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PostPosted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:30 am
by Jimmy
There I was descending in my 733 for nzch from the north, and out my left window I noticed a light (it was dusk) I zoomed the view and my to my surprise it was an oild rig!

Its located around the airways H159 and V306. I went for a flight to go and see it up close. heres some screenshots of me landing on the heli pad.

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Approaching, I set sunset time so I could spot the oil rigs light, otherwise itd be very hard to find.

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Landed sucsefuly on the second attempt! I was rather pleased :D :lol:

The only scenery I have installed is the RBE 75m mesh and landclass and heaths canturbury.

Just woundering why its there, I certainly don't want it removed thow, its great fun to land on! :plane:

PostPosted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:08 pm
by brownbox
wow, thats pretty cool. I also wonder where it came from :blink:

PostPosted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:20 pm
by G-HEVN
Any chance of posting the lat/lon coordinates?

PostPosted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:17 pm
by Jimmy
oh yes forgot the coordinates!

S43 10.41 E173 37.11

btw is that the corect way to wright coordinates? Do you have to include all the little * and ' what are they there for?

James

PostPosted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:29 pm
by G-HEVN
° = degrees, ' = minutes, " = seconds

They probably use * because they can't figure how to type °! <_<

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:30 pm
by Dreamweaver
G-HEVN wrote: ° = degrees, ' = minutes, " = seconds

They probably use * because they can't figure how to type °! <_<

Probably because on the American Style Keyboards those options to type correctly are not available :P

The English Keyboard layout includes a "pound" symbol which the American style we have in NZ do not.

Jimmy what version FS you using? Getting confusing now with people assuming we all have the same Version.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:02 pm
by Jimmy
FS9 of course :P

Thanks for clearing that up GHEVN, I am now a little less confused about coordinates :)









btw how do you type that symbol?

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:31 pm
by Alex
Jimmy wrote: ... btw how do you type that symbol?...

Just bookmark this thread and come back and copy it when you need to use it. :P
Hmm, it might be in the special character library of MS Word or something though...

Alex

PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:07 pm
by G-HEVN
You can always use Character Map - under Accessories/System Tools...