So I won't be racing Le Mans this weekend in the 6 hour event because I adore this race so much I'll be watching it all... live!

So instead I downloaded the Pays de Loire add-on for FSX and took a helicopter out for a short flight with my sim-camera LOL. The scenery add-on was much lower resolution than I had hoped and particularly at low altitudes this showed up. However, you get a good feel for the topography and layout of the area around the circuit and at higher altitudes it does tidy up a bit. Anyway, thought I'd upload the snaps and share.

I use the REX weather add-on for FSX which features a live weather engine, so the weather you see in the pictures was accurate as of about 1500 BST. Patchy clouds at about 5,500ft. I took off from Arnage airport and climbed to around 500ft before doing a slow lap of the circuit at about 40-60 knots. Then I headed NE towards centré ville and turned 180 to track back over the circuit. Then headed a few Kms in that direction to La Fleche, a small market town near where my folks used to own a house. Unfortunately the Pays de Loire scenery add-on didn't cover far enough South west to go visit Savigny sur le Lude so instead I doubled back to land again at Arnage. Might make a little bit of a theme for this if I can find enough scenery containing the circuits of the world. I definitely have Indy and Monaco...

So here's a different view of our beloved Le Mans in simulation!

EDIT: Bummer, R2P doesn't support iframe code yet. Here's the link to my gallery

Le Mans from a different POV