Leg 162, Baise, Guangxi to Xingyi, Guizhou Province, China
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One day this will be one of the best places to fly through. Amazing scenery potential with so many beautiful places to visit and deep narrow canyons to fly through. However as it is now, over 90% of the terrain looks terrible. The aerial data either isn’t there (with very course sat imagery) or is messed up with clouds, plus constant seams between the two. Not recommended to fly here in its current state.
01-30 Baise Youjiang ZTII 5:28 PM
01-30 Liuzhou Bailia ZGZH 6:17 PM Sunrise 6:15 PM
01-30 Liangjiang ZGKL 7:19 PM
01-30 Guilin ZGUL 7:28 PM
01-30 Lingling ZGLG 8:04 PM
01-30 Leiyang Air Base ZLEE 8:29 PM
01-30 Huanghua ZGHA 9:06 PM
01-30 Changsha Dutuopu ZDAT 9:17 PM
01-30 Zhijiang ZGCJ 10:24 PM Phoenix Acient city 27°57’07.7"N 109°36’01.5"E
01-30 Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon 29°23’52.2"N 110°41’51.8"E Skipped, No Bing data
01-30 Qianjiang Wulingshan JIQ 11:18 PM
01-31 Jiangbei ZUCK 12:06 AM
01-31 Chongqing Air Base ZBAI 12:16 AM
01-31 Luzhou ZULZ 12:41 AM Great cycling along the river
01-31 Yibin Caiba ZUYB 1:00 AM
01-31 Zhaotong ZPZT 1:43 AM
01-31 Anshun Huangguoshu ZUAS 2:31 AM
01-31 Xingyi ZUYI 3:12 AM
Flight time 9:44 16 stops
Liuzhou in north-central Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on the Liu River
Big city, beautiful region, Longtan Park on the right
Sun rise was a bit later than listed online, at Shangren the sun appeared
Further up near Yulei
Passing by Liyu
I went to visit Basha Miao Village. A primitive Miao village hidden away in a forest and filled with stilted wooden houses by the river. The Basha are famed for being China 's last tribe of gunmen.
Sadly no Bing coverage here, nothing in the sim
Chengyangqiao Scenic area on the Linxi river
This is about as good as it gets in this area
Another beautiful place to visit
Liangjiang Airport
Guilin in southern China, known for its dramatic landscape of limestone karst hills
Guilin Liangjiang International Airport
Guilin and surroundings
Reed Flute Cave in Guilin
The lighting reminds me of the cave in Dear Esther
Flying by the Bailian Reservoir
Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan province, dating back to the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC)
Situated along the Xiangjiang river
Mawangdui Museum build on the archeological site of Western Han Dynasty Tombs
The site contained the tombs of three people from the Changsha Kingdom during the western Han dynasty (206 BC to 9 AD): the Chancellor Li Cang, his wife and a male believed to have been their son.
Near Jiangjialing
A little piece of decent valley at Hat Shitan
Near Huaihua
Near Shuangjiankou, river not listed
Which is close to Phoenix Ancient City. Unfortunately that area has no coverage on Bing
Aka Fenghuang Ancient Town. It was the center of the unsuccessful Miao Rebellion (1854–1873), which created a Miao diaspora in Southeast Asia during the last two centuries. The city is revered in Miao traditions and funeral rites and is the location of the Southern China Great Wall. Nowadays it looks like a tourist trap.
Beautiful buildings and views, should be on the top of the list for PG data
I wanted to visit Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon as well. Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon is home to the longest and highest glass bridge in the world. It was a bit further out of my direction of travel so I checked on Bing maps first, and passed. There’s nothing there on Bing.
People having fun with the bridge
And of course a great place for bungee jumping
It would have been great to fly through the canyon, but no data (yet)
Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport, huge X shaped terminal
Yibin, located at the junction of the Min and Yangtze Rivers
High terrain near Dachongzi
Great for wind farms, these windmills are huge! At Ma’an Mountain
This area has amazing potential, so many narrow canyons to fly through. Also home to China’s highest waterfall, Huangguoshu waterfall, 243ft high main fall with another 17 falls along the way.
Anyway, nothing there in the sim, landscape looks like FS 2004
Approaching Xingyi, final stop for the day
Safely down, the engine shut off by itself. High altitude sickness
Stunning area, this should be part of a world update
From left to right, Xingyi Malinghe Canyon Scenic Area, Jilong Castle and Wanfenglin Scenic Area
As it is now, only the immediate surroundings of big airports have decent detail. Most of the landscape simply has no coverage, very coarse sat images and height data. On to Myanmar (Burma) tomorrow. China is amazing, high on the list to explore further when map data has improved.
Some more fun with glass bridges