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Originally Posted by Deschodt View Post
All I can say is it looked really good on the demo, then I bought it and downloaded North america and europe sceneries, and even the golden gate bridge was 2 grey lines on the water. SFO looked like it did after the 1900s earthquake, flat.

It took a LOT of separate research and downloads to get a decent city, bridge, roads, trees, and a populated airport, so that I can land my buffalo DC3 with one engine feathered on the main SFO runway with some suspension of disbelief ;-) I don't understand why they don't package all this free stuff into a big bundle and sell it for $20 more or what have you and pay the freeware guys a little... I must have loaded it 20x in a row per add on just to get all the error messages to go away "you're missing joe blow's add on for this other add on to work"...
Also, while the flight model seems excellent, I'm not entirely convinced by Xplane's load/failure of the airframe. I did some crazy $hit with that DC3 and never lost a wing. Odd... Maybe it's a really strong aircraft ;-)
If you have a strong GPU the default stuff looks pretty good in XP11. The airframe load/failure might be off in the settings as well. Along with overspeed issues with the airframe, gear doors and so on.

All that said, I am glad they finally have TrackIR support in X-Plane.
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