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Airlifter

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  1. Dominique is right. It's remarkably quiet on the Orbx-front. Apart from some addons where Orbx is merely the producer, not much has been shown lately. The roadmap contains a lot of nice places, but it remains to be seen if we seen them any time soon. I recall previous roadmaps also not being accurate and in some cases I believe planned addons simply "vanished" from the planning.
  2. Only thing I state is that you have to be carefull comparing airports from different developers. Different priorities lead to different choices and can affect performance. Desides that; not sure about MSFS, but I know from FSX/P3D that certain areas have a much higher fps impact compared to others without clear reason. For example; de NYC area has been known for all versions of FSX/P3D and before (even FS2004 and FS2002) to be a FPS eater. May also be the case between Sydney and Brisbane. They're far enough from each other not to affect each other.
  3. Just as a small comment; you do realize YSSY is made by FlyTampa and not by Orbx? So eventhough one can say something about both YSSY and YBBN, it's not fair to fully compare them because they're from different developers.
  4. Looks very good and given the friendly price, I'll probably buy it (I'm an Orbx-addict ), but to be honest; if these comparisonshots show anything, it's how good the default mesh already is. The difference is mainly a nuance and I wonder if you really notice it during flight.
  5. Totally awesome! Have it in P3D and had some very nice flights to and from it. Though not realistic, it's a nice challenge to land a 737BBJ there . Now we only need the Majestic Q400 in MSFS
  6. The scenery looks great! Just as a remark; the Cubana Antonov 12 on the West side of RWY 09 is no longer there. It has become an artificial reef. https://www.wlrn.org/news/2021-02-11/cuban-plane-hijacked-to-key-west-in-2003-may-make-final-journey-as-an-artificial-reef
  7. If you bought EFHK from Simmarket, it won't work. Simmarket doesn't allow/support license transfer.
  8. You're implying we'll already have to pay to download the data. Where did you pick up that? Haven't read it anywhere. Most certainly not the MSFS website. I don't expect MS to start charging for downloading the Bing / Azure data. But I do wonder how their business case is buildup justifying all the server and dataconnection costs involved. On the other hand; MS is a HUGE company and I think it could very well be that the overall impact on their servers from MSFS is extremely small compared to the whole of all the stuff running of those servers.
  9. On the contrary Nick. However, working in a large (30.000+ employees) company myself in a management position, I more or less know how the economics of a large company work. It's all about the business case. Return on investment and the time it takes for that return on investment. It determines for a (big) company where to put their resources on. In the end, that was what shut ACES down. It simply was not profitable enough compared to other opportunities Microsoft could invest their money and resources in. Microsoft is not building this new simulator as a charity towards us, the simming community. They currently see a solid business case for it and as long as they continu to see that, we're safe and Asobo will be given the time and resources to continue development. I am positive (glass is half full) for the future, but I will not be naive. Side note; I did preorder MSFS and will purchase the Orbx addons that have been announced in this topic. I wouldn't do that if my glass was half empty
  10. Agree.... very exciting.... although way way waaaay back in my (46 year old - already simming for 32 years) head I have this little warning reminding me of how sudden, unexpected and abrupt Microsoft pulled the plug on the ACES team shattering all promises and expectations on future improvements of FSX.....
  11. I know this is XP, but can I consider this to be any kind of representative of what I can expect for a future release for P3D?
  12. John said Netherlands gets released first for P3D.... then other platforms. With England TrueEarth it's XP11 to be honored first....
  13. This is just simply brain-freezing-gorgeous! My country in unequaled detail and quality! Love it and will be a day-1 purchase! If I may be so bold, @Iain Emms or @John Lovell, can you please share some screenshots of the isles of Zeeland (southwest of The Netherlands) and the "Abdijtoren" (aka "Lange Jan") tower and the Medieval townhall of Middelburg ('capital' of Zeeland and my birthtown). Would love to see how it's modelled in FTX Netherlands. Thanks in advance!
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