World Tour Of New Zealand, Nik, Jon and anyone else who comes along Options

[JonARNZ]

Its been awhile since we posted about our world tour of New Zealand. We have been tracking south and today headed to Ardmore first..

Heres Nik, enjoying the views of the Hauraki Gulf to his left..



Heres Nik, still enjoying the views to his left Nicholas, it may pay to enjoy the views in front of you as well...



Heres Nik, enjoying the views to his right, and me, well I'm just watchin him




After Ardmore we headed to Mercer..




And then on to Matamata. On the way we picked up DFC (Piper Warrior) and ZOL (Zoltuger) who joined us for the first time.

We arrived safely at Matamata for a group photo, say cheese everyone..




What do you think of our shiny new World Tour paintjobs, emblazoned with our own rego and our favourite FS forum, naturally




And heres Zoltuger just after we finished flying some circuits. Welcome to the tour!



We will update this thread as the tour continues south.

[Jimmy]

well good thing you have crash damage off!

four aircraft in a row looks prety neat, got any formation flying screenshots? now thatd be a chalenge trying to get four ppl in a flying row! lol

[Zöltuger]

yeah, great flight all!
(once i got the microphone issue sorted)

[JonARNZ]

That Cessna of yours would look good in green with ZOL on the side, don't ya think?

[scon]

Really cool that FSX multiplayer is.
Reminds me of the time I flew down to Thames with my Aero Club (in real life )

[JonARNZ]

We continued south last night, this time joined by Zoltuger once again and h290master.

Across Hamilton on the way to Raglan..



From Raglan, where h290master tried to land a 747-400, we continued to Tekuiti..





And then on to Taumaranui, flying into the sunset..




Then we decided to fly a final leg to New Plymouth..






Where Zoltuger got to show of his new paint job

[Zöltuger]

[JonARNZ]

From New Plymouth we flew VFR around the corner to Hawera, on the way enjoying some new scenery coming out for FSX that enhances the Taranaki region.

Mt Taranaki looking resplendent as always..



We flew into Hawera that isn't featured in FSX, but the good work of David means we can now enjoy it. This scenery is exciting because it is purpose built for FSX, uses default items and shows creating scenery can be a fairly straight forward process (Note Zoltuger lurking in the hangar)




Quite a line-up, the locals must have wondered what was going on..




Then off to Stratford..




Where we gathered for the group photo in the shadow of the mountain..

[G-HEVN]

[Naki]

Yes please!

Why does Microsoft forget about Hawera but Stratford is there?

Any chance of the Hawera scenery being available for FS9?

Paul

[Brennanx]

grr i wont to be able to run scenery on max i can only run it on low. And on low their are no airport buildings just flat ground.......

[JonARNZ]

Well a gentleman by the name of David Hall has been tinkering and put together some basic scenery for Taranaki. It adds Maui A and B rigs, the chimney and other items at New Plymouth harour, the refinery north of the airport, Hawera Airport as shown, and various other bits'n'pieces. He has also changed the land class for the region so it better represents the farmland as opposed to desert

He is still working to complete it, once its ready you will know as we will do an announcement. No, it wont work in FS9 as David is using all FSX scenery items.