South Island Flight

[Alex]

Hi guys,

On Saturday James and I went for a little flight from Timaru to Christchurch on IVAO. He was on a laptop that he doesn't usually use for simming. We tried to bypass installing the MTL but something went a little wrong, and instead of looking like a Piper Tomahawk, he looked almost exactly the opposite - an Antonov 124. Anyway, here are the pics.
NB: They have been very basically tampered with a little on Photoshop . Have tried to keep most of the shots roughly 800x600.


James out of the corner of my eye, and lining up runway 02 at NZTU.


Rolling down runway 02


Climbing out from Timaru


Looking across to the Southern Alps


James turning northwards


One last look at Timaru


James and I in formation


Looking over at the snowy mountains, a.k.a. the Southern Alps


Overflying a river, with nice reflection


All of a sudden I lost James, and opened up FSNav. He was back in Timaru, he decided not to try and start again, so I continued on to Christchurch


Looking back into the comfy cabin, I wouldn't mind sitting in one of those seats


Turning slightly eastward to follow the southern side of Banks Peninsula


Is that me? Man I look old


Looking over towards the base of Banks Peninsula


Southern Sunset


Looking over into Lyttelton Harbour


A boat B) , don't see them very often


"The Land of Cloud and Mist"


Last rays on the ridge


Road into another bay...


A different perspective


Radio/TV transmitter and Christchurch City in the background


Coming out of Banks Peninsula


Fog rolling into Christchurch - lets get down fast


Turning onto final for 02L


A little high on the long final


Nearly dark - look at the long shadows


Short final on 02L


Just about stopped on the grass runway


Taxiing to the Canterbury Aero Club hangar, someone was nice enough to want to pick me up from there


Hmm fuel... Might need some of that on the way out...


Parked in the hangar and my friend in that car as well, good timing



Thanks for watching .

Alex

[Zöltuger]

love the river in #9

[Alex]

Thanks, yea it does look nice (if I do say so myself ), although my personal favourite is number 3 .

Alex

[ardypilot]

Very nice indeed Alex! Nice to see you out the tower for once

What water and landclass textures are ya using there?

Thanks for sharing!

[Jimmy]

great shots Alex:P !!!!

hehe my pa-28 looks so funny,i wished I could have continued on that flight but stopid laptop was giveing me around 3fps And I couldn't trim cos there was no numpad and the MTL hadnt worked properly....etc etc lol

My favs are 9 and 15

James

[FlyingKiwi]

Nice shots! Funny to see you in formation with an AN-124...

[Alex]

Yea, was a little weird, cruising along with the AN24 at about 150KIAS.

@Trolly, my water and clouds are from Flight1's Flight Environment. And as far as I know I don't have any landclass... I do have the Timaru scenery from www.flightsim.co.nz and the Christchurch scenery from www.nzscenery.com, but not the photoreal part, that you would/might have seen in a couple of the pics.

Thanks James for the comments.

Alex

[AlisterC]

Nice Alex! Lots of quirky angles and views, I enjoyed these!

[Alex]

Thanks Alister, thats what they're there for!

Alex

[ZK-MAT]

I've just realised that I haven't commented on your series Alex

Nice shots mate, you DO look old in the cockpit! The Fs Nav shot is my favourite, (just kidding!).

Seriously, for me, the cockpit shot of the pilot and the water reflection shot are my favs. Nice work

[ZK-Brock]

Cool screenies Alex The terrain looks really nice and green