I had a wonderful flight around Southern California tonight, and felt like sharing.  Recently XPX has been my sim of choice because of it's stability, and improved performance with the latest Nvidia drivers.  I also "downgraded" to a 27 inch monitor from 30 inch, this improved my graphical performance so much that the decrease in view size was totally worth it.

 

I recently took the time to make LOD 17 cm(30 cm/pixel) photoscenery of all of California and Western Nevada so as to make a nice playground to fly around in.  I love the changing topography provided from the area.

 

This was a vfr flight, to practice pilotage and old fashioned radio navigation, we are going from Big Bear Lake In the San Jacinto Mtns down to Redlands in San Bernado county, East over Banning between the San Bernadino and San Jacinto mountain Ranges.  Then we overfly Palm Springs, then head south over the eastern part of the San Jac. Mtns to end up at the very west end of the Colorado Desert at Borrego Valley.

 

We will fly Mountains, plains, cities, valleys, and finally desert.  I also picked my start and end aiports because I found some nice free scenery for them.  Let me apologize for the small pics, I goofed up when re-sizing them, but they get they do the job.

 

Ready To Go at Big Bear, the whole area has an icy bluish color palette

 

 

Climbing out amongst the San Bernadino peaks

 

 

Heading west that is Big Bear lake in front of me, I am shooting for a southwest departure to catch a hole in the range

 

 

Descending down through the valley, the color palette changes to greenish.

 

 

Overflying Banning

 

 

Between the San Bernadino and San Jac Mtns, on the way to Palm Springs

 

 

Mesh and photoscenery combine well, this is Alpilotx Mesh

 

 

Almost to KPSP, the color palette begins to change again to a bright yellow

 

 

Dscending into Borrego, that street pattern is actually on the sectionals

 

 

Tiedowns @ Borrego

 

 

Thanks for looking...

 

Pretty awesome!

Great flight ... thanks for posting this.