Which US region do you recommend to buy for some GA flying with the most beautiful scenery and which one has the most ORBX addon airports (Pay/freeware)?

Please don't say all of them :-) as I only want to start out slowly (I'm more of a tube flyer). I guess I won't have to buy FTX Global if I just want to fly within the region, right?

PNW won't let you down, I have them all and always end up back here! Has the most freeware and payware too. Start off at KHQM, it's amazing and free! Fly down the coast then turn inland and land at KRBG.

 

One of my favourite routes, start off an hour before dusk.

My favorite is Pacific Fjords - it's a region I keep coming back and exploring again and again and again - and I've not even started on the huge freeware return to misty moorings packages - which will again give me hours of simming pleasure.  Stunning geography and climatic variations - huge mountains, fjords, glaciers and rivers.

 

I have PNW too but I prefer PFJ. I haven't bought SAK yet but I assume it is pretty good too.  However, I don't think there are as many airports for PFJ as PNW (I could be wrong about this). You can't go wrong with either I guess but a huge thumbs up for PFJ from my side.

 

Edit - Just remembered that PFJ is in Canada but that's like defacto US

PNW is excellent.

Thanks for the suggestions, I guess it will be PNW being the first on my list, and then some airports to "spice" it up.

PNW has everything. Mountains, valleys, cities and islands. Airport density is high so you can do a lot of very short hops in GA aircraft.

Does anyone know when FTX Fjords, Northern Rockies, Southern Alaska will be available again. Can't find it anywhere. 

http://www.fullterrain.com/

PNW has everything. Mountains, valleys, cities and islands. Airport density is high so you can do a lot of very short hops in GA aircraft.

 

I agree, probably my favourite place of all to fly. Although SAK is fantastic...

 

 

Does anyone know when FTX Fjords, Northern Rockies, Southern Alaska will be available again. Can't find it anywhere. 

 

Sorry, I don't understand your question. What do you mean when will they be available again? All Orbx products are available at many online stores, but there main outlet is over at the Flight Sim Store...

This topic is over two months old already, Howard…  ^_^ He probably found the add ons already in the meantime. if not, I wouldn't buy them right now because: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/427498-possible-orbx-december-sale-coming-up/

Ah Sure...

I just bought them all!.. Lots of GA flying to do this winter..oh I didn't get CRM, I better grab it before the end of the month.

 

One thing I have noticed since flying in an Orbx region, I really don't see the reason to purchase Vector when it comes out. Roads and coastlines look fine to me.

 

I will buy NA Land Class though to get rid of the "earth patchwork" and like JV said they might even have full winter effect in LC.

It's a pretty slippery slope, JJ - once you get one (or two, or three) you start buying more. Orbx is the "crack" of scenery products.

 

As for the vectors and whatnot, my understanding is each region has its own set of custom land class, vectors, etc. When the vector and land class products are released they will be more appropriate to FTX Global, and perhaps match the quality of the regions.

I just bought Scotland (December sale) and from a detail point of view, I think it even might beat PNW.  Its not a large expansive area, but one definately worth checking out.  From a cost-effective standpoint, it sure beats buying an individual airport. 

 

OK, I guess Scotland isn't in the United States, but for replying to this thread, I will think of it as the 51st state.

 

Job well done Orbx.

I actually didn't like Scotland, way over-saturated and under-exposed images. If I were to just buy two sceneries out of all ORbx stuff, it would be CRM and NRM believe it or not, though PNW is also hard to deny since you get all the freeware airports (or PFJ). I liked PFJ and PNW at first, but it gets repetetive. I think CRM and NRM are the best overall as far as re-playability and variety of textures (and there are a lot of non-orbx airports being developed and some good freeware airports in the CRM and NRM areas), there are more variety in those areas of textures. Try flying around Bend, OR (not bad), then up north of Boise, ID isn't bad either, some really nice areas there. Two very different looking areas in the same regions, but when you fly PNW or PFJ, it all starts looking too similar after a while.

 

Also, I still hate the black checkerboard PNW pattern, if your textures aren't 100% fully resolved all the time, PNW doesn't look as good. Definitely looks a lot better with 100% fully resolved textures, but that's hard to get with FSX if you fly fast unless you have an OC'd i7 and an SSD drive (it's on my list will get it soon). I think a lot what people see varies depending on how fast their textures are resolving, make sure to pause for a while before judging just in case