I was just about ready to pull the trigger and purchase TE WA at the sale price. However, I too enjoy the IFR type of weather this state offers; whether it be rainy or snowy, or low cloud ceilings and low visibility. Summer time flying is fun and the TE scenery would be lovely as well, I just need a balance.

Raymie

4 hours ago, flycln said:

See, I'm the opposite. The PNW is only fun to fly in when the weather is bad.

Oh for me...a good book, a glass of wine, and a roaring fire with my toes pitched towards it...when the weather is bad...and you can have as bad a weather you want...from  mild/challenging  visibility, to a Class 4 ILS approach ...no need for the sim to produce little dots that try to look like snow fall...you still have fog, rain, mist, all the stuff that wants me to open the grate, and look for that book and bottle of wine... 😉

Edited January 4, 20224 yr by Sesquashtoo

1 hour ago, raymie said:

I was just about ready to pull the trigger and purchase TE WA at the sale price. However, I too enjoy the IFR type of weather this state offers; whether it be rainy or snowy, or low cloud ceilings and low visibility. Summer time flying is fun and the TE scenery would be lovely as well, I just need a balance.

Raymie

You still have all that, Raymie...whatever YOU want to set up in the Weather Generator, right down to a Class 4 ILS (abort) approach.  Having Summer and lush foliage no way impacts the challenge or visibility in front of prop, or down below your wings.  That, is still and ONLY controlled by the Weather Engine...and not by the season or scenery depiction.   Best of both worlds...for I have flown into foggy San Francisco and Oakland,  on real world business, where I thought that this might be my LAST flight....before we crossed the numbers, and only the skill and the 'big ones' of the crew in the pit had us all applauding on feeling the bump of the gear...and that was in late June...so...have all the bad weather you want in the T.E. Washington...only you have to set it up, or A.S. does for the Metar that day....Has nothing to do at all with the fantastic Summer visuals...for there are so many accidents that pilots bought the farm, over lush mountain ranges, meadows,   rivers.....and not one snow flake drifting down in sight. Only the wreckage...on the lush mountain side...due to minimal to zero visibility that day/night.... South American 'farm' wreckage,  Costa Rica, Central America...jungles, mountains sides of the Andes...no snow in sight...only rain and fog, and---->the LACK of sight... Right?  Right!

Post Edit, just thought of this...if there is snow forecasted, A.S. will invoke the Weather Engine to put that to the screen. I can tell you in real life...that you can have snow falling on a late Spring (late May, early June) day...for I was caught on my motorcycle half way through a trip to visit family 200 miles, and found myself sitting at a Tim Hortons on the highway as snow came down...and heavy snow, trapped at the Service Centre.  Thankfully, it snowed for about an hour, and four hours later, with temps rising 10 degrees over freezing,  ( the daytime finally moved up to 64 F) the snow was sufficiently  melted to allow me to continue my motorcycle adventure. So...do I know that snow can be hitting your face, as spring flowers are growing from the ditch and shoulders of the highway?  YOU BET...so I have no problem believing that with lush green below me...AND snowflakes falling around my plane...on my approach...that that is not real.  I lived that...one day on my wingless plane, in late May... Yep...

Post Edit 2...also thought to comment that PNW doesn't disappear if you have it installed...it just sits below 'invisible' (with its seasons intact). IF you want that day to fly in PNW, you merely only have to go into Orbx Central and hit the T.E. Washington  uninstall button. Then, the next time you fire up, you will be under the control (and visual ground seasonal textures, of N/A PNW).  Fly your 'balance' and then when you want to get back to T.E. Wash...you only need to hit the install, walk away, make a coffee and five to ten minutes later, you have access once more to T.E. Washington for those flights of discovery.  BEST OF BOTH WORLDS...nothing lost, or choices taken from you, not one or the other...BUT, if you don't have T.E. Washington in your Orbx Central account...you do NOT have that great choice of flights scenarios to operate in....Ok...out of here...and back to pick a flight in the T.E. Washington interior. I have been haunting the coast all last night...and early this morning...my wife is ready to come into the Den with a large mallet...and walk towards the monitor...so I need to sneak a flight in before we get to that point...

While you wring your hands...the Sale at 40% will slip away....yep.

Edited January 4, 20224 yr by Sesquashtoo

Raymie, I just went into my Orbx Central and changed the OPTIONS in T.E. Washington for the trees to turn with the seasons. You HAVE that option...so...you can get the Fall leaf colors, over still lush green Summer. I have seen this all the time, when I lived in Arizona....in Phoenix, you would have the dull greens and browns of Fall and Winter months...but still green winter grass and cactus.  There are may places in the U.S. where the foliage will start to turn, but the green grass and bushes still grow below the Fall tree, or lack of leaves canopy.  

I just turned on Seasonal Trees and will now go and set up a FALL airport scenario and post to this thread....  I want to see that as well, and have just done this now for the first time...so again...Orbx allows you to enjoy the Fall Colors, and again, not one or the other choice. I don't need to see a muted green or brown ground texture to believe I am in Fall...for it is the leaves upon the trees that sends that signal to the brain! 🙂

Be right back... (yeah...I'm having so much fun with this...does it show?!?)  😉

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Here is the Fall with T.E. Washington trees (only Summer) unchecked under CONFIGURE:

These shots were taken with E.A. off, so there is not so much atmospheric haze to dull down the great graphics below...

I like the realism of the tree change in the higher elevations, where in this area it would be...very realistic, where they (Orbx) chose to render the color pallet:

I'm going to keep the 'only Summer trees' unchecked, and will now do so for all my other T.E. titles...where it is offered. I like this!

This is around the Orcas Island general area:

So, you can have Fall and Spring, and Winter foliage change within T.E. Washington, Oregon and both California's.  Just not in Florida (of course!).

Looks really great on my screen, where there is no visual picture compression from the host site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 4, 20224 yr by Sesquashtoo

Final example shot of Fall tree colors  in T.E. Washington. So, you can have your visual cues to the seasons...

Thanks for your helpful and clarifying comments and great pics. Still have today's sales offer to change my mind. Glad you are enjoying the TE scenery!

Raymie

1 hour ago, raymie said:

Thanks for your helpful and clarifying comments and great pics. Still have today's sales offer to change my mind. Glad you are enjoying the TE scenery!

Raymie

Hoped to help, but whatever if you decide to purchase, or not to,...all is good! Sales come and go all the time. 🙂

20 minutes ago, Sesquashtoo said:

Hoped to help, but whatever if you decide to purchase, or not to,...all is good! Sales come and go all the time. 🙂

Yes, sales do come and go and there most likely will be another Orbx sale to come. Looked at my SSD where my Orbx library is located and it is nearing 3\4 full. I maybe updating in the near future to a  1 TB SSD.

Thanks,

Raymie

20 hours ago, flycln said:

See, I'm the opposite. The PNW is only fun to fly in when the weather is bad.

You're in luck the weather is always bad there.

1 hour ago, FPStewy said:

You're in luck the weather is always bad there.

I'm convinced that is a myth people from the PNW perpetuate to keep the rest of us out!!!  Every time I've been to Seattle it's been beautiful out... I think they just spread "the weather is always bad" rumor to keep that little gem in the PNW to themselves!! 

6 hours ago, psolk said:

I'm convinced that is a myth people from the PNW perpetuate to keep the rest of us out!!!  Every time I've been to Seattle it's been beautiful out... I think they just spread "the weather is always bad" rumor to keep that little gem in the PNW to themselves!! 

Yes, as the old Perry Como song noted, "The Bluest Skies You've Ever Seen are in Seattle". It's just we like for all non-Washingtonians to think the blue clear skies just don't happen that often!

Signed,

A Long Time PNW Resident😎