Alaska is now available...

[petermcleland]

593 MBs of download in 7 Packs and the cost is about £10 or 1200 thingies. I downloaded it earlier from in the game and it installed faultlessly. I have flown around some areas that I know well and looked at Russell Fjord and the Hubbard Glacier (very spectacular) and landed at Yakutat and Situk and the bay in the end of the Russell Fjord. I am using the Icon. The free Cub in the download has no cockpit. The scenery appears to be very accurate and must be extremely good value for such a massive area of wilderness.

HINT...The area being so large, you need to zoom in a long way before the smaller airfields show...There are a LOT of airfields.

[alaskancrab]

That's interesting you can buy Alaska but it's free/optional to download the Landclass... I wonder if the "shared resources" pack will update Hawaii as well

[barbarotto]

normally i would bash MS-but alaska is only $15 dollars(i spend more on lunch)-so ill give it a try-i taught they woulD ask the same or more as hawaii=$25-45ish for alaska-but $15 why not........i hope a nice decently powered cockpit will soon be available so i could usE it in both...but when i want to do some serious flying its back to FSX-AEROSOFT PRODUCTS WITH FMC'S....................!!!

[Trev]

Not on Steam yet.

[azzaro]

My interest in Flight is renewed (for now). Lots of real estate to cover here.
I don't suppose some new planes might be coming down the pipe soon...
Razor and blades marketing just keeps on working. — Bob

[Trev]

Downloaded it and all the free stuff from GFWL probibly nearly 2gigs. Haven't tried it yet.

[n4gix]

That's interesting you can buy Alaska but it's free/optional to download the Landclass... I wonder if the "shared resources" pack will update Hawaii as well

Actually, those aren't really "optional." They simply broke the entire package up into smaller downloads to make it easier for those without high-speed access!

[petermcleland]

I spent the day flying the terrain that I'm familiar with...I had parked my Icon on an island beach in the bay where McLeland field is in FS9...Interesting to see the same terrain in FLIGHT and compare it with Holger Sandmann's FS9 scenery.

I launched the amphib from the beach and then flew down to Harlequin Lake to look at the foot of the Yakutat Glacier. Then I landed on the lake and Taxied the whole length of Dangerous River down to the ocean at about 6 knots (19% power). Then took off, landed at Yakutat for fuel and then after some more exploring round the Russell Fjord I landed at Mountain Lake and beached near some pine trees...It was a very nice adventure and I enjoyed Dangerous River (the last time I did that was with a boat in FS9 the difference was that Holger's terrain was more finely accurate but the water and textures were superb in FLIGHT). I can see that I will be flying Alaska in MS Flight for a very long time to come. They have not loaded it with any missions or aerocaches yet but the joys of Free flight in this wilderness are just great and the Icon is perfect for enjoying it

[Leo112]

I spent the day flying the terrain that I'm familiar with...I had parked my Icon on an island beach in the bay where McLeland field is in FS9...Interesting to see the same terrain in FLIGHT and compare it with Holger Sandmann's FS9 scenery.

I launched the amphib from the beach and then flew down to Harlequin Lake to look at the foot of the Yakutat Glacier. Then I landed on the lake and Taxied the whole length of Dangerous River down to the ocean at about 6 knots (19% power). Then took off, landed at Yakutat for fuel and then after some more exploring round the Russell Fjord I landed at Mountain Lake and beached near some pine trees...It was a very nice adventure and I enjoyed Dangerous River (the last time I did that was with a boat in FS9 the difference was that Holger's terrain was more finely accurate but the water and textures were superb in FLIGHT). I can see that I will be flying Alaska in MS Flight for a very long time to come. They have not loaded it with any missions or aerocaches yet but the joys of Free flight in this wilderness are just great and the Icon is perfect for enjoying it

Hey Peter I said this in another forum that Holger's effort in FS9 really holds up and in many many ways is supieror to Flight. Flight can grow and with enough suggestions they can incorporate allot of what Holger did (just like our suggestions prompted TrackIR support). Holger could actually be involved. All in all with my modified setup (FS9.75) I feel FS9 looks just as good as Flight in Alaska with many many more options. I'm still enjoying Flight's Alaska though....

[petermcleland]

Les, yes I would agree with all you say there and I keep FS9 for the same reasons...In some things Holger is more accurate and in others less...Two things I prefer in FLIGHT are the water and the terrain textures, but I agree that a modified FS9 has many huge advantages over FLIGHT at the moment with highly detailed airports, traffic and ATC being the main ones. My highly modified setup also has all of Holgers work and also Alaska Cinematic, which is very beautiful and extremely highly detailed but for one Season only. I have not yet examined the Seasonal changes in FLIGHT but have high hopes for them. Like you though I also enjoy flying in FLIGHT and low down it beats anything else for me. I love my FS9 and would never part with it but I dumped FSX some years ago. I look forwards to continuing upgrades in FLIGHT