jafar wrote:
On Tue, 04 May 2004 10:52:58 +0100, Graham
wrote:


Having been out of simming for a good couple of years (I took up the
real thing!), I'm wondering what are the must haves. I see there is
Ultimate traffic and My Traffic. Any real difference between the two?
What is required nowadays for online flying etc. Any other add-ons
that you just wouldn't be without? All suggestions/comments welcomed

regards
Graham


Well the Blue Sphere rplacement textuers and one of the water texture
hacks would make things look nicer. Some higher resolution meshes
would make things more interesting too

Correct, and Ultimate Traffic and some weather engine; the built-in
FS2004 weather does a reasonable job but I prefer ActiveSky from
http://www.hifisim.com/

I'm not entirely sure but the difference between MyTraffic and Ultimate
Traffic is that the latter one is based on real (dec 2003) airline
schedules and MyTraffic uses it's own intelligent patterns. I use UT and
it may seem the logical choice. Be warned though that 'real' traffic can
not be handled by the AI ATC of FS2004 so pile-ups emerge, both for
take-off as for landings, which is not very realistic. It may be that
MyTraffic gives a more realistic impression, but I haven't tried it.

Ursa..


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