Ultimate Terrain vs FS terrain vs ?

[illuminate]

I have been seeing a lot of posts about Flight Ones Ultimate terrain but have seen nothing about Just Flights FS Terrain. Does anyone have it (FS Terrain)? What do you think of it compared to UT


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[illuminate]

BUMP....no one has this?


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[RFields]

Flight One and Just Flight cooperate on a lot of products - Ultimate Traffic and Traffic 2005 use the same group of AFCAD files as an example.

FS Terrain is available from both vendors.

It's an older product which includes Europe. Ultimate Terrain is only the US, and a separate additional cost for Canada/Alaska.

If you want Europe - FS Terrain

If you want Canada - Ultimate Terrain

The basic problem with any mesh which uses satellite data is that there are holes in the coverage - which produce things like the spire in the Andes and other gross distortions. How well the creator of the mesh handles these issues is the key to a quality mesh.


Personally I use FS Genesis mesh mostly around the world.

But a very big issue in FS2004 is that the water / lakes / rivers use a different "mesh" than the land. The result of accurate terrain mesh can be lakes which look like plateaus or holes, etc.

Ultimate Terrain also includes modifications to the water to match the terrain - or so I've been told.

I haven't seen any claims for that for FS Terrain.

I usually purchase the products from Flight1 because I live in the US. If I lived in Europe, I'd use Just Flight.

[JimmiG]

Actually Ultimate Terrain isn't mesh at all, it includes improved coats, rivers, lakes, landclass, roads, railroads, power lines etc. basically everything except the actual terrain mesh. It's menat to be used with a 3rd party mesh with a resolution of 80m or better and works great with e.g. the FS Genesis mesh files.

[jomijoja]

I have the VFR terrain for England and Wales by Horizon simulations, I originally saw it at the International flightsim convention in Blackpool and bought it right away, coupled with England and Wales VFR photographic scenery - it's stunning.

I can fly VFR following roads, hills rivers etc.. using real charts and even fly over my own home.
I like to do a bit of hill walking near where I live and I often pre-check my route by overflying it in fs9 first!!