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here are some shots over Orbx TE GB north/central. nothing special - just felt like sharing...

When I read here on Avsim about the new FSFS 2020, many people hope that the scenery is good enough so that we can discover new places with scenery that looks somewhat realistic without the repetitive landclass tiles or cities, where we are for example faced with streets and railway tracks running across buildings. Should you have X Plane, part of this is reality already now. It is called Ortho4XP and gives us the world to explore in photoscenery. Well, at least in theory, because 1. We would need a lot of disc space to download the entire ortho world and 2. Not all of the world is feasible in X Plane, because of the quality of the tiles. I have tried for example to download the Papua Newguinea ortho tiles. It doesn’t work because of too many clouds baked into the scenery. And I have tried all sources from Bing to USA2. Africa on the other hand works extremely well. I have tried South Africa, Victoria Falls, Serengeti, Ethiopia and the African rift valley. All of it is quite good. Also most of North Africa and the Middle East is excellent. Further south east, all of NZ and the Australian Gold Coast is fantastic (I haven’t tried other parts of Australia yet, as I also have Australia v2 from ORBX for P3D). And coming to Asia, I found that Taiwan for example is quite well represented. Please have a look: I have used USA2 as source, ZL17. As you will see in the pics, there is excellent freeware scenery available for Taiwan (over at the org) My starting point is Taichung on Central Taiwan's west coast. From here I will fly across the Central Mountain Range and make my way to Hualien on the island’s east coast. It will be fun. GO AWAY!!! Approaching the city of Taichung This looks fantastic Our next destination is one of the most popular tourist destinations in central Taiwan It’s called Sun-Moon Lake Taiwan has some of the highest mountains in Asia with its tallest peak reaching 3,860 m (12,644 ft) Heading towards the east coast. Those white spots in the distance are clouds, baked into the scenery tiles. It’s a bit of an effort to get rid of them, but it is doable Hualien is dead ahead It appears that PAPI is a thing that is not known in this part of the world. 😉 Well, weather is fine, so we can manage without it This Carrefour hypermarket looks exactly like in real life Also the airport looks superb. Remember, it’s freeware! I hope you enjoyed this little trip. I did 😉

Ortho4XP with freeware overlays (autogen), Olixsim Ju 52 We’ll start our scenic trip in Friedrichshafen at Lake Constance, home to the famous Zeppelin. In the background one can spot the Friedrichshafen cathedral. Friedrichshafen’s small harbor. From here the ferries start to cross the lake into Austria and Switzerland. It’s a wonderful journey We have reached the lake’s southern shore and Switzerland Close to Lake Zurich Closer to the Alps with Lake Lucerne below us The Matterhorn/Pilatus mountain range, with Lucerne at our five o’clock After having crossed the Alps, we have finally reached Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy. At its eastern end lies Swiss Locarno About to be tied down at Locarno airport for an overnight stay. Tomorrow, we’ll be flying back Thanks for viewing

Approaching Protection Island with Diamond Point at my 3 o’clock Thanks for viewing

here's a few from today. my own sky and clouds. thanks for looking.