Monday 26 November 2012

OrbX FTX England is out!

I received a very exciting email over the weekend. As rumoured OrbX have been working on FTX England, and you can now pre-order the DRM free DVD edition from Flightstore.co.uk for dispatch on 21st December, or download it right away from The FlightSim Store.

The product covers all of England (not Wales or Scotland) but is not compatible with photorealistic scenery like GenX, so you'll have to make a choice. This is not a problem for me because, as I've mentioned before, I think FTX is far superior.

7 comments:

  1. So have you bought it yet?

    I'm on the fence at the moment. The screenshots and videos look great, but opinions on the forums seem to be rather mixed at best.

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  2. Not yet. I loath and detest DRM so I'm going to wait and get the DVD from Flightstore. Sounds like I'd better read some reviews in the meantime!

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  3. Dom Hi,

    Just found your fantastic blog. It's mirroring a project I am in the planning stages of right now. Got a loftspace which I hope to house a simpit for GA flying with a generic twin throttle prop layout (didn't even know you could have 2 saitek quadrants sidebyside).

    If you don't mind I've got quite a few questions I would like to throw at you....:)

    Cheers

    Pete

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  4. OK well where do I start..

    What do you think of a beamer setup for the outside view? I'm contemplating a single projector for forward view and possibly 2 monitors for left/right views. With an enclosed pit I just think it will give so much more realism. A single monitor IP for the guages, that's the idea anyhow!

    I have a few old keyboards knocking around and thinking of going down the keyboard emulator route for many of the on/off switches.

    I own a sign company so bespoke panels are no problem for me. You have gone for the GoFlight kit, better than Saitek?

    How easy is the process of ganging the saitek quadrants to share throttle pitch etc?

    There are a few questions for you... ;)

    Cheers

    Pete



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  5. Hi Pete,

    I've tried to answer your questions in the latest post.

    Dom

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  6. Thx Dom

    Getting back this thread, what is best GenX or OrbX. I run GenX and looking at sidebyside screenshots OrbX certainly looks prettier in my view.

    You could keep buying addons for £25 a pop if money was no object but I'd rather get a good basic setup. So far all I have is FSX and GenX so what else is 'the norm'. ReX? You mentioned a tree render addon also.

    Cheers

    Pete

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