Who has never dreamed of leaving his job to go to the Pacific Islands? Well since the last few months, Aerosoft make this dream a possibility with Tahiti X via the way of FSX. Covering an area of two and a half million square kilometers, this beautiful scene consists of fourteen islands and nine highly detailed airports. In 1521, the history of French Polynesia really began with the discovery of Puka Puka by Magellan, thus the Europeans explored gradually the territory. It was only in 1767 that John Byron, a British, discovered Tahiti. It was in 1840 that this territory becomes a French community. Located in the southern Pacific Ocean, at six thousand kilometers of Australia, French Polynesia is a group of five archipelagos composed of one hundred and eighteen islands, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Gambier Island, the Austral Islands, Marquesas Islands, and finally The Society Islands, which was developed by Aerosoft. It was James Cook in 1769, who named all the islands around Tahiti to "the Society Islands" in honor of the Royal Society of London, which had financed his trip. The archipelago includes 14 islands including Tahiti, Bora Bora and Moorea which are the main. To travel between these islands, many airports are present on most of the islands, but there is one international airport, one of Faa'a used as a platform connecting to Air Tahiti Nui and Air Tahiti.
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Virtual sky - October 2010