I still want the OH-58 in DCS…mmmm…and if you have that, you (of course) have to have the Apache…
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I’m not really a helicopter person but I would be tempted with a super cobra… Mmmmm
we talked about AW139 in the other thread
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Yes, I stumbled across that a few days ago as well. I actually found it because someone had posted this firefighting ops utility to the X-Plane ORG and it referenced that AW139:
Until I saw that, I was unaware of the drama around that developer and the AW139. There are some people on the .ORG that are very passionate about the history of the developer. Apparently they may have used some other developers work in their product and they denied it for a prolonged period. I’m too tired to sort through it all and figure out if any bridges were mended, but if their new AW139 is their own work, and is of high quality, I’d love to check it out. I’m not against giving people a chance for redemption…but again, I really don’t know the whole story (nor do I really want to).
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Me either dude. The HobbyDrama never interests me either.
What DOES interest me is the reaction I got from my little boy when he saw your picture of the helicopter on my phone screen…
He immediately toddled off and hit the power button on my pc and brought me an x box controller smiling and making helicopter noises
I may have something here.
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I went through a week-long rock climbing course on Pra Nang many years ago. If you have a bucket list and you like waves, sand, scantly clad girls in harnesses and crazy limestone formations, Krabi and environs should be on it.
It seems OrbX have been busy again. Earlier this week I saw that they had released Cardiff airport, and today I see that Goodwood is also available. Both look stunning when combined with True Earth GB South!
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I really hope they give X-Plane their Papua New Guinea treatment. I can’t think of a more fun and exciting place to fly some of my bush planes.
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Would love to see this too!
I don’t understand why bush flying is so poorly represented in flight sims.
Same for scenery at large, it’s always about Europe and North America, some diversity would be much appreciated.
I’d love to fly DC-3’s in South America, An-12’s or An-26’s in Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMtxnkJmIQE
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Story incoming ? 
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Shame on you! Uncollapse that, man! Little life excursions are what makes this forum great. I LOVE getting a chance to know you all.
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coming soon…
One day our dream will come true 
(I wanted to add a picture of 2 manly guys raising their 1 liter glass of beer but google failed me on this one, this cheesy pic is all I could find…and now everybody feels uncomfortable…great job google)
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I agree!
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I guess that it’s no mystery why I would get emails announcing the release of Active Sky for X-Plane and that there are updates to SkyMax Pro and the RWC.
Honestly, I’m getting a little tired of building a house of cards just to get good weather in X-Plane. I mean, I think at one point I had:
Real Weather Connector
Sky Maxx Pro
Python NOAA weather
and Ventura Sky
I mean…can’t I just get an all in one solution? I’m pretty happy with RWC and SkyMaxx Pro at this point…but I’d love an all in one solution.
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I’m surprised that I missed that Active Sky X-Plane release…well, sorta. I embargoed myself from looking at flight sim stuff while I was studying for my King Air recurrent.
Right now I’m purging my X-Plane 11 scenery directory and try to restore some order to my install. As such, I’ve removed all of my add on mesh and am going through the process of reinstalling X-Plane 11 UHD Mesh v4 and X-Plane 11 HD Mesh v4. I’m moving to the XP11 versions of those and think I’m officially closing the door on my XP10 install.
OK…so what I’m seeing is that now SkyMaxx users are being offered the additional utility of FS Global Real Weather (FSGRW) which adds some functionality to the weather engine. So yes, you’d essentially have three different products working together to give you weather. It seems nuts.
BUT…
Then I read up on FSGRW and this part does appeal to me because of the Christmas Flight and many of our group flights that go over vast oceanic areas…
“Weather conceived out of real weatherdata of 24.000+ stations based on land and at sea (=> correct weather over the oceans)”
I’m not sure that I get accurate winds aloft right now with just what I’m using. (At least, not over oceanic areas)…
Hmmm…
But I really need a comparison with Active Sky XP. Does anyone know of someone who has put together a column format of comparisons between the two? And not just what is currently in there…but what Active Sky is planning to do as it moves forward. I love Active Sky for P3D and FSX, and the company has a great reputation. So I wouldn’t be adverse to moving to that product, particularly if it becomes an all in one product.