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Promotional video is below! Captains, It is with a lot of excitement that I get to announce a new developer and product today! Attitude Simulations has come aboard with X-Aviation to produce a new series of regions in the X-Plane scenery world. The first series/regions of sceneries will fall under the title of 'The Gate to the Great Lakes' and will feature numerous regions (both cities and airports) within the State of Michigan that when purchased together will give you an entire region of unparalleled detail never before seen in X-Plane! The amount of work that has gone into producing this series is immense, and we are absolutely certain you will be in awe of what you see when you get a chance to see it in sim for yourself! The Gate to the Great Lakes series will feature Custer Airfield (KTTF), Ann Arbor Municipal Airport (KARB), Erie International Airport (KERI), Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (KDTW), and Mackinac Island Airport (KMCD). More may be added depending on how the community reacts to this type of scenery, so if you like what you see here (and we really hope you do), please consider supporting this type of development with your purchase. This is a very dedicated, hard working team of people, and there are other regions outside of Michigan already in the works! The first airport and region to be released will be Custer Airfield (KTTF). We are pleased to announce it will be available for purchase this weekend! Subsequent regions as listed above will be released after Custer and are already very far into development. So, with the above said, let's talk about the Custer Airfield region! Custer Airfield and the nearby town of Monroe, MI. Custer Airfield is small public airstrip located just 20 miles south of KDTW Detroit. The airfield was created in 1946 and originally used as a bombing practice area. There are still signs to this day warning of digging and metal detecting as there have been recent discoveries of unexploded ordinance. Monroe, known for the partial meltdown of its Fermi II nuclear facility back in 1966 (included as POI), is located on Lake Erie’s western coast. KTTF Custer is in perfect range to some exciting destinations, such as New York City, Chicago, Cincinnati, Boston, Washington D.C. & Toronto. Why start with Custer and not the massive, greater known Detroit International Airport? Attitude Simulations wanted to develop an airfield close to home that would offer the real world pilot and avid simmer the ability to simulate realistic VFR training as well as a tough workload in instrument conditions. Working in the pattern you will notice an incredible amount of detail below that helps to bring in a great feeling of immersion as well as flying so close to DTW and having to be aware of the Class Bravo shelf and altitude restrictions in the area. When DTW is landing to the North the traffic comes in directly overhead of KTTF. This presents many challenges and for online pilots it will be a fun place to fly their GA aircraft on busy nights. Helicopter pilots will find themselves getting lost in the details. With several helipads and fun landing zones off field, you air beaters will love simulating medical emergencies and police operations in Monroe, MI. I implore all of those police pilots to search for some illegal operations hiding in the bushes. Utility & charter helicopter pilots should depart from KTTF and give the raised platform at The DTE Fermi II Nuclear plant a shot. Gusty winds off of Lake Erie can make the final approach a bit rough but tons of fun! Here are the features for this first region: ⦁ Hand painted airport ground textures with highly detailed specular maps ⦁ 64 square miles / 164 square kilometers of high quality USGS orthoimagery ⦁ Thousands of hand-placed custom “autogen” buildings ⦁ Realistic foliage for this region of the US ⦁ Commercial areas include actual businesses and industrial warehouses ⦁ DTE Fermi II Nuclear Plant completely modeled with custom raised Helipad ⦁ Accurate night lighting for the airport and surrounding area ⦁ PBR materials for the airport’s structures and static objects ⦁ Many hard to find Easter Eggs ⦁ Animated custom windsocks and airport beacon ⦁ Custom accurate static aircraft ⦁ Created from on site photography and videos ⦁ Plausible LIT textures for most structures ⦁ Edited road system and powerlines Video: A promotional video has been put together to show off this amazing scenery. We hope you enjoy and and support the cause of what promises to be some amazing scenery packages and states/regions throughout the country developed by some very talented individuals at Attitude Simulations! Again, we really hope you like what you see and find the announcement of a developer like this around for X-Plane as exciting as we do. There are many developers which exist for MSFS and P3D who are skilled (ORBX comes to mind as one), but nothing of this caliber has ever been produced for X-Plane. We are proud of what's been produced, and with your support for this kind of scenery creation we are excited at the prospect of bringing many, many more! We'll see you at the release this weekend!

Looks fantastic, count me in for purchase. Cheers, Rob.

We are currently working on wrapping it up. There is one more piece to the package we are adjusting and then we'll have it out! This weekend is still accurate. Either today sometime, or early tomorrow.

Who needs retirement funds when you have places to fly jk! We will have 3d people in all of our future releases. Thanks for the wonderful comment!

Hello guys, The video was recorded with shadowplay so there are no losses due to recording software there and the system specs are listed in the description It performs extremely well. It is as fluid as in the video Happy Flying

Major airports are very much so in the works.

I've been looking forward to this ever since I Steaven's announcement a few years ago. It will definitely be one of the nicest sceneries X-Plane has seen. In that case I'd love to see something like this for the Southwest. Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, etc have a ton of small to medium sized airports located in the middle of stunning scenery.

Scenery like this makes it possible to sit at home in comfort, and still travel. I love it.

Great news Cam, Thanks!!!!

Requests never hurt and are always welcome! Your show of support for the product is the first step to ensuring things like that happen.

count me in looks great

Looks great!

Thanks, and good to know. I'll keep an eye out this weekend. As a Chicagoan this will be fun.

Dear pilots, We are very happy to announce that our DC-9 project, after a lot of hiccups and delays, is finally back on track, and we are working at full speed! The members of our team have experience in real aviation and engineering world, like Aerospace Engineering and flight dynamics testing, pilots, and software programmers. Also we are happy to inform you that part of our team, is a very experienced ex-Swissair DC-9 pilot to ensure the accuracy of the aircraft! Major features: 1. The model will based on DC-9-32, in Swissair’s configuration. This will be the base configuration during development. 2. Accurate flight dynamics, using NASA's simulation tools! 3. System’s simulation to the level that you can/need to operate the aircraft with use of the real aircraft’s manuals. 4. Highly detailed and accurate 3D model. 5. FullHD realistic textures with advanced PBR materials. 5. Fully custom dynamic lighting. 6. Many liveries. To our best, we will match cockpit colors with the liveries. 7. High fidelity sounds, implemented with X-Plane’s new future, "FMOD". 8. VR support from v1.0.0. with full operational manipulators We have opened a dedicated Facebook group, where we will post updates regularly. and discuss with you the development of this project. Feel free to join in! https://www.facebook.com/groups/530615907278229 Enjoy

It is self contained, no third party libraries are needed. This does not have Autogate, but other sceneries may in the future.

I've just had the windows update--and have this same problem. I've deleted the files as suggested, but the Gizmo/Windows/X-Aviation Licensing path brings up a box with a bix X on it, and no where to update the license. When I re-start, and get the box with an X, then input my email and password, hit "update", nothing happens. So...these instructions seem insufficient, or I'm missing some basic step? Thanks

This looks FANTASTIC guys!! I can't wait to buy this and try it out! I hope there are plans to encompass the entire US, Alaska, and Hawaii with this type of realism. I normally fly Airliners but seeing this will put me back into the GA planes quickly flying VFR ;-) GREAT JOB!!!

Wow This is really impressive scenery and a lot of attention to detail has been put into it. I am really looking forward to release. I am glad the Midwest is getting highly detail scenery that you would see in Orbx type covering the West coast. Being from the Chicago area myself, would love to visits area around the west coastal areas around Michigan including, Travese City. Count me in to support this project. I would hope for it expand to other areas as well. Bob

It's funny how people load their Starbucks card for $25,$50,75, and even $100 every week but they won't support the ever expanding world of Xplane. You people are definitely in the wrong hobby. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

Guarantee this will not be over 30$.

The scenery runs flawlessly on my PC, between 50-60 frames. I7 4770k, 16GB of ram, GTX1070, to give an idea. It looks and IS insanely detailed, without the FPS hit.

41 new liveries added

Well...seems like what I wanted to say has been said already! So without any further ado, your scenery looks Smashing! And I love ❤️ the Easter Egg statement that there are many ! Since I fly mainly the tubes, your scenery will be perfect to practice in a little Cessna or Mooney once again while enjoying your beautiful work! Thank you for that too!

Wow, it looks absolutely stunning, as signmanbob says; like ORBX for X-Plane! I have a ton of ORBX stuff for FSX/P3D and only recently "converted" to X-Plane after the release of XP11. The reason I have so many ORBX sceneries (besides their beauty), is because I got most of them when they were still priced at AU$19 (US$15) and they have frequent sales as well, up to 40% off. I find, however, that X-Plane add-ons are more expensive on average and I have purchased very few so far. Please make this affordable and I think it will do well.

This scenery looks like Orbx for X-Plane. I am very impressed. Stuff like this kills my retirement savings, I hope you realize that. Will these sceneries have people moving around like Orbx?

Awesome Steaven and Cameron!

I hope you guys don't forget Cleveland. KCLE, KBKL etc also on the great lakes..... not sure about cincy

I'm not going to turn this topic into such a discussion of semantics. Plenty of people will be able to prove my point this weekend. You can wait till those verdicts are in. The video in and of itself does a good enough job in showing fluidity even with capture software running.

Heavily optimized. I am not noticing any crazy impacts on my machine vs default.

Hi Guys! I'm working on two repaints of ASL Airlines Belgium (Ex TNT Airways). It will be release as soon as possible, but i have to find the good way to repaint & colorized the pax xindows. OO-TNA TNT Color + ASL sticker. - - - OO-TNQ ASL Color Dirty: - - - - - - - Hope you enjoy.

Thanks darrenf, appreciate the comment though it's the folks who make the paintkit who do the real hard work. Yes will do the Dan-Air, in both this livery and with BA titles added after the buy-out. I also have Astraeus, Debonair, Flyglobespan (a few variations) and Inter European almost finished to try and complete the UK operators.

They didn´t ask much for our old 737s (- engines and other reusable parts)... but shipping and handling was expensive, and my wife wouldn´t let me put it into our garden :-( Jan

I think your CWS deadzones in the IXEG menu are not set (or too narrow).

You can also see this from another angle: people find your addons so great, that they simply can't wait to get their hands on an update for XP11 and tend to run hot in the process.

No, v2.0 of the Saab will NOT be compatible with XPv10.