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XP11.32 / UWXP / xVision / 4K

In game graphics give it a try !!! All citys covered so far by this amazing 3D imagery load this file into google earth to see them http://www.gearthblog.com/kmfiles/3DMeshLocationsNetworkLink.kml NB turn on Atmosphics in option to get the nice blue horiszon effect Press CNRTL + Alt + A to enter sim !!

I love the Arizona Desert, it is a great base for Light Sport flying with lots of uncontrolled airspace and things to look at when one flies. In these shots I am flying the Eurofox out of Buckeye up the famous Sun Valley Parkway, the "road to nowhere" because it was meant to be the main highway for the envisioned westward sprawl that never happened. Only two developments came about, Tartesso and another an outlier of Sun City. It goes from I-10 in Buckeye, goes some 20 miles or more north then turns into Bell road, as Maricopa County streets change names if they change direction, then it proceeds east all the way to Scottsdale AZ, it is a great loop drive, but once…

In 1992 I remember one real life trip, I helped raise my nephews, my brother was on temp work disability from an accident when they were young. I decided I'd take my two nephews, Joey and Bobby, on their first airline flight to Socal, so I could take them to Disneyland. But I did not like telling them in advance knowing they would get too excited, since I had taken them before, and I knew they would not rest well before the trip. So I just told them we were going to spend the day in Frisco, I was living with my parents at the time and my brother dropped them off there, secretly putting the suitcase he had packed for them in my station wagon and burying it under some bl…

Alabeo's Cardinal attempting to summit the Alps on a trip to Italy, passing the mighty Matterhorn and Gornergrat, with Switzerland's highest peaks on display... John

When I flew FS2 so many years ago, way back in 1984 on my Commodore SX-64, I would always enjoy flying from either Meigs, O'hare or Midway down to Champagne-Urbana. In real life, in 2000, I flew from St. Louis to Champagne once on a business trip. I was not looking forward to it, my clients were angry with my employer for poor training and I was sent down at my employer's cost to retrain them. When I got there, they said they had decided they might sell their hotel, they did just not know how to run what they had just purchased. But they were kind to me, they knew I was in the hot seat, and I spent the next week teaching them how to run a hotel, and also I had to …

Over my home area where I enjoy flying the most, I found a sound fix for the L39 in an old forum thread so now I have the 64 bit sounds installed for the L39, adds to the fun of it... John

Random arrivals.... Cheers

The wonderful Duke, a classic pressurized twin, soaring high over the Colorado Rockies. My FSEarthtiles photo scenery can be added to P3DV4.4 from Avsim's library in eight downloads... John

Newly acquired F1 Citation Mustang. Late night flight. Nice addition to my flight sim collection. On the Ramp, Pre Flight Complete KLAS at night, such a beautiful sight! Thanks for looking.......

This flight has special meaning for me because of a strange serendipity and a decision I made, that I would not hurt my employer. In 1994 I was flown, at a potential employer's cost, to Atlanta to interview for a position as CIO of their hotel chain of about twenty hotels. I wanted to move to Hotlanta, because my employer at that time, Holiday Inn, was based there and I loved the city with its airport, metro, low cost living, humidity and greenery. I was living in Napa California at the time. I flew there on TWA, my last flight on TWA, via St. Louis on an L1011, my last flight on an L1011. I stayed the night then flew TWA back home, one of those rare times I did not …

Showcasing wonderful Xplane11 freeware, SimHeaven's forests and the cool Ercoupe, which I flew in Texas over a decade ago. Even at gross it could carry me and a pilot at my weight back then, 220#. Now some years later I weight the standard pilot weight of 170#, so if I ever find a good Ercoupe where the 1320 pound STC for Light Sport is applicable, I will get one, preferably with the rudder pedal mod if I can find one. The Ercoupe I flew did not have rudder pedals and I steered it like a car when taxing. I flew it takeoff to touchdown, coming in crabbed to compensate for a light crosswind component. I wanted to purchase it but it was hard to start, in need of an over…

Beautiful Innsbruck airport, a great place, along with Sion in Switzerland, to enjoy Xplane11's outstanding alpine mesh and Aerobask's free Robin, and Simheaven's free dense forests which quadruple forest density in Xplane11 with no performance hit. I have added some pics of Innsbruck and Germany's Neuschwanstein castle, inspiration for the Disney castles, which I visited a few times between 1977 and 1991. These pics were taken in 1987, I last visited the German and Austrian alps in 2017 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of my first trip there and the 90th anniversary of Lindburgh's crossing, flying roundtrip into London in May of that year and finishing more than a mon…

Many simmers take off out of Sion but they miss half the journey, I like Lausanne, where I stayed one night in 1987, taking the train by Chillon Castle the next morning then hopping to Milan. I was poet laureate in my high school and college and I have toured Chillon a couple of times, another poet visiting that castle. I also overnighted in beautiful Montreaux in 1989. Sharing this set which highlights Sion and Gampfel in the Rhone Valley from up high, with sites of the Matterhorn and other similar looking alps in the Distance. The real pic is one I took of the Matterhorn while I was staying in traffic free Zermatt in 1982. Our tour guide, Anna Marie Greene of …

Legendary FSX aircraft, I have seen the L39 Albatross in a few air shows, it always puts on a great display of aerobatic flying and is a beautiful trainer to look at when taxiing by. These shots taken over the North Bay out of Napa County airport, my encounters with the L39 were in Arizona. John

The last commercial flight for MD-11 was on Oct. 26, 2014, when KLM’s last MD-11 touched down at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. KLM had operated ten MD-11s and was the last passenger airline to fly one. Since then, the MD-11 would fly only for cargo carriers. My only flight in a real MD-11 was for a trans-Atlantic travel with KLM. I had alluded to it once before in my post for a flight-report with the PMDG MD-11. To recall, over the mid-Atlantic, the flight ran into one of the most severe turbulence, as I've ever experienced. The KLM pilots changed altitudes several times duly informing the strapped-in passengers, each time, of their actions. But, the persistent turbulence j…