Essendon, Australia.

A mid-size airport for charters, ambulance flights and GA

FSX. And...  Orbx again. But this time, it's about an airport project that had been planned a long time ago in the road map. The australian airport of Essendon (YMEN), in Melbourne is "not very far from beta build" according to John Venema. Here are the first previews.

The Lancair V 1.2 patch

A new VC rain effect (version 1)

FSX. Orbx has released his new Lancair V 1.2 patch, improving the aircraft in many aspects ; a windshield rain effect, new volumetric 3D landing lights, a new passenger, some updates on the external visual model and a full batch of small instruments upgrades.

Central Rockies : a first large preview

FSX. Orbx has unveiled yesterday two dozen of pictures from his upcoming Central Rocky Mountains product. If i get it right, this will include a large part of Idaho (Boise, McCall) and the remaining strip in Washington and Oregon.

Orbx link to forum (registration required)

http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/32623-central-rocky-mountains-10-shots/

Orbx Cushman Meadows now released

FSX. Cushman is the 7th Orbx payware scenery in Washington state, USA. These products need NA Blue Pacific Northwest (like a basic layer) but they represent today the finest quality in simulation when its about depicting the nature and life around airfields../..

Cherry on the cake, if you still don't know too much this designer, there are several freewares reaching the same quality level (Vashon island and OZx work).

Cushman Meadows is partly fictional but the relief and lakes are true. The choice of Cushman lake is interesting. There are already two sceneries around Skagit county, one in Eastsound and two around Portland. Cushman is a nice opportunity to explore a part of Olympic region and plan new flights around this state. A lot of people are low requesting some airfields in British Columbia (i am one of them).

Cushman Meadows also includes right now the most acclaim features ; textureflow and PeopleFlow. It is also the largest Orbx scenery in USA.

Available ; box or download / One file; 980 megabytes

More info here ;

http://fullterrain.com/product_kcmw.html

Orbx warmly welcomes back OZx

FSX. Announced this morning, freeware developers of OZx will join - reintegrate - Orbx development team. Two advantages : they will have access to Orbx libraries and imagery plus the technical resources of the payware development team. Second, talented OZx developers will have the opportunity to develop their first payware. Officially, OZx team will continue to work autonomously../.

John Venema, Orbx ceo, also indicated yesterday serious interest in doing sceneries about Perth ; the harbor and or the skyline. There is also a new airport project along the Melbourne - Brisbane route. Maybe Sydney ?

Apparently there are more ongoing projects in Washington State, USA. Not only Skagit and Anacortes. On the other hand, we don't see pretty much news about NA Blue Souther Rockies, NA Gold Northern California, nor Portland airport. Until now, these addons are nothing more than a light aviation paradise. No good landing platforms for liners, i mean.

C'mon ! a new ladle of Cushman ?

Orbx, the australian designer, is releasing new pictures of his next addon, the fictional Cushman Meadows. This scenery has a story and if you are in this business, you might want to hear Bill Womacks telling about it../..

Bill Womack explanations about Cushman Meadows and Emma Field.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdYg42IIS9A#ws