Well, it hit me.. I seem to fly this sim now for 'fun' more then the others. I use FSX for testing the FSX product lines I am working on. I test also in FS9, my fave sim, for product lines I am also working on (dual sim product lines), but for fun, for the past several weeks, I use XP9.
I have been using only the Cissna 172SP (stock) and the Avanti (stock also).
The scenery is just unbeatable, even compared with FS2004. Even with low resolution stock scenery in XP9, the colors and picturesque environment are just so much more realistic.
Here, I am using a Demo scenery of Phoenix and the terrain is quite similar via desert and scrub brush and colors overall. With the photo terrain, its also low resolution, but the same colors. You can see in photo 4 where the photo terrain ends in the demo I have, how the colors are still realistic to a desert area.
For those of you that know Phoenix, photo 1 is looking at the mountain range near Scottsdale airport, looking south by south east. Picture 2 is looking west from Scottsdale road towards Deer Valley area, about 10 miles away, roughly. Picture 3, turning onto final, onto Deer Valley rwy 27L, about 5 miles out roughly.
This flight was in the Cissna.
Bill
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