Really wish this area would get a bit more love. UTX/GEX are great products that compliment each other extremely well. UTX covers almost every area except Asia. Why? I would love to fly a lot more in this area if there was more being developed for it. UTX is probably the best LC addon. I need some good LC for the Asia region, and I plan on getting FTX Global textures to work with it. I really hope UTX will be working and releasing an Asia region soon. It doesn't make much sense to see every other continent/region covered except for the far east.

Technically UTX is not landclass. Landclass tells FSX what textures to place where. Evergreen forest, desert, floodplains, tundra, plains, rocky mountains, green hills, cities, suburbs, etc. UTX does a small amount of this in certain areas, but it is mainly correct roads, rivers, lakes, and coastlines. They haven't released UTX for asia, africa, and south america (australia is covered I guess) likely because of lack of data and perhaps interest. There was talk of them doing south america when they released tropical america and carib but that was a year ago and no mention since. I don't think you'll notice lack of utx in asia unless you know the areas. FSX does have roads, rivers, and lakes by default. They're just not 100% accurate. FTX Global with some nice mesh will be fine I think. Mesh outside of us and europe is notoriously bad. Like Mount Everest isn't even there bad!

I join the call for UTX Asia. I suspect the problem is getting a good set of data to represent the city limits, rivers, roads etc... For Europe and North America, I think this data is very accurate and readily available. For parts of Asia this would be for government eyes only. e.g. India/Chinese/Pakistan border area.

I've trekked the region many times and even getting good maps was very difficult.

the UTX team is IIRC made up of like two guys.  they wanted to do South America, even semi-announced it.  then they looked at the licenced data and realized it was going to take too much work to correct it all than they could do, so it's on hold until better data becomes available.  except for places like Japan, Asia is going to have the same lack of data.  Would love to see it though,  but it's not that the developers don't want to expand the series.

openVFR Terrain has some Asia stuff:

 

http://openvfr.freyt.de/magento/index.php/downloads/openvfr-terrain/openvfr-terrain-asia.html

 

This does a lot of what UTX does and should be very nice combined with FTX Global and a mesh product such as FSG Ultimate..

the UTX team is IIRC made up of like two guys.  they wanted to do South America, even semi-announced it.  then they looked at the licenced data and realized it was going to take too much work to correct it all than they could do, so it's on hold until better data becomes available.  except for places like Japan, Asia is going to have the same lack of data.  Would love to see it though,  but it's not that the developers don't want to expand the series.

 

Heck, I'd settle for Ultimate Japan, done in the style of Ultimate Alaska where they go a little beyond the usual UTX improvements.

Make your own "sort of" Ultimate Japan... First, Buy Mesh 2021 Japan and download Haruo's Landclass.  Buy GEX Asia [and South America] for Texture options differing from the default FSX ones, if you're so inclined. (I had also tried BEV for another different set of Asia textures).

Then you can buy any of the Technobrain airports, or go to the Avsim Library and search Japan/FSX Scenery for individual free airports and some nice assorted photographic scenery efforts.(You can also buy commercial photoscenery I have seen for specific areas of Japan -- Like Fujiama, of course...)

(FS2004 had many more offerings and I made a pretty good Japan for myself...)