If you want to see the data coming with WU6 before it releases just visit the Alps on Bing Maps. It’s already on there. All I can say is Jörg wasn’t lying about the 1-2 m mesh. There is also tons of new aerials now which is amazing. Go check it out. I used Earth View. Just keep in mind that this may not be everything that is coming with the update since Bing is likely not their only data source.
Did you see the new map for frankfurt in bing.com 
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Ah so the’ve updated Germany as well. Thanks for the heads-up. I actually checked that exact location a few days ago to see if it had been updated but it was still the old imagery (that was in Earth View). How old would you say is the new imagery? Neumann said something about a year old if I‘m not mistaken. Is that so?
I did it in bing.com over the normal webbrowser - no birdeye view.
I think it is from the Summer of 2020, because the gras around the EZB is very dry. Last year we had a very hot and dry spring and summer.
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Yes, all these meshes will obviously be obsolete, unless you want to play offline.
In online/streaming mode this will happen:
- The CGL based scenery will just be ignored as the higher resolution streamed content takes priority. If you’re not using it offline just delete it from the community folder.
- The heightmap based sceneries (almost all of them) will actually decrease the resolution of the source mesh. There is a chance that the reduction in detail will have the side effect of reduced “terrain/LOD popping” as the interpolation on heightmaps seems to be softer than that on the base mesh. But it’s questionable if it’s worth keeping them just for this, as they have other issues as well.
I’m assuming the new Switzerland mesh will have the full 1m resolution (the available open data even goes down to 0.5m). For most purposes there will likely not be that much of a visible difference to the add-ons we already had. The higher LODs pop in really quite late and the available 13/10m meshes are already quite high resolution.
I guess for switzerland what we can really most look forward to is the new ortho imagery.
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Does anyone know when we will be able to download the update? The hype is real 
Tuesday the 7th at around 8AM PST (3PM Zulu)
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Never Play on Patch Day 
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This could be the mother of all flight sim patches something incredible. Or it could destroy your sim. Do you fell lucky today? Well do ya?
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“The hype is real”
LOOL,no…
I´m more scared of tomorrow´s patch day. One or two more “updates” like the previous SU5 and this sim is dead for any serious flight simmer.
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It’s an American thing 
Once on holiday in the US, hearing that I lived at that time in Holland an American told me he knew someone in Copenhagen. Maybe I knew him?
To them Europe is just one big country you ’ see or do’ in a week.
Rather like we Europeans think of USA as Florida and Las Vegas. I don’t think there is anything else there?
When do the release notes normally get published, really interested in what’s been fixed in this update
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T - 24 Hours
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The exact ones are published with the update. There were no advance notification aside from the rough draft from a few weeks ago. At least this is how it’s been during the last year.
Me too … after a year of this we have plenty of experience. The update will without the shadow of a doubt break even more things that worked fine before.
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I’d hope the serious simmers will realise how complex the coding is for a project this big and realise there will be further bugs uncovered and fixes rolled out - it is the way it works dsepite all our frustrations.
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I’ve spent literally the last 8 months fighting against the curse of the CTD which had gradually killed off my enthusiasm for flying. SU5 was the last straw whereby I couldn’t even load into the sim. As a last resort I uninstalled off my SSD and put it on my HDD and all of a sudden everything worked. Perfectly. I have been flying around in every conceivable plane on flights longer than I would have ever dared before. I would hate for things to go back to the way they were with another broken update. I’m quite happy with things as they are thank you very much. Tomorrow has a sense of foreboding for me.
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yea they will break much as usual…
Does anyone know what time the updates go live for and including the series x? It’s 1hr and 15mins until the 7th here in Ireland. Would it be a midnight release?
17 in germany