Cushman Meadows : a short test

FSX. Released a week ago, Cushman Meadows is the second 2011 product from Orbx. The australian editor worked hard to update his sceneries to PeopleFlow. Now it's done. If you like to fly around nature on a simple light engine, this is for you. Yes, it's expensive and you'll need a good machine. That have been said already. But../.

What Orbx has built here is a wonderful place with many airfields around one the most famous landscape on the US west coast. On a handkerchief of 80 square nm, 4 airports and their surroundings plus many freeware airfields from OZx. Cushman Meadows is the 5th one. And you must add airfields around Portland.

The file : 1 gigabytes of datas
The price : 36 US $, 24 €, 32 AUS.$
The test : i tried the scenery with the Orbx Lancair, a fast single engine. The scenery is the largest ever designed in the Washington state by Orbx. There is not only the Cushman lake but also the surrounding mountains with a special mesh and custom textures (25/60 cm/pixel. Shores and rivers are made of very effective watermasks. Obviously, textureFlow, PeopleFlow, ObjectFlow etc.
On my quadcore 2,33 Ghz  + 8 mgram + ATI HD5850, i am still having - times to times -irregular and intermittent blurry effect on textures. Let say its my settings but even so...
That's all. So 36 US $ is expensive, yes, but not as much as real flying or fishing or hunting. Maybe Baseball is cheaper but you hardly play Baseball in winter. If you'r not shure of your PC computer, or a liner pilot only or don't fly in America.. well forget this one.

Main aifield, Cushman Meadows. Everything needed is there including a helipad.

The small airfield of Bear Gulch at the edge of lake Cushman

Near Cushman Meadows airport, a lot of details from the bottom of the lake.

Cushman Meadows in Hoodsport is not totally fictional.  It's a real airfield. Here on Google Earth, the small seaplane base and in north-west, the small runway.