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    Interesting Places to Fly

    I stumbled upon this site with suggestions of interesting scenery to fly over, well worth a look:

    https;//flightloc.com/
    Mod edit: Site is down permanently. The DNS record no longer exists. Keeping thread alive due to the number of good locations listed below.

    Hope it's of some use,

    Ian
    Last edited by Tom Clayton; May 9th, 2021 at 04:57.

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    Thank you Ian!

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    Splendid ! Thanks Ian !

    I'd say this thread deffinately deserves a sticky. The name is already perfect too. Everybody could add their interesting explorations right here.

    John, i think your great Hadrian Wall photo trip should be in here as well. Would be a pity to see it get lost in the screenshot forum. Btw, thanks for that too, well done and very interesting !

    I was actually thinking about a special "Interesting Places To Fly" forum but if stickied this will do fine as well.

    What we have here is deffinately a VFR Flight Simulator ! A thread like this makes good use of that !


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    I'd say this thread deffinately deserves a sticky.
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    Booked marked as well, we can use this

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    Hollywood Sign

    I managed to find the sign in dense fog. Always an interesting flight for me.

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    Asobo Studios in Bordeaux

    This "Easter egg" isn't hard to find. Asobo has conveniently flown a small hot-air balloon above their studios, and has painted a smiley face in the courtyard.
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    I addition to the site Ian provided, I suggest we also list others place here. Use John's coordinate collection method and post the name and location in this thread. I'll start with a couple...

    Stonehenge (scenery added, but not yet tested)
    51.178855, -1.826148

    Asobo Studios
    44.850010, -0.571252

    Edit: I'm also keeping a text document in my FS files folder.
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    What do you mean with 'scenery added' , Tom ?..



    Edit: disregard. Found it.

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    Siem Reap/Angkor Wot Cambodia..
    Stock Scenery, MSFS2020 Premy Deluxe Package.


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    Quote Originally Posted by warchild View Post
    Siem Reap/Angkor Wot Cambodia..
    Stock Scenery, MSFS2020 Premy Deluxe Package.
    13.412482, 103.866930

    I'll have to try that out later. I have the mid-grade package, but according to the sales lit., the only differences are the planes included and the # of "Hand Crafted" airports.
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    Neuschwanstein Castle




    47.557766, 10.749859



    The castle, not far from LOWI, is beautifully hand-crafted in the standard version of MSFS2020.

    I flew there from a little grass strip, Reute/Hofen (LOIR), then landed at a nearby glider strip, EDGD Fuessen. And here's a video by "VR Flight Sim Guy":
    https://youtu.be/UGyhK3ZacDM
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    Has anyone found the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris? I used Google Earth to plot its location and can't find it. I found the other major icons of Paris. Notre Dame is probably the second most famous and iconic church in the world, you would think it would be modeled.
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    Notre Dame wasn't yet modeled when MSFS was released, but in that location, and others, Asobo has already removed the AI-generated buildings in anticipation for adding hand-crafted versions at some point. The development of this sim by Asobo/MS is still in its infancy/far from where they see it going, and we will be seeing many more hand-modeled POI's, such as Notre Dame, released with the free, monthly, World Updates.

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    Some screenshots of Neuschwanstein Castle in MSFS, that I took a couple weeks back. It is a perfect example of the level of detail and craft that Asobo puts into the POI's. Even the statues of the warrior and lion on either end of the highest roofs are modeled really well while also keeping the poly count low. The textures are all PBR, with the windows featuring live reflections and roofs that get glossy when wet.





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    Thanks!

    I just made a location suggestion on that site for Wake Island!

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    Here is the list of coordinates that I've collected so far. I still need to visit most of these in the sim myself.

    Stonehenge (Addon)
    51.178855, -1.826148

    Asobo Studios
    44.850010, -0.571252

    Siem Reap/Angkor Wot Cambodia
    13.412482, 103.866930

    Neuschwanstein Castle
    47.557566, 10.749755

    Notre Dame Cathedral (missing)
    48.853105, 2.349599

    Meteor Crater AZ
    35.027451, -111.022800

    Mt Rushmore (Addon avail. at flightsim.com)
    43.879083, -103.459201

    Golden Gate Bridge
    37.817915, -122.478357

    Godzilla Mod (Approximate)
    37.790188, -122.384054

    San Francisco Ferry Building (starting point to buzz Market St)
    37.795440, -122.393620

    Lobard St Curves
    37.802114, -122.418980
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    Nazca Lines?

    I wanted to duplicate our real-world experience when my wife and I visited Peru many years ago. We took a bus to Nazca and jumped into the rear seats of a Cessna 150, and zoomed over the lines. The pilot would bank and turn shouting "Mira!" as one by one he showed us all the famous glyphs.

    But the lines don't seem to show up in the aerial photography of Bing Maps or Google Maps, so they don't appear in the sim, either.

    Does anybody have a solution for seeing the lines, or an explanation for why it's not possible?

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    If it's not in Bing's satellite data, then it has to be done by hand. With thousands of landmarks around the globe, that simply takes time. If you go to the "official" forum, there's a wishlist section. Threads there can be "upvoted" by other users so that dev's can see what people want most.

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    Ahs anyone found anything else in this category?
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    US Space & Rocket Cntr 34.711108 -86.653974 Huntsville, AL
    Space shuttle + several outdoor rockets.

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    Are the rockets and shuttle depicted in the scenery?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Clayton View Post
    Are the rockets and shuttle depicted in the scenery?
    Yes they are. Sorry for the late response.

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