Postcards From New Zealand

[AlisterC]

haha well done. Almost like a Top Gear challenge!

[Ian Warren]

Now , if you pull a camping table and maybe a few those burnt crumpets as wheel chocks , you would have been fine , well off and away , we don,t want to be caught up in another September 2007 eruption , where off too next

[Charl]

OK off to the War Games



"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

[Ian Warren]

Sorry Charl , not this week or maybe this month , they are all here helping out in Christchurch

[connor]

We may not have any strike jets or fighter (or anything that can shoot!) but we'll smother the enemy with UH-1's . Very Nice Charl!

[Charl]

Well...good job they spent all that time practising - in 2006!

Now, a little trip out East, and a little time travel too, all the flavours of NZ Aerial Mapping



and then off to Napier, barely have time to pack away the wheels and you're there



Just time for a little Syrah on the Art Deco Waterfront, entirely rebuilt you will remember, after their Big Shake in '31

[Ian Warren]

Its so damn sweet to see another,s work from the other side off the World , covering nearly every era in in NZ aviation photography except the very start , but i,m sure we have to give Markus a break , Charl .. superb

[Naki]

Really like that Kansen shot.........but what happened to the Aerial Mapping repaint of the Kansen?

[connor]

I know what you mean about only just getting the wheels up before getting to Napier. I used to fly that one in FS9 when I was still learning how to sim-fly.

[Charl]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Mar 7 2011,10:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Its so damn sweet to see another,s work from the other side off the World , covering nearly every era in in NZ aviation photography except the very start , but i,m sure we have to give Markus a break , Charl .. superb

Well I haven't come across a 1936 Monospar ST25 in FS yet! Totally agree, Markus and others have done us proud with their NZ aviation repaints, thanks to our connected world.

QUOTE (Naki @ Mar 7 2011,11:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

...but what happened to the Aerial Mapping repaint of the Kansen?

What happened was a small operator I/O error...I was playing with one of Vladimir Gonchar's AT-11 mods at the time and used the wrong red aeroplane shot! Now amended, thanks Paul.

[ardypilot]

Saw one of those NZ aerial mapping Commander's down at Ardmore today. Looked very sleek coming into land!

Love the whole war games scenario- that must have taken ages to set up! Did you place the scenery objects yourself?

[Charl]

QUOTE (Trolly @ Mar 8 2011,9:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Saw one of those NZ aerial mapping Commander's down at Ardmore today. Looked very sleek coming into land!

Tres cool - and the Veneaviones Turbo Commander is one of those amazing (and underrated) FS models.

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...Did you place the scenery objects yourself?[/quote]To answer you and Connor: Snowman's scenery at flightsim.com: waiouru_military_nzru.zip
The "Postcards" series is just a way of populating the Google Earth GUI, all the scenery and other info is on there.

Now a little more wine and agriculture as we head north, all the way up to where the sun, you know, rises before anywhere else...in the world.

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[connor]

Is that a Mitsubishi Mu-2? They are a nice looking aircraft.

[Charl]

Yes. A real pocket rocket, and a little tricky to handle.
My entry to the Big Time...PAD released this as an original paint scheme, and modified the original model to suit the NZ 3-blade/long body!

Now around the bulge so to speak, and a pair of sightseers out of Tauranga

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (connor @ Mar 9 2011,5:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Is that a Mitsubishi Mu-2? They are a nice looking aircraft.

Connor , If a payware comes out for FSX i,m in , as Charl said a 'Pocket Rocket ' one GA aircraft type you can put ZK-IAN onto

[Charl]

But a short drive along the coast, you will come across this astonishing creation, product of one Mr. Roger Walker's fertile architectural imagination.
Just the place to, erm, flex your Yak.
Fully aerobatic, too.

[Ian Warren]

Charl , I do hope your returning from the top end in FSX to return to South , no Yak on this one .

[Charl]

Haha well it is an amazing model as far as the operation goes, I think the author was tilting at Accusim in FS9.
SO realistic that I haven't failed to blow it up after a few minutes flight - may be the shutters setting I am getting wrong.

But you know, there's more than one way to get around the flightsim world:

[Naki]

Nice yacht...what model is it? Anyway welcome to Tauranga ..any chance you will open the bar for me?

[Charl]

It's one of Hamaguchi's masterpieces, with a little Kiwi flavour!
Now I was going to say the bar is always open and welcome, but the "Postcards" folder sank without trace and so too the Tauranga bits!

No matter, while the troops scramble to get that sorted, we'll nip down to Rotovegas