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Kashmir

What the map covers, how big it is, and what you will see from the air.

On this page
Shaded relief chart of the FlightOut map of Kashmir, from the plains of the Punjab to the Karakoram
The game's own chart of the map, as the map screen shows it.

At a glance

SizeAbout 803 by 688 km
Centre34.55° N, 76.4° E
CoversThe Kashmir valley, Jammu, Ladakh, Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Aksai Chin and the land around them
Airfields25, with 28 runways. See Airfields
Highest groundK2, 8,611 m (28,251 ft)

What you fly over

  • Real terrain with a height every 30 metres, from satellite data. Valleys, ridges and peaks are where they are in reality.
  • Real land cover: forests, grass, fields, towns, rivers and lakes, snow and bare rock, from a 10-metre satellite map. Forests grow up the lower slopes, and the high country is rock and snow.
  • The curve of the Earth to the horizon. From high up you see it fall away.
  • Lakes, among them Wular, Dal, Pangong Tso, Tso Moriri and Mangla. There is no sea on this map.

Some landmarks worth finding: K2 (8,611 m), Nanga Parbat (8,126 m), Rakaposhi (7,788 m) and Nun (7,135 m). They are all marked on the map screen.

A Su-27 Flanker above a layer of cumulus clouds flying towards Nanga Parbat, the snow-capped 8,126 m peak on the horizon, in FlightOut
Above the clouds, heading for Nanga Parbat on the horizon.
A Su-27 Flanker flying among the snow and rock of the Karakoram near K2 in FlightOut
The Karakoram near K2: rock and snow above the treeline.

The border

The map screen draws one red outline round the whole of Kashmir. FlightOut draws no borders inside the region: the whole map is open to fly, and the outline only marks the region the game is about. More about the map and its data on the map page.

Flying in the mountains

  • Many airfields are high: Srinagar is at 1,660 m, Leh at 3,265 m. Thin air means longer take-off runs and higher landing speeds over the ground.
  • The ground rises fast. Watch your radar altitude in valleys and keep clear of ridges in cloud.
  • Hills block radar. A hill between you and another jet hides you from its radar, and from missiles.

Checked against FlightOut 0.5.1.