Approaching the Quad Cities area; Muscatine, Iowa off to the left.

 

And further downstream:

 

 

 

 

 

 

John

Wow!!! Looks fantastic! Which scenery is this?

Thanks, Michael. It's FS Altitude Eastern USA.

 

John

Ah, ok! FS Altitude had already caught my attention when it was released. Somehow, I forgot about it, but this really looks beautiful. How would you rate it?

It has its good points and its bad points. You must fly at a fairly high altitude or the blurriness of its low resolution will be too noticeable. Above about 30,000 ft. it looks good enough for me. There's also a "cone" or square of default scenery that follows along underneath your aircraft. The higher you go, the smaller it seems to become...just don't pan down too far or you will see it.

 

The good points: blanket coverage of very large areas of geography; excellent color correction so there are no jarring mis-matched transitions caused by time of day or season to stand out and catch your eye; and provided you keep your zoom lens setting at about 0.50 or a little lower the "real life" feeling and sharpness is quite good. Too low a zoom setting, though, will result in a distorted "fishbowl" effect.

 

I noticed on another forum recently someone saying they could no longer find FS Altiitude for sale. Hope that's not true!

 

John

Thank you very much for your detailed answer. I'll have a closer look at it.

Fine set of shots!!