Moving forward with their 2019 series of sceneries, UK2000 has made a few changes to their X-Plane lineup this week, following the announcement of Bristol 2019 last month.

The first of these took effect on Saturday, when Gatwick Xtreme was withdrawn from sale, due to poor quality. The developers explain the reasoning behind this in a Facebook post:

"This Gatwick was originally converted by Matt some time ago, but there have been too many cases of ground taxi-line markings (and others) not appearing. We have tried to solve this problem (Matt no longer works for us), but we kept getting sequence issues. For some users the lines do appears albeit faint, but for some they don't appear at all.

"There are also other issues, which to be fair are more to do with X-Plane/WED than anything else. The WED software is simply terrible, there is a huge offset issue between lat/long and meters at any set point on the glode, you can move an object to align with a line in WED, but in X-Plane it can be 5 Meters OFF!!. This means placing things like default Green centre line lights using lat/long against a linear line which may be 1000 metres from it original is simply impossible, they just don't line up. All issues of alignment is down to the WED program being not fit for purpose WED='what you see is not what you get!'

"We'd much rather wait until we have made a new Gatwick HD version, developed entirely by ourselves avoiding the WED alignment bugs, than battle on with this version."

The post, which delivers uncharacteristically heavy criticism on X-Plane's WED airport tool, promises customers who suffer issues with the taxi lines to contact them for a free X-Plane airport of their choosing as an apology.

Moving onwards, the team have today released the first of their new range for X-Plane, in the form of Bristol 2019 HD. The re-structure was unveiled on November 28, signalling the phasing out of the aged "Xtreme" series.

The scenery features:

• Full detail Buildings
• Realistic Ground Markings
• Hi Res ground image
• UK Runway markings
• Stunning Night Effects
• 3D Approach Lights
• High details Airport Vehicles
• Excellent Frame Rates
• Runway Wigwags
• Full set of signs
• Fencing
• Airliner Static Aircraft
• GA Static Aircraft
• Manual and Options
• Improved runway lights
• Vegatation
• PBR Materials
• Default Road animations
• Compatible with Orbx 'True Earth'
• Compatible with Photoscenery

The team make sure to note that owners of the Prepar3D version of the scenery, which was released earlier this month, get this scenery for free and vice versa - X-Plane customers can redeem a free copy of the P3D Bristol.

You can purchase UK2000's Bristol 2019 HD for £18.48 GBP from their website here.