Microsoft Flight Simulator X

**Templar Knight** · 02-11-2008, 16:25

Whats better active sky or flight environment x? Does FEX come with a real time weather radar?

**Beirut** · 02-11-2008, 17:21

Active Sky will give you dynamic, real time weather, and some graphics improvements.

Flight Environment X doesn`t touch the weather, but has amazing graphics. Better skies, better water, better clouds, and the program is constantly being updated and has hundreds of environmental sets to chose from.

For my money, there`s no choice - Flight Environment X!

**Templar Knight** · 02-11-2008, 20:19

Traffic X worth a try when it comes out? lol I see TX will have ''Clandestine CIA Extraordinary Rendition flights''

**edyzmedieval** · 02-11-2008, 20:42

Traffic X is already out and it recently received some updates.
I would get FSGenesis for some mesh terrain.

**Beirut** · 02-11-2008, 21:00

Originally Posted by Templar Knight

Traffic X worth a try when it comes out? lol I see TX will have ''Clandestine CIA Extraordinary Rendition flights''

The AI traffic that`s already in FSX can kill your rig. Unless you have some serious specs, you might want to reconsider paying for something you might not be able to run.
Check out World of AI. It`s easy to install and easy to use. You can get a whack of good AI flights, including military, for free.

http://www.world-of-ai.com/installer.html

**Templar Knight** · 02-11-2008, 21:48

What is the AI flights like in FSX? Any real airlines? Busy airports and skys?

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 02-11-2008, 22:25

Any recommendations for good freeware terrain? Looking especially for Ontario and Europe, mostly Germany.

**Beirut** · 02-11-2008, 23:22

For FS2004, there is an astounding amount of payware scenery covering Germany. The upside is it`s very nicely done. The downside is that it will cost you a small fortune to get all of it.

For FSX, the Germany scenery has just started coming out. Aerosoft.com makes it and it`s very good. Again, though, it will cost you at least several hundred dollars to get the whole country and you will need a honking big hard drive to put it all on. One package comes in nine parts (two are out) covering all the small airfields. Another comes in several parts each covering a major airport. The last package comes in four parts (one is out), each does a quarter of Germany in ridiculous photo accurate detail and installs at about 16GB each. Oh, and there`s the last package called German Landmarks which goes on top of everything else. So, if you have $500 and 120GB of HD space, you get Germany to a T.

Still on payware, Ultimate Terrain X is a great product. The latest issue was Canada-Alaska and gives you accurate roads, towns, rivers, cities, and coastlines for the whole country. It`s quite something. Wait for UTX Europe to come out and that will keep you happy for all of Europe including Germany.

Add to this Flight Terrain X will release the first of at least thirty packages covering the world in very, very nice detail. I think they are planning a total package cost of about $400US. The complete install could easily run over a hundreds GBs.

Add to this all the other payware packages covering major airports, cities and regions around the world, special terrain packages, environmental improvements, not to mention custom planes, and you can see there`s a lot out there.

So, if you have about $1500-$2000 for add-ons and a monster rig with a 500GB HD to run FSX on, you can get world coverage with down-to-the-meter accuracy.

Freeware - check the libraries at flightsim.com and avsim.com. There`s lots of stuff, some very good, some not.

**edyzmedieval** · 02-12-2008, 12:58

Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars

Any recommendations for good freeware terrain? Looking especially for Ontario and Europe, mostly Germany.

I would get the Helgoland X from Aerosoft, boxed edition. Not too cheap, but it's one of the best sceneries ever made for a FS game. Everyone is very hyped about it, and I think I'll buy it too.

Aerosoft is a company which really specialises in FSX payware add-ons. And they are based in Germany, so they have lots of scenery packages for Germany.

www.aerosoft.com

Oh by the way, how the heck do I buy from Aerosoft? Every time I go, everything's fine except that it wont give me the forms to fill in the details of the credit card!