| The only other scenery disk consistantly advertised in the magazines
is #11 which covers the Great Lakes area. Niagra Falls, Detroit,
and a hot air balloon are among the visual treats on this one.
I expect that this one is available in retail stores, but I haven't
seen it in my favorite store. The price should be between $18 and
$25.
Gary
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| All I've seen is number 7 (Florida and DC), and #?? (Ohio, and parts
thereabout). The one with Ohio was also pleasant in that it included
an upgraded version of FS II (to upgrade whatever old version I
had). It both removed the copy protection from my Flight Simulator
(and in fact, enabled me to do the whole upgrade without having
to write enable the original program disk, just copying everything
to a scratch disk), it also allows you to launch it from an icon.
I talked to a SubLogic representative at the MARCA thing last month,
and she said that the two disks I mentioned are the only two out
for the Amiga version so far, although others are due out soon.
She also (if I remember correctly) said that the next disk out was
going to be Europe, or some subset thereof.
What bothers me about the second scenery disk is that the "charts"
they give you aren't as complete as with disk #7. In disk #7, they
gave you all sorts of stuff to let you try instrument approaches,
giving the compass alignment of the ILS runways down to a single
degree, rather than rounded to the nearest 10 as implied by the
runway number. It also gave you pictures of the vertical approach.
I'm not any pilot, but I found these to be useful for practicing
instrument approaches, which were about the only way I could
consistently land on the runway (I could always land, but never
on the runway).
All of this information is gone on the Ohio disk, so if you want
to get the right approach, you have to make multiple passes to see
what the bearing of the runway really is.
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