By the way, anyone heard anything about Fy Tampa Kai Tak?

3 hours ago, omarsmak30 said:

PMDG DC-6 is a top notch as well!

Absolutely. Complete brain fart to miss it. Thanks for adding it.

1 hour ago, bendead said:

By the way, anyone heard anything about Fy Tampa Kai Tak?

There is already a very high quality freeware Kai Tak, and 2 payware versions of Kai Tak.  That’s a lot of competition already that will limit any sales of a Fly Tampa Kai Tak, if they made one.  I suspect Fly Tampa looked at the market and figured there are other airports they can make with less competition.

4 minutes ago, abrams_tank said:

There is already a very high quality freeware Kai Tak, and 2 payware versions of Kai Tak.  That’s a lot of competition already that will limit any sales of a Fly Tampa Kai Tak, if they made one.  I suspect Fly Tampa looked at the market and figured there are other airports they can make with less competition.

But on FSX, their addon, was absolutely fantastic, would be a shame if we don't get it for MSFS

Airports Wanted:

KIAH - Houston, TX, US
KPHX - Phoenix, AZ, US

xKDFW - Dallas Ft.Worth
MMMX - Mexico City, MX
xSVMI - Caracas, Venezuela

VABB - Mumbai, India
VOBL - Bangalore, India
VCBI - Colombo, Sri Lanka
RJBB - Kansai in Kyoto, Japan
RCTP - Chiang Kai Shek International) in Taipei, Country of Taiwan 

YPPH - Perth, AU
YPAD - Adelaide, AU
YBRM - Broom, AU
LKPR - Václav Havel Airport, Prague 
xLTAI - Antalya Airport, Antalya, Turkey (with the city, the cliff and the waterfall)
GCLA - La Palma airport-GCLA
LPMA - Medeira 
 

ORBX
KBVS SKagit
NSTU Pago Pago
KJAC Jacson

Edited July 1, 20214 yr by Manny

3 hours ago, abrams_tank said:

Every video I have seen of X-Plane, with the best graphics settings (4K, all X-Plane add ons, best graphics, etc), and X-Plane still looks like it's 10 years behind MSFS, in terms of graphics.

Yeah it's ugly looking. 

7 hours ago, futurebreadmachine said:

Here you go.

https://orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/208618-throwback-thursday-eghi-southampton-for-microsoft-flight-simulator/

And a direct link to the shop: https://orbxdirect.com/product/eghi-msfs

Thank you thank you thank you thank you! Totally came as a surprise, had no clue!!  Buying now!! 

Edit: Bought!!! 

Edited July 1, 20214 yr by saifs

3 hours ago, Manny said:

ORBX
KBVS SKagit
NSTU Pago Pago
KJAC Jacson

Manny, have you checked out the freeware KJAC available at flightsim.to?  ORBX KJAC was one of my favourites, but the freeware one is very well done and I’d have to think twice before paying for another version of the airport.

Need a Newark as well fml. 

I’d like to see one of the two Atlanta options actually recreate the slopes and elevation dips all over the airport. 

1 hour ago, regis9 said:

Manny, have you checked out the freeware KJAC available at flightsim.to?  ORBX KJAC was one of my favourites, but the freeware one is very well done and I’d have to think twice before paying for another version of the airport.

Yes, I have. I hesitated putting that there, I put it anyway. 😉

Edited July 2, 20214 yr by Manny

5 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Yeah it's ugly looking. 

X Plane, Orbx True Earth Southern California, Ultra Weather XP - makes a similar location in MSFS look horrid.  Outside True Earth areas using SFD Global and X America makes the limited autogen distance in MSFS look horrid.

Don't get me wrong, I have MSFS and use it. Out of the box scenery is better than X Plane, but a few addons makes the X Plane atmosphere far more believable than MSFS.  However, the weather in MSFS is far superior.

 

 

The July 27 update is supposed to fix the tree LOD they said you won't see pop-ups anymore

On 6/29/2021 at 7:00 PM, pmb said:

I also I miss a few well-known flagship developers. What became of Jarrad Marshall, Bill Womack, or Russ White? Or, Holger Sandmann who was a main architect of the former Landclass-based ORBX Regions?

They maybe be active somewhere in the background. Or, it's just a result of the ORBX forums turning more and more into pure marketing instruments from the former personal relations-based platform?

Kind regards, Michael

I used to love the work of Jarrad Marshall in particular.  And I can't help but wonder if ORBX has maybe become too subcontractor orientated.  They seem to be focusing on onselling third party scenery creations as opposed to developing their own.  Happened not long after the new CEO was appointed.