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NZ looks good in P3D, Andreas. Lovely shots...of one of my favorite NZ airport sceneries... Also, liked the Olive Green backplane of the cockpit...
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Beautiful set...wonderful to hear the names of these Australian towns...that I've never heard before.... Thanks for getting off-road from the big cities of Australia....🙂...
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Man against mountains...The Pennsylvania Turnpike...
P_7878 replied to P_7878's topic in The AVSIM Screen Shots Forum
You're absolutely correct, John. I believe I did come across those names too while looking around bits and pieces about this fascinating development of U.S. roadway system. I will check it out for myself. I think PA turnpike served as a model for other roadway systems across the country...And to be honest, as I saw from above, in the SIM, the Highway winding along these mountains, valleys, and towns, it looked exactly like what I would recall from my RW travels. I've travelled the PA Turnpike in all seasons, including winter...a long while ago, though... Cheers...! -
A Zeppelin above Berlin in the 1930s
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Marvelously nostalgic set of images, bernd...! The Redwing folks are onto something quite impressive here, that has eluded our previous SIMS, though been often talked about ... -
Piett: I know you've been diligently working on trial and error of this mechanism...and it clearly and convincingly shows in your pictures above...Very nice examples here...!
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Agree, the MSFS DC3s in Bare Metal repaints are really outstanding... Lovely shots, from around your backyard....🙂...
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American Allegheny 320 - Harrisburg to Lehigh Valley
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Thanks for the comment, Andreas. Yes, you're correct. Please note that I am also partial to the older Lufthansa livery, with the blue cheatline and the blue crane in a yellow circle...since I flew on the 747 Jumbo for the first time with that livery of LH...Oh well...who is listening to us...🙂... And your (other) observations about scenery degradation in dense metropolitan areas and cityscapes are spot-on...a bit unfortunate, since MSFS is otherwise so effective for visual flights .... Cheers...! -
American Allegheny 320 - Harrisburg to Lehigh Valley
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Thanks for the information. BTW, John, I gather that there is construction on-going at the Route 22 Bridge over Lehigh River currently, which means, the (MSFS) shot above of this bridge (1st of my 2nd group of 3) may have some truth to it...🙂 ...On-line images do show an auxiliary road dipping down for construction traffic I guess ... Nonetheless, the issue with cityscape "meltdown" is present, more so, recently for me, which issue is apparently not confined to Xbox but to PC users also. I hear if one turns off PG, situation improves, but I do not normally wish to leave PG off...let's see if a future update fixes it. For now, e.g., my (familiar) KORD downtown does not look like it actually is, and neither e.g., EGLL/EGLC...I'm afraid to visit there...🙂... -
A long while ago, lasting for a decade and half, I would (invariably) make my once-a-year road trip from Ohio to destinations on the east coast of U.S. mostly to Maryland and Washington, D.C., and occasionally to New Jersey, visiting friends and relatives. The distance was not too much...e.g., about 400 miles from Columbus (OH) to Washington (DC). I could do this in one driving stint of about 6-7 hours, with one break for stretching of legs and for restroom, though, if I were to do this now, I might need more than one health break...🙂...Anyway, I always thought, and still think so, there is no better way to familiarize yourself with the heartlands of Midwest, than driving this directly eastward route that traverses basically 3 states, Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, before diving south towards Maryland and Washington, DC. The West Virgina segment of the Highway almost does not count...a thin strip of < 15 miles, across the state's peculiarly shaped (narrow) panhandle; so, you see the sign of West Virginia welcoming you, and just 10 mins later, you see West Virginia bidding you farewell. Always felt a bit strange... On this route, you cross over many significant rivers and bridges (I love bridges), and then you enter the famous Appalachian Mountains of eastern U.S. A major portion of my route would traverse the state of Pennsylvania, along the so-called Pennsylvania Turnpike of Tollway system. The Appalachians are no Rockies (nor Alps) for sure, with highest elevation of only about 6,000 ft, but they have posed significant (and daunting) obstacles to eastward travel across U.S., through the century. They stop your eastward journey on its track and dare you to cross them. Though hardly (2,000-3,000) ft high on average, they span north-south extensively, and there is simply no way around them except boring holes through them thanks to Alfred Nobel's invention of "Dynamite"...🙂...man against the mountains. This is how the Pennsylvania Turnpike was built...with 7 Tunnels through 7 mountains of the Appalachian range. Out of the 7-tunnels, actually 4 Tunnels are in active use today, though which I would make my way on my trip. I'm more familiar with cities and towns around these mountains than the Rockies, and these mountains, though troublesome for highway system, are beautiful, with a perpetually bluish, picturesque and dreamy look about them. When I would (suddenly) enter one of these Tunnels of darkness, after hours of (non-stop) driving in bright sunlight, with my sunglasses on, I would often forget to take my sunglasses off, until my wife would remind me, "Why don't you take your sunglasses off?" I would then feel my face to see that I've indeed my glasses on, and would say, "How about you? You are not taking your sunglasses off...", and then the inevitable reply, "But...I'm not driving...", so, it was clearly a losing argument on my part...🙂...The active tunnels of today along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, were (originally) built more than 140 years ago, in 1881, under the auspices of South Pennsylvania Railroad, when automobile travel was not yet popular. Four of those Tunnels were later adapted (with (extra) parallel bores built for multi-lane traffic) for roadway travel in the 1940s (considered "engineering marvels" of the time). So, there are now left behind a few (abandoned) "Ghost" Tunnels in Pennsylvania, nearly forgotten, under the Appalachian Mountains...with their own stories to tell...🙂...if anyone would listen... In my pictures below, I've focused on 2 of the 4 Tunnels I would cross in my (past) trips: (1) Allegheny Tunnel under the Allegheny Mountain (2) Tuscarora Tunnel under the Tuscarora Mountain (LAT/LONG co-ordinates of both derived from Google-Earth and inserted into the MSFS FlightPlan). As I lift off, below, from Pittsburgh (KPIT), these are the first 2 Tunnels (each more than a mile long) that would have to be reckoned with on my (roadway) journey to Washington, DC., but so nice, here, that I don't need to worry about these in my aerial flight....🙂... (See e.g., my shot #11 for the Highway I must have travelled on). In my pictures (shot #s 14-17) of the 2 Tunnel entrances, observe how the I-76 Highway disappears into the mountains. I've also included one image (shot #18) where from my vantage (aerial) viewpoint, you could spot the Highway re-emerging on the other side of the mountain... Please enjoy this collection of images, below, of a classic U.S. airline, Eastern, and its DC-3, tracking the Tunnels of Pennsylvania Turnpike. Eastern operated 76 DC-3s, with flights in the same region (similar to Allegheny Airlines of my previous post), over and across the Appalachian Mountains that bring one of the most unpredictable and turbulent weather patterns in the U.S., naturally associated with such mountains (they are magnets for cloud and rain). In fact, on almost every occasion I've travelled through these mountains and the valleys, I vividly recall instances of gathering clouds and rain, except during the Fall season...with bright sun and stunningly beautiful colors of foliage, on the wayside, on the forests, hills, and mountains of Pennsylvania Turnpike...there is nothing better to soothe your mind during long driving...as I would be glad to be finally on the plains, free of Tunnels, towards my destination on the east-coast (see my last shot)... Thanks for viewing and your interest...!
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Futuristic and mysterious....🙂...Very intriguing set of images... Thanks for sharing...!
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Uniquely beautiful RW livery on this Spitfire, Jan... Hadn't seen a Blue Spit before...🙂... Very nice paint-job...!
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Watermasks around Nassau after Sim update
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The Caribbean keeps getting better ... love these water textures and the beautiful tones of turquoise/blue... Lovely set...! -
Some of the best Antarctica scenery in our SIM....beautiful series of pictures here, Andreas. If recall correctly...Will had befriended some of these penguins...a while ago...🙂.... I used to explore the Aerosoft Antarctica X, but your (MSFS) set here is quite remarkable...along with the firecracker red aircraft...🙂...
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American Allegheny 320 - Harrisburg to Lehigh Valley
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Will: Thanks very much...! Glad you liked...though it's no Boeing (737) ...🙂... -
American Allegheny 320 - Harrisburg to Lehigh Valley
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Thanks, John...for RW observations from the same area...🙂... Yes, your Route 22 Bridge over the Lehigh River, in the shot above, seems melted down and damaged ...🙂.... which btw, I am finding a lot these days in the Metropolitan areas w.r.t. buildings and structures... Anyway, please find, below, 3 Drone pictures I took, by reversing my glidepath (i.e., heading out west along Rwy 24, opposite to my ILS Rwy 6 approach). Is the bridge I see in my first shot, below, the Route 22 bridge over the river? The image of the bridge looks imperfect, and misaligned with the extensions towards the land sides... In my 2nd and 3rd shots below, I've turned left i.e., south along the river...I see 2 other bridges on the river, in these 2 images, one near and another a bit further down...what are those bridges...? Do they really exist...just curious... This post was good bit of fun. I also recall now my many (annual) trips along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, from Columbus (OH) through Pittsburgh/Harrisburg...on my way to Maryland/Washington based acquaintances...