jpreou Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Ok, so I know nothing about US geography. But the wife keeps banging on about redwoods. Those huge trees, ya know? Are there any modelled in ORBX norcal? If so, where and how do I get there? (simple instructions please; I don't know the US at all) [ooh, how I'm going to be lambasted for that statement, I'm sure!] Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racartron Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 The very same thing occurred to me as I was flying over NoCal. But my system crashed before I located the Redwood National Forest om NW California. Then I forgot to resume the search -- Getting old does that to you -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusterman Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 There are two kinds of Redwood trees. The coastal Redwood grows along the coastal range from the Big Sur area (south of NCA Monterey) to southern Oregon. In the southern part of their range they grow up to the top of the first coastal mountains, in the northern part further inland, where the summer coastal fog can provide them the moisture they need. I just flew over Watsonville and Santa Cruz, didn't see anything that looks like big Redwoods. Fly from Willits along the Eel River towards the coast, lots of big Redwoods there, if they are modeled. The other variety of Redwoods is the Sierra, found on the west side of the Sierras from about Fresno to south of Lake Tahoe, mostly in Sequoia National Park. They survive the drier summers and colder winters in the Sierras. The coastal trees form big forests, the Sierra trees are in groves and should be easier to spot. I haven't flown very far from Hollister (my home base) yet, too busy looking at all the local sites. If I find any Redwoods I will report back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breeze Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I was wondering about this myself. Fly out of Watsonville and still looking for the Redwoods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 I think you are expecting a bit too much. There are literally hundreds of prominent species of trees and other plants, not only redwoods. How should they all be modelled? But I think Holger is the right man for this topic, because he used to be a kind of plant researcher in a former life AFAIK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeBird Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 When flying I have found groves of tall trees that I think are the redwoods. This is up in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I also saw similar groves up in the Eureka area. Josh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malibu43 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 In real life, from the air, I don't think Redwoods stand out prominently from the other dozens or hundreds of types of trees that you're flying over. I few over the Santa Cruz mountains a few times on some short XC flights at about 5500' MSL, and, from a pilots perspective, it all just looks like trees. You definitely notice the trees because they mean serious trouble in an engine out. But you can't really tell what type of trees they are. I suppose if you were a passenger and not paying attention to flying a plane, you might be able to identify some here and there. But, as far a tree rendering goes in FSX, the difference would not be noticeable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpreou Posted February 20, 2014 Author Share Posted February 20, 2014 I think you are expecting a bit too much. There are literally hundreds of prominent species of trees and other plants, not only redwoods. How should they all be modelled? But I think Holger is the right man for this topic, because he used to be a kind of plant researcher in a former life AFAIK. Nah, not expecting ... wondering. Would have been nice to say "see honey, redwoods; that is the kind of detail I get by spending all this money"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Hill Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Hi All, As I was doing the NCA LC placement I placed a LC called "redwoods, large dense conifers" but I'm not sure you can spot them easily among the rest of the forest LC tiles. I placed them in 3 areas along the coast corresponding to slightly darker areas of GE that included State Parks. Ken Hall did the sierras redwood area so I'm not sure where he placed them. Cheers, Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpreou Posted February 21, 2014 Author Share Posted February 21, 2014 Aha. There's a challenge then: we can go look for them Cheers Neil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 There is no such thing Speaking of N California: Some nice souvenir or 2000 Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shipdriver Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 My video of the Crescent City area in the Community Videos should have Redwoods as I flew right by Del Norte Coast Redwood State Park located between Crescent City and Klamath. I'm not a conifer autogen expert but there were a lot of big conifers along the coast where Redwoods are in real life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ba43 Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Hello, I know that I have seen tree Tree objects in default FSX and FSX with acceleration that can be scaled up in the sim. Sounds like a future project. Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrdkar Posted February 21, 2014 Share Posted February 21, 2014 Being a California native, the large Redwoods, as mentioned towards the east central part of the state, and even I have not tried the N California land class yet, I am not sure if its there. I hope at some point in time they can get the whole state done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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