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Actually quite amazing how far scenery design in New Zealand has come, Phillip Middlemiss of Christchurch started a base, this is now dated back to July 1996, he had created a mesh that made New Zealand look the part.

Back then Laptops were huge and still with a silly little 14" screen .. we all had those back then, his scenery Mesh was able to fit onto two floppy's .. a whooping Great 1.44MB off information , funny thing even twenty years ago it was a required luggage piece .. so I guess a Wife had to start getting use to this.

I phoned Phil in 1997, plan was to build scenery .. Funny internet was there but only for the rich and famous or one with dads credit card , Heard that fracow on a phone with a lost and gone NZFF member .. , the 1998 Wanaka Airshow , my oldest Bro Allan popped in from Australia, grabbed me by the ear .. YOUR GOING TO ... I did not complain , what the hell .. it was a regular ... that show Microsoft had a FS display going FS-98 .. had the fun parts were I helped setup the ... The setup .. No one seemed to know how set it up.

You did get a few dufess's .. One in particular show-boater, jumped in yelling you can get every thing off the Internet , CRIPES ! this guy either had the golden spoon ... or simply a Spoon head ... I still remember when Al looked at me and said "What a FU'N DORK" when airshow top brass walked pass .. that was so funny , also this guy had no NO to setting FS98 up ... .... wonder If he is on these forums ... love to go

So we have Phillip Middlemiss , next person late 1998 , when I started my first Wigram build mid/late or around that time I was restricted to 25 hr a month for the internet on the plan back then saw Clive Ryan's Palmerston North Scenery , It was finally released in 2000 but again at a whooping Great Size: 1,992,222KB .. again I got it on floopy's .. crikey ... almost the Two Can and Piece off String Telephone System (TCPSTS) system to the un-educated .... A little History

Do you keep in touch with Savern Reweti at all?
I did some work with him a while ago in developing approaches to be used with the Mindstar GPS which the Westpac heli crews were using in their simulator. He helped with the sim design.
I made up the RNAV approaches for Mechanics Bay.

I still have a connection to Savern, I was to head up to Massey for a auditorium chat and forum meet, I deemed it a little tricky dangerous for me to travel , but fact is is another who has added to scenery design regard to the tech side, NDB/VOR/ILS and all the navaids .

Ahhh... reminiscing aye .. seriously tho, you guys in the know should carry this thread on and flesh it all out, Im sure you know every product that has existed between yas

It is sorta funny the people in the background or others that went other directions, many stuck to the combat sims some reason I had it in the back off my mind after Amiga/Atari's F-18 Interceptor in the late 1980's , you would fly around hoping something would appear .. IRRRRR WRONG ! but the seed was sown .