As an Aussie, I can comment with authority on the Australian liveries. Traffic X's Australian liveries were exactly as you describe ... many of the BLUE Virgin aircraft were flying when there should only have been ONE, Tiger was nowhere to be seen, Regional Express ("REX") was nowhere to be seen, the Dreaming livery on the Qantas 747 was seen multiple times instead on only just ONE, etc etc etc. I don't have Traffic 360 and so I can't really comment on that. However, that said, from what I have read and the screenshots that I have seen, I have always been suspicious that Traffic 360 is merely just a reworked Traffic X with a new interface, some flight plan changes, and perhaps a handful of new planes/liveries. If that is correct, then that is disappointing. The renaming of "Virgin Blue" to "Virgin Australia" happened a fair while AFTER Traffic X was released, so you couldn't expect that to be correct in Traffic X. However, the renaming DID occur BEFORE Traffic 360 was released, and so it shouldn't be too much to expect it to be changed in Traffic 360. And, with Traffic 360, I think it is reasonable to expect that Tiger and REX be represented in the Australian skies. Both of them have a very big presence and influence here in Australian skies (they really should have been represented in Traffic X too, for the same reason). And don't even get me started on the 787. The 787 aircraft design had not quite been finalised when Traffic X was released, and so the model in Traffic X, taken from early concept drawings, is not correct ... but, the model was NOT updated with the release of Traffic 360 and so the SAME incorrect Traffic X model is still being used in Traffic 360. Etc etc etc. I have since repainted all of the Traffic X Australian planes, renamed Virgin Blue to Virgin Australia in the flight plans, added Tiger and REX and also a bunch of the smaller airlines, added some of the larger planes that Virgin has (777-300ER, A330) and removed all of the Qantas Dreaming aircraft except one. *MY* version of Australia, (remember I am using Traffic X, not Traffic 360), is as updated, realistic, and up-to-date as I can get it and keep it. It is NOTHING like the originally supplied Traffic X Australia. The only way for you to make the supplied Traffic 360 Aussie skies look and feel anything like the REAL Aussie skies, is to do some repainting, downloading, and flight plan work. Whilst it might sound like a bit of a chore, it is actually a lot of fun (and can even be quite addictive) once you get in to the swing of it.
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