by SeanTK » Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:21 am
This is from the standpoint of an American that has been flying in simulated New Zealand for a while now.
I spend most of my time on the North Island. There are numerous highly detailed free and payware airports available for this island, and it really makes flying fun. Examples:
Tauranga
Rotorua
Hamilton
Taupo
Napier/Hawkes
New Plymouth
Wellington
Paraparaumu
Opotiki
Whakatane
Great Barrier
...and the list goes on...
(links/download locations provided on request)
With the exception of Wellington and Paraparaumu which are pretty far south, you can end up with a very nice flying circuit of highly detailed airfields all within reasonable light-aircraft distances from each other.
My personal little circuit involves Hamilton, Tauranga, Whakatane, Opotiki, Rotorua, and Taupo, and that can be extended to the more outlying fields too.
I'm less familiar with the South Island, but there are still a number of freeware and payware fields there, including the new RealNZ Nelson, and some freeware locations available through the official VLC website. Also, Mike (Creator2003) has some beautifully detailed freeware renditions of Manapouri airport, Mt. Cook airport, and Milford Sound airport...all in mountainous regions which leads to some exciting flights!
I don't have the Orbx/FTX NZ package (I have VLC instead) so I'm not sure on addon compatibility with that.
For question 3, I'm sure many here would be excited to see a new, accurate New Zealand AI ships system, so if you want to, go for it. Can't imagine why anyone would say no to that!
Question 4...I don't know of anyone that uses that helitraffic program, so I'll wait until we get responses (if any) from users that may appreciate that work.
-Sean
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SeanTK on Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:22 am, edited 1 time in total.