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Orbx Releases NA Pacific Fjords !

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JayKae

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Orbx has released Holger Sandmann's FTX Pacific Fjords which joins the gap between FTX Pacific Northwest and Tongass Fjords X. This is a majestic wilderness region with stunning fjordlands, glaciers, mountain peaks and hundreds of quiet inlets and passages. All the airports in the region have been given the FTX upgrade treatment and includes old favourites such as Ketchikan, Bella Coola and Stewart. Featuring the same quality ground textures and hand-crafted landclass as Orbx's Pacific Northwest, the region also has accurate coastlines, rivers, marshes, glaciers and areas of photoreal imagery in certain alpine regions. Orbx has also added in many floatplane bases on ocean and lake shores where they exist in real life. Pacific Fjords now allows you to fly your favourite regional, GA or bush aircraft from south of Portland all the way into Tongass Fjords - a vast area to explore.

More information at http://fullterrain.com/product_napfj.thml
 
Misty Fjords?

This looks like Misty Fjords Redux. Since I already have Ultimate Alaska (UTX) and GEX North America, why should I buy this? It looks like you're a little late to the show.

Joe
 
whitney17 said:
This looks like Misty Fjords Redux. Since I already have Ultimate Alaska (UTX) and GEX North America, why should I buy this? It looks like you're a little late to the show.

Joe
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There is no scenery I know of that can better FTX. It's hard for me to fly anywhere else and when funds permit I will be buying this!
 
whitney17 said:
This looks like Misty Fjords Redux. Since I already have Ultimate Alaska (UTX) and GEX North America, why should I buy this? It looks like you're a little late to the show.

Joe
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You should buy it because it's the best you can get.
 
ORBX please check PAKT airport both myself and one other person have issues with it in PFJ.
Aircraft is showing up beneath the airport just the top of the a/c showing and taxiway and runway textures not showing but once in the air the do show.
 
Hi Reddog,

that means that another add-on provides airport files for PAKT at a different elevation.

If you have UTX Alaska go into its setup tool and select Terrain > Modify Status of Repositioned Airports. Pick PAKT from the list and deactivate it.

If you have FSGenesis installed with its airport elevation pack for Alaska then go into \Scenery\World\scenery and rename PAKT_ADE_FSG_ALT.BGL to PAKT_ADE_FSG_ALT.OFF

If you don't have any of the above then do a Windows search for any .bgl files with "PAKT" as part of their names, which should lead you to the other add-on active besides PFJ.

Cheers, Holger
 
Thanks Holger that did it and also I just disabled the whole UTX Alaska for now till i can go thru the airport list to see if there are any others.
 
Well I downloaded PFJ and its awesome. Its soo cool to be flying out of my old FS9 fav Bella Coola again! Great job folks! Off to explore. Is there a listing of airportts included?
 
skyhawka4m said:
... Is there a listing of airportts included?
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Go to [your FSX directory]/ORBX/User Documents. There you find a Google Earth file called
FTX PFJ Coverage and Features Map.kmz
If you have Google Earth installed (you should, really!) a doubleclick will get you to the right place.
 
whitney17 said:
This looks like Misty Fjords Redux. Since I already have Ultimate Alaska (UTX) and GEX North America, why should I buy this? It looks like you're a little late to the show.

Joe
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Nah this IS the show, the rest were opening acts. By the way I love both UTX Alaska and GEX, but there are many reasons why this is the whole package. GEX's textures are very good, but they are meant to be a package used thorughout NA so aren't as tuned to the setting as ORBX's are. where ORBX really shines is in the landclass, which there is actually none in the two products you mention. all the airports are upgraded as well as lots of photoreal features where needed. it also covers sections of coastal BC canada that aren't covered in the alaska product. As far as I'm concerned you should have it all, UTx alaska for the rest of the state GEX for NA ORBX and Tongass Fjords from FSADDON. of course that's all about 200 bucks, but hey, Ramen Noodles are very inexpensive to eat for the next few months!
 
Ramen Noodles?

ShawnG said:
Nah this IS the show, the rest were opening acts. By the way I love both UTX Alaska and GEX, but there are many reasons why this is the whole package. GEX's textures are very good, but they are meant to be a package used thorughout NA so aren't as tuned to the setting as ORBX's are. where ORBX really shines is in the landclass, which there is actually none in the two products you mention. all the airports are upgraded as well as lots of photoreal features where needed. it also covers sections of coastal BC canada that aren't covered in the alaska product. As far as I'm concerned you should have it all, UTx alaska for the rest of the state GEX for NA ORBX and Tongass Fjords from FSADDON. of course that's all about 200 bucks, but hey, Ramen Noodles are very inexpensive to eat for the next few months!
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ShawnG,

Just to correct the record, Ultimate Alaska (UTX) has Urban and Vegetation landclasses. ShawnG, you should do some research before you comment on a product.

By the way, I do "have it all" except for Pacific Fjords, which appears redundant based on the ORBX manual I read. It doesn't appear to have the bells and whistles Tongass Fjords has.

However, I'll buy it if someone who has "it all" plus Pacific Fjords can give me an objective comparison and a reason to do so. And I wont have to eat Ramen Noodles in order to buy it.
 
whitney17 said:
ShawnG,

Just to correct the record, Ultimate Alaska (UTX) has Urban and Vegetation landclasses. ShawnG, you should do some research before you comment on a product.

By the way, I do "have it all" except for Pacific Fjords, which appears redundant based on the ORBX manual I read. It doesn't appear to have the bells and whistles Tongass Fjords has.

However, I'll buy it if someone who has "it all" plus Pacific Fjords can give me an objective comparison and a reason to do so. And I wont have to eat Ramen Noodles in order to buy it.
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If you are happy with what you've already got then please, don't buy it. It doesn't sound like it's for you.

Personally I feel like I have hardly scratched the surface of PNW and I've had it for months and flown there nearly every day but PF is even more my sort of area so it's an absolute must have.
 
Great stuff, no question about it.......but "Too Expensive"!!!!. I would pay say $25.00 Makaroos at the most.., you guys are going to buy your selfs out of the market...its not 1975!!! or even 1990!! you know...the dollar is way down there and the Euro is way up....Mundo Loco!!!!!..good luck....:wavey::wavey:
 
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