NZFF

Ok, so Wellington is still happening, but I will need another couple of visits before I can go to the next level, and just can't afford that at the moment. Same with the Coromandel, really, kind of on hold. One possibility is to do a Real NZ final version of the Subscription Alps/Lakes, as that's just up the road from me, compared to the rest of the country.

If it was released as a Real NZ, complete with airports, I may update the photoscenery to use the most recent stuff, since some of it is very nice quality. Some is ok, and some is same-old. Still, if I can do a great Alps scenery, I will. Here's the new imagery:







If it does happen, it'll be free for Subscribers, as promised. Funnily enough, you can still buy a subscription, if you know where to look...

One thing I really want to look at is some sort of conversion for other sims -- X-plane? FSW? Aerofly FS2? Who knows, in a way FS2 would be my choice, as it uses a lot of photoscenery anyway, but wouldn't want to get in Orbx's territory. Speaking of Orbx, I don't plan to do a Real NZ Queenstown, as there's a nice Orbx one. So airports at the moment would be Tekapo, Wanaka, Mt Cook, Pukaki, undecided are Glentanner and Omarama, as I didn't get photos of these on my visit last month.

Is there a Rangiora or Ashburton anywhere? (no, I haven't actually looked)
IF I ever get to new my license, likely I'd fly from one of these tow places ... I think ... don't really know my way around ChCh yet (apart from the daily commute to/from CBD-Rolleston)
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Some nice lookin' eye candy there Rob,

Looking good Rob. I'm in.

Excellent. One of my favourite of your sceneries to fly in-sim as well as a favourite location in real life. Tekapo would be great for an update particularly.

Where is home at the moment Rob?

Currently staying with my son and his family in Geraldine. Tekapo's about an hour's drive, if I had a car. I had planned to spend 3 months here, but coming up for six, kinda stuck at the moment. Hoping for part-time work, but nothing so far. Geraldine is a nice place to retire, though, everybody's friendly, and my age or older:) Joined the photography club this week, so becoming a local...

jpreou wrote:Is there a Rangiora or Ashburton anywhere? (no, I haven't actually looked)
IF I ever get to new my license, likely I'd fly from one of these tow places ... I think ... don't really know my way around ChCh yet (apart from the daily commute to/from CBD-Rolleston)
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Cheers, Jeff. Maybe Doug has an Ashburton photoscenery in the works, I have done a little airport scenery a long time ago, and I think that there's a town photoscenery by Ian somewhere.
My airport is on the VLC site. Funnily enough, I was doing a P3D update on it this week, just adding some SODE windsocks and fixing the textures which don't work great in Prepar3d. Like most of what I work on these days, it may or may not see the light of day:)

If you ever get to explore South Canty, give me a yell, and we can have coffee in Geraldine.