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Tour Around Isle of Man

Bomber_12th

Bomber_12th

SOH-CM-2025
I took the Edgley Optica out for my first general tour of the latest Earth Simulations scenery addon, the Isle of Man, available currently as an early release. I have a lot more details to take a closer look at now throughout the scenery. For as small a company as Earth Simulations is, and the amount of work involved in this production, I personally feel that it is more than worth the $44 (U.S.) I spent on it. Just absolutely gorgeous, and everything I have come to love about Earth Simulations' addons. The only downside is that, like Guernsey, my computer can't really keep up very well with all of the max detail that this scenery provides, and thus I have to lower a few of my scenery sliders to enjoy it more.

For this flight, I started out at Ronaldsway and then cut across the island, following the coast to Jurby, where I made a quick stop (changing direction parts of the way to take in more of the sights). Taking off again, I overflew Andreas airport and looped around the coast of the island back up to Ronaldsway once more.

I hope you enjoy the screenshots!


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Thanks, Michael! Regarding the aircraft, I figured it would be good for observing. ; )

I also brought out a couple of warbirds too, and took some snaps:









 
Thanks, Rick! For the Optica shots, I added just a slight lighting enhancement to them in 'post production', and of course played around with some more dramatic contrast adjustments and color adjusting with the warbird shots, to experiment with some different looks.
 
Nice shots there!

I guess my machine (Laptop, G540M, I5 2.4, 8GB), wouldn´t like it too much, otherwise it looks like the dream place to fly some warbirds from!
 
Very nice scenery! It was just like being there, in fact I checked my pocket change and sure enough was full of Irish coins. :icon_lol: No? Well I guess you had to have been there. :wiggle:
 
I haven't spotted any motorcycles, though I have seen tons of cows and plenty of tractors. : )

Regarding performance, the only killer is the cities, which if the autogen is put at full, has every last building and just about every tree presented as true to the photo imagery (which, itself, is of extremely high quality). My system is an I5 (3.3 ghz), 8-gigs RAM, and a GTX 560 (1024 mb) - good at one point, definitely not of today's standards - and I've had to bring the autogen slider down a notch, lower the scenery detail radius to the halfway setting, and turn off water reflections in order to have okay performance (it still looks amazing - same settings as in all of the screenshots I've shown above). It would probably be optimal if I were to bring the autogen setting down another notch, but I like to have it turned up especially outside of the cities. I expected this however, so it wasn't a surprise.
 
One of the airports is a neat little two-runway grass field (seen in the first screenshot below), with all of the same slopes as the real thing - only suited for light aircraft, like this Moth, however, as the runways are quite narrow and the terrain of the field isn't all too forgiving. Nothing done to these shots, just cropped/re-sized.



















 
Obie311 said:
Did they include any AI motorcycle traffic in the scenery?

Obie
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I was wondering the same thing, but I would think that would only be about one week a year. ;)


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Naismith said:
Very nice scenery! It was just like being there, in fact I checked my pocket change and sure enough was full of Irish coins. :icon_lol: No? Well I guess you had to have been there. :wiggle:
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Hi Naismith,
they don't use Irish coins on the Isle of Man, they have their own currency. The Isle of Man is an fiercely independent territory with their own government.

Ian.
 
IanHenry said:
Hi Naismith,
they don't use Irish coins on the Isle of Man, they have their own currency. The Isle of Man is an fiercely independent territory with their own government.

Ian.
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Not when I was there, or at least they accepted Irish. Let me see what year was that..... Oh yes I seem to recall watching England win a certain football tournament against West Germany :england: :wavey:
 
As always super screenshots, John ! As far as i'm concerned the first shot of the Moth is a real photo.

Thanks a lot for this excellent photo report of the Isle of Man. Looks breathtaking ! Apart from FranceVFR photoreal scenery with autogen is rather sparse, isn't it. Hopefully this may become a trent. Interesting to see how it will compare to FTX Scotland ( which looks absolutely wonderful too if you ask me )

Why don't you take your camera with you on a cross country flight over FTX Scotland too if you have it ?.... :cool:

Thanks again! :salute:

cheers,
jan
 
Great shots there John. The main airport and some of the other airstrips look like something straight out of WWII with their outlines.
 
Bomber_12th said:
Okay, one more set for the night and I'm done. : )
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Fantastic screen shots! The scenery in the previous sets looks over saturated in color and less than realistic. Is that typical of the scenery? When I've watched the motorcycle race on TV, there are no bright greens or yellows. Oh well, it is FSX.
 
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