Posts by W.B.

Quote from J van E

I've been asking about this on the Orbx forum once a week now for a few weeks already and didn't get ANY reply. Not even a reaction to please stop asking. I am getting a bit worried here. But well, on May 21 John Venema posted this:

"Netherlands TrueEarth for AFS2 is progressing very well, we are working on all the airports which as you may expect uses different tech to P3D. I have an alpha version on my PC and it looks superb and the FPS are amazing."

...so I suppose they are silent because they are working hard. That's something more developers do.

Thanks J,

Since ORBX announced the AFS2 Netherlands TrueEarth with KPSP on the flight sim expo in June. I suppose the product will be released, sooner or later. But I must admit that what ORBX is focusing on now is their XP11 product. After all, it has a much larger market. Thus the process of developing AFS2 product could be slow.

Quote from rick thomas

What about any of the NON steam related Orbx scenery like I have for fsx

Of course a FSX/P3D or XP11 product can't compat with your AFS2.

By the way, is there anyone who knows any news about the AFS2 version Netherlands TrueEarth? It's been two month since ORBX released their P3D version. I know they want to make this product perfect. But don't you think it's a little bit......too long?

Quote from Oldar

Oh come on, everyone knows the capital of Nevada is Las Vegas!

Actually it is Carson city. At first I thought it was Reno, later I found I was wrong. But definitely not Vegas

Will this cultivation buildings addon be available on steam?

Quote from kenventions

Does FS2 detect collisions with all objects? The Golden Gate post made me wonder about the support cables (main & vertical).

For most objects, yes, but trees and moving cars in some ORBX airports won't collide with your aircraft. And it seems that only a collision with the engine will cause the crash.

Hoping the A380 in mobile version could be transferred to PC. Expect any wide-body airliners.

Seems Florida contains many huge and complex airports. And that would cost much time to build. So just be patient. By the way, I appreciate that IPACS would choose such a challenging and attractive region, which will take them a lot of work to complete.(In contrast to ORBX, who always try to avoid large airports and choose rigional aps or samll airfields, although they do make them well)

Nice work guys, and remember don’t launch this region for free again. We are willing to pay. You deserve it.

As long as Schipol is as detailed as Denver Intl. and that would be satisfying enough. But the question is: what’s the meaning of an “upgraded” airport as they mentioned? Does that mean simply adding some features to the original P3D/XP airports? If so, it would be a disaster for AFS2 users because we don’t have airport in Netherlands for them to “upgrade” at all. We users don’t want to apply extra work to deal with the runways and taxiways ourselves. Hoping ORBX can provide an less amphibolic and more acceptable answer. After all, there’re dozens of regions like this to buy in the future.

It is more obvious when you look at the rearview mirror of a F-18 or F-15

Quote from J van E

Afaik SIDs and STARs and approaches will be added with the upcoming ATC DLC. But no one really knows what to expect yet from AFS2 ATC...

Which isn't really possible because you can't remove the automatically added departe and arrival point... not even when they are placed inside a mountain. I seriously don't understand this hasn't been addressed yet but well, this also should change when we get ATC.

Can't wait for a sneak preview of ATC, I have to say...

Which is actually possible: Let's take an example of Big sur three arrival of KSFO:

The arrival start from BSR VOR, going through several waypoint from CARME to MENLO and finally intercept KSFO 28R ILS. All the waypoints can be found in aerofly, and they don't have conflict with the final approach(as shown in the picture)

That would be a super huge DLC. At least 80GB I guess.

By the way, do ORBX regions contain airports? And what about the northwest US? Is IPACS doing that or ORBX?

Well, as J van E mentioned, the final approach segment in Aerofly always start 10nm straightly away from the runway. But actually it varies from airports to airports. And the navigation system in aerofly is in need of improvement. Maybe oneday IPACS would add departure and arrival data for some major airports.

For now, what only we can do is to check the chart and input waypoints in a standard approach or departure process manually. But still we can't have an approach like the one in the old hongkong airport. Although it's common in real world. I remember last time I flew to JFK, the A380 I took had a sharp right turn and immediately touch ground, Really excited.

Hi guys,

Recently when I played Aerofly I found a problem: Are glide slopes in AF2 the same as in reality or they are all identical?

In the past I ususally flew 3000ft at the last waypoint to capture the glide slope. Because for most airports and runways that's the altitude of the start of the slope. However, yesterday I had a flight whose destination was Laguardia Intl. As I turned on the auto approach when ILS identified, the plane descend sharply to around 2500ft first and finally maintain virtical speed at around -800.

Therefore, technically, need we check the real approach data before a flight to fly more accurately? And if we do check the navigation chart of real world airports. Will it works in Aerofly?