Therefore, without a suitable mesh addon pack you're going to get issues for many airports in mountainous areas. Moreover, FTX Vector has been designed to place airports at their correct real world elevations. Nonetheless, using all components (Mesh + FTX Global, Vector and openLC) delivers the most precise data available for flight simulation. It doesn't depend on Mesh products like FS Global. Additionally, openLC adds textures which make up the surface we see, like forests, deserts or fields. They make a huge difference concerning terrain so you'll see mountains, hills and valleys as they appear in reality. Many people say, they notice no difference between Ultimate and 2010, But that is, because when flying thousand meters above the ground it's hard to spot terrain details of 1 - 19 meters. I bought Ultimate Bundle in winter 2014, because I wanted to see the most accurate elevation details wherever I'm flying. That's why it's so much larger with its 121 GB than Global 2010 with only 25GB. Ultimate uses the latest available data from 2013 with the highest available resolution. My three packages are installed on E:, a 495 GB HDD, while P3D runs on F:, a 120 GB SSD. For example, if your flights are limited to the Americas then FS Global Ultimate Americas is actually the best there is. A division on two drives is possible in order to save space, e.g. But you may buy only one or two packs depending on where you plan to fly most of your time. It has the most recent data from 2013 and higher detail than Global 2010, which however can be seen only at some places and when flying clsoe to the ground.įS Global Ultimate Bundle (not 2010) takes 101 GB, when you install all three packages. But as FS Global Ultimate provides the latest and most accurate terrain/ mesh data, I chose this one for my sim.

Ultimate 2016 came out just a few weeks ago.įTX Global was designed by developers using FS Global 2010 FTX Edition, so it's recommended by ORBX. I can't speal about for the freeware, but here are my experiences with Ultimate 2013.

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