The dichotomy between VFR and Orbx autogen ... I have always fallen on VFR since I consider myself a 'pilot in training' and need the real world VFR cues to able to navigate in the UK effectively.

 

I,ve just had to do another reinstall, and the process of staring at the screen to install 6 lots of GEX, 5 lots of UTX and a whopping 32+ discs of VFR, treescapes and UK airfields just gave me the shivers. Orbx England and Wales, in 2 discs looked so inviting. So did FTX Global which I'd bought as a download and never used.

 

Well, after some trial flights I am very very impressed. I assumed I would hate it, and that because I know Britain so well and been to most of the best bits, I would just see errors. But, thinking rationally, most VFR is done by using landmarks, roads and water features, not your house .... and Gen X is a bit dry on 3D landmarks, even with Power Project and North of England Landmarks.

 

I resisted flying from my local airfield for a long time, and was impressed. Flying over my home area, a patch of coastline, I was not disappointed. Yes, the lighthouse was slightly different in colour, yes, certain woods and things were not there, but I could match the roads, the villages and best of all, the 3d landmarks; including the real locations used on a training flight I flew last year: a wind farm, a pair of resevoirs, one circular, one D shaped, and the lighthouse. I will investigate further, but it seems that Orbx England does what my VFR scenery did, but looks richer at lower altitudes and improves loading times, too.

 

Who knows how I may feel in a few months, but I am keen to explore this new world, when I fully expected to uninstall about an hour after I had installed it. And, it really does look like England from the air ... FTX Global also looks pretty damn good too, and it was flying over that scenery that convinced me to give Orbx England a try.

 

So ... for now, I can avoid that 4 foot high stack of VFR discs sat there waiting to be installed!

As long as you can use a VFR chart with it, then I count it as successful :-)

Your thread title is a bit mis leading though, or should I say confusing. You have praised Orbx England in your post, but the title says otherwise.

I agree with the poster who says your title is misleading.

 

However, I am curious as to why you have had to do "another reinstall", as this seems to say you have done more than one reinstall?

 

I have only once done a reinstall years ago when all my FSX was all on one drive with my operating system and when the drive died so did my FSX.

 

So, after that fiasco, I have always had my FSX on a separate 3 terabyte HD and maintain a complete backup on another drive.  If something goes wrong, which it did for me three years ago and I had to get a new root C drive and new install of windows, my FSX was not impacted (except a couple of payware planes required re-installs to get them working properly).

 

Using the registry fix tool I relinked my drive and copied the scenery and fsx.cfg and flights files to their proper locations and I was back up and running, No reinstall required.

 

Perhaps you should look at doing something similar to avoid every having to reinstall again.

 

cheers

Bryan

 

 

You have praised Orbx England in your post, but the title says otherwise.

 

Maybe he changed his mind between when came up with the title and when he composed the rest of his post! :rolleyes:

The thread title is spot on. His expectation was that he would hate Orbx England(I came to bury Orbx) so he was prepared to 'bury' it. But he was pleasantly surprised by how good it is(not to praise it). What's the difficulty there? 

 

That's Shakespeare by the way. Julius Caesar.

What's the difficulty there?

 

Some of us are bleary-eyed (uneducated) sods... :LMAO:

Some of us are bleary-eyed (uneducated) sods... :LMAO:

Oh dear. Another mis-spelling. That's S.L.O.B.S. :rolleyes:

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I was paraphrasing Hemingway. :Big grin:

That'll be Malcolm Hemingway?  "Get outta my way, you bleary eyed, ignorant b***ards!" As he drove out of the King's Head car park. 

I really do like the balance ORBX offers.  Their scenery is efficient in unparalleled ways, and looks consistently great.  Also very reliable, and the support on their forum is excellent and speedy.

 

England (and Ireland) came in for some criticism for not being as "dramatic" as the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, etc. (and now, Northern California).

 

But it really provides a subtle, distinctive alternative to what's on offer in those regions.  It is truly pleasant to fly over the British Isles and Ireland, especially if you use Google Earth and Wikipedia to scout out a host of fantastic sightseeing locations.  In fact, I find it a more imaginatively fulfilling kind of (GA) flying than flying around the more dramatic, albeit historically much rougher, areas of either Western North America or Australia, both of which are in great part, basically, wasteland.

 

That's Shakespeare by the way. Julius Caesar.

 

It most certainly is.  With the preceding line being a bit more famous: "friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;"

 

I beg to differ on the wasteland comment.

I've performed four reinstalls of FSX since November, and two of those were not necessary, but I got the jittes at error mesages coming up for missing files and such and didn't have the knowledge to sort out the problems. More recently I got too click happy with the FSX.cfg options in FSXStart and couldn't get access to any of my AddOn scenery or any planes (none appeared in the rotatating area). It looked serious enough that a couple of tweaks here and there might not fix, so I reinstalled - which I've no qualms about. I have most things on disc or properly filed away with their diwnload codes, as well as a 'reinstall checklist' :0

 

Yes ... I expected to be hating (burying Orbx England) after reading a several old posts, but ended up having alot of respect for it. Its a good way to go and see a hyped up movie actually, ignore any and all reviews and trailers ....

I agree with the poster who says your title is misleading.

 

 

So do I, because there is a town in Lancashire, England, called Bury (incidentally famous for its Black Puddings) but the OP doesn't ever come to Bury.  :Just Kidding:

It most certainly is. With the preceding line being a bit more famous: "friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;"

 

I beg to differ on the wasteland comment.

Teenage wasteland, then?

 

 

 

 

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