Warbirds over Christchurch ... or not

[ZK-MAT]

I saw Alister (Albatross) on IVAO flying a Hurri out of Wigram this morning and thought I would join him in a Spitfire.

It was a very short fling but the attached shots show Alister's plane has cunningly disguised itself as a Cessna Caravan, which must be new stealth technology


1. A crisp CHCH morning, misty haze but still - perfect VFR conditions. After completing some rolls and getting used to the plane I am enjoying the serenity. Ahhhh the serenity.




2. Heading North passing over NZCH at around 6000', all's well. They seem to have fixed the oil leak at last.




3. Hmm, someone 4 o'clock low...




4. He's catching up... and lining up




5. A Cessna Caravan ??!!!




6. Safely down at Wigram after a steep descent and scissors manouvere to lose the bogey.




7. Who was that cowboy??




Thanks for the company Alister

[AlisterC]

haha cool shots Matt
It was fun chasing you around. I started out in a new Hurricane that was new for download at avsim, but it needs some airfile attention. Ended up in the Hawker Sea Fury instead (or Cessna in disguise) I look forward to doing it sometime with guns 'hot' on IL2

Here are some shots from me before you joined. Sorry I didn't get any shots with you, but it looked strange chasing down an A320 (beside the fact I was on the phone as well)

Parked outside NZWG (thanks to Ian Warren)


Turning on to the runway


There should be a little more snow down there at the moment


An excellent model of the Hurricane, but I'll be keeping an eye out for an airfile fix for it. Not pleasant to fly.


Alister
(yes shots have some colour edit)

[ZK-MAT]

Nice pics mate, the plane looks a beauty, even if it flies like a dog

[Ian Warren]

nice screenies ... think theres a airfile fix or edit at http://www.cbfsim.org/

think want to try the dog 1st

[AlisterC]

Thanks very much Ian! I've done the modification and will test fly later.
Alister

[ardypilot]

Nice pictures fellas-

I also saw the Hurricane on AVSIM but have not downloaded it yet.

I notice neither of you are using the old Godzone photoreal scenery for Chirstchurch and Banks Peninsular- is there any particular reason for this?

[ZK-MAT]

After a recent reinstall I haven't installed the old Godzone stuff (have it on the 4 cd's) as I have the 20 mesh and topo and thought it wasn't compatible, oh and I am lazy too

The topo makes NZ look more like NZ and I like the higher fps that non-addon scenery gives. If I am hooning about as above, or flying online I prefer not to have stutters so, yeah.

[Alex]

Looking good guys.

Alex

[AlisterC]

I too bought the 4 cds some time back, but being mostly an IFR pilot I didn't like the patchyness of the sceneries. They are fine flying around down low and inside the area, but up above at speed, the just show as blurry textures as you fly over that particular area. I'd rather fly over all photo real textures for the whole country, or all more mundane textures for the whole country.. not a patchwork quilt of textures (not to say they are not fabulous low and slow) I even tried the huge Canterbury VFR scenery someone released, but that was even worse. Arriving into Christchurch in a jet was just a blurry mess until I got to about 1000ft and slow on final. I'm sure it's just the fault of my computer though!