I continue to be amazed at the excellent job the VOZ team has done in the production of Vista Australis. The Government of Australia should be in a great deal of debt to the team for opening up the beauty of the continent for all of us and for FREE. Regretfully I've only visited Sydney and Brisbane in my lifetime and doubt if I'll have the opportunity to return but I would suggest that this scenery production will certainly whet the appetite for a great many folks to see it for real.Thanks VOZ folks.Gary :-beerchug

Well. I've told koorby that I think its great...but Im still dissappointed.1. No matter how low I fly in the Sydney area I cant seem to find the address of P.Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney. 2. Koorby continues to fail to include the kangaroos, crocs and caine toads everybody in the northern hemisphere thinks have overrun the country down in OZ. I mean "real as it gets"? How can it be Australia without Roo's?3. I have yet to see anybody in the scenery throw another shrimp on the barby. 4. Not one fosters lager billboard either!5. And not ONE great white shark? Even around Adelaide?Eric

Thanks Gary for your kind words, and Eric for the humour ;)

When I was a teenager, many moons ago, I dreamt one night of coming in to land at Kingsford Smith (though I didn't know it was called that then!) in a 747. I'm not sure why I've always remembered that dream so vividly and for so many years - it was probably the realism of it all that has stuck with me, seeing every detail of Sydney (as I imagined it) as we came in to land. I still remember waking up and being surprised, and disappointed, that I wasn't there.Well, I've never made it to Oz (yet), but I downloaded VOZ the other day and it brought back yet again my teeange dream (if you'll pardon the phrase). What a great bit ("bit"?!!) of work. With software like this (and Canary Isles, and Project Tupolev and ... so many others) coming out as freeware, the payware merchants must be beginning to lose sleep!Thanks to all at VOZ. Wonderful stuff. (And yes, to Eric too for the above humour!! LOL)..Martin

Koorby, who said I was kidding?!Seriously a couple of easter eggs would be fun.

How about looking under your seat in the virtual cockpit only to find a king brown to greet you =O

Now that could have a couple of different meanings :-)Chris Porter:-outtaPerthWestern Australia

Its because of people like this that we are in one of the best hobbies out there.

I agree Jack, it's a great hobby isn't it? Sometime though, it can feel like a job, hehe! ;)

Don't you worry martinIf you haven't noticed , koorby has announced that the VOZ scneery for FSX is going to be payware..Sigh...

I believe you!

>Don't you worry martin>>If you haven't noticed , koorby has announced that the VOZ>scneery for FSX is going to be payware..>>Sigh...>Why are you sighing? Won't you pay for if it's an improvement over VOZ? Am I not entitled to earn some pocketmoney for the 1,000's of hours I have put in over these last 18 months? And VOZ freeware will continue to be updated long after VOZ PRO is released.As much as I am a huge freeware advocate, I spend $2000 per year on FS payware myself, but only on products worthy of my credit card, not rubbish.

>Now that could have a couple of different meanings :-)>>Chris Porter>:-outta>>Perth>Western Australia>ROTFL!

I spend $2000 per>year on FS payware myself, but only on products worthy of my>credit card, not rubbish.After seeing your wonderful work, I would love to know what products you believe are worthy.

>I spend $2000 per>>year on FS payware myself, but only on products worthy of my>>credit card, not rubbish.>>After seeing your wonderful work, I would love to know what>products you believe are worthy.It would be inappropriate for me to publicly endorse one addon vendor over another, but the categories I spend money include:- Hyper-detailed, frame-friendly airport sceneries- Superbly modelled aircraft with accurate flight dynamics- Hardware which enhances my feeling of immersion- Mesh and topology enhancements for large geographical areas- Sceneries areas suited to low and slow flying or bush flying- Magazines which are informative and not infomercialsWhat I don't spend money on is:- Over-hyped addons with dubious support which are poorly marketed- Gimmicky environmental addons which claim to revolutionise FS9- Aircraft badly modelled and with poor flight dynamics- Anything with poor texture quality- Any site which charges fees for downloading freeware- Scenery being made by illiterate teenagers who release their first ever sub-standard creation as payware, LOL! (and people *buy* their stuff too!!!!)Hope that helps?