VFR Photographic Scenery Generation X - VERSION 3

[dart15]

Does anybody have a copy of this scenery package that they may be willing to sell to me? Must be version 3. Long shot I know but.........

I cant locate any available supplies.

Cheers

[Ian Warren]

Not sure if this is the scenery your searching for ..... http://www.amazon.co.uk/VFR-Photographic-S...n/dp/B0057N2YLS
http://www.amazon.co.uk/VFR-Photographic-S...sim_sbs_vg_h__2

[dart15]

Thanks Ian - that's odd. Go to the Playsim (Play Horizon) site and everything is sold out!! I was looking particularly for the Version 3, combined Vols 1 - 3 package rather than the individual products which are quite expensive! I should have bitten this particular bullet when I had the chance before. I already have the VFR UK Airports series which are very good. Just need the photoreal scenery to compliment them now

[Ian Warren]

I was going to say Ade maybe the person the could source the scenery for you .. may even deliver it himself

[AdrianPetford]

Playhorizon was hacked and has been down for months. Although it's back now this probably explains why they're out of stock. However they are run by Flightstore and the box set is still available direct from their own site:

VFR Photographic Scenery Volumes 1-3 Box set for FSX

I can vouch for Flightstore as a good, friendly and reliable company. I'd be happy to help out with sourcing it if it's a problem for you.

Alternatively, I have a complete set (4 volumes) of the Just Flight VFR product I'm looking to sell. I also use UK Airports so moved over to Horizon myself but the Just Flight product is good and has more up to date photo coverage than Horizon's. I believe it works with UK Airports with some very small alignment issues.

Hope that helps,


Ade

[hasegawa]

Thank you for the hint. In Germany is this Version simply not available... Thats means EU...

[dart15]

QUOTE (AdrianPetford @ May 27 2012,8:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Playhorizon was hacked and has been down for months. Although it's back now this probably explains why they're out of stock. However they are run by Flightstore and the box set is still available direct from their own site:

VFR Photographic Scenery Volumes 1-3 Box set for FSX

I can vouch for Flightstore as a good, friendly and reliable company. I'd be happy to help out with sourcing it if it's a problem for you.

Alternatively, I have a complete set (4 volumes) of the Just Flight VFR product I'm looking to sell. I also use UK Airports so moved over to Horizon myself but the Just Flight product is good and has more up to date photo coverage than Horizon's. I believe it works with UK Airports with some very small alignment issues.

Hope that helps,


Ade

Thanks for the info Ade - much appreciated. I was aware that Horizon came in for some criticism when they released v3 due to the dated photo coverage but I think I'll go with it for compatibility reasons and it wont irk me so much as it would if I was still in the UK and therefore more aware of its shortcomings!

[AdrianPetford]

QUOTE (dart15 @ May 29 2012,10:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks for the info Ade - much appreciated. I was aware that Horizon came in for some criticism when they released v3 due to the dated photo coverage but I think I'll go with it for compatibility reasons and it wont irk me so much as it would if I was still in the UK and therefore more aware of its shortcomings!

You're welcome. The aerials are about ten years old now (the same source as the original Just Flight VFR package, the developers of which evolved into Horizon) but still work really well and are much higher resolution in the Horizon FSX package. Personally I found the problem introduced with V3 was more to do with the high-res city inserts they have added. Many of these, nice though they are, are not colour corrected to match the surrounding original aerials so stick out noticably. Overall though, Horizon's the best UK VFR and is improving with each release. The new Scotland volumes are superb, as is the Republic of Ireland.

Just one other thing to note... buy Treescapes as well. It's by Earth Simulations and adds tree objects throughout the Volume 1-3 area based on Ordnance Survey data. It makes a massive difference to the experience and totally removes the "flat" look and feel of the UK VFR scenery. Treescapes is available in a Volume 1-3 bundle and is fully compatible with the UK2000 airports.

Cheers,


Ade

[Dean]

We are now selling these titles at PC Aviator Australia - and have limited stock available at present. I do have the three "Version 3" FSX titles available at present as well as Treescapes.
More than happy to ship to NZ (or anywhere for that matter). They are the individual product boxes however and not the boxed set you had mentioned.
http://www.pcaviator.com.au/store/PlaySims/

[hasegawa]

http://www.flightstore.co.uk/flight-simula...t-for-fsx-p2780

Did work.

[zkcav]

Just arrived yesterday from the UK so can vouch for them.

earthsimulations

I got the V3 updates along with Scotland VFR Vols 6 and 8, still haven't found 7 though... anyone know where to find it?

Paul

[AdrianPetford]

Hi Paul,

Volume 7 hasn't been released yet. They have said it's in preparation at the moment.

Cheers,


Ade

[zkcav]

Thanks Ade...

Makes a lot of sense to me they had released Vol 8, 9 and 10.

I couldn't understand why I couldn't find Vol 7... that explains a lot.

Cheers Paul

[AdrianPetford]

Hi Paul,

You're welcome. This is the first time aerial photo coverage has been done for Scotland. All the previous VFR packages have been England and Wales only, as I understand it because any aerial imagery of Scotland taken in the past was too obscured by heavy cloud cover. The Scottish VFR Gen X volumes are all newly flown coverage but to avoid this problem the photo shoots have had to be done at different times in the year and also certain areas "filled in" subsequently. That's the reason for the odd order. Scotland Central is most badly affected by cloud cover.

Treescapes by Earth Simulations is well worth getting to go with the VFR Gen X range, as it totally transforms the look of the scenery and removes its "flat" out of the box look. Also the FSX Power Project by Ray Porter (freeware) adds a huge number of pylons, power stations, wind farms and other 3D objects, including in areas not yet covered by VFR Gen X. This also has some similar coverage for NZ. Once Scotland VFR Gen X is complete, I'm also going to buy the Scotflight scenery which adds many custom 3D landmarks but is still fully compatible with Horizon.

Cheers,


Ade

[zkcav]

Ade

I can vouch for Scotflight: when I got Vols 4 and 5, I ended up getting most of the Scotflight's products too to compliment the islands, plus the mainland. It added a lot to the immersion of the area. RAF Bases package was a good add on and then the photo realistic compatibility of the isles added that wow factor.

As for treescapes I wondered why they didn't add that as part of the original packages, as it was I thought the playsims products where priced a bit on the high side, but I guess they did their market research and have to cover their costs of aerial photography and development of the products. It is when you add up the costs it makes the cost of VFR UK rather pricy.

Thanks for the heads up for the power project.

I'll drop a few shots of Vol 8 tonight, I installed it last night and defragging at the moment

Cheers Paul

[Ian Warren]

Its a pity with these scenerys only having sparse autogen , knowing the task i be interested to see screenshot of the city of London .

[zkcav]

Odd that this should happen just after I put a plug in for earthsims but got an email yesterday...

All Microsoft Flight Simulator Range 50% off sale
For 1 week only
Ends midnight 15th Oct 2012
PLUS...
Download FREE Treescapes Vol 4 & 5
Western Isles - Orkney & Shetland Isles*
*You must own GenX 4 or 5 Photo scenery

needless to say I've got the lot now including Channel Isles and the islands of Sicily ... Waiting on VFR Airfields 1 - 3 as they are on DVD.

Shots to follow. At this price reduction you can't go wrong if you are interested in UK flying.

[Ian Warren]

Cheers Paul , i gone back to the UK in a different way ... what are you going to do when Orbx release their version

[AdrianPetford]

I grabbed the Treescapes freebie but can't take advantage of the sale as I have all of Earth Simulations' brilliant products already!

They're doing a Scotland Treescapes bundle once Scotland Central is out so I'm waiting for that as the England and Wales bundle I've already got was great value for money.

I'm planning to keep the British Isles in FSX as my existing Horizon photoreal and install the Orbx releases into P3D as I've done with Orbx NZ. That way I can have the best of both worlds.


Ade

[hasegawa]

Treescapes Volume 4 and 5 are F R E E this week at

http://www.earthsimulations.com/Store/