Righto as threatened, the FS9 run up the Kapiti:

Discovered I have been running a beta copy of RealNZ Wellington all this time.
Robin, please disregard all those questions these past months
Cake Tin floor still flashes (as it does in X, an NVidia issue?) and no Beehive...
Ah well FS9 has this excellent ferryboat AI package to make up.
AND, look at the lower shot above: this is the FS9 blend line between photoreal and textured area (where the water stops) BIG

Hi-res FSX textures are better, true, but looking up and down at say the NZPP coastal approach, I find them...
Plasticky.
Plasticky - that's what it is about FSX.
Plasticky. Even the aircraft look shrink-wrapped.
No airport at NZPP

have to make up for it with lots of AI instead.
*Ding**Ding**Ding*