Although released back in October 2018, Orbx continue to want to share TrueEarth love with the X-Plane community. To help people better understand and also test to see how their machine can handle the product, Orbx has today released a demo version of TrueEarth Great Britain South for X-Plane 11.
The free demo area covers over 1000 square miles of the south of the UK including Poole, Petersfield, the Isle of Wight and Southampton. There’s a range of sights and airports to visit including Bournemouth, Sandown, Needles Lighthouse, Spinnaker Tower and also a range of other points of interest. There’s a huge amount of variety in the package to get a really good idea on the level of detail TrueEarth provides simmers.
Here is the list of airports you can choose to start flights from within the coverage area:
- EGHI Southampton International Airport
- EGHH Bournemouth International Airport
- EGHF Lee On Solent Airport
- EGHN Sandown Airfield
- EGHJ Bembridge Airport
- EGLH Needles Lighthouse Helipad
Furthermore, Orbx has teamed up with Laminar Research to provide discount on new copies of X-Plane 11. From now until 23:59 BST 7th April 2019, you can get 30% off X-Plane 11. Simply enter the discount code “ORBX” when at the checkout page. You can buy it from the official X-Plane store.
If you’re impressed with the demo, you can buy the full product of Orbx TrueEarth South for the usual price of $54.95 AUD. However, at the time of writing, the product has been discounted by 30% in conjunction with the ‘Jump into X-Plane’ offer.
Key Features
- Southampton Docks including cranes, containers and ships
- Southampton waterfront area including IKEA, hotels and key buildings
- All the forts in the Solent are there in 3D
- Many historic buildings, forts and castles can be found
- Portsmouth is very accurately reproduced with the Naval Dockyards, Spinnaker Tower, Gunwharf Quays, Apartments, BAR Sailing HQ, Ferry terminals, Old Portsmouth pubs and much more
- Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers in port and in the Solent
- Many Navy frigates and support vessels
- Trans-channel ships and ferries
- Southsea seafront including both piers, theme park, WW2 memorial, Pyramids Centre and more
- The Needles chalk rock formation on the southwest tip of the Isle of Wight
