Switzerland Scenery Update.

[Dominique_K 10,149]

17 hours ago, mrueedi said:

Great area, great flight!

For me still the most astonishing thing is that within a 60km Radius around Top of Europe in the middle of the Alps 17 airports were built during WW II as air bases:

Buochs, Alpnach, Kägiswil, Meiringen, Interlaken, Thun, Reichenbach, Frutigen, St Stephan, Zweisimmen, Saanen, Sion, Raron, Turtmann, Münster, Ulrichen, Ambri (and Emmen, Lodrino, San Vittore not far beyond the 60km Radius)

Many have seen jet operations but most are closed for military operations today. Among these there are airports where jet fighters had to cross major roads when leaving the caverns, aircraft taxied over bridges passing wild waters and at one place even had to pass a railway crossing with Saint Andrews cross.

Great hints ! I just flew the Gina from Alpnack to Lodrino. Or rather tried to.  Alppnack was under the snow which seems reasonable early January but the Lodrino valley too and under an icy fog. Do you have a snow cover in Ticino ? So I diverted to Locarno, the lake was frozen, got distracted and...crashed 😱 😄

Nevertheless, the mesh is really good and like for the Himalayas it makes a lot of difference. Switzerland is one of the best places to fly in MSFS.

 

[mrueedi 702]

2 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

Great hints ! I just flew the Gina from Alpnack to Lodrino. 

My gut feeling is that Lodrino never saw jet operations. Likewise Locarno.

But Ambri did for sure. Imho flying the visual approach pattern of Ambri, as published here, is one of the most impressive experience a pilot can have. Where else in VFR operations is the downwind altitude nearly 2000ft higher than the runway?

There is a route overflying nearly all of these airports, which I personally flew many times and from which I uploaded two videos to YouTube. It starts in Emmen and ends in Ambri.

The first video was with a F/A 18 in Aerofly FS almost three years ago. The flight took just 12 minutes, overflying 17 alpine airports(!). Makes on average far more than 1 airport every minute:

 

And the second was early pre-SU6 MSFS in a self ported FSX Mustang:

 

 

[Fielder 3,679]

I can almost throw a rock and hit Yosemite park from where we live. Yet MSFS 2020 taught me that swiss/ austria /tirol Italy/ southern Germany/ southeast France is more picturesque. God's country!

[Dominique_K 10,149]

2 hours ago, Fielder said:

I can almost throw a rock and hit Yosemite park from where we live. Yet MSFS 2020 taught me that swiss/ austria /tirol Italy/ southern Germany/ southeast France is more picturesque. God's country!

The Route 395 from Nevada to California is not bad😉