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Airport Plateaus / Plateau west of Syracuse, NY, USA

« on: February 28, 2012, 08:15:56 PM »

West of Syracuse, NY, USA (my home airport), there is a plateaued airport that was there across the last three sims.   Back in 2004 I looked into this and noticed  that the Jeppesen source data used to populate the FS airports had an incorrect elevation for this private, no-use grass strip.   

I don't recall the specifics now, but in FS2004 I had corrected this with some type of flattening and exclude command.    edit:  I found the old exclude/flatten bgl files but they don't work in FSX.

The lat/lon are west of:    N43 2.04'    W76 36.49

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General / Less compressed FSX terrain data on DVD only for US data?

« on: February 28, 2012, 12:24:06 PM »

Justin - just wanted to confirm my interpretations of the product descriptions:  It appears that only the FSX terrain data for the US mainland has two different compression levels, one for the downloaded product and another for the DVD version?   

Canada, Mexico, and other terrain data do not have these differences between the two product delivery methods, correct?

Thanks,

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General / Landclass: FSGenesis or UT-USA?

« on: February 26, 2012, 04:25:55 PM »

For FSX, what landclass product is more detailed, FSGenesis or Ultimate Terrain-USA?

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FSX / Finally moving to FSX - Advice for add-ons?

« on: February 25, 2012, 12:33:15 PM »

Hello - I was once a very active sim community member back in the FS2002/04 years who participated in newsgroups, here in FSGenesis' forum, and even dabbled in small-time scenery, creating a small lakes enhancement that I uploaded to Avsim and a couple of other sites.  I was an enthusiastic FSGenesis Galaxy member and had my FS2004 dialed in pretty nicely.

Admittedly I had fallen away from this community over the last six so years so I have lost touch with the buzzwords and the people.  I suspect it was Justin's many marketing emails, but suddenly I wanted to return.  This past week, I purchased another membership to FSGenesis' Galaxy level, a copy of FSX, and have sent off emails to Ultimate Terrain's Flight1 to find out if they offer discounted copies of their product to previous purchasers of UT for FS2004.

I am turning first to the FSGenesis community for help since I have roots here: What do you all consider essential add-ons for FSX that will make it much more immersive than the default product?  Here's my list so far:

1)  FSGenesis terrain mesh
2)  Ultimate Terrain (for landclass and shoreline corrections)
3)  FSUIPC  (to provide an interface into FSX)
4)  World of AI     (for more realistic AI traffic)
5)  EditVoicePack (to update the default voicepack to include other real airlines names)

What else?

1)  Weather generator?
2)  Excellent low and slow aircraft with 3D cockpits?
3)  Other scenery enhancements?

Thanks for reading and any ideas you might have.

Regards,

Peter