One favourite pass time on FSX is to visit places I have been, to see how they compare with the real thing. Here we are in the Swiss Alps. Murren is at the top of the cliffs, it can be reached by cable car from the valley floor. The cable car then goes to the top of the Schilthorn with it's famous rotating restaurant. As seen in "On her Majesty's Secret Service"
We ferried across the channel and drove down to Switzerland in one hit, during our stay we decided to either have a go on the Jungfrau train or the Schilthorn cable car. We chose the cable car.
The ride was bl**dy expensive, what with mortgage and young family, but we had saved up enough to have a go, taking our three (then) young children with us........It was awe inspiring........awesome.......I had never seen a cliff like it.
Going up in the car was fantastic, comming down was even better. One minute the car is gliding gracefully over Murren, the car starts to rise as it reaches the pylon at the cliff top, it then lurches down and forward an we were staring straight down a cliff of thousands of feet......Awesome.
In FSX it isn't quite the same but it does a fair job of capturing the essence of the scene. Looking at this I would like to go back and perhaps do the train and the car.
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