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[Ganter]

Now if I can find it I will.

It's due East immediately next to Newbury in Berkshire, UK.
There might or might not be a runway there but you may be able to see where one once was - longest in Europe and Shuttle Contingency Landing Site. The GAMA nuke bunkers may be visible.

 

[Sundog]

Nice pics guys. Hopefully I'll get a chance to download it when I get home from work. Of course, given how long that will probably take, due to loads on the servers, I probably won't get to fly it until tomorrow night. Keep the pics coming.

 

[mgr]

Hiya,

Thanks for showing me my home airport/airbase
I read somewhere that some German bases were blurred out on Bing and so weren't represented. You've put my mind at rest!

Probably hear it from "Dutch", our military airbase are blurred in bing.maps, and are not present in MFS.
They were blurred by request of our government lot's of years ago, years ago that was lifted, since then the airbase are visible in great detail in google.map yet remain blurred in bing.maps.
Also notes that the Dutch Sat maps in bing are very outdated compared to google.

Marcel

 

[Bomber_12th]

Do you have any idea how much difference there is between the default and hand-crafted KSFO? I already know I'm going for at least the mid-grade version to get the steam gauge C172, but if the default San Francisco is good enough, I'll pass on the premium.

Tom, you can buy the standard or deluxe versions and later purchase the extra aircraft/hand-crafted airports bundles if you want to via the in-game Marketplace. I went with the Premium Deluxe so I wouldn't be able to show what the default KSFO looks like.

 

[DennyA]

Tom, Greensboro is really well represented. I found the apartments I used to live in in the 90s right off Wendover Ave. and everything was there -- the creek behind it, the building across the street where Compute! Magazine used to be headquartered, etc.

 

[dvj]

Canyon. From my 5120 x 1440 display. Ultra settings. RTX 2080 super. Ryzen 3900x, 64gb ddr4

 

[Ganter]

Canyon. From my 5120 x 1440 display. Ultra settings. RTX 2080 super. Ryzen 3900x, 64gb ddr4

Wonderful. We're all sitting here in the Ready Room - so pleased for you.

Now - Back to the rest of us on Planet Earth . . . with ordinary Rigs. . . .

 

[Bomber_12th]

Turks and Caicos

 

[Bomber_12th]

A couple extras of the TBM. It became one of my favorites during testing.

 

[Bomber_12th]

Tieton State, Rimrock, Washington, a perfect spot for exploring in the XCub, the one I've flown the most in this sim by far.

The forests in this sim are absolutely glorious. The coloring of each tree is proceduraly generated based on the aerial imagery, so there are many thousands of different hues of greens through the trees, rather than just a single color, and it picks up on all of the "veins" of darker hues weaving and spreading patterns throughout the lighter-colored trees (different soil types, different levels of exposure to moisture and sun, etc.).

 

[Bomber_12th]

The detail just gets better the more you zoom in on the aircraft - note here the pinking tape and the screws showing through the frabric covering of the control surfaces, as well as the seals between the elevators and horizontal stabilizers and the rudder and the vertical fin.

 

[paiken]

A bit icy up here.

 

[dvj]

Tieton State, Rimrock, Washington, a perfect spot for exploring in the XCub, the one I've flown the most in this sim by far.

The forests in this sim are absolutely glorious. The coloring of each tree is proceduraly generated based on the aerial imagery, so there are many thousands of different hues of greens through the trees, rather than just a single color, and it picks up on all of the "veins" of darker hues weaving and spreading patterns throughout the lighter-colored trees (different soil types, different levels of exposure to moisture and sun, etc.).

Wait until you get to New Zealand. I just finished a short flight out of Queenstown into lake and mountain areas. Live weather actual time of day lighting were jaw dropping - dreamlike ambience. The natural world that this sim presents is the priceless treasure MS has created.

 

[Mr.Mugel]

@dvj, is it runnning smoothly for you at 5120x1440 with the 2080 Super on Ultra? I have the same card but an older i5 7600k and in big cities it becomes a 2-5 fps Slideshow at Low to Mid Settings.

 

[dvj]

@dvj, is it runnning smoothly for you at 5120x1440 with the 2080 Super on Ultra? I have the same card but an older i5 7600k and in big cities it becomes a 2-5 fps Slideshow at Low to Mid Settings.

Unexpeditly smooth as silk. Really loads the RTX GPU and it gets hot. Load 100%, and 70C+. May need to liquid cool the GPU. The Ryzen 3900X is liquid cooled, 12 core, 24 thread. It seems to sleep through the whole thing. I assume the software is running multi-core. Also, make sure your card has the latest Nvidia Driver v452.06 just released for Flightsim. I have also eliminated a number of things. Like AI Aircraft, airport vehicles, People, Ships/Boats.... The landscapes are truly stunning. Still trying to figure out cameras/drone settings for best angles. This is shaping up to be a great tool for photography planning. I flew into some New Zealand areas that I have actually visited and was immediately emersed.

 

[Bomber_12th]

Some shots from Wanaka to Mount Cook, New Zealand. As you mentioned DVJ, there is a very dreamlike ambience flying around that country.

 

[noddy]

Around Orbx KORS

 

[Bushpounder]

Have you guys noticed any inverted ice cream cone anomalies around? I was watching some streaming earlier, and noticed some East of KROA. What was strange was when some were approached, they went away. They looked like the old mesh points years ago.

Don BP

 

[paiken]

Canyon de Chelly

 

[strykerpsg]

Beautiful shots all! Thank you for sharing. I am glad to see some Orbx stuff creeping into the mix. I truly hope all of their inventory will port over, though admittedly, the stock stuff looks far better than my original FSX passion.

Looking forward to more screenshots.