Boise and Idaho Falls are plenty big enough are they not?

 

Yep - there're plenty of moderate sized airports, and as with the other Orbx NA regions, they're all enhanced from FSX defaults. And as others have mentioned, there's the backcountry strips for the true bush pilots out there - Idaho's backcountry strips are legend.

 

Again, I personally can't recommend the area highly enough. But I do look forward to a few CRM airports getting the full Orbx treatment down the road. As with the region, there's a real opportunity for some airports that are VERY different from the PNW fields.

 

Scott

I'd be interested in recreating the Boise > Sun Valley flight featured on a real world PC-12 aviation film I have. :)

 

Yes, you'd be able to do that flight. Better yet, continue on north from KSUN towards Stanley and then follow the Salmon down to Challis. The Sawtooths are beautifully rendered!

 

Scott

It's nice but I think (and this is only an opinion) that you get more value and enjoyment from these products if you personally know the areas well, or a least a little). I get lost in these areas; I don't know the boundaries within the sim and I lack inspiration on where to fly within them (albeit less so, now with Ideal Flight).

 

There is no doubting the beauty of Orbx FTX products, and I generally buy 'em all, but I feel Orbx could do more by way of documentation and maps that really clearly show, for each FTX region, the area and it's boundaries, and the airports within it. ..........Before anyone suggests it, I don't mean Google Earth KML files !!! ........... These can be an awful, 'squished' format to read and plan flights from. I mean, 'fit-for-purpose' maps and docs that really help you learn the geography in these vast areas.

 

At present I tend to buy the regions, then be stuck on where to fly to see or indeed find the interesting parts of the scenery. Then, regardless of the beauty, I tend to lose interest.

 

Just my 2p gentlemen. In short: CRM like all FTX regions is stunning, but we need more from Orbx to help us enjoy what it given in the regions.

 

I agree with your sentiments. While I don't live in the Orbx US areas, I am lucky enough to drive a truck for a living, and so have passing knowledge of most of these areas, if just along the major highways. And that does add to my enjoyment, no doubt.

 

I often use ordinary road maps to extend my sightseeing "beyond the next hill", to places that I will never see while in my truck.

of one of the easier USFS strips in northern Idaho. I have to say too, flying high and fast over any of the Orbx sceneries totally misses the point for purchasing them in the first place. This stuff is made for the low and slow flyer. Check out the detailed scenery. Land on a lake (water or frozen) and you'll find detiled scenery like hunting lodges and water front details waiting for you. Got a few (actually a lot) extra dollars?? The add-on airports are simply stunning This is the world of Cubs, single engine Cessnas and, of course, the BN2.

CRM is probably my least favourite area from Orbx. I guess we're all different, but I get pretty bored with all the open, bare terrain. I much prefer PNW which has a mixture of green, wet, and rock. Having said all that, I wouldn't turn my back on the scenery at the moment, considering the 40% sale!!

The scenery is beautiful, but the problem is flying medium and large airports is not really possible. I read on their forums that they are working on KJAC, that would be great news. A medium sized airport to fly to is great. Now all they need is just PDX, SEA, YYC and YVR

 

Why would they do KJAC, when it is outside of PNW, NRM and CRM?

Orbx have formally stated that they are no longer going to develop large airports and concentrate only on the smaller regional airports.

Why would they do KJAC, when it is outside of PNW, NRM and CRM?

 

I think it is in the East side of CRM:

 

Yep - there're plenty of moderate sized airports, and as with the other Orbx NA regions, they're all enhanced from FSX defaults. And as others have mentioned, there's the backcountry strips for the true bush pilots out there - Idaho's backcountry strips are legend.

 

Again, I personally can't recommend the area highly enough. But I do look forward to a few CRM airports getting the full Orbx treatment down the road. As with the region, there's a real opportunity for some airports that are VERY different from the PNW fields.

 

Scott

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I totally agree. CRM has a much different feel when flying over than any other Orbx N.A. gross scenery pack. I'm having a blast with it. It gives you a varied topography that enhances depth-of-field. I'm so very glad that I picked it up, as well as giving you continuity for long distance Orbx N.A. routes. I'm sure that the Southern Rockies are coming down the line...and so I encourage everybody that loves Orbx to pick this up before the sale ends. I also encourage you to pick up NZSI, as it has a totally different 'feel' with it's custom scenery landscapes, that do not duplicate Orbx N.A. The 44 percent off is amazing...and I'm going back shopping today....lol. I can't resist....Orbx Assimilation is total.... I'm becoming an Orbx Borg....lol.

Why would they do KJAC, when it is outside of PNW, NRM and CRM?

 

As John mentioned, it's on the eastern edge of the region, which is really, really big. :-)

 

The "open, bare" terrain (sorry, Howard, but I couldn't resist) also includes all of the Tetons, Yellowstone NP (with details like the Geyser Basin), the Absaroka and Beartooth Mountains, the Bitterroot and Sawtooth ranges, the Salmon River and Frank Church River of no Return Wilderness, eastern Oregon's beautiful Blue Mountains and other similar wasteland areas. :-) To be sure, there is also boring arid country, like the Snake River canyon and Craters of the Moon, as well as awful semi-arid places like the Palouse which somehow attracts serious landscape photographers from all over the world.

 

OK, I'll stop beating the horse. I know we all like different things, but it still amazes me that such an amazing and varied region can be so mis-characterized.

 

Scott

OK, I'll stop beating the horse. I know we all like different things, but it still amazes me that such an amazing and varied region can be so mis-characterized.

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Well you guys twisted my arm.... downloading CRM now... :Party:

 

Installed... it's cool...

 

Well you guys twisted my arm.... downloading CRM now

 

Always happy to help spend someone else's money!

 

Hope you enjoy it, Ryan.

 

Scott

Ya it will probably come out around 27 bucks US with my banks conversion fee... not too shabby.

 

Currently flying from WYS to JAC in the NGX.... doing the course reversal at EDECO RNAV Y Ry 19 ;) Love the NGX terrain features

 

Maybe I need to revisit CRM and just spend a little more time exploring :Thinking: