NZFF

Yes, I know, there a lot of virtual flyers with other Priority´s.
I like the combination of aircraft and landscape, flying low and have look at places, i can´t never see in reality, but also in Germany and Switzerland. I am a bit sad, that in no Simulation at all You cant find anything on landscape from the Baltics, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia ... the region I have opted for the rest of my live.

These are some pictures, made in Aerofly 2 from a region called Death valley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Val ... ional_Park

Wonderful shots of an area that I am very familiar with!

Although I was born in England and surrounded by some wonderful British Scenery....

..ever since I got into flight simulation in 1995, first with Flight Unlimited II, followed by all of Microsofts various flight simulators, (FS-98 through to FSX), from day one I decided to spend all of my time, every day, Sim flying around, and exploring the whole of the USA in great detail.
The amazing variation of scenery there is something that I could never experience in my own country!
Together with Wikipedia, Google Street Maps, photographs, plus my flights in my various General Aviation aircraft, always flying at low level in small piston props, I have spent many hours exploring the magnificent scenery from the Atlantic East Coast to the Pacific West Coast and all the mountainous regions in between.
My favourite regions have always been; California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico....
...and "flying" the whole of Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica!

Being an avid Motorcyclist for 68 years, I also supplement my sim flights with various motorcycle tours of parts of the USA courtesy of You-Tube...("Flying" at zero feet AGL!)... ...!

The flight simulators enable us to explore the whole World for the price of a few pennies of electricity!

Excellent value!

Paul... ...!

Wow!!! Those looked pretty damn' good!!! I'm going to have to make a comparison with my ORBX Monument Valley scenery. From memory, I don't think it's anything near as good.

Adam.

"The flight simulators enable us to explore the whole World for the price of a few pennies of electricity!"

Paul, I agree. In these day´s as a German I am very interested in the brandnew ORBX Germany South. Waiting only that Amex closed the last month... and I have something to buy. But also on my list is Switzerland for this one, Aerofly 2.
If only 2... 3 aircraft like the Cessna Skyhawk or only a little bigger and with more solid systems an a Helicopter like these things from Robinson , a MD 530 or in this range is available, Aerofly get more intention from my side. That it have at the moment no AI and no Flightcontrol at all is sad, but we know, this thing is not Version 1.0. Its 0.95... Let us see.

I am also interested in the brandnew Quality Wings Boeing 787 Dreamliner, because i like the Boeing 757 and the BAe 146/Avro RJ. They are on they level I can fly without stress. but... this is after the scenery´s.

Adam, Yes I think the desert-sceneries from them are good. Think next flights must be in more urban areas may be in California to see, how good they are in rebuild such areas...

...you mean "Monument Valley" !

anyway, very nice !

Korrekt... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley
Sorry...

I hope you don't mind me putting pics in your thread, but I thought you might like to see the comparison of a similar area in P3Dv4.









These are ORBX FTX Global, but with ORBX USMV Monument Valley scenery (it's a fairly small area). Pic #3 (river) is just ORBX SCA+FTX Global.

Adam.

Good idea Adam.

The problem with ORBX here is in my eyes, that the textures are to bright in my opinion.

hasegawa wrote:The problem with ORBX here is in my eyes, that the textures are to bright in my opinion.

I agree - ORBX textures can be a little saturated.However - I use PTA to control the palette - particularly as I think P3D colours the landscape base on sky colours a lot more than FSX.

I took the shots above in summer and with a rich sky set - just to bring out the colours of the desert. Many of my pics in other locations are realistically drab.

Adam.

Adam i like Your work. Many things are in FS are more "how we can see this" at not ever reality, reality... I see this in the new "German South" made by ORBX . Some is more some kind of "interpretation" of the reality. But all in all I like it. It give Germany the "german look", the FSX (and of course P3D) "fresh out of the box" never has.

hasegawa wrote:Adam i like Your work. Many things are in FS are more "how we can see this" at not ever reality, reality... I see this in the new "German South" made by ORBX . Some is more some kind of "interpretation" of the reality. But all in all I like it. It give Germany the "german look", the FSX (and of course P3D) "fresh out of the box" never has.

Thanks!! I beta-tested GES (Germany South), so spent a lot of time cruising around, checking out all the POIs and trying to spot "oddities". I must say that I was generally impressed by the placement and variation of all the landclass+autogen. The overall "look and feel" seems right to me (it's not *always* the case!).

Similarly, I feel ORBX did a great job with the colouring of both NZSI and NZNI. It's a tiny bit rich, granted, but I find the colours in summer in NZ to be exactly like that - particularly in the North Island which, let's face it, is bordering on the tropical!

Adam.