Pacific Fjords

[speedbird591]

Thanks to a HU from Paul, I've bought some scenery from ORBX/FTX for when I get my new laptop. I tried one of their free demo packs and found that it runs reasonably well on my old, lower powered machine so I thought I might as well start buying now. This pack is called Pacific Fjords and covers part of Southern Alaska and over the border into BC. It's created by Holger Sandmann and is designed to blend with his Tongass Fjords scenery from FSAddons (which I already have) giving a much larger area in which to play. I also bought two airport expansions for the area and I thought some of you might be interested.

This is Ketchikan, PAKT, showing the terminal building at a lower level than the runway and with sloping taxiways. The GA park is lower again. They haven't yet worked out how to get AI to work (not surprisingly) so the airport traffic is static.



Just into BC is Stewart, CZST, a logging village in the middle of nowhere. There are moving people and trees and ground scenery at 2cm per pixel (not that my present machine can cope with that!)




Ian

[DaveB]

Nice lookin' bit of scenery mate

ATB
DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Very nice Ian

If it's affjordable you might as well go for it

[Paul K]

Very nice Ian

If it's affjordable you might as well go for it

Actually, I think that pick-up truck in the second picture might be a Fjord.

Anyway...Ian, terrific pictures. I'm about to take the plunge with P3D, and all this stuff is going on my To Buy or To Reinstall list.

[Garry Russell]

Almost photographic for the most part

[speedbird591]

Damn! I can't think of any jokes fjordelight and amusement

Paul - glad to hear your project is ahead of schedule. I'm nearly there myself. Just fine tuning the final few specs for the new machine and then I'll pop the order in. I've already bought P3D in readiness as I wanted to have a look at how it ran on the old dog. Not very well, was the answer I didn't bother fiddling with it as there's no point but It'll save time now I've got a registered copy. I'm going to run it alongside FSX initially, probably running FTX Pacific North West as that has a dual FSX/P3D installer so I can do a straight comparison. I've already bought a dual install Cessna as my main bush aircraft.

From what I can deduce in the forums I think the plunge to P3D only might wait until version 1.4 or even 2.0 but with this fantastic FTX scenery to play with, I'm in no hurry. I'm very interested in seeing how you get on with your install.

EDIT: just to clarify, Paul, the Pacific Fjords scenery is FSX only at the mo. Although the ORBX website says that they are converting their older packs to P3D.

Ian

[Paul K]

Damn! I can't think of any jokes fjordelight and amusement

Good grief !


Ian, I believe running FSX and P3D on the same disc can cause problems. Can any P3D owners here confirm or deny that ?

Sooooo...if that is the case, have a look at this, which bypasses the need to have FSX installed to 'receive' add-ons before porting them over to P3D

http://secure.simmarket.com/fsx-to-prep ... tool.phtml

the manual...

http://www.flightsim.ee/download/manual ... epar3D.pdf

[speedbird591]

Ian, I believe running FSX and P3D on the same disc can cause problems.

Problems?!!

Why are there always problems? I don't think any of the other guys have gone exclusively P3D yet so I'm sure most are running it on the same disk

Anyway, if that is the case, I'll probably just run FSX to start with until you've ironed out all the 'problems' associated with an exclusive P3D installation. After all, that's what mates are for!

Well done, Paul. You can rely on my full support

Ian

PS thanks for that link. It looks like a really useful tool.

[TSR2]

Hi Paul,

I've FSX / P3D and FS9 all in the samer disk (albeit not the C Drive) and have had no promlems at all. The VFR stuff / GenX / UTX etc is all on a third disk

[Paul K]

Ian,..so I am Pathfinder and you are Main Force ??

Ben, thats good news - this common drive problem is something I've read about in various posts on various sites, but if you are getting along okay, then thats very encouraging.

A related question...I have a dedicated flight sim drive ( D:) because I always understood that FSX ran faster if it wasn't on the O/S drive ( C: ). So, does P3D also benefit from being on a different drive to the O/S, or is the whole thing a myth ?