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A few kilometres out of town, there are more impressive landscapes, from sandy beaches to grottos to tall granite cliffs. Sunbathing, windsurfing, yachting and fishing are practiced in the area. Brest was an important warship producing port in the Napoleonic wars. The naval port, which is in great part excavated in the rock, extends along both banks of the Penfeld; | A few kilometres out of town, there are more impressive landscapes, from sandy beaches to grottos to tall granite cliffs. Sunbathing, windsurfing, yachting and fishing are practiced in the area. Brest was an important warship producing port in the Napoleonic wars. The naval port, which is in great part excavated in the rock, extends along both banks of the Penfeld; | ||
Currently it's one of the only two places in FlightGear with photorealistic [[scenery]]. | Currently it's one of the only two places in FlightGear with photorealistic [[scenery]] under CC-BY-SA licence, thanks to the Brest Metropole Oceane aerial pictures. | ||
There is also a big work being done on the countryside around Brest to include all important VFR interesting points (such as windturbines, lighthouses, etc...), and also on airports layout and content like [[LFRJ]], [[LFRB]], [[LFRL]]. This work is available under Terrasync. | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
* [http://olivier.jacq.free.fr/071201_Finistere_Scene_Meeting_v3.tar.gz Download Brest scenery for FlightGear] | * [http://olivier.jacq.free.fr/071201_Finistere_Scene_Meeting_v3.tar.gz Download Brest scenery for FlightGear] (not photorealistic). | ||
* [http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1378 Read this topic for more on the photorealistic work] | |||
[[Category:Places]] | [[Category:Places]] | ||