DavidN16

I am staying with PD3v3 and won't go up to v4. I have WAY TOO many A2A, FS, Carenado planes plus airports to ever give them up EVER.

Actually you can ADD your own 2D panels to any plane you want. So, it won't ever die out. I always add to all my planes my own MINI 5 gauge panel as I too like to fly low and slow with that WIDE screen view. :cool:

This is just south of Cole Mun NE57. Even with my enhanced mesh, these hills still look pretty flat. I am up just 1000 feet over this terrain.

 

Nice pictures but you have to follow the ATC instructions no matter how insane at times, that is what makes it realistic ... lol

 

Just remember to use the save feature if Time is the issue. ; )

I took my plane up to 9000 feet and turned south and found these hills. I am not sure what the sandhills look like but if I am in the correct area, this might be what you are looking for.

 

Here is the same area in P3Dv3 using photo real scenery. If you want real you need to use FSEarth Tiles, it is as simple as that. FSET works with FSX, P3D and Xplane.

 

 

I don't fly anywhere now in the world without download the flight path first, it is awesome flying.

Nice journey flight with pictures around Ohio, David. I'm down in the opposite end corner of the state.

I have dosed off a time or two and didn't wake up in time until I far beyond the intended airport.

 

Nice night shots. I don't fly very much at night, because I only fly IFR (I Follow Roads).

Thanks for the comments. I too had no idea what I was going to discover about Iceland either. I just went online to look for points of interest about Iceland and then set out with my sim to find them.

 

I have sort of become an in depth user of the FSEarth Tiles program. I have discovered a few features not shown on the YouTube videos that make it easy to download massive areas such as Iceland within 2 to 4 hours. Over a couple nights as you sleep. Then I just add in extreme Higher resolution to specific smaller areas.

 

Most YouTube videos tell you need to use the MASK feature to produce great photo real images, which takes 4 times as long to download and 4 times the HD space, when in fact, it is totally unnecessary.

 

Using the tile program along with Little Navmap it is easy to set the exact area you want to download. All of Iceland is 13 gig of HD space.

 

Regards

David

Touring Grimsey Island and the River Canyon of Iceland

Having downloaded 2/3 of Iceland in Photo Real scenery, here are some shots from the last couple of hops I have finished.

Nice clip and nice landing as well.

A lot of nice looking detail for that area.

 

I was flying around my neighborhood yesterday, following roads and found this mistake. I use gooogle maps sometimes when creating my Photo Real scenery. It looks like a tile got turned by 45 degrees. I just download that area section from bingg maps and covered up that mistake, it was a quick fix. It was the first time I found such a error.

I too have visited Graceland several times in August during the 5 year anniversaries of Elvis Week in 1997, 2002, 2007 and 2012. Memphis is packed and hot at this time of the year but you see so many shows and programs and meet a lot of Elvis fans.

A couple of months ago I download the whole state of Tennessee in photo real scenery using the FSEarth Tile program. This flight to Graceland began in a small Tennessee town called Oneida located in the north east part of the state.

Rick,

 

I got the one posted at rikoooo.com. I added a "call out" gauge co-pilot to the panel and took it up for a couple of short hops around my local town. I use FsPassenger when flying and this bird is costing between $4 to $5 million. That's about all the extra cash I have at this time, so I am looking for a used one with some more miles on it to be offered to me via the FsPassenger market place. I will have this one in a few days added in to my fleet.

 

The package I downloaded had 16 repaints some were cargo models and I kept 10 of the passenger models. I will buy which ever passenger model I can purchase for around $2 million.

This plane looked so nice I downloaded after checking out on Wiki, which said that only 22 were built and it can cruise at 350 mph.

Thank you for the comments. I am retired and because of this lock down of the country (we can’t travel and site see), I have really thrown myself into figuring out how to create and use photo real scenery and then flying over it and exploring where people actually live.

 

Last week I flew over a couple of the huge aircraft bone yards in Arizona and stumbled upon the Ford and Chrysler testing grounds. You never know what you are going to discover.

In one of the latest reviews posted here at Flightsim.com titled “Indiafoxtecho Mini Review Of MSFS” noted that: "the sim as a traditional "scenproc" scenery underneath the photo real one, so you can play offline. It is pretty good...but not much better than the P3D", which sounds like the sim mode you were using.

 

I went online (at YouTube) to find what the online sim world really looks like when you are flying over a part of the world where the “eye candy” was not hand crafted. I wanted to see what the vast majority of the world looks like using just the online AI 3d photo scenery engine creates and found this to be the result. Have also seen this sort of scenery being generated?

I went back to find the Waterfall.

Here is a short tour of north west Iceland using all photo real scenery created using FSEarth Tiles to assemble the area.

Some really nice shots but enjoyed the detail of how you created the 3D scenery even MORE. Thanks for the detail of how long it took you and the tools you used. Hopefully someone will figure out a way to efficiently time wise create the mask for creating the 3d objects.

 

I have been using the FSEarth Tile program and downloading scenery like crazy (166 gig so far). The details of how to use the program are not detailed and "how to" videos at YouTube are few (enough so to get you going). I have however figured out how to download 4 times faster with the program. As an example I recently downloaded the state of Georgia (4 meters/pix) which would take you a little over 9 hours but was able to download it in 2.5 hours (excluding the coastline). Ocean coastlines do go quickly as you create really small areas to download but you need to set up each one separately. But I believe I might have a way to speed that up as well, I just haven’t taken the time to try yet.

Yes, but how many FSX simmers are going to want to re-learn how to create freeware for FS2020? Just looking at the library's numbers here (from 1-1-19 thru 7-30-20) there are only 163 addons for P3D posted verses 2453 new items for FSX. From that stat not many at all have jumped to P3D.

 

And none of the FSX stuff is going to work in FS2020 (as I understand). At least with P3D up to version 3, you can use just about all of the FSX addons. I can't see giving up so much freeware for 30 to 40 custom built spots in the MS2020 world. You have a lot more than that with FSX and besides you can even use FSEarth Tile and create the perfect photo real world yourself and it doesn't get or look more real than that. I haven't heard that FSEarth will work with MS2020 as of yet either.

 

I too keep FS2004 on my PC with the Classic airports and planes.

Thanks for the heads up about this reworked version. Downloading it now. :)

LittleNavmap replaced FSNavigator. It works with Xplane as well.

 

Check it out here:

 

https://albar965.github.io/littlenavmap.html