February 2, 201412 yr Or this is what you'll get (in addition to other weird behaviour and artifacts): "Society has become so fake that the truth actually bothers people".
February 2, 201412 yr Yep, an old problem that plagues most sims, including MSFS, although we can make polar routes work in it, and it doesn't work that good in X-Plane... Flight Gear works a lot better for Polar flights. Aerowinx PS1 has an very good modelling of Polar flying, up to the "magnetic artifacts" that force crew to use grid-based navigation, with the mode perfectly modeled in PS1 ( and so, I guess, in PSX too when it get's available :-) Why the heck to these flight simulator designers find it so hard to model the Poles?????? Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
February 2, 201412 yr Probably because not many ppl fly there. Why the heck to these flight simulator designers find it so hard to model the Poles??????
February 2, 201412 yr Commercial Member In contrast to previous versions, XP10 does not include scenery above or below 60 degrees. Some more info on this topic: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=73682 Mario Donick .:. vFlyteAir
February 2, 201412 yr In contrast to previous versions, XP10 does not include scenery above or below 60 degrees. Some more info on this topic: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=73682 Further down in that thread "Version 10 scenery covers between 74 degrees north & 70 degrees south btw."
February 2, 201412 yr 60n degrees that exclude Alaska and some Scandinavian countries that not true statement.
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February 2, 201412 yr Compared to MSFS X-Plane does a worse job when it comes to flight near the Poles. Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
February 3, 201412 yr Further down in that thread "Version 10 scenery covers between 74 degrees north & 70 degrees south btw." I can definitely say no, the current scenery covers down to about 56 degrees south ... 70 degrees south places you about midway into the Antarctic peninsula (you would also get a small chunk of East Antarctica if this were the case). Currently X-Plane will crash if it tries to load tiles > 89 degrees south, because at 90 degrees south X-Plane has to load 360 tiles at one point! (For reference the usual number X-Plane can load is around 9-12). But on bright side you can always visit the geomagnetic south pole which is near Vostok Station ... though, even if you had scenery that part of East Antarctica is incredibly dull.
February 3, 201412 yr Yep, an old problem that plagues most sims, including MSFS, although we can make polar routes work in it, and it doesn't work that good in X-Plane... This is true for FS9 and earlier, but FSX with it's round Earth has no problem going over the poles. Thanks Tom My Youtube Videos! http://www.youtube.com/user/tf51d
February 3, 201412 yr This is true for FS9 and earlier, but FSX with it's round Earth has no problem going over the poles. Yes, that's true, and I've done it, but the clouds start converging in a weird fashion, and the magnetic field is wrongly modelled ( that's acceptable of course ... ) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
February 4, 201412 yr In 15 years of flight simming I've been near the north pole one time- just to say that I was there. I think I was looking for Santa's workshop or something..
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