I am sure that most of you are aware that FC Scenery are one of the very few (if only) developers that currently support P3D with regular additions and updates to their excellent global scenery packages. You may also be aware that this is almost a single person operation. 

Unfortunately, the lead developer, Fernando, has posted on his Facebook site that he is having some health issues that he needs to finance treatment for. He is not seeking donations, but he has applied some generous sales and discounts on his website, with a view to drumming up some revenue to help-out. https://www.fcscenerys.com/

If you were considering adding FC Scenery to your P3D experience, now would certainly be a good time to do so.

I am sure I speak for all of us in wishing Fernando all the best and a speedy recovery...and thank you for what you do for the P3D community.

 

Hi, I have purchased the UK scenery today, paying with PayPal.

However, I'm not seeing any download links, or any order confirmation, other than from PayPal.

Any ideas please?

Thanks - Phil

 

Just picked up North America.  I hope he's on the mend soon.

20 minutes ago, philmurfin said:

Any ideas please?

I believe it might be a day or 3 before he manually sends the download links.

For me, a few days ago, the links to ask for Google Drive access arrived very quickly. After asking for access it took about 24 hours for it to be activated.

I have now received the Google links however, I don't have a Google account, nor want one. I've emailed to ask if there is an alternative method to get the downloads.

good luck, should be all ok hopefully aye, google-drive folders can be set to share with non google accounts

Get well soon!!  I’m interested in buying the global scenery but was wondering if there are any problems with third party airport sceneries.

Thanks!

2 hours ago, dufus01 said:

Get well soon!!  I’m interested in buying the global scenery but was wondering if there are any problems with third party airport sceneries.

Thanks!

No problems at all. You just need to ensure airports are layered above the scenery. Recommond lorbys organiset to manage that

5 hours ago, deeknow said:

good luck, should be all ok hopefully aye, google-drive folders can be set to share with non google accounts

Hi, Thanks, can you give me any advice on how to do this please?

@ Phil - the person sharing the files has to do it in their account, so that would be Fernando at FCScenery in this case, not much we can do other than request it of him via email?

Just bought the global package.  Was wondering how big of a hard drive am I going to need if I install the whole thing?  Thanks

@dufus01 good on ya for supporting the dev !!! you gonna need a room full of NAS servers tho to store all that stuff and it will take 12hrs to load before every flight 

Seriously tho, I tend to swap in/out the areas/regions/continents I'm about to use from external drives rather than have it all on the PC at once. Countries (or US States) tend to vary from between 20 and 150GB each depending on detail provided.

23 hours ago, dufus01 said:

Just bought the global package.  Was wondering how big of a hard drive am I going to need if I install the whole thing?  Thanks

For what it is worth, I have mine spread across 4 external hard-drives and the space used is - 

Sth America & Oceania - 2.77Tb

Europe & Africa - 3.03Tb

Nth & Central America - 3.09Tb

Asia - 2.19Tb

I have them connected on a powered hub. What I like about this is that I can just individually turn off whichever drives arent needed. This is particuarly handy if you use AIG. The reason is that FC Scenery contains literally millions of .bgl files. If you run an AIG OCI update, it will try and scan all these .bgl files to see if it is an airport, so you'll be there all day. If you turn off the external drives whilst AIGOCI does its thing, its a lot quicker.

You won't want all that scenery activated at once so recommend Lorbys addon organiser to activate as needed. Also, de-activate Orbx Global, Vector and LC, you don't need it, it will add strain on your system. Use Lorby to layer all airports (including Orbx airports) above FC Scenery. 

Fernando has cancer, it makes me so sad to see this happen to him.  He's a great guy and is scenery is awesome.  The money he makes from selling his scenery is his only income.  He his getting cancer treatment, so hopefully he will beat this.  I am praying for you Fernando.