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-'''Scenery''' is the landscape in [[FlightGear]] (or any other simulator).
+'''Scenery''' is the landscape in [[FlightGear]] (or any other simulator). The default version of FlightGear comes with 2 square degrees of scenery near San Francisco, California. The rest of the world is also available. Details and accuracy vary from place to place.
-It includes airports, buildings, trees, mountains, valleys, vegetation, settlements and waterbodies.
+The scenery data is released as [[World Scenery]] collections, available through download in 10x10 degree chunks from the the FlightGear website. FlightGear users may also use [[TerraSync]], which downloads new scenery areas as you fly.
-The whole world is available for FlightGear, but details and accuracy vary from place to place. The data is released as [[World Scenery]] collections available from the the FlightGear website.
+Some high-quality third-party scenery has also been released for FlightGear. However, because anyone may contribute models or terrain data to the official FlightGear scenery, third-party scenery add-ons are not as common as in other flight simulator projects.
 ==Recommended Scenery==