AWCEO m7 20250921 PFF000 PANC CKU

[JoaoPaz]

Hi guys!

Here's my Sunday flight, relaxing and sightseeing, exploring the cockpit;
Anchorage PANC to Cordova CKU
Going East over Turnagain Air and climbing above Chugach State Park; then followed Prince William Sound and a flyby over Hawkins Island.
Turning back to Eyak Lake for the approach to rwy 27.
I'm on my way to grab a nice cup of coffee at this wonderful place!



















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[JoaoPaz]

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[Bushpounder]

NICE pirep, Joao! You almost caught a ship collision in that one shot.

Don BP

[JoaoPaz]

NICE pirep, Joao! You almost caught a ship collision in that one shot.

Don BP

Hey Don!

Thank you!
Yes, when I saw that I said to myself "someone's going to have a lot of explaining to do..."

Best to you, my friend!

[PeteHam]

An amazing series of pics Joao 

I love your scenery.

Pete.

[JoaoPaz]

An amazing series of pics Joao 

I love your scenery.

Pete.

Thank you, Pete!

All freeware, aside the Global Forests pack (which wasn't that expensive anyway). Best thing is that you load the sim and it works

[Aharon Dayan]

Joao,

I think the software company that makes XP-12 should be paying you for all the wonderful and pure amazing advertising screenshots!!

Are the ground textures especially the screenshot showing a local road around bottom of the mountain XP-12 default ground textures or add on textures?

[JoaoPaz]

Joao,

I think the software company that makes XP-12 should be paying you for all the wonderful and pure amazing advertising screenshots!!

Are the ground textures especially the screenshot showing a local road around bottom of the mountain XP-12 default ground textures or add on textures?

Thanks, Aharon!

Those textures are satellite images from Google Maps, streamed to X-Plane 12 in real time (just like I believe it happens with MSFS2024) by a freeware app called X Map Enhancement - you can also use Bing Maps but I kinda like Google's colors best.

Then I have X-World America (freeware) and Global Forests v2 (payware).

This is what you're seeing there. 
A big plus is X-Plane lighting - amazing and super realistic.

(current install + textures in cache = 211 GB)

[Aharon Dayan]

Joao,

Thanks for very interesting answers and great tips on add-on softwares.

I am kind of surprised that XP-12 looks as good as MS2020 or MS2024!!!!