Thank you, that's appreciated, and I've responded to your query and we'll find the quickest way to get PNW to you ok?
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ORBX RELEASES 3W5 Concrete Muni Airport, plus a bonus free WA56 Israel's Farm during
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Thank you, that's appreciated, and I've responded to your query and we'll find the quickest way to get PNW to you ok?
Great shots Caz!
Maybe if they could create a simulator, us plane developers could populate it with planes. :d
Bill
jmig
SOH-CM-2025
I agree. Now, if I can only live that long. LOL
We approached them last year but got no answer to our emails. We have about 8 DVD resellers worldwide and that channel is growing all the time. But we only sell our downloadable products through the Flightsimstore.com.
3W5/WA56 will be available on boxed DVD at our resellers from August 1st.
Just one more question. At Flightsim.com, they say you have to have ORBX North America Blue installed first before installing the Concrete and Israel scenery packages. I do not have that. Should I first then get the NA Blue and then the Concrete and Israel packages?
Sorry for all the questions.
Bill
Sorry for all the questions.
Bill
Cazzie
SOH-CM-2024
Oh yes Bill, Orbx PNW Blue is the best add-on scenery package for FSX out there, well worth the price of admission. I find myself flying nowhere else in FSX! Once you get the add-on and install it, get Orbx's Vashon Island (free). I love to fly the islands in Puget Sound in Piglet's MAI-890 or the default Trike.
Caz
Absolutely, Bill. The NA Blue package is the base on which the individual PNW airports are built. You'll find the flying experience much more rewarding if you've got NA Blue first.
skyhawka4m
Charter Member
Bill this whole series is worth every cent. I don't fly anywhere but here and Dillingham now. They even did small upgrades to MANY smaller airports in the PNW area.
I can't wait for more airports.
I can't wait for more airports.
Hi Bill,
That's correct; to echo Bill Womack and others, the Orbx addon airports are not designed for Default FSX, but our base terrain addon regions, such as PNW. You are welcome to install them over Default FSX but they won't blend into their surrounds and you'll also miss out on a lot of the tech like 3D lighting and correctly aligned roads, rivers, shores and custom autogen.
So it's best to purchase and install PNW and then grab 3W5 while the July promotion is on to give you WA56 for free. I can also recommend Bill Womack's 7S3 Twin Oaks, and we have a freeware airport 2S1 Vashon Muni available from http://fullterrain.com/freeware.html
Also, the team over at OZx are about to release a whole bunch of beautiful photoreal freeware airstrips for PNW.
There's plenty to do now, and a whole lot more to come very soon.
Hope this clarifies.
pbearsailor
SOH-CM-2025
These airports are just fantastic! I live in this area and every time I drive down I-5 towards Seattle I go by Sedro Woolley where Israel's Farm is and look up that valley towards Concrete. The sim is the same as the real world.
But, what I like better than anything is the way these strips hide from you, instead of standing out from miles away like default FSX. Bill's Plum Island is great this way too, as is his Twin Oaks. Darrington is also. Most of my real flying career was in a 2 pilot crew in a corporate turboprop going into small uncontrolled fields. They are hard to find. You're driving towards the runway at a good clip, with all the available nav aids telling you where it is, and both pilots are trying to pick it out. In the back of your mind there's this little voice telling you not to screw up and have to circle around looking for the darned thing. But, you finally see it and land.
When you go into a place multiple times, you begin to pick out landmarks like the way the river bends around Israel's Farm and those rows of metal buildings off the end of the runway. Pretty hard to do that in default FSX and now it's so natural, just the way it is in real life. It's really really good.
cheers,
steve
But, what I like better than anything is the way these strips hide from you, instead of standing out from miles away like default FSX. Bill's Plum Island is great this way too, as is his Twin Oaks. Darrington is also. Most of my real flying career was in a 2 pilot crew in a corporate turboprop going into small uncontrolled fields. They are hard to find. You're driving towards the runway at a good clip, with all the available nav aids telling you where it is, and both pilots are trying to pick it out. In the back of your mind there's this little voice telling you not to screw up and have to circle around looking for the darned thing. But, you finally see it and land.
When you go into a place multiple times, you begin to pick out landmarks like the way the river bends around Israel's Farm and those rows of metal buildings off the end of the runway. Pretty hard to do that in default FSX and now it's so natural, just the way it is in real life. It's really really good.
cheers,
steve
Thanks John,
Greatly appreciate the info.
Great screenshots Caz! Some very nice scenery.
Bill
JayKae and Koorby,
I am SO looking forward to getting the Orbx PNW stuff that it's almost unbearable for me to look at the topics related to them.
...Every time, and I DO mean every time I see one of your posts related to it, it brings a long, awe inspiring smile to my face to see the realism in the scenery. It's just amazing to see the bits and pieces come together throughout the area.
I had hoped by now I would be enjoying what just keeps getting better. And the more enhancements you release for the Northwest, the more content I'll be. I just hope to see more out-lying stuff throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Canada that fills in the vastness of the evergreen region.
Personally, I would enjoy seeing immense detail in more wilderness area. Summit Lake, Wynoochee Dam and the valley below it, Lake Quinault, Lake Crescent and Lake Ozette to name just a few.
...I don't know if the areas I've mentioned are the type of criteria your team has ever considered. But all of them, especially Lake Quinault are the most beautiful areas in the region.
Here are two links of interest;
http://www.google.com/images?sa=3&q=Lake+Quinault&btnG=Search+images
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&...c+Northwest+lakes&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
I am SO looking forward to getting the Orbx PNW stuff that it's almost unbearable for me to look at the topics related to them.
...Every time, and I DO mean every time I see one of your posts related to it, it brings a long, awe inspiring smile to my face to see the realism in the scenery. It's just amazing to see the bits and pieces come together throughout the area.
I had hoped by now I would be enjoying what just keeps getting better. And the more enhancements you release for the Northwest, the more content I'll be. I just hope to see more out-lying stuff throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Canada that fills in the vastness of the evergreen region.
Personally, I would enjoy seeing immense detail in more wilderness area. Summit Lake, Wynoochee Dam and the valley below it, Lake Quinault, Lake Crescent and Lake Ozette to name just a few.
...I don't know if the areas I've mentioned are the type of criteria your team has ever considered. But all of them, especially Lake Quinault are the most beautiful areas in the region.
Here are two links of interest;
http://www.google.com/images?sa=3&q=Lake+Quinault&btnG=Search+images
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&...c+Northwest+lakes&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=