… bought the ORBX mesh early and found (as others), that Lukla was in a “trench” :
ORBX Himalaya and Central Asia Mesh Broken - General Discussion & Interests / Scenery & Airports - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums
Guess they did an upgrade, but I deleted it as the improvement was marginal:
Talking about Bing-imagery:
large parts of the extreme eastern (India, China) and western (Pakistan, Afghanistan) Himalayas look like 2006-FSX in the sim - despite Bing-maps being quite adequate. So it can’t be cloud-cover - and the tile distribution seems random.
A mystery.
Interesting: DEM can be obtained by other means than LIDAR/SRTM/ASTER-scans:
Cold War Spy Photos Show How Fast Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting | WIRED
Would be a great sim mission to catch those orbital canisters!
