The NL2000 Team

This scenery has been developed by a small team of scenery and aircraft designers resident in the Netherlands. Most members are purely amateur and a few members are also professional designers. At first, all individual members were designing independently, but got together by Thomas Diederich in 1998 to make up this design team. Because there was no single scenery package for the Netherlands available for Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 and 2000, the team decided to design its own scenery of the Netherlands as a complete freeware package and to make the scenery widely available to all.

Although there were sceneries available for FS Europe, they didn’t match the quality we as a team like to see. There was also some great Dutch scenery available for FS5 like the beautiful Rotterdam Scenery, or the great rendition of Amsterdam Schiphol and although this has been an inspiration to achieve this scenery, it’s by now rather outdated in respect of the current state of scenery design for FS2000.

The team (in random order) currently consists of :

Guido van Wijngaarden, Jan Dekker, Albert Vermeule, Robert Mulder, Mark Arends, Roel Arends, Jeroen Arends, Joop Mak, Damien v.d. Aart, Tom Souren, Ron van Houten, Ton Bionda, Jos de Haan.

Version 4 has been derived partly from previous versions. The following persons have contributed to these previous versions and their work is still used in this version:

Johan Caljé, Arno Gerretsen,, Pascal van de Pol, Lolke Doornik, Christian Bionda, Kees Sonneveld, Tom van Maastrigt, Niels Juursema, Bas Zwaag, Graham Oxtoby, Thomas Diederich, Luc Clemens, Ruud Popping, Pieter Jongenelen, Robbin van Dijk,Peter Nauta, Steven Gryskiewicz, Erwin Horjus, Sean Kneppers, Arjan van Wijngaarden, Rien Cornelissen, Frits Tappe, Bert Kuyper, Gerard van Nieuwenhuyzen.

Very old team pictures: