6 hours ago, Daube said:

Thanks for the video above, it illustrates quite well how much addons can improve the base sim. I wish he had shown the sim at night as well though, because flying an helicopter over a big city in XPlane at night (or dusk/dawn) is quite something. I'm especially a big fan of spotting and trying to follow the police cars (with their flashing lights) on the highways 😆

The XP12 is a “high crime area” and I find the police cars adorable, and yes, the night lighting at dusk/early AM is incredible.

I’ve not tried improving the ground/autogen aside from Orbx True Earth which I don’t currently have installed - I instead tell myself that the sim (because the physics are so good) is meant to simulate a plausible world (sort of like P3Dv5) and just enjoy it that way.

If there IS a P3Dv7 with improvements I’ll probably buy that even without ortho scenery as a convincing plausible world based on real data is close enough for me (and never had weird colors etc).

I’m a model railroader as well and there are many who enjoy realistic operation with a minimum of scenery - just as a play can be convincing with great actors and minimal scenery - something like that.

That said, I’m going to try firing up my old True Earth sceneries in P3Dv5 when I get a chance!

I am another that flipped to xplane. What I thought was going to be a daunting task turned out to be painless. I went the payware route and picked up toliss narrow bus NEO and CEO and with the KOSP soundpack, I have not looked back. The one thing I miss is AIG AIM but that is the only thing I miss. Sucks making the move but I lost faith in P3D and it was time to move on to something else.