soloboss

New and Improved. For me and the way I fly (round engines) I truely wish that Microsoft could have mated either of the flight sims with their own Bing Maps. I'd love to fly low and slow with the detail of Bing. OR Google. Being able to fly around a particular parcel of property and see if from a low angle, to be able to land on a county road and view the surroundings - yep, I'd pay for that. And the pitty is that it's already modeled! My old computer will scroll Bing fast enough to emulate a DC-3 low flight. Since an "Aircraft" is little more than a working cockpit overlaying a digital world it seems to me that it would work. A little more work could bring some of the outrageous real world weather into the bing map. Model a tornado, severe storm with random wind gusts, super cells and varying rain squalls. Tie that to the day's news so we can actually fly over the active part of the massive fires out west - or see the huge water of a flood. The comment was made early in this thread that above 3000 feet up the world is hazy. Yep it is. But there are more than a few of us flying tundra tired Super Cubs and Grumman Gooses (geese?) who don't get much higher than that. And with something to look at, perhaps barnstorming could become a new area of interest. Just dreaming, ya know?