Todd Harrell

I have no words. Many here remember me, while others have never seen my name. I have been away from flight simulation for almost a year and a half now. Four children will do that. My hobby is on hold but certainly not dead. I admit It’s hard to keep current and I don’t get to check in as much as I would like. I miss the relationships I had here at Orbx, especially Neil. I used to work closely with Neil on doing airport enhancements. In fact he and I did all airport enhancements in the SCA region. I never met Neil in person but we talked via Skype quite frequently while we worked together on various projects. He taught me so much. After I left Orbx due to family obligations and such, Neil and I tried to keep in touch over email. He became a friend from afar. A friend I never saw face to face, yet he was a friend. Neil was a kind man, a selfless man. He loved his hobby, which kept him young. He also spent a great amount of time caring for his dear wife, who was also ill. Neil always asked about my family and how I was doing. He was genuinely interested in my life and I his. We prayed for each other. Over time, though, we lost touch. I knew he had health issue he was dealing with but we lost touch and I do not know his health had declined. I am heartbroken to learn of his passing, but am comforted to know he is happy and healthy in the hands of God. Blue skies, dear friend.

We certainly are noting all airport suggestions, as they will be very helpful when we do future freeware packs. Right now, Neil and I are in the middle of enhancing all SoCal airports for the upcoming SCA region. Once those are done, we can shift our focus back to Global airports. KVNY has been done already, just FYI, and is available in the FTX Global freeware airport pack.

There is a site dedicated to FSX freeware scenery. It lists a couple, including the one tagged above.

KCOS is probably not going to happen because of 1) two decent freeware sceneries already exist, 2) size of airport, and 3) I know someone who is working on a very nice payware version, albeit it won't be released for several months yet. KAFF is intriguing, though, as I lived just south of the Academy for 8 years. Good times; great flyovers. And I plan to update KAPA as new things have been added to the airport and my technique has become more refined since the scenery was released. Neil has an uncanny ability to make one raise his quality and standards. Cheers, Todd

Thanks for all the requests, folks. We are keeping a rolling list so keep your requests coming. And, just FYI, the reason we don't do airports in FTX regions is that airports are already enhanced in those regions.

Being that it's rather inefficient to rumble through the FTX enhanced airport release announcements to find airport requests, I thought I would open a centralized request thread. This will help Neil and the team as we continuously develop our airport to do lists. Just remember that we do not do enhanced airports in Orbx full regions as those have already been done. We will try to include as many requests on our lists as possible and many will eventually be completed. However, please be patient (as you all have been) though, as it may take some time as we all have a long list of airports in the pipeline already. This request thread is for any airport, not just ones in North America. Request away! Cheers, Todd