RobF2

Still can't figure out why anyone would release a Flight Sim in the 21st Century without fly by. Sigh.....

Sounds great. I'm so glad they held off final release until this final round of user testing could occur. Should make all the difference at launch 🙂

I Just assumed it was a group of people that thought the skycrane was the best aircraft ever....!

Thanks for sharing. Landed in an obscure airfield in Aus on the weekend, and something moving caught my eye - a group of kangaroos were bounding away into the underbrush. Surprising, realistic and bit of fun 🙂 (err, I mean, Bloody Bonza Mate!!)

Emmanuel did a much better break down on this issue a year ago. Really helped my landings to keep what he describes in mind - think of him just about every time cross the threshold now actually... 🙂

BBJ (PMDG 737)

Agree - Orbx, Ozx, Ant's Airports, Flukey - we're very sploilt "down under"....

Thanks Rob, will have to check out ARC (have been using Bing). After some weeks of trial and error I did figure out my issue. I had been building the same tile with increasing Zoom settings from the main dialogue but without increasing the Mask and Mesh zoom values. I thought I had been deleting the older low res masks via the program, but they were still there. Manually deleted the pre-existing mark directory and less ZL18 as the default Mask and Mesh setting in CFG and all is good. Absolutely amazing flying around half-dozen tiles for Brisbane and SE Qld. Coupled with V5 smooth frame rates and A2A Bonanza, up there with my top sim experiences (and have only been doin' this on and off for about 34 years....! 🙂 )

I've been doing some ZL18 squares around the East coast of Australia (Qld) using Bing imagery and find many areas where the Orbx/default scenery is display in-sim, not the Ortho. I haven't dug back through logs. Does anyone have suggestions if this is a conflict or perhaps missing Bing data, and how I might pin down what's going wrong? Had similar happen when doing ZL16 and ZL17 - just different size squares missing.

I threw caution to the wind and updated to Win10 recently to get around the dreaded "lost controllers" problems. http://www.avsim.com/topic/393486-windows-8-joystick-megathread-problem/page-62 FSX, PMDG, A2A etc seem happy, and Win 10 no big changes for me. Put Classic Shell back on to get the menu feel I prefer.