Great Places to fly for scenery (default)

[SaVas]

Just wanted to share with you a place I found to be very scenic if you have the default FS9 Scenery (non patch). It might even be better with the patch (waiting on Ramsa to tell me patch is AOK for install before I download it), or some mesh that might enhance it, but as is its still gorgeous.

Fly at 230 deg to roughly 260 deg out of Jackson Hole, Wyoming in a GA VFR aircraft. Caution though, you have to fly over the mountains, and the airport is already about 6500 ft above sea level, and to crest the mountains you need to reach around 9k to 10k feet, if you are in some kind of twin that isn't exactly aerobatic, and able to fly through the various valleys.

I do recommend though, cresting the mountians, then as you cross over them, looking at the farmland below. Its gorgeous. I posted a few screenshots over at aussim.com.au/ in their forum in their screenshot area, using their payware Piper II for them.

I think I have found a new airport to fly in and out of. Good mix of mountains that arent terribly high, and farmlands, as well as being great for learning how to take off and land at high altitudes.


---Stephen

[commoner]

Hi Stephen.....I see Jackson Hole and Johnson Co. but no Johnson Hole...........which is it I wonder

[JBaymore]

Jackson Hole airport, I think.  And Savas...... yes... that is a GREAT area.  And in real life the skiing at Jackson Hole Resort is some of the best in the USA.  

Unfortunately... Microsoft did not locate ANY of the ski areas on the mountains in the sim world.  

I have the FSGenesis mesh for that area.... and it is really TIGHT mesh... I think 10M mesh.  When you add that in... the scenery is spectacular.  Good suggestion.

Set up some nasty winter weather there.... and landing there is a bear.  It is one of the "Doherty's Difficult and Dangerous Approches" scenarios.


best,

..................john

[SaVas]

Yep, changed it to Jackson Hole lol. Lack of coffee had my mind in a druther.

I will be getting FS Genesis in a month or so...maybe sooner.

[JBaymore]

Savas,

You can get just that basic Jackson Hole/ Yellowstone area for about $10 if I remember correctly.

I documented that area a tiny bit a while back about the FSGenesis mesh somewhere here... in the payware forum I think.

[commoner]

Stephen..had a li'l look around ...just messing around you know.........think maybe I'll stick to Humberside and the east coast of Yorkshire, sea level suits me fine.........these "hills" sort of make my nose bleed.........  ;D
The Global Terrain Mesh and the patch on... but maybe not at highest setting.

[SaVas]

Looks like another area I might have to try commoner

I just like to find scenic areas that are not necessarily "Difficult and Dangerous approaches" but just very well done

[Anti-Societys Snake]

damn, doesn't look to be safe or sane to fly low in a fighter jet there..................... I'll have to go there in my kai phantom  ;D

[logjam]

I tried this in the default Mooney Bravo. Getting the engine started was something else. The climb was difficult on that heading, a safer climb to FL 100 would be to the south IRL. The recovery down the valley was nice.Shame we don't have terrain following radar in FS. :-/

[gregbrown]

checked out 'jackson hole wyoming' great scenery as default , and duly saved the flight. as you do.

[Chris_F]

Jackson Hole is one of my favorite airports to fly out of.

[commoner]

Hi Hanz...if you are looking for somewhere to practice your fast low level flying, why not go where the Brits do theirs?

[Anti-Societys Snake]

I have got the coolest dysfunction/ability  I fly better at breakneck speed!..... I ride my dad's motor cycle better at 60 mph....I wrecked at 15.......Ride my bycicle better at high speeds.......I'm gonna go there! that looks like fun!!!! whooooooooo.....
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[Nav]

I like flying from island to island down here in the Pacific.  The 'real weather' is usually pretty good, you see some great seascapes and cloudscapes, and the flight planning and navigation is fun too.

I usually prefer using smaller aircraft at low level (This is the Lancair Legacy leaving Chuuk Airport at Truk in the Marianas):-



But sometimes I get 'carried away' - this is Honolulu and Pearl Harbor from 45,000 feet!

[Nav]

And then of course there's Australia...