August 25, 20241 yr MSFS World Update 18 improved and re-introduced the imagery for 3 countries: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It has included TIN (whatever that means...🙂...) method-based surface modelling of several cities, and also a few hand-crafted airports two of which are Germany’s Munich Airport (EDDM) and Austria’s Salzburg Airport (LOWS). So, today, after a quick and prompt installation of the Update, I wished to take a low and slow trip...from Munich (EDDM) south to the border-city of Salzburg (LOWS), but the trip actually ended up being slow and high instead for parts of it...🙂...when the beckoning of the Bavarian Alps mountains became irresistible to this mountain-lover. Since a long time ago, when Orbx had created "Germany South" for FSX, I have been somewhat familiar with this part of Germany, of course, in my own (imaginary) virtual world...🙂...One of the significant natural features of this region is this so-called Bavarian Alps, which is part of the Alps Mountain range, and spread along the German-Austrian border, and then continues east across the border into Austria. For this flight, here, I have departed directly south from Munich over and past the short-lived plains of about 30 miles until the mountains stopped me on my tracks, and then I ventured deep into and above the heart of the (majestic) Bavarian Alps. While atop these peaks, and about 60 miles away from Salzburg, I've activated the trusted [Dir-To] function on the GPS of this a/c, beginning my descent straight towards the Approach Fixes for (LOWS) ILS Runway 15 (see my VFR Map overlay), with the city of Salzburg located just barely across the border. The DHC-2 Beaver gave me solid and faithful company, from start-to-finish, on this short but exciting adventure, and I must also say, the (MSFS) imagery of these plains and these mountains are some of the finest I've seen in the SIM (or in Xbox...🙂...) ...see e.g., the images in my shot #s (7-10). Approaching into the city of Salzburg and landing on this airport, which I'd done umpteen times in my (past) FSX days, also felt so remarkably and refreshingly different this time...with prettily dotted buildings and houses on the ground below my a/c path. Turning for the final right over the Salzach River (see screenshot of my VFR MAP and the river below my a/c), I've finally touched down (safely) onto the tarmac at Salzburg airport...with the Austrian Alps looming over the near horizon, just to the north of this airport and this city. Welcome to Salzburg, the city of Mozart...and the locale of the musical "The Sound of Music"...🙂... Thanks for viewing and hope you enjoy...!
August 25, 20241 yr Fine set of shots and again some nice flight Route ! cheers 😉 08.2024 new PC is online : ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI Mainboard, AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Prozessor, G.Skill DIMM 64 GB DDR5-6000 (2x 32 GB) Dual-Kit, MSI GeForce RTX 4090 VENTUS 3X E 24G OC Grafikkarte, 2x WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD 4 TB - Drive C+D, WD Gold Enterprise Class 12 TB for storage HDD, Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W PC - Power supply, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO CPU Aircooler with 7 Heatpipes, Design Meshify 2 White TG Clear Tint Tower-Case, 3x 4K monitors 2x32 Samsung 1x27 LG 3840x2160, Windows11 Prof. 23H2 - now Windows11 Prof. 25H2 Flightsimulator Hardware: Honeycomb Throttle Bravo, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech Flight Joke System, XBox Controller, some Thrustmaster stuff, Winwing CDU Panels.
August 26, 20241 yr Nice pictures from that area which is only 50 km south from where I live. 🙂 And the Beaver is not bad, I like it... PC: Ryzen 7 3700x AM4, 16 GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB, Storage SSD 3TB, HDD 8TB, USB 8TB, 2 Screens, Win10-64 SIMs: FSX SE, P3d 3.4/4.5/6.1, Xplane 10/11/12, MSFS 2020/24, Aerofly FS 4
August 27, 20241 yr Outstanding shots and perspectives, well done! Cheers, Gerold Spoiler Hardware: Intel i9-13900K @ 4.2 Ghz, BENQ EW3270U (3840*2160), 32 GB RAM DDR5-6000, Gigabyte Gaming OC Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, Samsung 980 Pro M.2: 1 TB (Win 11-System), Samsung 870 QVO SSD: 2 TB (MSFS), 2 * Samsung 850 EVO SSD: 1 TB (P3D 4.5 HF3) & 500 GB (spare). Scenery / Add-Ons: Lots of commercial & freeware sceneries. Plus ActiveSky_MSFS - and for P3D: FS Global Mesh 2010, ActiveSky_P3Dv4, ASCA, EzDok v3, Pro-ATC/X and REX 4 Texture Direct.
August 27, 20241 yr Nice journey and great set of shots. Salzburg has been my first main arrival destination since the updates and you're right, the scenery around Salzburg is breathtaking. Cheers, Calum Cheers, Calum CPU: RYZEN 7 5800X – GPU: GEFORCE RTX 3080TI (12GB) - RAM: 32GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz - STORAGE: 1x 1TB SSD + 1x 2TB SSD - MONITOR: 28” GIGABYTE M28U UHD 4K MONITOR 144Hz 1MS – MOTHERBOARD: ASUS AMD PRIME B550M-A MAT X - OS: WINDOWS 11 - COOLING: COOLER MASTER 120L WATERCOLOUR
August 28, 20241 yr Lovely screenshots! I visited LOWS Salzburg for the first time ever in a flight simulator just a week ago (after purchasing the RD Presets version of the airport). I had always wanted to fly there (because it was the destination of my first ever real world flight back in May 1993), but I have never had a good quality version of the airport until now. Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
August 29, 20241 yr Author On 8/25/2024 at 10:52 AM, macpilot said: Great set of pictures. Would you share your flight plan? Bill McCracken Bill, Sorry for late response...and thank you for chiming in. I'll send you some more information via PM... but basically, I've headed south from EDDM about 80 miles into/over the Bavarian Alps, and then activated the (GPS) Procedure to LOWS ILS 15 Runway...15,000 ft altitude will keep you safe from the highest of the Alps around here...🙂... On 8/25/2024 at 12:10 PM, pmplayer said: Fine set of shots and again some nice flight Route ! cheers 😉 Thanks, pmplayer. Of course, you know this region well...🙂.. On 8/25/2024 at 1:29 PM, John F said: Mountains and flatlands looking equally great! Yes, John, both the mountains and the flatlands of WU 18 looked good...Of course, there was some metamorphosis ...🙂...of the mountain structures as I flew nearer to them, but the textures resolved well enough... On 8/25/2024 at 6:21 PM, Alaska738 said: Nice set of shots! 😉 Will: Thanks for the comment. Appreciated...Cheers...! On 8/26/2024 at 6:37 PM, andiflyit said: Nice pictures from that area which is only 50 km south from where I live. 🙂 And the Beaver is not bad, I like it... Yes, flying near about your backyard...🙂...Andreas... On 8/26/2024 at 7:15 PM, Jack_Sawyer said: That's a nice set of pictures from your flight. Thank you, Jack...! On 8/26/2024 at 11:53 PM, Stiller Water said: Outstanding shots and perspectives, well done! Thanks for the kind words, Gerold...! On 8/27/2024 at 5:42 AM, Seabass said: Nice journey and great set of shots. Salzburg has been my first main arrival destination since the updates and you're right, the scenery around Salzburg is breathtaking. Cheers, Calum This region is indeed nice to visit in the SIM...Agree with you wholeheartedly, Calum...Thank you. 13 hours ago, Christopher Low said: Lovely screenshots! I visited LOWS Salzburg for the first time ever in a flight simulator just a week ago (after purchasing the RD Presets version of the airport). I had always wanted to fly there (because it was the destination of my first ever real world flight back in May 1993), but I have never had a good quality version of the airport until now. Thanks for chiming in, Christopher...And good bit of reminiscence. Not sure why but I'm reminded of that Baby Boeing 736 now...🙂...I think there is no greater devotee of the 737-600 than you, around here...🙂...Cheers...!
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