NZFF

Posted: **Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:30 pm**

This is awesome!
Now I am by no means knowledgeable when it comes to tweaking my FSX to look nice for NZ. Frankly I suck and did not have any addon mesh or anything.
Having installed VLC I am truly amazed at the difference and accuracy! Not only is Whangarei not surrounded by desert but I could head off for a couple of minutes cross country in a 172 and recognize the hills and fly to where I know my house must be.
Simply amazing, and is going to take my flight simming to a whole new enjoyment level.

Posted: **Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:55 pm**

Chris . yeah ! thing i noticed were forest and tree plantation,s , the area s that stick out in your mind looking up a crest or a hill , something you see every day .

Posted: **Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:43 am**

I flew around Auckland with night settings and all lights on. What a magical experience. Even looking south from the CBD I could see the motorway lights over the Manukau Harbour and they were twinkling just like in real life. The combination of RealNZ Auckland and VLC is simply superb. On my first look I believe that this is far superior than the Orbx product (based on my flying experience around Australia) and I can't wait to fly all around NZ.

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:30 pm**

Very very cool. Done a fresh install of FSX and VLC and absolutly stunning. Milford Sound sits perfectly and just flew over Christchurch at dusk and simply amazing. Now to reload all my photoreal. Thanks Timmo and Robin. Would suggest those that are having problems with old files affecting elevations etc to bite the bullet and do a fresh install of everything, will be worth it in the long run.

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:44 pm**

Still blowing me away.
Tonight I took off from Whangarei followed the roads south to the hills and then headed off west to Kiapara Harbour. Followed the harbour up to Ruawai and found the tiny little airstrip where I did my first solo flight.
Never realized just how accurate things were going to be. People going for their PPLs in NZ would be well off getting VLC and flying their cross country trips in the digital world before doing the real thing.

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:38 pm**

Venge wrote:
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Never realized just how accurate things were going to be. People going for their PPLs in NZ would be well off getting VLC and flying their cross country trips in the digital world before doing the real thing.

This is one feature which is difficult to get across before people actually get their hands on the scenery and fly it, but to me this is one of the main strengths of VLC. It is all very well making something pretty to look at, even beautiful, but what people want to see flying their own country is realism. The single-minded way in which Tim has put realism above all else has given real-world pilots a brilliant tool which has uses which are yet to be discovered, but I'm amazed that the final scenery turned out to be so beautiful as well.

Posted: **Thu Sep 02, 2010 10:40 pm**

Yeah. It's fantastic.

Just flew from Auckland to Wellington (with all the RealNZ scenery packs) and Wellington looks awsome, - more so than before for some reason even though (if I understand right) it sits on top of VLC. Might be because I tweaked some settings.

Generally though, everything just looks right, and flying without that feeling of disappointment is so great. The mountains are beautiful.

Well done, guys!!!

Posted: **Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:22 pm**

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Just flew from Auckland to Wellington (with all the RealNZ scenery packs) and Wellington looks awsome, - more so than before for some reason even though (if I understand right) it sits on top of VLC.[/quote]

Just to clarify here please, do you put the RealNZ sceneries above the VLC programme within the FSX scenery library?

Thanks Dave

NZFF

Very first impressions