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Orbx Releases NA Pacific Fjords !

Considering how much area of the sim is covered by this addon and how much longer I intend to keep flying in FSX (for the forseeable future) and how much I already have invested in my computer it makes reasonable sense to spend a few bucks more to get what is in my mind is superior scenery.

Even more important is the fact that I want to continue to support those companies who are bringing first class products to FSX and thereby extending the life of this sim. Considering what Orbx has done so far, there is still the whole rest of the world to do and I would like to help insure that they'll continue to be around to finish the job.

$40 bucks, it ain't that much.

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Mal I'd like to get that Canadian Blenheim repaint...can you point me to a download please?
 
Gents,
The paints were done by Henry William and were originally on AVSIM. I did a search and I don't see them anymore.

If you PM me with your email, I'll send them, over to you.

BR's
mal
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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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UTX alaska "has" urban landclass, but only as a "not recommended" option because of all the advances that the developer made with the vectored buildings. so yes, you can have urban landclass, but only if you strip UTX Alaska of its most compelling and best feature. in addition the vegetation landclass to the best of my knowledge only really covers the built up urban areas, so that the vegetation meshes well with the buildings. not what I would consider a "real" landclass product. and again does not match the painstaking work done by ORBX and Holger (who also worked on UTX Alaska and Tongass Fjords) to manually place landclass by hand for the vast majority of the area covered. I purchased UTX Alaska the day it was released, and I consider it one of the best products that I have installed on my hard drive, but if ORBX scenery covered the whole of Alaska, I would uninstall it without a second glance.

It's kind of hard for me to fight about these addons. I have and love them all, but if you fly in southeast alaska I think the Pacific Fjords is the best option. I would even say that out of the box, the vectored buildings of UTX Alaska are better in a place like Ketchikan for example than ORBX's Ketchikan. but UTX doesn't have the upgraded airports and seaplane bases, the AI traffic, the hand placed and excellent landclass, the superior Autogen Trees and textures, and frankly the framerate performance of ORBX.

And of course research is recommended to you as well. If you liked Tongass, you'll like Pacific Fjords. the same guy was in charge of both (and had a hand in UTX Alaska as well)

cheers
 
The price of this item is well worth it to me in USD. Please keep oputting this quality out and I'll be in there buying it.

Outstanding quality as always. My low end system runs with this stuff just fine with some slider adjustments and video card adjustments.
 
Should the FTX Central Control panel be set to Default FsX or to North America before installation?
 
Well, based on PNW and Tongass, which I have and love, I will probably buy this. The only problem I have is that my HDD is too full, so I would have to delete a few things, including many, many family photos and movies of my children growing up and of my parent's last few years on this planet.

Still, I can probably keep most of those memories in my mind for the foreseeable future, and they're just pictures anyway, right? It's not like that stuff never happened, or anything. It's fun to look at them sometimes, and remember things, but this new scenery really looks good, too.

One just has to know one's priorities, right?

What's the URL for ordering, again?

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Mountain textures are great and with Holger's mesh there are none of those texture stretched cliffs.

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