Where is it? Icon A5 flying

There is an officially released picture of an Icon A5 flying over some dryed out orange ground somewhere in the wilderness. I dont have the rights of the image obviously, so i don’t will upload it here but most of you know what i mean i hope.

Can somebody enlighten me where to find this place, pls?

The Tundra in Greenland?

Well, not really a chance for that.

I just try it with a link, hoping not to violate anything. Mea culpa :smirk:

https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/30/20885197/microsoft-flight-simulator-bing-maps-hands-on-demo

Just a heads up that the area in question may not actually exist in the game how it is in that picture. I remember someone posted a comparison of some water somewhere in the Caribbean and it looked much better in the pre-release photo than it did in the exact same place in the game. A lot of the pre-release photos and videos were misleading and not how the game was actually released.

Anyway, an interesting topic to find out where it is. Just to quench my thirst for knowledge. If it looks good in the sim, nice bonus.

Pretty sure it is the salt marsh in SF Bay Area, between KSFO and KSJC.

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Looks like this place but can’t be sure

Edit: Sorry forgot to post the actual location

Purple bacteriorhodopsin in Halobacteria at Cargill’s salt evaporation ponds in San Francisco Bay, located at Newark, California

Yes, it looks exactly like that. Will take a flight there when i can. Lake Hillier in Australia looks pretty much the same, google says. Thank you, pilot colleagues. :small_airplane:

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I had only thought of Laguna Colorada, Bolivia. But Salt Ponds of San Francisco looks more likely. :+1:t2:

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I knew, i had some place in South america in my mind :wink:

Yes, it is the Salt Ponds of San Francisco.
Coordinates: 37,508614, -122,087786


For comparison (Source: polygon.com):
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/65353629/Icon_A5_a_cropped.0.jpg

Only it does not look so beautifully colorful with me. Either re-colored or my PC system is too old. :pensive: What does it look like there with you?

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Ok, it looks like this there because it looks like this in bing too. Btw, I want the Google map. :wink:
Who at Microsoft is always fumbled with the maps? :laughing:

It looks to me like this. Nice textures, britlle, dry ground, nice and interesting for the eye. Everything on Ultra.

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Thanks for the picture, my computer is a potato. :pensive: