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I don't have access to P3D and GSX anymore but last time I used it, you can go into the GSX settings for the airport and manually increase the size the spot yourself

This has just reminded me of a FSX mission pack where you flew SAR flights out of Caernarfon, great little airport, I could never find that capsized boat...

Orbx has no doubt grown since it's inception and it's grown big enough to have a commercial team, of which they will be the ones setting up a discord, changing the logo etc, not the developers, every company will/have changed their logo in there life span, just like in the late noughties most companies set up a social media presence on twitter and facebook, the time has now come from discord. If Orbx wasn't releasing software or replying to support (which they're doing both) I would agree. I don't get why people have issues with companies doing normal company things especially when they're not detracting from their core business...

I don't think the roadmap included every Orbx product this year, Key West wasn't on the list but has been released, I'm really looking forward to YBBN when it happens

@Mawson, I completely agree with you, the last think ASOBO/MSFS need is MS puling the plug like they did with FSX, I hope they do continue to develop it, I take hope it that they will as Asobo currently have 14 open vacancies for the MSFS team. The other good thing with MSFS that I haven't seen since probably FS9 is the freeware market leading to the talent at FBW/WT I have been interested in using X-Plane for a while, they have some aircraft I want to fly, that even P3D doesn't have but I struggle to justify the cost of having two sims (maybe in a couple of promotions ) Which ever sim you use and which ever way you cut it, thankfully the flight sim world has a good future ahead.

You have a few good points, I exclusively use MSFS now and really do miss my PMDG hanger and am really looking forward to having them back in MSFS, one thing to note is you said PMDG are still holding back, as of RR last post he said "it's beginning to accelerate nicely" with MSFS development, and with this they showed a preview of the DC-6 in MSFS (on a different thread) Since MSFS released I have been an advocate of use any sims you want, I don't get people who are MSFS vs P3D vs X-Plane, and neither of the latter 2 are obsolete as they both are miles ahead of MSFS in terms of 3rd Party Aircraft as you say, (I also don't get the people who thought that MSFS would have a full suite of PMDG, FSLabs, QW, Aerosoft, *IniBuild's* etc on or just after release) Orbx like every other flight simulator company have decided what the future for them is and in most cases it's MSFS, still like Mawson said P3D and X-Plane are not obsolete yet, but I'm interested to know what we will be saying in 5 years time

Have you seen the roadmap that was released the other day?

The base scenery is good away from airports, but the default airports are not good, better than they were in FSX but still dreadful, maybe I am wanting my sim to be ultra realistic but I can only fly to and from payware airports. As for the 23 for MSFS, 9 for P3D, and 3 for XP, Orbx as a company are smart and like someone else has said, they are focusing there resources where the sales will be, and at the minute MSFS leads the sales charts.

No offense taken I've been using sims for 15+ years (FS2002 through to MSFS, including various P3D iterations) I agree it felt more like a game at the start but now is a different story, and will be again when PMDG etc rolls out the hanger, it's defiantly becoming more like a sim (a few more things added and it'll be better than FSX was). I'm having a bit of a grumpy day at work, and probably took your comment the wrong way, as others have said, hopefully in future dev teams will develop for both sims as people use both

Perth is being done by an Orbx Partner for MSFS Not others I gave up P3D for MSFS so would like to it MSFS as well

Have you got any plans to add cruise ships? Or are they in this package and I haven't seen any

Thanks for the info Ben, really looking forward to using this

Are there any updates/indications when we might see Volanta - I can't wait to use it, I tried but haven't got in the Beta. A question, as it links with your navigraph subscription, can you get all charts through Volanta, thus eliminating the need for the Navigraph Chart App?