I'm still amazed by the fact...

[sidfadc 1,344]

I can fly over somewhere extremely remote like Saudi Arabia at 38000 feet, enroute to HESH (Sharm El Sheikh) and see amazing ground textures like this....

[Petraeus 147]

They are indeed impressive, although helped by the fact that the Arabian skies are rarely cloud-covered.

Getting good photo scenery is more of a challenge in Alaska or northern Scandinavia.

[Noel 4,563]

On 12/16/2022 at 4:10 PM, sidfadc said:

I can fly over somewhere extremely remote like Saudi Arabia at 38000 feet, enroute to HESH (Sharm El Sheikh) and see amazing ground textures like this....

This is something that is hard to quantify:  the feeling being somewhere that really exists that you just do not get w/ non-ortho sceneries no matter how good the artwork may try to be.

[Paul K 1,382]

The feeling of having actually travelled somewhere is one of MSFS's great virtues. Earlier this year I flew from the UK to Australia, and this is the southern edge of Iran near the Gulf coast, with its enormous parallel ridges. Even though in a simulator, the whole journey was a voyage of 'real world' discovery, and something that no other sim can offer.

[regis9 4,041]

I flew from Tehran to Istanbul yesterday, a part of the world I hadn’t flown over before in any sim.  I highly recommend it, the scenery is gorgeous. 

[Cpt_Piett 4,837]

I did a world tour a while back. Amazed that the scenery in Ladakh, India and Kyrgyzstan was excellent. Some parts of eastern Russia were really bad though. But overall very impressive. 

[St Mawgan 1,406]

I'm off to fly over Argentina for the first time 😉

[cobalt 801]

10 hours ago, Paul K said:

The feeling of having actually travelled somewhere is one of MSFS's great virtues. Earlier this year I flew from the UK to Australia, and this is the southern edge of Iran near the Gulf coast, with its enormous parallel ridges. Even though in a simulator, the whole journey was a voyage of 'real world' discovery, and something that no other sim can offer.

Yet there are some folks who still describe it as "eye candy"! But I do think I am seeing that less and less nowadays, as the monumental advance this RW scenery represents is becoming more fully appreciated.

[Bobsk8 12,879]

I flew around Japan the other day, it it looks really good too. 

[The Flight Level 2,121]

Here is a video comparing the sim to Google Earth view of the world’s largest mineral mines at high altitudes. Incredible detail!

Flight Simulator Meets Google Earth View - World's Largest Mineral Mines - Collection No. 2 - 4K