Classic British Flight Sim

It looks like an ATR Dan

Heres one I found - eye level is 1500 feet AMSL - altitude here is 1000 AGL
and the nearest airport is 20 miles away = found it checking out my favorite sopt on Lake Allatoona just north of Atlanta - the area is still very isolated
so my question is - the Cessna flying or down????


Leif

The aircraft flying aren't rendered in 3D. That aircraft could be at 100 feet (AGL) or 10000 feet (AGL) and it'll look the same in that satellite photo since it's not stereoscopic, and thus there is no true way to determine actual height.

That makes sense Chris - thank you

Leif

BTW if anyone really wants to find something - try looking for the life size mock up of Baghdad Intl up on he Range north of Nellis

Leif

All I can find is Area 51.... :think:

Keith Jones wrote:If you think that's low, have a look here:-

41°51'7.47"N
121°28'42.92"W

Looks like a C-5A being refueled by a KC-135 (707), given the size difference you would not think it would be worth the effort.

Keith Jones wrote: There's also something of interest here:-

52°20'10.62"N
0°11'44.23"W

Very cool, time to fire up the wayback machine.

Steve

Ill get the lat/Lon for it - Its north of the 51 restricted area - and east of
the Silverbow (Tonapah) facility it lies on the south end of a dry lake bed complete with AAA and SAM sites marked out.


Leif

i dont understand this google earth.....

a few months ago i looked at Basra, and shaibah, both little haunts i frequented whilst in the delightful little place call iraq,
when i looked at them they were farly recent shots.... tents etc errected by coalition forces, now, nothing no zip, diddly squat, the pictures are now pre-war no 2,
any ideas how they work this, as i thought they would have put up recent shots as oppose to old!!

That might be a security issue :think:

Governments have been complaining about how easy it is to see sites on the system.

Perhaps a compromise is to put old out of date pics in

Just a guess

Garry

I've just noticed some thing, you can get lower down say at New York without too much blurredness than you can for Lincoln UK........Why is this? :think:

It's all to do with the resolution of the shots Nigel. One could say that NY is a little more interesting that Lincolnshire.. not that I would of course Some areas are shot at a much higher magnification allowing that much more detail

ATB

DaveB :tab: