Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:31 pmToo impatient to hang around for the ALPHASIM offering, I dug out that excellent C-17 standin from GMax Academy.
Finding a spare moment in the USAF itinerary I borrowed it for a quick tour to find blurries and problems in my reloaded NZ scenery.
The plan was to cover most of the airports available in NZ, in one flight.
Since this was to be a whistle-stop tour, there would be no landings.
When you set up a flightplan, you can introduce waypoints by clicking and dragging the flightpath.
The flightplan won't save by itself, but you can save the flight and preserve the waypoints.
Takeoff was from Invercargill, and the NAV was slaved to the GPS while I went off for a cuppa.
I looked in from time to time, and took a screenshot at each waypoint, and delivered blurry medicine.
I won't use up the bandwidth here, but you can see some of them in the slideshow here (don't forget to click on full-size)
The last bit was hand-flown after I forgot about the flight, and came back to find the Globemaster going round and round in ever-decreasing circles.
I estimate the flying time was all over in 3.5 hours.
The blurries were fixed too, although I missed out a number of airports on the way.
Great to fly end to end in one quick hit, NZ is well-catered in places to fly to!
Finding a spare moment in the USAF itinerary I borrowed it for a quick tour to find blurries and problems in my reloaded NZ scenery.
The plan was to cover most of the airports available in NZ, in one flight.
Since this was to be a whistle-stop tour, there would be no landings.
When you set up a flightplan, you can introduce waypoints by clicking and dragging the flightpath.
The flightplan won't save by itself, but you can save the flight and preserve the waypoints.
Takeoff was from Invercargill, and the NAV was slaved to the GPS while I went off for a cuppa.
I looked in from time to time, and took a screenshot at each waypoint, and delivered blurry medicine.
I won't use up the bandwidth here, but you can see some of them in the slideshow here (don't forget to click on full-size)
The last bit was hand-flown after I forgot about the flight, and came back to find the Globemaster going round and round in ever-decreasing circles.
I estimate the flying time was all over in 3.5 hours.
The blurries were fixed too, although I missed out a number of airports on the way.
Great to fly end to end in one quick hit, NZ is well-catered in places to fly to!
