148th X-Plane.org fly-in (Death Valley)

This week's fly-in in Furnace Creek, Death Valley was one of my first opportunities to run the sim on my new 24-inch iMac. Due to a limitation in X-Plane's screenshot function, I couldn't run the sim at the screen's native resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels, so while the shots are in widescreen format, the quality isn't quite as high as it should be.

In a macabre coincidence, Steve Fossett went missing on a flight in nearby Nevada the very week of this fly-in. Our resident survival expert, Ranger, posted the coordinates of the airfield Fossett took off from. You can see the area around Flying M Ranch towards the end of the screenshot gallery, though it may not be very recognizable as there's no custom scenery for that area.

Click here to view the fly-in screenshots

**Aircraft**
Ryan Navion L-17C by Michael Wilson, Gerhard Strack, Richard Carper and Jon Peats
Hughes H500D by Brett Sumpter, Alex Gifford (Propsman) and Ben Russell (Indi)
X-Plane Freeware Project's Boeing 727-200 in X-Plane.org livery by Geoffrey Legg (xpglegg)
A. Schleicher ASG-29 by Laurent_B and Manu "Beewana"
Evenblade X-Plane.org Edition by Sean Tebor

**Scenery packages**
Furnace Creek Airport scenery by Snow and chasethepilot
Las Vegas scenery by Ted Davis

Fly-in banner (featuring NoJoe's Cessna Caravan):