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Pretty incredible really, seems like such a huge step over what is currently available.

Will be interesting how on earth they get this to run on xbox without severe compromise.
 

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ghutchison14078 said:
There will still be opportunity for third party scenery devs.

Default airports are no better than that in P3D/XP11, there are a handful of airports that have been given the full custom treatment out of the box but not many.

Bing map scenery quality is also very variable; North America is best and some parts of Europe are very good, but there are great swathes of the globe where Bing map fidelity is very poor, or non-existent. Same goes for the 3d photogrammetry assets; some are excellent but many are awful.
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Which London airports got the full treatment? My fav airports I use is London City Airport and Heathrow :)
 

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ghutchison14078 said:
No "hero" airports in the UK included in the alpha.

There appear to be 3 levels of airport fidelity in the alpha:

A handful of 'payware addon' level full custom airports
A few dozen that have had a basic tidy up to roughly resemble the layout of their real world counterpart.
Vast majority are the same as default FSX, basic runway and a few generic buildings.

There is however a request thread on the insider forums for a list of full custom airports to be included in the final release; as you'd imagine all the usual popular destinations are being requested i.e. Heathrow, Innsbruck etc etc.
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Cool. We need at least one top notch London Airport! :)
 

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ghutchison14078 said:
I'd imagine Heathrow will be one of them, be very surprised if it isn't.

Third party devs will be releasing add-on content 'out of the gate' we are being told; I interpret that as either existing P3D/FSX add-ons are relatively simple to convert, or some key devs already have SDK access. Perhaps both.

So don't go deleting all your existing add-on purchase emails or account. Hopefully some devs offer crossover discounts, as PMDG have with their latest version of the 737.
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I have the South England ORBX one on XP11. Doubt they will offer a cross over. Would be great if they did. Would make me consider buying more if they did.
 

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ghutchison14078 said:
Too early for that conversation with the scenery devs. But I'm beginning to get the feeling that existing P3D add-ons will be relatively easy to convert over.

I reckon the situation will be you can install add-ons like Orbx's True Earth region add-ons and it will overwrite the default Bing map scenery, just as it does with existing sims.
I can't see exactly why you'd want to do this if your region of interest has good Bing coverage; my main concern is Orbx tries on its old tactic of requiring a user has a base region product installed in order to use an airport.
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I would only do it if it improves things. But to be honest what I have seen looks sweet.
 

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ghutchison14078 said:
For the vast majority of North America and Europe I cannot see any benefit to third party add-on scenery; airports yes, but actual terrain no. Unless they develop something utterly spectacular, but even Orbx's True Earth regions (which are arguably the best add-on scenery available on existing platforms) have been rendered obsolete.
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Sounds about right. Thanks for all the info man. I am a noob relative to you when it comes to flight aims. Looking forward to reading more of your posts :)
 
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