Beautiful shots, John. What's your opinion of the Orbx true earth for P3D? I've been on the fence but your screens are tempting me.
I've only had the scenery since Saturday, so I've just only begun exploring, but I've been absolutely loving it. I really like the accurate coloring and the amount and vast variety of autogen trees and buildings, and so precisely positioned (the variety in the tree types and heights, and how accurate they are, also has greatly impressed me). I held off for quite some time as I knew my previous computer wouldn't be able to handle it, at least not with max autogen (and having already been using the FTX England scenery). I recently bought a new system with an i9-9900K and RTX 2080, so I figured I'd have as good a chance as just about any of running the scenery well. I have all the main scenery settings at max, including autogen, and average about mid 50's to 60's in frame rates (but keep them capped at 30). I've always owned all of the past UK VFR/Gen X photo sceneries, for FSX and FS2004 before it, and this of course far far exceeds those previous products. The only issue I've found with the scenery is a couple of lighthouse locations, such as Beachy Head, where there are two lighthouses showing when there should only be one (I'm planning on documenting these and any others I spot and post about it at the ORBX support forum). With FS2020 on my mind so much as of late, and so highly anticipating that sim, I felt that this scenery offered the closest possible experience in P3D to what the incredible scenery in FS2020 is like, and would hold me over for the time being until FS2020 is released.
One of my favorite aspects of scenery like this is being able to locate and utilize airfields that are not listed/established airports, and therefore would otherwise not be present in any other scenery - like the Manor Farm airfield I illustrated above, which won't show on any GPS or airport listing, you just have to know about it and where it is located through word of mouth or other resources. The terrain mesh is also very accurate/highly detailed - in the case of operating out of the Manor Farm airfield, which is just the base scenery, it has all of the correct slopes/contours of the land and all very finessed/high definition.
I like too how at all of the airports they allow the photo scenery to remain as the base of the airport, so all of the airports really blend in naturally with their surroundings. As just one example, here is Fowlmere (no big green polygon base):
One of the other awesome aspects I've found with the True Earth Great Britain scenery is that there are some warbirds I like to fly that are based at Sywell, and when I was using ORBX's FTX England, there was a big swath of very tall trees at the north end of the main runway, and very close to the runway, which is not the case in reality and would make approaches from the north difficult and not accurate. With the True Earth scenery, the tree line is now accurate to life, and the height of the trees is also accurate, allowing standard type approaches into Sywell from the north just as they should be/are in real life.
I added the amazing freeware FSX Duxford scenery (but with all of the base elements removed), and combined it with the True Earth Duxford airport files, to produce a version that blends right in with the True Earth scenery, and I think just looks awesome (especially with all of the vivid/true to life colors/not washed out). With the True Earth scenery, you can see traces in the fields of some of the original WWII perimeter track that is now gone (during WWII, Duxford had such a wide runway that it was the only airfield in England that could have 8 airplanes takeoff at the same time, line abreast).
