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Flying Over The Real Swiss Alps
I am a commercial VFR pilot flying with real planes and I enjoy also flying with simulators. I teach radio navigation to our student pilots with our ELITE simulator, and I do with FS2000 and FS98 what I cannot do with real aviation.
Hello all. I read Peter's review about Switzerland 2 scenery on FlightSim.Com, and I thought you would be interested to see how the real mountains look. I often make passenger flights and taxi flights from our Ecuvillens Airfield near Fribourg, in the French part of Switzerland. If the weather is good, I often make flights over the mountains, and the passengers take pictures. On July 28, 1995, I had to do a flight with a Cessna 182 RG over the mountains of Mont-Blanc, Matterhorn and Eiger, Moench, Jungfrau with the Aletsch Glacier, and this time I got copies of the pictures!
 We are coming from Mont-Blanc at 15000 feet with a heading of 120 degrees and see the Matterhorn from the west side. The big mountain on the left is the Monte Rosa, the highest mountain of Switzerland. Between you see the Breithorn. On the south of these mountains you have Italy. |
 We are on the north-northwest side of the Matterhorn at the same altitude, with a heading of 070 degrees. |
 We are on the same place as the picture above, but we look forward to the Monte Rosa with the Gorner Glacier. The black mountain in the lower left of the picture is called Gornergrat. A mountain train climbs from Zermatt to its top. If you descend from Monte Rosa, following the Gorner Glacier, after a right turn of the valley, you arrive at Zermatt. |
 We overfly the famous village of Zermatt and look back to the Matterhorn. From here it appears like on the postcards you'll find everywhere. |
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