PCAviator 30 Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Leg 2 of my recent flight in Oregon and Northern California using MSE 2.0 photoreal scenery. On this leg we depart Illinois Valley (3S4) and head again over some mountainous terrain, crossing the Oregon/California border for a landing at Siskiyou County Airport (KSIY) Add-ons used in this pictorial flight: Scenery: MegaSceneryEarth 2.0 Oregon Complete State Scenery & MegaSceneryEarth 2.0 Northern California Aircraft: Carenado B1900D Terrain Mesh: FSGlobal Ultimate: The Americas ============================================================================================================================= Ready to depart at Illinois Valley (3S4) - The default FSX runway is misaligned to the real direction depicted with MSE textures here. Climbing out over the small town of O'Brien and making a left turn to a bearing of roughly 90 degrees to head to Siskiyou. Over the Red Buttes Wilderness Area. This will be the last of the "greenery". As we approach Siskiyou and then head south on Leg 3 to Redding, California, the terrain takes on more of the yellow-golden desert/sand appearance that is more characteristic of Eastern Oregon and California. With the Carenado B1900D Autopilot set to hold the GPS course, I had time to snap this external shot. The terrain is this part of the world is magical. We are right over the Oregon/California border now and down below is Applegate Lake, making a nice contrast of blue against the predominantly green terrain. Near Condrey Mountain, with Cottonwood Peak in the distance. We are right over the Kalamth River and Siskiyou airport is hidden behind the mountains int he valley you can just see in the distance. Looks like some deforestation/logging has occured in this area below in the past, Some of it appears to be growing back. Start of the descent into Seskiyou, which is dead ahead. I decided to descend and make an approach from the North, turning around Black Mountain to effect a straight out departure for Leg 3. Cascade Wonderland Highway snakes North into Oregon. The town of Yreka in the background as we start a long downwind leg to drop altitude. On downwind, heading in a northerly direction. Looks like some interesting scenery up there to explore, but that will be for another time, and another flight. Long final to Siskiyou. Note Mt. Shasta to the left in the distance. This will be our focal point for Leg 3 of the flight. Final to Siskiyou County Airport (KSIY) - This airport is nicely aligned with MSE 2.0 textures (well done Microsoft for getting it right!) Admittedly, I made a bit of a hard landing here after dropping too much speed over the threshold and it hit the pavement a little hard. I might need to replace my Logitech Extreme 3D joystick after 5 years of great service. The throttle axis is beginning to become quite jumpy and difficult to control engine thrust. Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,285 Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Hard landing, not sure I know what that is. That area of the country is rugged but beautiful, thanks for the sightseeing tour. Link to post Share on other sites
ddavid 149 Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Nice flight, Dean - thanks for sharing, mate! Cheers - Dai. Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,487 Posted February 15, 2014 Report Share Posted February 15, 2014 Looks great Dean, you must have your sim pretty well set up. Do these sceneries install into P3Dv2 ok? Cheers, Joe Link to post Share on other sites
PCAviator 30 Posted February 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Joe, Yep they go straight into P3DV2 I believe and work without any issues (except for the fact that P3D has a hard limit on the LOD_RADIUS setting which FSX doesn't have). I know a few simmers running P3Dv2 and running the MSE scenery just fine Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 suuuuuurrrreee...blame the joystick. We all do it. Link to post Share on other sites
PCAviator 30 Posted February 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2014 suuuuuurrrreee...blame the joystick. We all do it. :) Link to post Share on other sites
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