I own quite a few add-on scenery products (including Heraklion - which is also superb) - but no others have quite managed to reach the levels of realism that you seem to be able to do.
I was flying across the city just before dusk and the sunlight reflecting off the roof tops was just amazing. It is one thing to have loads of buildings crammed into a city but to have them of such high quality and blending so well with the ground textures is admirable. I love the quality of the football stadiums for example and details such as the fairground - with animations too.
Of course, the downside to all of this is that you have single-handedly ruined FSX for me now as the only route I want to fly is Thessaloniki to Heraklion (and back again)!!
The rest of the FSX world just doesn't have the same level of realism! I always appreciate the inclusion of the manager tools too so I can extra some extra fps if needed - never needed to turn anything off for Heraklion and hoping I won't need to here either as I don't want to miss out on any of the beauty.
I wish Microsoft had not made freeway traffic disappear into thin air as it's the only thing that detracts you from believing it's real!
Congratulations - you should be incredibly proud of this masterpiece.
