realistic surface tiles during version 3. With version 4 we are allowed to release them to the flying community, and that's one of the reasons why we needed to reposition all buildings.

Our team has new screen shots for you of version 4, so when you could not attend FSWeekend, don't despair. Here are some shots of amongst others EHGG, EHLE, EHTW, EHRD and EHBD.

Click here to view the new screenshots

The NL2000 team will be present at the FS weekend at the Aviodrome. We hope to talk a lot to different users and developers. We will also show the current status of the development of NL2000 v4. You can also take a look at the NLR flight simulator.