Big update today for the British Isles as discussed in previous topics.  We normally get them at 1600 UTC, 1700 BST, 1800 CET, 1200 ET.

I usually (unless I forget) rename my community folder, though I doubt whether it is really worthwhile and give my PC a bit of a cleanup beforehand. Remember to clear your caches too.

Will be interesting to see how the MS servers cope with the increased demand this time as Jorg said it would be a pretty hefty download.

Looking forward massively to this one.

I've archived some of my addon photo scenerys for the region in anticipation.

Don't forget to download the scenery from the marketplace and check your content manager after downloading the initial update (as many of us have done in the past).

Hope you all get a trouble free update.

Edited July 23, 20241 yr by cianpars

Curious to see how this will affect Orbx London and UK scenery. And I kind of like my Burning Blue Farnborough so the new one will have to be great for me to abandon it. Likewise the freeware Stansted. 

I use the freeware Stansted, so the comparison will be interesting.

I also have the Orbx GB Regions Bundle and British Isles mesh. I wonder if these will conflict with the WU?

31 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

Curious to see how this will affect Orbx London and UK scenery. And I kind of like my Burning Blue Farnborough so the new one will have to be great for me to abandon it. Likewise the freeware Stansted. 

Me too in respect of all of these.  I will be looking at all my ORBX Great Britain addons and have already archived my freeware Stansted and Burning Blue Farnborough.

I had an addon for Glastonbury Tor which I've also archived.

I've also updated my original post to corret the ET time and remind to purge your caches (especially rolling cache).  I will also empty my Nvidia caches as well.

Edited July 23, 20241 yr by cianpars

I'm looking forward to better DEMs across Eire & Scotland especially, might get off in a British Isles Tour before MSFS2024 drops.

Forgot, I also have an Ally Pally although I doubt that will be included in the update. I'd better see what else I have! 

These are the airports included in the update
EGPB - Sumburgh
EGSS - Stanstead
EGFF - Cardiff
EGLF - Farnborough
EICK - Cork

Who developed the hand crafted airports?  Gaya?   Looks pretty good!

Just now, Greazer said:

Who developed the hand crafted airports?  Gaya?   Looks pretty good!

I believe so.

Has Gaya released any standalone products for 2020? Or are they living off Microsoft’s contract?

Edited July 23, 20241 yr by Tuskin38

32 minutes ago, flyingscampi said:

 

I also have the Orbx GB Regions Bundle and British Isles mesh. I wonder if these will conflict with the WU?

good question.

4 minutes ago, Greazer said:

Who developed the hand crafted airports?  Gaya?   Looks pretty good!

daily reminder that Gaya had to give people Kos for free in p3d as they made such a mess of EGPH, (which they never finished).

1 hour ago, cianpars said:

I usually (unless I forget) rename my community folder.

I do so routinely with sim updates but not likely necessary with world updates.  Never witnessed them change anything in Community.

In addition to the WU17 release, there's a 1.17 GB patch for WU III (the first UK & Ireland update) available in the Content Manager.

Wow, its there already! 

Yep.  It's now live.  Just a further thought.  If you, like me, are using the updated Bing Maps addon, you might want to turn it off to be able to see if ASOBO are using more recent sat images.