Mount Cook Magic

[ardypilot]

With exams just around the corner, I have spent my week nights studying hard, so come the weekend, I had to choose a special aircraft to forfill my simming addiction for the day.

I was inspired by Lawrie's screenshots of Rick Piper's HS.748, and I finally decided to download the 40mb pack (on my slow dial-up), along with the Mount Cook Airlines repaint, and took her for a spin from NZMC to NZMF- two very mountainous airports, with lots of great scenery around from my RBE 20m mesh and topo package.

Here are 12 screenshots I snapped along the way (1.71mb)

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My conclusion? I love flying the classic 'liners- and/or anything made by Rick Piper. His stuff is payware quality. The model is excellent, with extremely accurate flight systems and dynamics. For a plane of her size, I managed to fly the HS.748 with ease (after about 1 hour's worth of reading and understanding the very detailed checklists first ), and pulled of a perfect landing on an airport with a notoriously tricky approach. The VC is stunning, the most realistic I have ever seen, and it isn't too hard on FPS either. But, my favourite thing about this aircraft has to be the included sound package. I think it was recorded on a real .748, but the fact that it is different from the stock fs9 aircraft makes a real difference, as well as making it fun to fly! Oh yeah- the NZ paint scheme rocks too

Get it here: http://www.simviation.com/fs2004props107.htm

P.S.
Does anyone actually know what routes this aircraft was used on in NZ?

P.S.S.
Excuse the sharpening filter- I was travelling at about 170kias on cruise, and with my old gfx card, the mountain textures below were a little blurry, so I edited my pics to make up for this.

[Naki]

Trolly

THe HS 748s wre generally flown between the tourist routes of Auckland - Rotorua - Christchurch and Queenstown. Mt Cook and I think Bay of Isalnds were also regualr HS-748 stops.

Nice shots by the way - I have downloaded this model as well but for some reason it is not showing up in my a/c preview screen - everything is there in my a/c folder -does any have any idea what I moght be doing wrong?

Paul

[Zöltuger]

some nice shots there Trolly. i miss the old Mt Cook livery

[AlisterC]

I've been waiting for this aircraft for a long time, it's a beauty. You didn't mention where to get the Mt Cook livery Trolly? Is it included in the package?

Shot 1 is fantastic.. it's my new work desktop!

I remember a flight from my childhood, Nelson to Wellington for a day's shopping with my mum, and return the same day. Both legs in the Mt Cook HS748. I was too young to remember schedule details, but we definately went on that aircraft, and cruised at 10000ft

[kimz28]

Did you download the two Texture files as well? Trolly's link had these two files as Livery Package 1 & 2.

[AlisterC]

Sorry I meant " are the textures for MT Cook included in the livery packs that are part of that package?"
Cheers

[hinch]

cool stuff...so you like rick piper eh? here's a little something to excite you...

http://www.cbfsim.org/cbfsimv5/cbfsbb/v ... php?t=7969
http://www.cbfsim.org/cbfsimv5/cbfsbb/v ... php?t=7971

it's worth signing up just to see these previews - and here's an extra incentive:

'smooth gauges'

[Blackmagic]

Alister, Yes the Mt Cook textures are included in the HS748 texture packs.

Pretty cool bird I remember when they used to fly.....................naa I dont I am to young for that

[ardypilot]

I have downloaded this model as well but for some reason it is not showing up in my a/c preview screen - everything is there in my a/c folder -does any have any idea what I moght be doing wrong?

I had the same problem at first. The 'base pack' download only includes the model.

You will then need to download texture pack 1 or 2 (texture pack 1 includes ZK-MCB) to be able to fly it.

[FlyingKiwi]

Nice shots, pity these don't still fly in NZ.

[Naki]

Thanks Trolly - I must say that first & second shot looks like a genuine photo from a magazine from the 70's I remember (I am showing my age now) - You have inpsired me to get this model up and running

Cheers

Paul

[Naki]

I am now up and running - this must be one of the best freeware a/c available

[Charl]

I am now up and running - this must be one of the best freeware a/c available

I agree it is a fantastic effort.
Don't forget to drop the designer a note - guess what, out of 10,000 downloads he gets maybe a score bothering to say what a good job he's done!

Interesting flight too, thanks Trolly.
I've done Invercargill - Milford in this plane before but that scenery is so good it calls for another trip further north.

It's always great when the aircraft and scenery match each other for quality, you get excellent-looking screenshots like these.