Simviation Forum - large downloads

May 7^th, 2003 at 7:10am

lib319 Offline
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Hello,

Can anyone tell me the biggest downloads to be found on simviation. I have the FS2002pro - Falcon 50 CAEA version at 18 mb, any other larfge dls I can grab on my fast work connection. Aircraft or scenery, anything huge!

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lib

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Reply #1 - May 7^th, 2003 at 9:49am

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The USGS scenery for Alaska. Looks great I think there is 7 files total.

Many paywares can range from 30-60mb.

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Reply #2 - May 7^th, 2003 at 1:56pm

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& please remember - someone has to pay for this so please respect that large downloads cost & you aren't paying....

As ever - only download what you really want - otherwise you're acting against the interests of this hobby..

Think Global. It's the world we live in.

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Reply #3 - May 7^th, 2003 at 4:51pm

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Why would anyone want the very largest files anyway? Some of those things rake havoc with your framerates, unless you have an exceptional PC.

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Reply #4 - May 7^th, 2003 at 5:10pm

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Hmmm

Thing is you don't know what you've got til you've tried it.

In my monster US fast cable session I ended up downloading 3 CDs (that's 1950 MB!) of stuff - scenery, aircraft and panels. And I went out of my way to find the big downloads, like mesh scenery and stuff that I normally can't touch with my dial-up.

I've installed a h*ll of a lot of it and on the whole I've been amazed by how much it's added to my sim and my enjoyment of it. After all, designers don't go out of their way to work for months creating monster packages unless it's gonna be worth it!

I'm now running out of hd space (I've only got a 40GB drive) and I accept I'll have to go to 60GB. I've got a 1.75GHz CPU and I also accept that I'll need to go up to at least between 2 - 3 GHz. But this is my main hobby - one of my few real, harmless pleasures in life.

So isn't it worth it? I don't smoke(!!) I don't drink a lot (!!) and my wife won't let me spend my money on loose women. So I say, to h*ll with it. When the time comes I'll upgrade (and it'll be soon I guess) and I'll pass my machine on to one of you poor b*st*rds who wants to fly around all day with all your sliders turned right down Wink

BTW - just so I don't get hate emails, the last comment IS a joke........

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Reply #5 - May 7^th, 2003 at 5:19pm

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Yes, totally respect the fact that hosting costs money and I wouldn't leech for the sake of leeching but some DLs I just can't touch on dial up because of their size.

I would have missed out on so much if I hadn't got the Falcon mentioned above, what a fantastic add on aircraft which you couldn't tell from just a description, downloading is sometimes the only way to evaluate an add on.

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Reply #6 - May 7^th, 2003 at 6:17pm

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Yes, totally respect the fact that hosting costs money and I wouldn't leech for the sake of leeching but some DLs I just can't touch on dial up because of their size.

I would have missed out on so much if I hadn't got the Falcon mentioned above, what a fantastic add on aircraft which you couldn't tell from just a description, downloading is sometimes the only way to evaluate an add on.

I just got the Falcon myself. It's on it's maiden flight as I type this. Had a little problem with the patch (had to reinstall it a second time) but it's working great now. I fell in love with the plane the second I saw the amazing detail of the cabin and the walkthrough is my favorite part of the package.

By the way, I downloaded it on dialup. It only took about 28 minutes using Fresh Download. It's a freeware (no spyware or advertisements) utility. I've had good performance from it so far.

In Memory of John Consterdine (FS Tipster)1962-2003

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Reply #7 - May 7^th, 2003 at 6:41pm

RollerBall Ex Member

Here's a list of the stuff I got.

CD1
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Project Concorde and liveries
Milton Shupe's brilliant Aero Commander
B25J 'Briefing Time'
Oleksiy Frolov *fanda* / Thomas Herger Dash 8 panel
Alaska mesh scenery
UK mesh scenery (2 versions)
Switzerland mesh
Iceland mesh

CD2
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'Eurmed' European med. res mesh (put the country meshes over it)
British Columbia mesh
Spain mesh
Norway mesh
Japan mesh
Japan landclass
South Africa mesh
Death Valley mesh
Maine mesh
Los Angeles mesh
San Francisco mesh
Monterey California mesh
Santa Rosa California mesh
Lompoc California mesh (doesn't mean much to me...)
Rocky Mountain mesh
Richard Maxted's fine Sheffield and Sherburn sceneries
A very nice ERJ-170
Sundry Asian repaints (for use in Kai Tak!)
MelJet 747
POSKY C17 repaint
Various POSKY Jumbos inc cargo
POSKY Virgin jumbo
Meljet Virgin jumbo
Brilliant Delta L-1011 by Matt Ukena/Achim Buerger
Ryanair 737 with interiors by David Segovia, Claudio Dobre textures, Helio Estrela panel

CD 3
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Whole load of Aardvark stuff - 727/737/757 etc
The Falcon
Project Fokker
POSKY CRJ
Vienna scenery
Various airport environment upgrades
Calgery mesh
50 Alaska airport enhancements
Various North Sea gas rigs
Netherlands 2000
Arnhem scenery
Madrid Barajas
Calvi
Campo del Oro
Bastia Poretta
Canadian Rockies
Switzerland landclass (I have flown VFR UK/Switzerland)
Switzerland 2002 (many good airfields)
Copenhagen
FS2002 South Africa
Cape Town Harbour
East London Harbour
Quebec
Algiers/Daag
Denver International
Dominica mesh and landclass
Many sundry bits for UK (eg p/stations, l/houses etc)
Hanko (Finland)
Pontoise France (I've flown VFR in northern France)
French Riviera
'All France' VFR pack
Corsica
French West Indies
Kansai Japan
Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International
Memphis International
Kansas City
Phoenix 2003
Costa Rica
Basle/Mulhouse
Strasbourg
South East France (Vosges/Jura/Luxemburg)
Vosges/Jura (another version?)
'Real' Charles de Gaulle
'Rhumbaflappy's' Prince Edward Island fix
Saxony (Germany)
Trabzon (Turkey)
Sheremetyevo (Moscow)
Vancouver and Vancouver harbour
Vegas
Rockhampton
Perth Australia
Perth Airport
The AMAZING Hangzhou Xiaoshan International (ZSHC)

and many more bits and pieces

There is a pattern - it's all very high quality stuff.
Do I need it all? I don't know until I try it. It'll keep me occupied for many months - I doubt whether I'll need to download anything much for ages.
Is it a bit random? Yes to some extent. There's stuff there that I'd never thought about until I saw it that'll take me into new simming areas (Turkey? Costa Rica? French West Indies? Dominican Republic? even Finland).

And my simming experience will be all the richer for it. And therein lies the justification.

Roger

BTW - the cost was mentioned.

We all know that we can't pay directly in monetary terms. What we can do is give something back to the hobby itself - and that's what I continue trying to do with painting and scenery design. I'd encourage everyone to do the same. There can never be enough good quality freeware - we all know that. So have a ago yourself. Who knows - you might turn out to be the next Chuck Dome!

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