X-Plane 12 Palm Springs to Ontario (CA)

[andy1252]

Last batch for today. Out of a rather fine freeware Palm Springs (XP11 but ok) en route for KONT, the XP version of their recent and very splendid MSFS product. Actually the XP version is the original and is supposedly XP11, but again, works fine here. All over the very fine TrueEarth SoCal, along what has always been one of my favourite routes in any sim. This first set takes a look around KPSP and then heads off towards KONT, but the arrival will follow in a later set.

We start waiting to go on the runway, but than have a look round the airport

And this is freeware (on the .org forums)

And away. I've been to Palm Springs, but not the airport. One year we gave ourselves a treat and had a few days in San Diego, then drove to Tucson stopping for one night each in Palm Springs and 29 Palms. That was one fine trip.

Just to prove I do go inside sometimes!

Just up ahead there used to be a couple of life sized dinosaurs at some kind of attraction, but I guess they've gone now (but I have some great shots of them from P3D)

I really do think the True Earth stuff was the absolute pinnacle of Orbx's scenery business, which pretty much made it the best anywhere before MSFS came along. Shame that version of the company apparently no longer exists.

And as we approach San Berdoo (as I believe the locals might call it?) that's where we stop this segment of the trip

 

 

[John F]

Thoroughly enjoyable. Glad you were able to rekindle some of your real life memories with this one.

[Alaska738]

Stunning shots Andy! 😉 

[VH-KDK]

That is some great freeware Andy.

Top class images bith inside and outside.

 

[Jack_Sawyer]

Cool shots.  I miss Orbx's P3D version because it had a great interior and was used for several of my comics.

[andy1252]

On 7/17/2023 at 10:27 PM, John F said:

Thoroughly enjoyable. Glad you were able to rekindle some of your real life memories with this one.

Cheers John. Memory jogging is one of the nice things about this lark, and a great part of the fun.

22 hours ago, Alaska738 said:

Stunning shots Andy! 😉 

Thanks Will. Like a lot of places in either sim, it's hard to get a bad shot around here.

18 hours ago, VH-KDK said:

That is some great freeware Andy.

Top class images bith inside and outside.

Thanks Martyn, and what's even more impressive it that it's a tiny file that you get when you download this. I guess it's all done with standard library objects or something.

5 hours ago, Jack_Sawyer said:

Cool shots.  I miss Orbx's P3D version because it had a great interior and was used for several of my comics.

Cheers Jack, and me too. I always thought it was one of their best airports. One of Jarrads? I can't remember now.