Great news about Detroit!

The City of Detroit & KDTW are two very different things. It is a Major Delta hub and Delta routes alot of traffic through. KDTW is an awesome looking airport, very open, lots of natural light and it is very modern in terms of design and accesibility, check this out.

 

http://americajr.com/news/metro-airport-awards.html

Interesting how this went from the city of LA to the KDTW airport, LOL.

 

When I was reading the LA preview thread at Aerosoft i always wondered if enough simmers wanted night textures if they would ever add them.

I have Detroit (where I lived 31 years) and just got Lax today since I am now living in Southern California.

I think they are great-Detroit even has my real car parked in the lot outside of where I worked.

 

I don't really care about night lighting-in 1200 hours of rw flying I only had about 20 hours of night flying, and therefore don't fly much night in the sim either. I also sim mostly in the summer season as it looks the most real to me and is the time I enjoyed flying the most-never liked winter flying in Detroit-did like the fall but it looks kinda fake to me in the sim. Different strokes for different folks!

I used to race horses during the 80's/90's and spent some time at Hazel Park and DRC over the years. It was my LEAST favorite place to visit while on the road. I had a guy there tell me once "Detroit is the arm pit of America son".

 

That being said LimeSim spent a lot of time on this very large and detailed product (USC LAX). It even plays nice with FSDT KLAX and MS So Cal.

 

(I'm still a little angry Geofa didn't offer me a job washing his car down in sunny So Cal, must be nice!)

I bought Chicago not knowing there was no night lighting and was mad. I will not make the same mistake twice. Fool me once, shame on me - fool me twice - shame on them.

Precisely how are they "fooling" you when they clearly state no night lighting?

Oh no, that means more money to be spent! :yahoo:

I don't care about the lack of night lighting, because I run the LAX area with BlueSkyScenery at the time, and it doesn't have night textures either. And the preview shots are just awesome.

Any reports on FPS already?

 

Cheers,

Flo

Downloading now. Having used to live and work in Hollywood getting this was a no brainer for me. And since I live just down the road from "LawCaw", here in San Diego this will make for some nice one hour jumps.

 

The fact you get a detailed Catalina island plus airport is icing on the cake. Yes, I know full well is has no night but at this price I can easily click off the add-on Scenery check box when I want to do my dusk /dawn/night flying.

 

I am at 99% with my download. Yea, night textures would have brought the package in at around 6GB! Who da thought we'd be d/l add-ons this big.... and for just one city, ha! I think if it is a hit we can make a big push for the developer to create and upgrade package to include night. I, like many here, would gladly pay additional for golden SoCal sunsets!

 

Actually did not buy this for FSX but for my new P3D. This will be my first paware add-on for the platform so I am curious to see how it will perform in Nvidia Surround. I should think stunning. Will have to report back. Expected 101-105F degrees today in "America's Finest City". So I will be indoors sucking down cool ones as I explore this beast.

 

CLutch

I bought Chicago not knowing there was no night lighting and was mad.

 

As my kindly flight instructor said, "RTFM". (available for free download to everybody on the Aerosoft site)

That being said LimeSim spent a lot of time on this very large and detailed product (USC LAX). It even plays nice with FSDT KLAX and MS So Cal.

 

That's nice to hear and I wished it happened more often!

I just flew around Catalina (on Pilot's Edge in fact). FPS were good for me. Stayed at my locked at 30 the whole time. I have a very good system. I was impressed with the resolution, even at the very low altitudes at which I was flying. There's lots of autogen (trees, a lot of custom buildings in Avalon, for instance). I haven't flown over the city yet, since there's a TFR in effect for a few hours, but will later on today. But Catalina was quite impressive. I'm also using Megascenery SoCal, and saw no issues on the coasts of the island so far with both active.

Catalina is real nice!

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/385570-aerosoft-lax-catalina-vs-real-shots/

 

Alstiff -I'd take you up on the car wash but I was never very good about doing that, and now with no weather it may be years before I do one... :-)

Flew from Whiteman (KWHP) to Torrence, at about 2000-2500 MSL, skirting or staying under the Class C and B airspace, which took me over the Hollywood hills and near downtown LA. My FPS stayed locked at 30 for the most part, although there was some strange pausing early in the flight. Could have been texture loading, or could have been my AV updating in the background. I'll test again soon (I'm also doing the two week trial of Pilot's Edge, so will be flying in the LA area a fair bit). But, so far, it doesn't seem to be too demanding.

I am interested how this will all turn out. As Orbx makes its way relentlessly down the west coast, will they incorporate large scale scenery's like this from other vendors into their overall design, or make their own? I wonder what it would look like together.......