5 attempts gotta be a record 😄

50 minutes ago, g-liner said:

There’s loads of new watermasking in the Eastern part of the Caribbean. so it’s not a total deletion of it. 

Can confirm this. Antigua, St. Kitts, Montserrat and Guadeloupe are all stunning. The watermasking is just gorgeous after the update. 

1 minute ago, MarcG said:

5 attempts gotta be a record 😄

And none of them did anything, until they did!

26 minutes ago, regis9 said:

TFFS is a pretty intense landing!  Per Wikipedia “A special pilot license endorsement is required to land here.”

The charts also indicate special requirements as well (including you must have landed there as a co pilot under direction of a qualified pilot before attempting it yourself).

As the tradewinds are easterlies, TFFS certainly makes for an interesting landing. A helicopter or a Porter with a beta approach recommended.

The nearby Terre-du-Bas strip looked strange to me, like it was made with wood planks or something. I did a search on wiki. The strip has actually been closed since 2014 and these are photovoltaic panels ! So you are are warned now !

1 hour ago, Dominique_K said:

As the tradewinds are easterlies, TFFS certainly makes for an interesting landing. A helicopter or a Porter with a beta approach recommended.

The nearby Terre-du-Bas strip looked strange to me, like it was made with wood planks or something. I did a search on wiki. The strip has actually been closed since 2014 and these are photovoltaic panels ! So you are are warned now !

I didn't realize there was a special requirement there, but as you mention it, it's not surprising. I did a flight into there yesterday, I wanted to see the airport (it's awesome), and it wasn't a landing, it was an arrival! 😁

10 hours ago, Krakin said:

For the first time in my life a sim, by default, has gotten our majestic Pitons right and it didn't cost an extra penny. This update got soooo many things right about my country and I am giddy with excitement!

Wish the same could be said about the Bahamas...😌  The amazing reefs are gone (even if they were partially done to begin with).

6 hours ago, AnkH said:

You guys praising this update as phenomenal are not that much into watermasks, no? 😉 

I can do both...

2 hours ago, JYW said:

Just read on the other thread that this update kills all water masks around the world?

Is that true?!

If so, is it the mandatory base update that kills all water masking around the world?     Or is it the actual Carribean WU from the Marketplace?

Can't check right now.

If it's the base update then I'll have already lost the masks, as I've already installed it. But if it's the WU then I'll avoid installing yet 👍

It's the base update. As I tried uninstalling the WU and the masks didn't return.🙁

3 hours ago, g-liner said:

I don’t know, I don’t think it’s ALL the world watermasking that goes I’ve still seen some outside the region. It does disappear in the Bahamas Cuba Jamaica and possibly the Dom Rep. Outside the WU (but nearby) it also vanishes in the Florida keys and up the E coast. 
 

There’s loads of new watermasking in the Eastern part of the Caribbean. so it’s not a total deletion of it. 
 

I think it will get fixed soon though? Seems like lots on the official forums are commenting on it. 

Looks like Asobo needs a test team for World Updates.  An oversight like this is inexcusable to say the least.  How can you release a region and forget about it's key visual features?🧐

Edited January 31, 20242 yr by Dillon

15 minutes ago, Dillon said:

Looks like Asobo needs a test team for World Updates.  An oversight like this inexcusable to say the least.  How can you release a region and forget about it's key visual feature?🧐

If you look at a map of the Caribbean It’s almost exactly half the Caribbean split at Puerto Rico that’s lost the water masking I wonder if there’s 2 sections Caribbean E and W and something went wrong with Caribbean west. 
 

Still from PR east it all looks great. 
 

All the POIs and elevation and satellite data is there on both it’s just the watermasking missing.  

13 minutes ago, g-liner said:

If you look at a map of the Caribbean It’s almost exactly half the Caribbean split at Puerto Rico that’s lost the water masking I wonder if there’s 2 sections Caribbean E and W and something went wrong with Caribbean west. 
 

Still from PR east it all looks great. 
 

All the POIs and elevation and satellite data is there on both it’s just the watermasking missing.  

People are saying marking us gone in other parts of the world as well, not just the west Caribbean 

Painfully slow download for me. MS even made a report about what happened three or four WU/SU updates ago, but it looks like they’re still at lost with the issue 🥱

I think I will check out each of the new Caribbean airports in my PMDG 737-600 over the next couple of days. Some of those Gaya Simulations hand crafted airports are really nice, with simple but effective terminal interior modelling (something that I would like to see as standard in Microsoft Flight Simulator airports).

It looks like there’s a forgotten (or not mentioned) airport in the WU16 list: the La Paloma airport MTCA

Edited January 31, 20242 yr by edpatino

1 hour ago, edpatino said:

It looks like there’s a forgotten (or not mentioned) airport in the WU16 list: the La Paloma airport MTCA

It was mentioned in the November Dev Q&A, probably just forgot to list it in the news post.