John Heaton Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 (edited) Yesterday I placed a couple of screenshots depicting the Fokker Junkers aircraft from MS 2020 decked out on QANTAS colours on the Community Screenshots board - as a side comment -to the announcement that Orbx will be producing a copy of the Ford Tri Motor - "Southern Cross" that was the first aircraft to fly the Pacific from the USA to Australia - as part of World UD7 The comments raised were on what might be the results of the statement that the U date would be Australia and what it might bring and I just thought - maybe the question could be a topic for the forum in what appears to be a quiet period. I couldn't resist the following made here to set the ball rolling - so to speak ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Thanks all for the comments" It has already been announced that Orbx are producing a Version of the Ford Tri-Motor that carried the name "Southern Cross" when Kingsford - Smith was the first to fly the Pacific from the USA to Australia My title was intended to draw the resemblance of the Tri-Motor - with the JU Fokker - sitting outside Orbx Offices at the Essendon airport Orbx version in 2020 The actual aircraft sits in in its own hangar at Brisbane Airport for all to see -and be copied by Orbx - who already include it in their rendering of the airport In my opinion - and I'm sure that many on here are fed up of my pounding the subject - MS 2020 is a way - way behind with the Australian scene and by my calculation - 9 years behind on the Bing Sat that is used - and as such - is an insult to Australia. Unlike many - I couldn't find "My House" - that I have lived in for 8years - because on 2020 - it is still a building site The answer is obvious - that the the announced World Update 7 on Jan 27th - is to be Australia - and who else besides the Aussie Orbx is qualified to put together this update - simply because - "who knows it better?" -since they already produced "Australia" versions 1 and 2 for P3D - the radical TE series for UK and USA - which was as close as one could get -to what 2020 has brought us - as to scenery below 10000ft flight level Orbx - clearly saved the life of 2020 - with items like London City and Airport at the beginning - and the huge amount of stuff since - especially the cityscapes -as well as providing a vehicle in Orbx Central - for other smaller producers We already have Sydney and Brisbane - why not my Gold Coast City and Airport - "yes" - even Melbourne and Perth Roll on the end of January - when all will be revealed - and Orbx Please note - the current Bing Sat is right up to date !! and my house is clearly there Edited November 28, 2021 by John Heaton 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradB Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Tho I am excited about the AU World update , there has been zero news about what to do with NZ . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Heaton Posted November 28, 2021 Author Share Posted November 28, 2021 2 minutes ago, BradB said: Tho I am excited about the AU World update , there has been zero news about what to do with NZ . No worries John Maybe the Kiwis might be lucky - Orbx appears to have been working with the NZ company recently and have them on the Central Marketplace and who have quite a number of freeware Kiwi Airports on Flightsim.to - as well as a few Airports et in P3D Also - they have produced the new mesh for the sim's New Zealand - and the area size of New Zealand compared to Australia is quite small enough to be incorporated in any Antipodean / Oceana update 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasternT3 Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 5 hours ago, John Heaton said: We already have Sydney and Brisbane - why not my Gold Coast City and Airport - "yes" - even Melbourne and Perth im really looking forward to the Australia world update, my favourite area to fly and I think it was unfortunate how it’s been given quite old map data (although may be a sensible reason why) Im really looking forward to more Australian airports and I’m sure with all the Orbx partners as well all major and smaller airports will be covered. I also heard (although not sure if that’s true) that the Orbx Melbourne cityscape may be included in the update like the Frankfurt city was in the Germany update 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigeaglefire Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 any Orbx assets would be most welcome in MFS Australian WU7 update, personally, it would not matter if some addons that have paid for were included to make it more comprehensive, of course the Australian WU7 update would be included in the Xbox version… (also hoping for some NZ attention) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ba43 Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 The Southern Cross is a Fokker F.VIIb/3m trimotor monoplane that was flown by Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, Harry Lyon and James Warner in the first-ever trans-Pacific flight to Australia from the mainland United States, a distance of about 11,670 kilometres (7,250 mi), in 1928. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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