This sim is Epic !

[MdMax 233]

Hi all !

Today I flew the Epic E1000 by Aerobask.











http://epicaircraft.com/aircraft

Happy flying !  B)

[Jimmy RFR 406]

Nice shots; Aerobask's Epic is one my favorites in XP!

 

Nice scenery too....

[jcomm 5,886]

great shots!!!!

[pinlifter 502]

Nice shots mate!

[A320FAN 370]

Great shots!

[jcomm 5,886]

I believe Austin owns one of these IRL, right ?

[Fi5kuS 57]

Ok, I have to try X-Plane again, even though it will take me months of tweaking to achieve a sim like this.

[SouthPawPaul 11]

Why months? Most of what you see here can be achieved inside of an hour.

[JAT 185]

Great shots.

 

nebojsa

[Fi5kuS 57]

Why months? Most of what you see here can be achieved inside of an hour.

 

 

Well I guess it takes several hours to download all the "top 10 best freeware add ons" for once. And I remember spending several hours on making TrackIR work OK. 

 

Months was of course an exaggeration but it is what I feel I have to go through :wink:

[SouthPawPaul 11]

Well, if you feel you need all of the top ten add-ons to make the sim work for you, then who am I to argue.

 

However, The results you see above look to include photo scenery and World2XP. That's it.

 

This is freeware airport scenery from the .Org and UHD mesh

 

 

This is just UHD mesh and nothing else.

 

 

I think my point is, it seems the impression is you need a ton of addons and tweaking to get this sim to look great and this really isn't the case at all. Yes this sim can look truly ghastly in some areas but then so do the other offerings without 3PD addons

[Fi5kuS 57]

You've convinced me. I'll give it a go one more time.

[MdMax 233]

Thank you all for the comments ! :smile:

 

 

I think my point is, it seems the impression is you need a ton of addons and tweaking to get this sim to look great and this really isn't the case at all.

 

 

+1000

 

You're right. With the default scenery in X-Plane 10, I could already recognize my small village in France, with all the streets, railways, forests, rivers, lakes, and power lines. I never had this quality by default in other flight simulators except in newer versions of FlightGear.

 

With the HD mesh by AlpilotX it became even better with more details and newer data from OpenStreetMap. It's donation-ware, but you can also download the files for free. Since X-Plane 9, I already had very good add-on sceneries thanks to great free tools like XPOSM and OSM2XP bringing you the roads and buildings at their real places. Since last year with World2XPlane it's even more than awesome. I'm now always using photo sceneries + World2XPlane files for all the places I know, and where I expect very realistic sceneries. For the rest of the world where I don't care about the precise position of every single house, for basic VFR or IFR, the default "plausible" scenery is very good.

 

Back to the topic... I hope the certification of the Epic E1000 will be a success:

http://aviationweek.com/oshkosh-2015/epic-aircraft-s-e1000-prepares-certification

http://www.flyingmag.com/aircraft/turboprops/epic-e1000-certification-expected-next-year

 

I believe Austin owns one of these IRL, right ?

 

I thought Austin had first a Cirrus SR-22, now he owns a Columbia 400. He's also building a Lancair Evolution.

http://www.x-plane.com/hardware/evo/evo.html