So, I'm beginning to get to grips with XP-11 at last. Hadn't been terribly impressed at first but Orbx releasing Meigs got me playing with it a bit more seriously and I'm finding things that I rather like. Still a lot I don't much care for, but I am really enjoying the roads in California. I've always felt the roads in FSX/P3D are one of its biggest letdowns, and as I like to go very low and slow the discovery of some of the roads in XP is a revelation. The freeway system seems to work really well, but haven't had the same joy in the UK scenery I've tried. Anyway, I also discovered the joys of Ortho4XP, and have been experimenting with making my own tiles, and also downloading Forkboy2's US ortho scenery, which is what I've got in these pix. Long way to go yet, but at least (and at last) it feels like a journey worth making for me now. Just a few randoms around LA - enjoy!

Edited March 21, 20188 yr by lodestar
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Nice. I see what you mean about the freeways. Wouldn't mind following some of those myself (when I get XP11).

John

Good Stuff

From the shots it doesn't look like you're using the world2XPlane US West package. It adds much better looking regional autogen to the western US- it's compatable with forkboy's orthos, just put it above the ortho4xp_overlays entry in your scenery.ini. 

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/36109-us-west-real-life/

Also, that default helicopter is very 'meh'. I highly recommend checking out the Bell 429, or the Mi-2 if you want something Russian, complex, weird, and awesome. 

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/39269-bell-429/

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/20727-mil-mi-2-by-mins/

Edited March 16, 20188 yr by hamoody

4 hours ago, hamoody said:

From the shots it doesn't look like you're using the world2XPlane US West package. It adds much better looking regional autogen to the western US- it's compatable with forkboy's orthos, just put it above the ortho4xp_overlays entry in your scenery.ini. 

Thanks for this, hamoody, I'll go grab a copy of that, and I'll take a look at those rotors too. At this point, I'm just grateful to have something I can vaguely get into the air and control reasonably ok - although I have to say the whole "crash and burn" thing is very well done in XP - I dread to think what my tyre bill is by now <grin>

10 hours ago, John F said:

(when I get XP11)

If you can spare the cash and storage space, I'd say definitely go for it. There's a lot of really good free/donation stuff out there for it and a lot of interesting tools. I'm very much at the beginning stages, and I can see it's not going to be a full world replacement for P3D for me personally, but I'm already finding places and aspects where I suspect I shall be using it in preference to P3D in future.

9 hours ago, Phantom88 said:

Good Stuff

Thanks Patrick!