I just installed FS Altitude and flying from San Diego to Dallas Texas at 41,000 feet.I love it for altitude flying.http://www.fsaltitude.com/usw.htmAfter you install it, you have to move this low in the scenery folder. It should be the first addon from the FSX default ones. This way, if you have high resolution scenery like Mega scenery, it would get preference. The color for the texture is very good. Its only the Mega scenery and FS Dreamscapes (Utah) that has different color textures. FS Altitude textures are not mosaics. Its fairly consistent.This is ideal for Airliner flying.Manny

I just clicked on the link to check it out and it looks pretty interesting. Does it include night textures? I didn't see any mention of it on the site.BTW, are you the same Manny that did 52F in the Dallas area? If so, I just downloaded it and installed it for the first time last week. I absolutely love it and have been flying around it every night. You really did a nice job, its like payware quality. Its been pretty fun when loaded with real weather via ASA with all the storms we have had in Dallas over the last week. Do you plan on doing anymore of these small strips for the Dallas area? There is a pretty cool one in Mckinney next to Westridge golf course. The runway starts and the end of the par 3 12th hole. Every Sunday when I am playing golf there is a lot of GA flying around doing touch and go's. There are even a few old warbirds flying out of there. Its a smiliar layout to 52F, except fewer buildings and hangers.

Well, the way FS Altitude works is....There is a circle (cone) around the aircraft that displays the underlying textures (that is beneath the FS Altitude textures). This circle is very small as you fly high...but it gets bigger as you descend. So when you are at an airport on the runway for example, all you would see are is autogens and default textures (or other addon textures). So the same thing would happen at night. When you come into land, you would see the night lights within that radius. However FS Altitude textures by themselves do not have night textures...and that is a negative. The way I look at it, I can simply un check FS Altitude if I want to do night flying.My primary interest in FS Altitude is to have a segway textures between other high resolution textures with night scenery like Mega earth and Mega scenery.As for as that 52Foxtrot.. Oh yeah. And Thanks. I am glad you liked it. I fly at 52F for real and I know the people and the airport pretty good. BTW, Did you fly the Missions.. and experience the thermals at 52F runway 35? Its really good. Try it, if you have not. Its exactly like that in real life. Quite scary.When I built that, I had plenty of time, and now, I am on a project, where I have to travel a lot and it takes a lot of my time. But if you are willing to go to that airport and take lots of Pictures for me, I may do it over a period of time. Let me know. :)BTW, I actually Soloed at Mc Kenny airport. The other airport at Mc Kinney where there is a control tower. So that airport has a special place in my heart.Manny

Thanks for the info. It looks like a cool addon. I hate when doing a flight from MegaScenery Phoenix to MegaScenery SoCal you get the GEX textures after you leave the photo area. Not that GEX textures are bad, but it would be nice to have photo real all the way, and not the MegaSceneryEarth photo real, I don't care for it so far.When I first moved to Texas I lived in Mckinney, not to far from the KTKI. I actually went to one of the FBO's at KTKI not long ago to check the rates on their rentals. It's amazing how expensive the rentals have gotten. When I first started flying in 1988 I could rent a 152 or Piper Tomahawk at Tucson Intl for $30 an hour and for another $15 get the instructor. I was glad when I finally gotmy license and didn't have to pay for the instructor anymore. Now, even a 152 costs about $65 to $70 per hour. Even worse if you want a 172, and I thought $30 an hour was bad at the time. I was going to suggest KTKI as a project but I figured it would be to large. Besides its nice to have a few really cool small fields like the one you did. I wish I had the knowledge and time to do projects like that. So far I am limited to using SBuilderX, but have no clue how to make the custom textured runways or model buildings. Your 52F kind of reminds me of the FS9 Orcas Island airport, but in Texas, lol.I didn't try the mission you included, actually I didn't even install it. I installed both sets of the scenery files though and noticed no performance hit at all on my system. I will install the mission files and try out the thermals. I know how you feel about the airport you soloed at. Mine was at KAPV in Apple Valley, CA in 1988 on my 16th birthday. Looking back I can't belive I was flying a plane by myself at that age. I didn't even have my drivers license yet. I was the only kid in my high school that went flying every Saturday morning by himself, or flew an aircraft at all for that matter. I used to buzz my friends houses every Saturday morning and wake them up. Those were the days, happy memories.

I installed FSAltitude for Western Europe about a year ago and wasn't too impressed; I just found it too blurry for my taste. However perhaps that was something to do with my setup at the time, because I've come back to it in the last month and absolutely love it. It's obviously nothing like as crisp as a 1.2 metre / pixel scenery, but at airliner altitude it's more than good enough, and of course is far more realistic than the best landclass (whatever that is) and the repetitious textures.So that persuaded me to go and get the Western USA one, and if anything that's better. There just isn't a good enough landclass for that area, and even with GEX textures a flight from (say) KSLC to KLAX can be extermely boring out of the window. It's just not convincing enough, and although the GEX textures are very good in many ways, there's one particular bile-green one that detracts from the whole experience. Whereas with FSAltitude, it feels like flying over the real thing, you can see both the emptiness and the occasional detail of a road leading nowhere or a small trailer park, it's very convincing.The only downsides for me are:- lack of night lighting- the circle of more detailed textures that becomes apparent earlier on departure or later on descent. If these are also photorealistic then the transition can be almost seamless (for example descending into KLAS with MegaSceneryX Las Vegas). Otherwise you find yourself transitioning between FSAltitude slightly blurry photo textures and crisp but synthetic artificial textures. However once lined up with the runway, the transition is no longer visible.I'm now eagerly looking forward to the versions for Eastern USA and Eastern Europe, and Australia (I find the ORBX scenery is superb at low altitude but has similar problems up high). The FSAltitude website isn't as good as it could be - as a translation from French to English I'd give it 68% but it still could be made more understandable. I even offered to render it into better English for them - free - but they said they think it's good enough. Anyway, here's what it should say (but doesn't quite :( ) in the product description.The primary objective of FS Altitude is to replace these very unrealistic repetitive textures with real photo

On my pc I have Fs Alitude for Western Europe.A year ago it looked fine on my single 19" monitor , but a few months ago I bought 2 26" monitors and used the Matrox DualHead2Go to get one wide desktop.Unfortunatley I cannot use Fs Altitude on this setup , because and the scenery is blown up twice , and the 2 monitors are making the scenery larger.Therefore the textures are to blurry , even at 40.000ft.I have to fly at 55.000ft + to get the sharpness I want.Furst a screenhot from 30.000ft on 2 monitors , so you will see what I mean ( I was testing the sharpness in Slew , so yes you can see the gear ) The when using only 1 monitor at 35.00ft.Note the difference in sharpness.

cmpbellsjc,So you lived in Tucson? Me too. I went to UofA for Grad school and lived there for a year after that. And my best Golf score was at Randolf. I shot a 82. :)Manny

cmpbellsjc,So you lived in Tucson? Me too. I went to UofA for Grad school and lived there for a year after that. And my best Golf score was at Randolf. I shot a 82. :)Manny

Yes I was born and lived in Tucson from '72 to '88. Then I lived in Victorville, Ca from '88 to '90 where I finished high school. Then I moved back to Tucson where I also went to the U of A and lived in Tucson until I moved to Dallas in 2000. What a coincidence, the first actual round of golf I ever played was at Randolf on the south course. Even funnier was that while attending the U, I worked part time at Bank of America across the street from Ransolf golf course and El Con mall. What a small world. How long did you live in Tucson and how long have you been in the Dallas area?