Charlotte is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. In 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the population was 885,708, making it the 15th-most populous city in the U.S. and the second-largest in the Southeast behind Jacksonville, Florida. The city is the cultural, economic, and transportation center of the Charlotte metropolitan area, whose population ranks 22nd in the U.S., and had a population of 2,569,213, in 2018. The Charlotte metropolitan area is part of a sixteen-county market region or combined statistical area with a 2018 census-estimated population of 2,728,933.
Between 2004 and 2014, Charlotte was ranked as the country's fastest-growing metro area, with 888,000 new residents. Based on U.S. Census data from 2005 to 2015, Charlotte tops the U.S. in millennial population growth. It is the third-fastest-growing major city in the United States. It is listed as a "Gamma +" global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Residents are referred to as "Charlotteans".
Charlotte is home to the corporate headquarters of Bank of America, Truist Financial, and the east coast operations of Wells Fargo, which along with other financial institutions has made it the second-largest banking center in the United States since 1995.
Among Charlotte's many notable attractions, some of the most popular include the Carolina Panthers (NFL), the Charlotte Hornets (NBA), the NASCAR All-Star Race, the Wells Fargo Championship, the NASCAR Hall of Fame, the Charlotte Ballet, Children's Theatre of Charlotte, Carowinds amusement park, and the U.S. National Whitewater Center.
Charlotte has a humid subtropical climate. It is located several miles east of the Catawba River and southeast of Lake Norman, the largest man-made lake in North Carolina. Lake Wylie and Mountain Island Lake are two smaller man-made lakes located near the city.
GPS: 35° 13′ 38″ N, 80° 50′ 35″ W
Credits:
This scenery has been extracted from Google Maps, hence all 3D credits goes to Google.
This scenery has been generated with the Google Earth Decoder tool (credits to /u/Jonahex111):
https://www.reddit.com/r/FS2020Creation/comments/j3faaj/google_earth_decoder_now_userfriendly/
This scenery uses this colors light pack (credits to miguel88): https://flightsim.to/file/912/11-colors-lights-pack-from-blender-1-0
Addon history:
v1.0: initial release
v1.1: fix lightning
Installation:
Download thalixte-downtown.zip, thalixte-west.zip, thalixte-noth.zip, thalixte-east.zip and thalixte-south.zip. Extract thalixte-downtown, thalixte-west, thalixte-north, thalixte-east and thalixte-southfolders into the Community folder.
thalixte-downtown.zip is mandatory. Other parts of the scenery are optional.
If you want to donate, you will always be welcome to help me continue with more projects and update the existing ones https://paypal.me/Thalixte.
tdub010101
Thalixte author
6 months ago
af3j
Thalixte author
7 months ago
Markm75
Thalixte author
8 months ago
JalenMaxedOut
Thalixte author
10 months ago
pandaxpresz
does this include unc charlotte campus?
Thalixte author
I don't think so, but i don't remember well (and i don't know the city as well as you do).
1 years ago
JalenMaxedOut
Hello! Would you be so kind as to update the downtown area using 2022 data? Would be immensely appreciated! Keep up the great work!
JalenMaxedOut
Hi there! One of my favorite addons. Would you please make an updated version as our skyline and city center has added many new tall buildings since the last update. Thank you so much and also I think the night lighting while beautiful, could use some tweaks/additions as well. Thanks for all you do! Love from Charlotte! -Jalen
Thalixte author
If i have the time, but i cannot promise to you
2 years ago
Carlos17
I love all of your mods thank you for what you do for us MSFS 2020 pilots. I had no problem with this mod until update X. I think the beautiful lighting you added may have stopped working or maybe conflicting with things. At least for me that's my issue with it currently. I hope it works again for me in the next update anyway best regards.
JalenMaxedOut
This mod is great. But I can't seem to find the north, south, etc downloads. Help?
Thalixte author
When you click on the download button, all the archives are available. there are 5 archives to download, not just the main file
2 years ago
TomassoLP
Love this mod. Any chance a future update will include the campus of UNC Charlotte?
KMWKAviator42
This is a nice add on. Was able to get it to work with SU6 although I couldn't get it to work with SU5.
Thalixte author
Ah ? Glad to hear it ;-)
3 years ago
jca2982
Anyone else unable to load this after SU5? The progress bar just goes to 60% and hangs. If I remove this package the flight will load up fine.
Thalixte author
Downloaded all the files, and did not encounter any issues loading this scenery. If your system cannot handle it, just use charlotte-downtown.
3 years ago
Crash_Murdock
😁👍👍 This is awesome Thalixte! Charlotte is my hometown, but since I'm retired living in Thailand the only way I can 'visit' is via MSFS.
Now then, I downloaded all parts yesterday and moved them to my Community folder. OUCH when I fired up the sim and created a KCLT flight FS kept crashing before it would completely load! It even completely crashed Windows 10! I have a pretty fast Ryzen 3700X powered rig with RTX 2060, 32GB RAM, and a 1TB M.2 NVMe Gen 4 SSD. What page file size and other settings do I need to tweak to load all parts? Let me say that loading just the downtown area works fine and looks really nice at 1440p... well, except for the funky Google Earth trees. 😲🤣
Thanks for uploading Charlotte area! Regards from HOT and SOGGY Thailand!😁
Thalixte author
Hi: yes, it should be OK with only the downtown (main file). But it is better to use all the files. As for the pagefile setings, i set up a manual pagefile size of 32 Gb on my RIG (24 Gb should be OK).
3 years ago
Dadmantm
Your scenery is excellent. Would you take a request? Chattanooga TN is rather poorly represented. We have a strangely shaped Aquarium downtown that isn't even in the sim. Thanks 😊
WrongwayFeldman
Love this mod and all your work! Could you do Rochester MN by any chance? I tried my hand at using the decoder and following a tutorial, but I've been unable to get it to load in properly.