It’s pretty amazing scenery. Maybe you could feature a run through the Mach Loop. For real authenticity, fly out of RAF Valley. Valley is just a bit North of the OrbX South boundary though.
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You know what would REALLY be cool? If a couple of others had the plane and the scenery and did a tight 3-ship through the loop.
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Q8 in the video review Paul posted above says at least twice that ORBX has created 42000 meters^2 of stunning, realistic scenery. That would not be very impressive. Its 42000 square miles!
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I went ahead and ordered this (ORBX Great Britain South). I’m doing a review of the Just Flight Hawk for the magazine, and it would seem to be an injustice to not use this scenery for parts of it…
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Hey…not bad…only 30 minutes or so to download…! Maybe waiting a week or two was worth it to get my own server bandwidth…! 
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And I’m paying $66/month for 2MB/sec so…you’re doing pretty good there.
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I’ll look into that - I did see that 9 minute video on how to do it without using LAN. I’m on call tonight though…so not sure if I can commit to working that one out…
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Ah…shame that RAF Leeming is out of the range of Great Britain South package…I coulda used that.
Well I’m about 4 skinny margaritas deep in lovely PVR so I’m out anyway currently. But I figure your article should at least have the benefit of a screenshot of you and @PaulRix, a man who has christened a real Hawk with his very own British puke. As an editorial strategy it just seems like an opportunity too precious to pass up.
Then again, I’m pretty wasted at the moment and should probably just mind my own business.
Ha…our plane was down there a few days ago:
I agree though…I’ll definitely check into a formation flight…
That conversion process is taking a lot longer than the download did. Grabbed all the files in 35 minutes…but the conversion is taking a bit longer over an hour at 8,500 of around 12,000 files converted. I’m assuming it is something similar to what happens with Forkboy’s orthos where it downloads in a higher compression and then converts to DDS or something…
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Mine took a tad over two hours to uncompress/convert. I wasn’t sure of the need for the backup, so ended up deleting it. (What did you do?)
I’m hoping that doesn’t cause pain later if there are updates.
That and RAF Valley. I would’ve loved to see that one.
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Yeah…I’d like to see a ORBX quality one of that for sure. In the interim…you could probably pair this one with the ortho for the area:
Interesting, I didn’t know that there was a Hawk T.2 available in X-Plane
That is the RAF Valley scenery that I have been using since getting the Hawk. I also like to fly from Royal Marines Base Chivenor (ex RAF Chivenor). The stock scenery isn’t bad there although the Marines build large hangar/warehouse type buildings where the main apron’s used to be. Chivenor is on the North Devon coast and the TrueEarth scenery is great around there.
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For systems depth, look no further than the HotStart TBM 900. I bought it Sunday and the first thing that I learned was that takeoffs must equal landings, even if you get interrupted by wife and kids 
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I don’t think there is…or if there is…it is probably a light/user created model I’d guess…
