andrewholdsworth

HI Andy yes i see your point, it was my terminology using the word "overwrite" I was trying to confirm that you cannot run photo scenery and FTX and display both at the same time. which is what i was driving at as the vast majority of my customers will not be prepared to start editing fsx library if they have vfr scenery installed and then buy and install FTX we will be inundated with tech support saying it does not work as they cant see it. but i gettign clearer on this problem now as when we begin to start sellign it i need to try and explain what th e issues will be when depending ontheir system. thanks for your help. PS: You dont need to question my understanding of phtooscenery, i am simply the owner of Flightstore and not the develoepr Horizon who i trust to understand it fully. i am looking at this problem from a RETAIL point only. Askign the question, What will the average flight sim user experience when installign this over any vfr product. your explanation does not fill me with hope !! HI Yes it appears you are correct. Which from a retailer point of view is bad. A lot of my customers are not advanced users and will simply expect to put a dvd in the drive install it and see it working I am sure you can imagine the amount of tect calls saying it does not work!! if you ignore my terminolgy "Overwrite" and change that to "Replace" then what i said is correct, once FTX is running, vfr scenery is hidden after manually disabling it.

No I am sorry but I dont see how i can be wrong If you have FTX England you will not see vfr photo for England It's as simple as that You will see Wales and Scotland if you gave them As for treescapes In a way I think I know what you are driving at in so much that to install treescapes you need vfr scenery but once installed it will not show if you install FTX eu after this as FTX will be at the top of your scenery library Surely it would by default hide them wouldn't it? And then if you try and move them above FTX and lets say it does not crash then you must have trees from both FTX and treescapes trying to display To be fair we are not trying this until Monday so we will have a clearer picture of what happens Bear with us

HI Guys Just thought i would drop into this conversation some other news. As you know VFR Phtooscenery for England is at 1.2m but looks OK with trees and Uk2000 on low flights. of course the one thing it is is accurate, but its not a patch on Scotland at 60cm which is ground breaking. So to the news, VFR Photpgraphic scenery England and Wales is now undergoing the HD treatment. 30cm resoluton, 5m terrain and 3D buildings. ( a lot of buildings from earh simulations !! ) expect spring release for the first volumes which looks to be the south east counties. now we have a dilema! More soon. laters ! .....

Hi Guys. As the owner of Flightstore.co.uk, a big supporter and stockist of ORBX titles I am looking forward to offering FTX England on our website and stores.. However as some of you know, I also own the publishing company Playsims Publishing which publishers Horizons's VFR Photographic scenery , Treescaoes from Earth Simulations and UK2000 Airports. I wanted to make this clear from the outset as obvioulsy some people may think i am taking advantage of a conflict of interests when reading my post below. I assure you that as my primary business is Flightstore Pilto shop, i will sell anything to the best of our ability that is in demand, regardless of other interests. But being the publishers of this well known software does allow me to give a more detailed perspective as to what the future of this title might hold, as we know quite a lot about making scenery. Without doubt FTX Englnad as a replacement landclass for the default FSX scenery is a no brainer. It looks far better. I cannot comment on performance as we have not seen it run yet, but i know Orbx and this will have been at the forefront of their minds. The question is , what happens to those FSX scenery libraries that have other 3rd party software on them. 1.) Certainly it will overwrite and effectively hide any VFR Photographic scenery for England whether that is Horizons or Just Flights VFR Scenery 2.) Blending: There are no blends between say the Welsh or Scottish border in FTX and VFR Scenery as they use different images, so you will see the border and colour changes. 3.) You may have to remove Aerosofts VFR London scenery, If you keep it and moveit above FTX England, the chances of 2 x LONDONS RUNNING is I think too much to expect and Orbx will probably argue why would you want to. 4.) Earth simulations Treescapes products will be hidden unless these are movedabove but i can say with much certainty that if you do that it will look rubbish. There will be trees everywhere, certainly conlficting with FTX landclass buildings 5.) UK2000 , Gary's airports remain the biggest question as ORBX will launch the inital airfield Goodwood that has been designed to blend with FTX, but none of Garys work will blend with FTX. At this stage we dont even know if it will cause conflicts. 6.) REX and REX Essential. No idea. We are hoping to test this software as soon as John Venna at Orbx gets a copy to us we intend to do 3 tests 1.) Clean install over FSX generic with no artisitic embelishments 2.) Install over VFR Scenery and treescapes but leaving UK 2000 airports above it 3. ) Install over VFR Scenery, but moving treescapes and UK 2000 above it We wll post our results as soon as we have them. Hope you have fould this post useful as we dont normally do this sort of thing as it might look like punting for business, but in this case i think we have a good reason to get involved. There are 43,000 VFR scenery users out there each with an average value on their PCs of around £100 each, So this will be a big ask to remove all these if that is what is required. And as the front line for customer support and complaints we need to know, just as you do, what exactly will happen here. Keep an eye on our website for a pre-order launch. You can sign up to your newsletter if you want which will let you know immediately when we have the details online. www.flightstore.co.uk if anyone wants to contact me directly my email is andrewh@flightstore.co.uk , but please dont spam it around or i will to change it again!!! Thanks Andrew Holdsworth Hi Guys. As the owner of Flightstore.co.uk, a big supporter and stockist of ORBX titles I am looking forward to offering FTX England on our website and stores.. However as some of you know, I also own the publishing company Playsims Publishing which publishers Horizons's VFR Photographic scenery , Treescaoes from Earth Simulations and UK2000 Airports. I wanted to make this clear from the outset as obvioulsy some people may think i am taking advantage of a conflict of interests when reading my post below. I assure you that as my primary business is Flightstore Pilto shop, i will sell anything to the best of our ability that is in demand, regardless of other interests. But being the publishers of this well known software does allow me to give a more detailed perspective as to what the future of this title might hold, as we know quite a lot about making scenery. Without doubt FTX Englnad as a replacement landclass for the default FSX scenery is a no brainer. It looks far better. I cannot comment on performance as we have not seen it run yet, but i know Orbx and this will have been at the forefront of their minds. The question is , what happens to those FSX scenery libraries that have other 3rd party software on them. 1.) Certainly it will overwrite and effectively hide any VFR Photographic scenery for England whether that is Horizons or Just Flights VFR Scenery 2.) Blending: There are no blends between say the Welsh or Scottish border in FTX and VFR Scenery as they use different images, so you will see the border and colour changes. 3.) You may have to remove Aerosofts VFR London scenery, If you keep it and moveit above FTX England, the chances of 2 x LONDONS RUNNING is I think too much to expect and Orbx will probably argue why would you want to. 4.) Earth simulations Treescapes products will be hidden unless these are movedabove but i can say with much certainty that if you do that it will look rubbish. There will be trees everywhere, certainly conlficting with FTX landclass buildings 5.) UK2000 , Gary's airports remain the biggest question as ORBX will launch the inital airfield Goodwood that has been designed to blend with FTX, but none of Garys work will blend with FTX. At this stage we dont even know if it will cause conflicts. 6.) REX and REX Essential. No idea. We are hoping to test this software as soon as John Venna at Orbx gets a copy to us we intend to do 3 tests 1.) Clean install over FSX generic with no artisitic embelishments 2.) Install over VFR Scenery and treescapes but leaving UK 2000 airports above it 3. ) Install over VFR Scenery, but moving treescapes and UK 2000 above it We wll post our results as soon as we have them. Hope you have fould this post useful as we dont normally do this sort of thing as it might look like punting for business, but in this case i think we have a good reason to get involved. There are 43,000 VFR scenery users out there each with an average value on their PCs of around £100 each, So this will be a big ask to remove all these if that is what is required. And as the front line for customer support and complaints we need to know, just as you do, what exactly will happen here. Keep an eye on our website for a pre-order launch. You can sign up to your newsletter if you want which will let you know immediately when we have the details online. www.flightstore.co.uk if anyone wants to contact me directly my email is andrewh@flightstore.co.uk , but please dont spam it around or i will to change it again!!! Thanks Andrew Holdsworth

Hi Guys. As the owner of Flightstore.co.uk, a big supporter and stockist of ORBX titles I am looking forward to offering FTX England on our website and stores.. However as some of you know, I also own the publishing company Playsims Publishing which publishers Horizons's VFR Photographic scenery , Treescaoes from Earth Simulations and UK2000 Airports. I wanted to make this clear from the outset as obvioulsy some people may think i am taking advantage of a conflict of interests when reading my post below. I assure you that as my primary business is Flightstore Pilto shop, i will sell anything to the best of our ability that is in demand, regardless of other interests. But being the publishers of this well known software does allow me to give a more detailed perspective as to what the future of this title might hold, as we know quite a lot about making scenery. Without doubt FTX Englnad as a replacement landclass for the default FSX scenery is a no brainer. It looks far better. I cannot comment on performance as we have not seen it run yet, but i know Orbx and this will have been at the forefront of their minds. The question is , what happens to those FSX scenery libraries that have other 3rd party software on them. 1.) Certainly it will overwrite and effectively hide any VFR Photographic scenery for England whether that is Horizons or Just Flights VFR Scenery 2.) Blending: There are no blends between say the Welsh or Scottish border in FTX and VFR Scenery as they use different images, so you will see the border and colour changes. 3.) You may have to remove Aerosofts VFR London scenery, If you keep it and moveit above FTX England, the chances of 2 x LONDONS RUNNING is I think too much to expect and Orbx will probably argue why would you want to. 4.) Earth simulations Treescapes products will be hidden unless these are movedabove but i can say with much certainty that if you do that it will look rubbish. There will be trees everywhere, certainly conlficting with FTX landclass buildings 5.) UK2000 , Gary's airports remain the biggest question as ORBX will launch the inital airfield Goodwood that has been designed to blend with FTX, but none of Garys work will blend with FTX. At this stage we dont even know if it will cause conflicts. 6.) REX and REX Essential. No idea. We are hoping to test this software as soon as John Venna at Orbx gets a copy to us we intend to do 3 tests 1.) Clean install over FSX generic with no artisitic embelishments 2.) Install over VFR Scenery and treescapes but leaving UK 2000 airports above it 3. ) Install over VFR Scenery, but moving treescapes and UK 2000 above it We wll post our results as soon as we have them. Hope you have fould this post useful as we dont normally do this sort of thing as it might look like punting for business, but in this case i think we have a good reason to get involved. There are 43,000 VFR scenery users out there each with an average value on their PCs of around £100 each, So this will be a big ask to remove all these if that is what is required. And as the front line for customer support and complaints we need to know, just as you do, what exactly will happen here. Keep an eye on our website for a pre-order launch. You can sign up to your newsletter if you want which will let you know immediately when we have the details online. www.flightstore.co.uk if anyone wants to contact me directly my email is andrewh@flightstore.co.uk , but please dont spam it around or i will to change it again!!! Thanks Andrew Holdsworth

Hi Guys. As the owner of Flightstore.co.uk, a big supporter and stockist of ORBX titles I am looking forward to offering FTX England on our website and stores.. However as some of you know, I also own the publishing company Playsims Publishing which publishers Horizons's VFR Photographic scenery , Treescaoes from Earth Simulations and UK2000 Airports. I wanted to make this clear from the outset as obvioulsy some people may think i am taking advantage of a conflict of interests when reading my post below. I assure you that as my primary business is Flightstore Pilto shop, i will sell anything to the best of our ability that is in demand, regardless of other interests. But being the publishers of this well known software does allow me to give a more detailed perspective as to what the future of this title might hold, as we know quite a lot about making scenery. Without doubt FTX Englnad as a replacement landclass for the default FSX scenery is a no brainer. It looks far better. I cannot comment on performance as we have not seen it run yet, but i know Orbx and this will have been at the forefront of their minds. The question is , what happens to those FSX scenery libraries that have other 3rd party software on them. 1.) Certainly it will overwrite and effectively hide any VFR Photographic scenery for England whether that is Horizons or Just Flights VFR Scenery 2.) Blending: There are no blends between say the Welsh or Scottish border in FTX and VFR Scenery as they use different images, so you will see the border and colour changes. 3.) You may have to remove Aerosofts VFR London scenery, If you keep it and moveit above FTX England, the chances of 2 x LONDONS RUNNING is I think too much to expect and Orbx will probably argue why would you want to. 4.) Earth simulations Treescapes products will be hidden unless these are movedabove but i can say with much certainty that if you do that it will look rubbish. There will be trees everywhere, certainly conlficting with FTX landclass buildings 5.) UK2000 , Gary's airports remain the biggest question as ORBX will launch the inital airfield Goodwood that has been designed to blend with FTX, but none of Garys work will blend with FTX. At this stage we dont even know if it will cause conflicts. 6.) REX and REX Essential. No idea. We are hoping to test this software as soon as John Venna at Orbx gets a copy to us we intend to do 3 tests 1.) Clean install over FSX generic with no artisitic embelishments 2.) Install over VFR Scenery and treescapes but leaving UK 2000 airports above it 3. ) Install over VFR Scenery, but moving treescapes and UK 2000 above it We wll post our results as soon as we have them. Hope you have fould this post useful as we dont normally do this sort of thing as it might look like punting for business, but in this case i think we have a good reason to get involved. There are 43,000 VFR scenery users out there each with an average value on their PCs of around £100 each, So this will be a big ask to remove all these if that is what is required. And as the front line for customer support and complaints we need to know, just as you do, what exactly will happen here. Keep an eye on our website for a pre-order launch. You can sign up to your newsletter if you want which will let you know immediately when we have the details online. www.flightstore.co.uk if anyone wants to contact me directly my email is andrewh@flightstore.co.uk , but please dont spam it around or i will to change it again!!! Thanks Andrew Holdsworth