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Southern Lakes transit

PostPosted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 4:20 pm
by Splitpin
Not a poser group, but a real flight... from Makarora to Wanaka.
Slightly over dressed pilot sorry.... but here we go....

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Wanaka airport ahead

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And landed roughly where I aimed for :lol:

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I moved the pilot position a bit to the right...made it a bit easier to fly.

Re: Southern Lakes transit

PostPosted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 7:45 pm
by emfrat
Nice set, Marty - I was up that way looking for the road that Doug built...must check the pics.

Re: Southern Lakes transit

PostPosted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 8:35 pm
by Charl
Bravo Marty, that is my toy of choice in the sim, lovely series.
So popular in NZ, there are dozens of the things, and the owners are totally besotted by the experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3fub-7yeGI

Re: Southern Lakes transit

PostPosted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 8:46 pm
by deeknow
Nice Marty !!! amazing machines, we should see how big a group 500 flight we could organise online, be hard pressed to beat that IRL meetup tho >nzflag<

Re: Southern Lakes transit

PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 4:41 am
by Fozzer
That's the way to explore the scenery!

I could never get on with Helicopters in any of my flight sims....
...gravity always won in my cases, with disastrous results!
"Autogyro" Whirly-birds was more my cup of Tea..."Bensen", etc...!

Explains it all!...>>>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8IB-5PbL9U

Bensen Days...>>>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfEfQRLF8t8

Nice countryside shorts, Marty!
Sort of stuff I like!.... :D ...!

Paul... :UK: ...England... :cheers: ...!

Re: Southern Lakes transit

PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 10:15 am
by Splitpin
Thanks very much gents .... to be honest, it was a scary little flight :ph43r:
The thing was pitching up all the time and trying to roll...the "landing" was a controlled crash , but I didn't do any visible damage.
I really love this model (Cowan) and there are nice NZ repaints it ....thanks again :cheers:

Re: Southern Lakes transit

PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 2:45 pm
by Charl
Marty: plenty on Youtube:
MSFS 500E "trim" and "Force Trim"

Re: Southern Lakes transit

PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 4:47 pm
by Splitpin
Charl wrote:Marty: plenty on Youtube:
MSFS 500E "trim" and "Force Trim"


Thanks Charl , will check it out.

Re: Southern Lakes transit

PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2025 6:07 pm
by jankees
I'm with Fozzer, never really managed to control these things.

But nice shots! Tempts me to try again

Re: Southern Lakes transit

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 5:33 pm
by Splitpin
jankees wrote:I'm with Fozzer, never really managed to control these things.

But nice shots! Tempts me to try again

Thank you JK :thumbup:

Re: Southern Lakes transit

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 6:29 pm
by toprob
These are lovely shots, I'm having so much trouble with 2024, it's good to remember that 2020 is still a great choice.

Re: Southern Lakes transit

PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 9:18 am
by Splitpin
Thanks very much Rob....how goes the battle mate ?