Do X-Plane users want Payware airports?

[Anxu00 176]

Of course I will pay for good airport in XPX, TruScenery and Beti-X, Aerosoft and X-Aviation as well as Tropical Sim are all that I trust at the moment.  I paid for Tony Curtis Scenery, while his are better than default (which is nothing!) they are more like default FSX quality.  The KORD, KJFK and KLAX are pretty bad in FPS and are a typical example of what not to do. 

[Pugilist2 878]

Yes, I would happily pay for good quality large airports comparable to Flightbeam, FS Dreamteam, Fly Tampa, and Latin VFR.  In my opinion, this is one thing that really frustrates me with x plane and why I have recently purchased Prepar3DV2.  Also wish a third party developer would make some new ground textures with a decent representation of the southwestern deserts of the US.

[Luis_KMIA 242]

I bought some of the U.S. sceneries from Tom Curtiss, and I got a discount on a few TropicalSim airports that I already owned on FSX.  Also, the South African airports developer NMG makes them available for both platforms for one price.

 

Supposedly 10.3 will allow for a lot of freeware airports to be included.  My biggest frustration with the basic XP setup is the non-existent airport buildings.

 

I personally can't wait until PMDG and others fully come on  board XP.  I love my FSX, but the 32-bit limitations get old after a while.

[GoranM 3,762]

I bought some of the U.S. sceneries from Tom Curtiss, and I got a discount on a few TropicalSim airports that I already owned on FSX.  Also, the South African airports developer NMG makes them available for both platforms for one price.

 

Supposedly 10.3 will allow for a lot of freeware airports to be included.  My biggest frustration with the basic XP setup is the non-existent airport buildings.

 

I personally can't wait until PMDG and others fully come on  board XP.  I love my FSX, but the 32-bit limitations get old after a while.

 

PMDG don't make scenery.

 

[gizmosellsbunnys 106]

Just want more legos to build basic ga fields as payware will never cover the small fields most times anyways. 

[MarioDonick 752]

 

 

I paid for Tony Curtis Scenery, while his are better than default (which is nothing!) they are more like default FSX quality. The KORD, KJFK and KLAX are pretty bad in FPS and are a typical example of what not to do.

 

Esp. Tom's packages "Canadian Rockies", "Final Frontier" and "Inside Passage" are, albeit old, still very nice to have, and constantly updated. Since a few days, we for example finally have a PAKT with realistic runway and taxiway elevation differences.

 

KORD, KJFK and KLAX are all not by Tom Curtis.

[AUA425 130]

Simple answer -> YES ! !

[tull 290]

Yes I would buy too

 

Paul EGCC

[sascha 314]

I have given up hope with XP10.  10.30 will be my last update.  I want the visibility/clouds fixed but 10.30 will not release with that fix, it will come later.  ATC is a joke and Austin thinks it's perfect :blink: , etc.....  I hope by the end of the year we get seasons from John Maxx.

Well there is no need to give up hope as it is under constant development and freewares like World2Xplane for improved OSM depiction and seasons are coming. X-Plane is a solid investment IMO with great things on the horizon!

[jtwhite 36]

When it comes to an airport, if it's one I've never been to in real life (which is just about all of them), Im not sure that being close to reality is that important. I generally stay away from larger airports anyway, even in P3D, since I'm basically a sightseeing flier.

The nice thing about Xplane is that with the Overlay Editor, it's just too easy to add scenery objects to an airport which has no scenery (again, which is just about all of them) to give me something to taxi next to and up to. Other planes, a terminal of some kind, trucks, cars, etc.

So, the important thing to me is the horrible state of scenery in BETWEEN the airports, and this is where I wish the focus of developers would be.

[Anxu00 176]

 

 

KORD, KJFK and KLAX are all not by Tom Curtis.

Correct!  These are not made by Tom.  My bad!  My observation still stands, for the price these are asking and the quality and performance they provide, they made the most expensive FSX airport scenery looks cheap.  Aside from the quality names like TruScenery, Aerosoft, Beti-X, TropicalSim the rest produce stuffs that are amateurish.  There are free XPX scenery that look and perform much better are these wannabe.  Coming from FSX, I found many on the XPX side don't care too much about airport and reviews on them are few if no at all.  I got burn with these low rate sceneries once, I am not going to do it again.  I wish developers like FSDreamteam and FlyTampa would convert and support their sceneries in XPX, now those I will buy them again for XPX!

[DaveLTB 5]

There are many really nice freeware airports for X-Plane, but if a developer brings out an airport/scenery that is better than what is currently available, I am happy to pull out the plastic card. The more payware X-plane users purchase, the more interest will be shown by more developers.  

I have only recently become involved with X-Plane (Nearly 30 years with MS flight simulator iterations), but I definitely think it is the simulator with the most future potential. One thing we can all do is buy the payware (provided it is good) and encourage the freeware makers. 

[Phantom88 3,284]

Truescenery and Beti-X Quality Airports and Scenery packages are welcome additions and will do very well sales wise in X-Plane IMHO.Count me in! :Big Grin:  

[Luis_KMIA 242]

PMDG don't make scenery.

 

OK - I'll be clearer.  I can't wait to see a good combination of high quality scenery and aircraft in XP! 

[anthony_d 32]

I've spent decent amount of money on aircraft.  But I've never spent a penny on airports.

 

Reason for that is simple.  Money spent on a plane lasts a lot longer (in terms of time spent on that plane) than money spent on an airport that I may fly into just once or twice given my flying habits.

 

On top of that, there are quite a few decent freeware sceneries to fly to (e.g. Zurich). 

 

And just to put the final nail in the coffin, it's often the case that some payware airports suffer quite badly in terms of performance.  This is partially due to location (e.g. major airport in big city), and partly due to authors being far too heavy on detail at the expense of performance. The payware aircraft that I spend money on suffer that problem far less acutely.