The Eye of Paris - watching the planes landing and starting at Orly . . .
FSX + photoreal scenery (France VFR)

Edited September 3, 20205 yr by PhotoReal Earth

I had to use google maps to find that area near Orly. There appears to be nothing relating to Eye of Paris - the cemetery had a different name and there doesn't appear to be a name for the pentagon-shaped structure in the middle.

Ah, found it! It's a park. The name is in the SW corner on google maps: Parc des sports et de loisirs du Grand Godet (big bucket??)

Interesting picture! 

Mark, you've surched and found it 🙂 Well done! 👍

I personally wouldn't have named this a "Parc" 😉
It's just the unusable area the railway has left over by orbiting the Pentagon in the middle of the circle, before disappearing in the ground. Some guys from french railway SNCF call it OEuf de Paris = Eye of Paris, I'm convinced 😉

If I would be Erich von Däniken, I would be convinced that this is a landing place for extraterrestrial spaceships.
You can clearly see that the main ship must be a circular ship (socalled "flying saucer") with huge dimensions.
And you can clearly see that the escort vessels, which land first between the landing gear of the main ship to protect the exit, must be more longer than wide, if you closely watch their landing places:
     
Or can you give me a better explanation for these curious, remarkable signs?
😉   😉   😉

But thank goodness, I'm not Erich von Däniken 🙂

 

To be serious again: if you want to see more flightsim screenshots from Paris, the City of Love and Romance, voilà: https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/572331-fsxpr-12-pics-paris-the-city-of-love-and-romance/

3 hours ago, PhotoReal Earth said:

Or can you give me a better explanation for these curious, remarkable signs?

You'd be better asking Paris Football Club! Erich would be extremely disappointed! 

I believe that Oeuf means Egg, Oeil would be the right word for Eye (the o and e of oeil are usually written close together without a space, I forget what that is called). Perhaps the SNCF guys think egg is a better description maybe.

Cheers for the link to your other sightseeing post.

Mark, you are absolutely right. Thank you for correcting.

I think I made the mistake by translating back from English to French, because the german word "Ei" is pronounced exactely in the same way as "eye", but "Ei" means egg.

No problem, Torsten 🍻

Thank you for posting the picture in the first place - there are so many places on this planet which we do not know about. Sometimes it's fun trying to figure out where or what these places are, especially if they are in another country. It was fortunate that you gave clues to the location - Paris and Orly...