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I had heard of the CH750 originally as an STOL type bush plane, and its used widely for backcountry off-airport landings and takeoffs http://youtu.be/fb7-YOILIBQ

I like the Zenith CH750. Freeware, Pretty basic textures and 3d cockpit, but flies predictably with great short field performance. Excellent sound! Olexia

Glad to hear it Colin... I am restarting work on Pacific Ranges this weekend

Blaine High, just west of your orthophoto, on the other side of the highway- scenery looks great, can't wait to try it out, Colin

Went to high school here- go Borderites!

In order of importance- 1. Option to set clouds 100% opaque 2. Option to set larger radius of clouds around aircraft 3. Richer, multilayer sound

I just purchased a compact bluetooth keyboard for flight simulator- logitech with illuminated keys. I don't know what I was thinking- you have to hit keys several times in flight to wake the thing up. The latest driver software has not been updated for windows 8 yet either, so I am stuck with the problem

I was able to fix the autopilot issue- Dmax recommended erasing my prefs files and reloading x plane. Tried it and I am now able to turn on the ap and operate it via airtrack on the ipad

I live in a small NYC apartment, so my flight deck folds out of a cabinet

Terrific project, Colin S! Can't wait to see the end result Olexia

Love the view from this plane! Where is the "basic" autopilot referenced in the x-aviation catalog page? When I flip to the proper page of the EFIS, it says it is still in development...

File Name: Pacific Ranges Photoscenery - Bella Coola File Submitter: olexia File Submitted: 17 Aug 2012 File Category: DSF Scenery Packages X-Plane Version(s): X-Plane 9 & 10 The scenery updates the 1x1 degree tile around Bella Coola, British Columbia with high resolution terrain mesh, coastlines, rivers and lakes. It updates the southern half of the tile with medium resolution orthophoto textures, and adds a new airfield, CBJ5 Taleomey River. A good introductory flight is to take off east from Bella Coola, turn south and fly to CBJ5 Taleomey River Airfield. Both approaches to the airfield are difficult, the one from the east much more so. The scenery is the first in a series stretching from Bella Coola, British Columbia, to Vancouver, British Columbia. The sceneries available at x-plane.org and x-pilot.com are 1. Pacific Ranges- Bella Coola 2. Pacific Ranges- Machmell River See attached index map for scenery locations. The scenery has been successfully tested with X-Plane 9.70, X-Plane 10 Demo, and Inside Passage scenery. Click here to download this file

File Name: Pacific Ranges Photoscenery- Machmell River File Submitter: olexia File Submitted: 16 Aug 2012 File Category: DSF Scenery Packages X-Plane Version(s): X-Plane 9 & 10 This scenery updates the 1x1 degree tile between Rivers Inlet and Monarch Junction, British Columbia with high resolution terrain mesh, coastlines, rivers and lakes. It updates the northern half of the tile with medium resolution orthophoto textures. It adds an existing airfield, CBY2 Machmell River. The scenery is part of a series, extending from Vancouver to Bella Coola, British Columbia Canada. The scenery has been successfully tested with X-Plane 9.70, X-Plane 10 Demo, and Inside Passage scenery. A good introductory flight is to take off west from CBJ5 Taleomey River Airfield, turn south and fly to CBY2 Machmell River Airfield, then East-Northeast to CMJN Monarch Junction. Olexia Click here to download this file

Just posted the scenery package to x-plane.org http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=16850 olexia

Flight I did yesterday near Bella Coola, British Columbia. I created the scenery in Meshtool using digital elevation model data, shoreline data and orthophoto data freely available on Canadian Government/Province of British Columbia websites. Should be ready to post to the .org in a couple weeks.

I would like water areas to be visible as a reflective, undulating surface only. When I overlay aerial photographic scenery it wouldn't be cut by water areas, but would still have reflective properties. This improves realism of water bodies tenfold, esp rivers and coral reef areas.

Yes, have done a bit of work with meshtool and lighting scripts; am currently creating new .dsf tiles for the Inside Passage scenery area. I am creating the .dsf's from very high resolution digital elevation models and shoreline vector files, and then adding photoscenery.

I am developing a scenery series for British Columbia, and have been able to find free unrestricted official sources for orthophotography, digital elevation models and coastline data without having to search too much. I pan to the area of interest in Google Earth or Google Maps, zoom in close and then look at the copyright data that appears in the viewer window- in my case it says "Copyright Province of British Columbia 1980" or whatever. I use that as my search term and the Province's online publically accessible orthophotos come up. The photos are completely unrestricted and available for use and in the public domain. So I think there is a misconception about the imagery on Google Maps/Earth, an assumption that it is all paid for by Google. Alot of it, especially the high quality stuff is likely public domain and paid for by some taxpayer or another, not Google. I am sure Google is using the Province's imagery freely, as am I.