The future of Flight Siming

[brucewtb 249]

Iis this the future of Flight Siming - see screenshots of short final to YSSY runway 34L and from about 2000 feet looking across Sydney to the aiport. These were taken using Google earth.Bruceb

[JimmiG 244]

Looks good. Not as good as France VRR (http://www.francevfr.com/) for FS2004, though :-lolI see no reason why a central "scenery server" could not be used in the future, to which all FS users would connect and download high-res (as in e.g. .5m/pixel) photoreal scenery for the entire world (where coverage is provided).

[brucewtb 249]

I was even more impressed when I explored the Mt Bushwalker area of the Budawangs Ranges just north of Pigeon House(sandstone cliffs and gorge area south of Sydney) - see this attachment. Doesn't look quite as good as the original as I have cut down the file size to meet AVSIM's requirements.Bruceb

[clayton4115 56]

yeawell the technology is there, i sure hope MS uses it in the next upgrade of FS.

[jeffyen 0]

In 10-20 years time, hopefully this is default FS. :)Hoover Dam rotatedhttp://www.itsnotpersonal.com/glimpses/ima...ooverdamsat.jpghttp://www.itsnotpersonal.com/glimpses/ima...overdamsat2.jpg

[Geofa 108]

Why not now? I see no reason this technology could not be used-perhaps downloading in the background over a live internet connection-greatly improving framrates....Ksan and Kjac-http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/121585.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/121586.jpghttp://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/rxp-pilot.jpg