RealScenery Posted January 30, 2013 Report Posted January 30, 2013 (edited) Flying along the beautiful Pacific coast south of San Francisco. Edited February 1, 2013 by RealScenery 1
RealScenery Posted January 31, 2013 Author Report Posted January 31, 2013 (edited) Flying in the South Bay, north of San Jose, over the large and colorful salt evaporators. A beautiful sun glint appears in the distance off the San Francisco Bay in the late afternoon. Moffett Federal Airfield (KNUQ) is in the background to the left in the image. Edited February 1, 2013 by RealScenery 2
RealScenery Posted February 1, 2013 Author Report Posted February 1, 2013 (edited) Flying over east San Francisco Bay looking down at container ships and the old Alameda Naval Air Station. Sun reflects off the water along the city of Oakland's inner harbor. Edited February 1, 2013 by RealScenery 1
tellor Posted February 1, 2013 Report Posted February 1, 2013 HiNice screens, but…when, when, when the release…Best regards
polygonpusher Posted February 2, 2013 Report Posted February 2, 2013 All right... This is getting out of hand. You guys are having waaay too much fun. Let us have a turn 1
RealScenery Posted February 2, 2013 Author Report Posted February 2, 2013 All right... This is getting out of hand. You guys are having waaay too much fun. Let us have a turn You, too, will have fun soon! Thank you for the nice comments! 1
RealScenery Posted February 2, 2013 Author Report Posted February 2, 2013 The great agricultural lands of the San Joaquin Valley, south of Sacramento. This is the heart of California's croplands and is often referred to as the "Food basket of the world." 3
polygonpusher Posted February 2, 2013 Report Posted February 2, 2013 Awesome work you folks have been doing! Finally a scenery package for all the homestead ranchers who know that northern Ca doesn't end at Sacramento. Well done. 1
RealScenery Posted February 2, 2013 Author Report Posted February 2, 2013 (edited) Yes, it doesn't get much better in terms of variety of flying; from very rural mountainous and agricultural areas to densely-populated urban landscapes. The rural areas of northern California are some of my favorites for flying. Edited February 2, 2013 by RealScenery
RealScenery Posted February 3, 2013 Author Report Posted February 3, 2013 The beautiful hills north of the city of Chico. Just departed the Chico (KCIC) airport heading north toward Lassen National Forest. 4
Robert149 Posted February 3, 2013 Report Posted February 3, 2013 Beautiful shots of NorCal ! I feel like a kid waiting for christmas I am glad My harddrive has lots of free space ! I guessing witn this amount of detail were talking 100 Gig 1
RealScenery Posted February 3, 2013 Author Report Posted February 3, 2013 Beautiful shots of NorCal ! I feel like a kid waiting for christmas I am glad My harddrive has lots of free space ! I guessing witn this amount of detail were talking 100 GigI appreciate your excitement, Robert! Your file size guess was very good! Please see this post about file sizes and a map of the scenery areas available.Eric
Wetted Area Posted February 3, 2013 Report Posted February 3, 2013 Flying in the South Bay, north of San Jose, over the large and colorful salt evaporators. A beautiful sun glint appears in the distance off the San Francisco Bay in the late afternoon. Moffett Federal Airfield (KNUQ) is in the background to the left in the image. I used to work in the NASA Ames/Moffett Field/Lockheed Martin area quite a bit years ago. The aircraft appears to be heading back towards the East Bay, towards highway 84 (Dumbarton Bridge) and eventually further north into the Hayward area. It would not surprise me if KHWD was your destination, or maybe further up north to KOAK, my home base. This looks outstanding to say the least. I believe I even see high way 101, to the south of KNUQ. The color of the salt flats area are very intense in this pic (a little too green), but depending on the time of year and the atmospherics, that entire area could look completely different from day to day. The most recognizable landmark around Moffett Field, is Hanger One (west side of the field), which I don't see distinctively in this image. However, the Cessna is a good distance away. Overall, this looks really good and I look forward to trying it out. Cheers!
Wetted Area Posted February 3, 2013 Report Posted February 3, 2013 Flying in the South Bay, north of San Jose, over the large and colorful salt evaporators. A beautiful sun glint appears in the distance off the San Francisco Bay in the late afternoon. Moffett Federal Airfield (KNUQ) is in the background to the left in the image. Flying along the beautiful Pacific coast south of San Francisco. Do you have any intention of just going ahead and doing ALL of the United States at some point? Also, how big a project and how long would it take you to accomplish something like that? I do realize that we are probably talking about a bigger HDD to do it right, but your Scenery is so spectacular that it would be worth investing in either a new internal HDD, or a rather large external metalic Frisbee. Heavy metal Frisbees of sufficient size have gone down in price of late and it would only be a one time expenditure with a pretty significant gain in overall quality of experience, that's for certain.
Robert149 Posted February 3, 2013 Report Posted February 3, 2013 Thanks for that link Eric ! WOW 26 scenery areas ! It looks like I am not the only one who's really excited about this release . This is a huge project thank you ! And for what its worth ( its just another opinion )but for me photoreal scenery is the only way to fly in xplane! You have spoiled me with your enhanced scenery
RealScenery Posted February 4, 2013 Author Report Posted February 4, 2013 (edited) Flying over the city of Woodland, just west of the Sacramento Int'l Airport (KSMF), and northwest of the Sacramento metro area. Many of these central valley towns have a very sudden change between the urban area and the surrounding agricultural landscape, such as shown here. Edited February 4, 2013 by RealScenery 1
RealScenery Posted February 5, 2013 Author Report Posted February 5, 2013 Enjoying the area north of San Francisco, looking down on the far north end of Lake Barryessa, just east of the famous Napa Valley wineries. This flight is heading west toward the Napa Valley and the city of Santa Rosa - beautiful day to take some friends up for some VFR site-seeing! 2
RealScenery Posted February 6, 2013 Author Report Posted February 6, 2013 Crossing over Harry Sham Field and the city of Modesto, a city of about 200,000 people in the heart of California's central valley, about 100 miles east of San Francisco.
polygonpusher Posted February 6, 2013 Report Posted February 6, 2013 My wife says you guys are a big cockpit tease...
RealScenery Posted February 7, 2013 Author Report Posted February 7, 2013 Flying on the west side of Mt. Shasta in far northern California, near sunset. Mt. Shasta dominates the northern California landscape as it rises to over 14,000 feet (4300 meters) above sea level, and has an elevation rise of 10,000 feet above the surrounding terrain. Interstate 5 (I-5), the main north-south freeway that runs from Canada to Mexico, passes right at the base of Mt. Shasta on the west side of the mountain. I-5 and Mt. Shasta are great landmarks when flying VFR in this area. 2
raven1982 Posted February 7, 2013 Report Posted February 7, 2013 Can't wait for the Norcal Scenery. Had to move from San Jose to SW Georgia and dream of flying out of RHV and E16 again!
RealScenery Posted February 7, 2013 Author Report Posted February 7, 2013 Can't wait for the Norcal Scenery. Had to move from San Jose to SW Georgia and dream of flying out of RHV and E16 again! Thanks, Raven! Reid-Hillview (KRHV) and South County airport of Santa Clara County (E16) are both included in NorCal.
polygonpusher Posted February 7, 2013 Report Posted February 7, 2013 Any change of seeing Redding (KRDD) since you're in the area? Keep up the great work, were're all very excited for this one! 1
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