N33029 Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Gang, For two dollars I bought the Southern California MegaScenery USA disk. It says the aerial photography is 1 foot/pixel, but that for use in the simulator, it is degraded to 5 meters/pixel. It seems to be a vast improvement on the stock scenery. They suggest flying 3900' AGL, but I find I can recognize things at much, much lower altitudes. Also, it seems that there is terrain mesh included with the package, as the hills out on the Mojave Desert appear very realistic. Not perfect, but very close. But what does "meters per pixel" mean? Thanks, Sean 'Glichy' controls or switches and don't want to pay for new ones? Read on... You can bring a controller back to life by exercising it through it's full range of motion or from maximum to minimum and back again 50 times. I had a Logitech joystick that gave left rudder without touching it but turning it 50X fixed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomTweak Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 It's a measurement of how far the edge of a pixel measures. 1 meter per pixel means the edge of every pixel is the equivalent 1 meter of distance on the earth's surface. Does that answer your question? Pat☺ [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Had a thought...then there was the smell of something burning, and sparks, and then a big fire, and then the lights went out! I guess I better not do that again! Sgt, USMC, 10 years proud service, Inactive reserve now :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N33029 Posted May 8, 2015 Author Share Posted May 8, 2015 It's a measurement of how far the edge of a pixel measures. 1 meter per pixel means the edge of every pixel is the equivalent 1 meter of distance on the earth's surface. Does that answer your question? Pat☺ Well, the scenery package said one foot per pixel as taken from aerial photographs, as opposed to satellite images. Mostly, I fly over the Mojave Desert north of the San Gabriel Mountains. The instructions say that the resolution has been downgraded to 5 meters/pixel, but I can see individual creosote bushes that are about 2 - 3 feet in diameter with ease. They are round, too. Another thin I like to do is land on two abandoned airfields (actually, one simply went from having four runways to a single one, but all of the old ones still show up). The edges of the runways aren't jagged as one would expect, they are perfectly straight. I'm forced to conclude that it's a good product and it lets me have a lot of fun, it just seems that if the common scenery packages are 60 cm/pixel (or similar) then one must need to fly pretty high to begin recognizing things. Is that how the scenery you get from the internet works? Thanks, Sean 'Glichy' controls or switches and don't want to pay for new ones? Read on... You can bring a controller back to life by exercising it through it's full range of motion or from maximum to minimum and back again 50 times. I had a Logitech joystick that gave left rudder without touching it but turning it 50X fixed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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