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[connor]

Some more screens from around the Tokyo area.













Hoping to be out of Japan before long.

[connor]

Another few shots from my world trip. I haven't been able to do a lot of simming, or anything fun really, being the end of the school year and everything. This is the only FS flying time I've had in since I last posted some shots.

Anyway, Here is the Captain Sim 727-100 in a retro JAL livery at Ibaraki AFB. Very good scenery if you like you military bases, although I was unable to find any Military ai traffic to go there.



This is a good Md-81 package, by Alejandro Rojas Lucena in a JAL livery over Matsumoto real scenery by Kenichi Ochiai. Quite detailed, but no AGN and a large file.



Finally after visiting many, many airports in Japan I'm off to Korea. This is the Captain Sim 767-300 in a All Nippon paint job over the brilliant Kobe/Osaka sceneries from here.



There are only a few decent freeware sceneries in South Korea covering some of the major regional hubs and a few International Airports. I had a look and plotted my rout through South Korea.



Most of the airports I visited were part of the "Set of 6 Korean Airport Sceneries" from here. All of them are quite good.



I reached Gimpo Intl, the old main airport for Seoul, before hopping over to Muan Intl, the newer airport. I will fly out of there for Beijing when I get a chance.



So there we are, South Korea done. Next I'm onto China, heading south, so I need some good sceneries. If anyone knows of any custom airports please let me know, as I can only find Afcad edits.

Thanks for looking.

[Kahu]

Nice shots, were did you get the Ibaraki AFB scenery from?
I'm working on some AI to.

[connor]

QUOTE (Kahu @ Dec 11 2011,5:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nice shots, were did you get the Ibaraki AFB scenery from?
I'm working on some AI to.

Thanks.

Get it here!

[Kahu]

Cheers for that now wonder I couldnt find the file i dont speak Japa

[Splitpin]

Great work Connor, an amazing assortment of aircraft.....keep going dude !

[connor]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Dec 16 2011,12:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Great work Connor, an amazing assortment of aircraft.....keep going dude !

I'm making my way around the place slowly. I'm currently at Shanghai Pudong Intl (ZSPD). I'm just short on time at the moment, working in the holidays and stuff.

I'm getting to the point in the journey where good freeware scenery is few and far between, so if anybody knows of any half-decent scenery for the south-east asia/ india region please tell me!

[connor]

A few more for you all.

I'm in Hong Kong at the moment, after flying Seoul - Beijing - Hefei - Shanghai Hongqaio - Shanghai Pudong - Taipei Taoyuan - Hong Kong (VHHH). The other new thing on this last leg is I am now REX in FSX. It's making a real difference in my simming experience. I also tried the GameBooster application and have been trying a few other performance tweaks such as restarting my computer before running FSX and the likes. It runs like clockwork now.



I plan to have a poke around Hong Kong and Macau before doing a big leg to Delhi. I then want to fly to Colombo, Sri Lanka and then onto the British Indian Ocean Teritory, a few atolls south of the Maldives. After that I'll head back to Delhi, up to Kathmandu and Mt Everest, before returning to Delhi and off to the Middle East.

Here are the screens from my last few flights.

Taking off from Seoul Incheon.



This is Hefei Luogang Intl Airport by Skysoft. It's for FS9, but I read it worked pretty well in FSX. It's a great scenery, very detailed, but the trees are all funny, the transparency is all wrong. I think it's an Alpha channel issue. That's Thomas Ruth's A330-200, too.



My Air China flight to Taipei from Shanghai Pudong.



At Taipei Taoyuan (Formosa X scenery, one of my favourites). Thomas Ruth's A330-300, in a very classy Dragon Air livery.



I am flying in my spare time, so will get around the globe. I'll be in Europe before long, back to a place were good freeware sceneries are plentyful.

[connor]

Hi everyone!

I've been a bit absent from NZFF for a while, being away on holiday a bit and prepping for the new school year, but here are a few screens from some recent flights on my way west.


After hitting the island of diego garcia I set my GPS for Mt Everest, via Colombo, Delhi and Kathmandu.

Over the Palk Strait



Heading to Kathmandu



And finally at Mt Everest in my Aerosoft Twotter. I finally got to use a location accurate paint on it.



Over Kabul Airport, Afghanistan.



Somewhere over Afghan wilderness.



Land fall over the other side of the persian gulf, en route to Dubai.



And an Emirates A380 landing at Dubai International. I didn't actually fly this to anywhere, not terribly realistic to fly an A380 200 nautical miles and then plonk it down on a desert strip. But the PA model is so good I couldn't resist a snap.



That's all I have at the mo, but I'm heading quickly across the border to Oman, and then on to Bahrain, Iran and after that I'm not exactly sure, better do some planning....

[zkcav]

Hey Connor,

The A380 is on my shopping list but only found a few average looking ones, looks nice externally -how is / does it have a VC?

[connor]

QUOTE (zkcav @ Feb 3 2012,9:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hey Connor,

The A380 is on my shopping list but only found a few average looking ones, looks nice externally -how is / does it have a VC?

Don't worry about shopping lists, it's freeware! Search "Emirates A380 project airbus" at simV and you'll find it.

[Ian Warren]

looking good , give you time to search and source scenery , 380s tho stick with tried and trusted 747 on your world tour the PMGD will get you there without hickups..

[Naki]

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Don't worry about shopping lists, it's freeware! Search "Emirates A380 project airbus" at simV and you'll find it.[/quote]

Cheers for that - found it this morning, just installing now.

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380s tho stick with tried and trusted 747 on your world tour the PMGD will get you there without hickups..[/quote]

Family is heading to Europe soon and one leg is on a A380, so want to fly it first in FS...

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[connor]

Onward West!

Keeping heading in a roughly westerly direction, and I'm now on the brink of making Europe. Here's my journey through this part of the world.



I'm currently sitting on the tarmac in Haifa, Israel (LLHA). Anyway here ar some screens. I have a bit of trouble with the screens making them as good as possible, because I'm not actually flying to take screens I'm flying for flying.

After Dubai I hopped over the border to Khasab Airport, in the Musandam Governate, Oman.



Then it was back to Dubai and off to Bahrain...



And then to Kuwait.



I flew up to Kermanshah, Iran with a promise of a great airport scenery, but it wasn't up to much.

With the RJAF into Jordan.



I then got my 707 out of the hangar for the first actual flight with it!



Over to Cairo, Egypt.





And the last one for today, from Eilat Israel, a tiny little airport that is wedged between the town on a hill, and the Jordanian Border. A very cool scenery to fly to, but don't take anything more than a 757 in there, as there is considerably more runway for taking off than there is for landing. There are no taxiways here, the apron is sitting right on the runway thresh hold. This scenery and few more great sceneries for israel can be found here.



Thanks for looking!

[Naki]

Interesting variety of airports, scenery and aircraft....great shots too!

[Ian Warren]

Airports close to the region , one i download the other day 'Mashhad' (830MB) guess the fella must be not the only one who cannot get good quality aerials ..... looked as id been through in my B-52 .

[Splitpin]

Great trip Connor.....your passport must be looking very full by now Thanks for sharing the journey

[connor]

Thanks guys!

[connor]

Here are some more bandwidth drainers for you all!

I've finished the Israel-Turkey leg, and I'm now in Istanbul. There were a few good freeware sceneries in this leg, particularly so in Turkey. I've always had an interestig n turkey after seeing friends photos of the place, so that's why I flew to so many locations in Turkey (check the map on Page 3). All the airports there had custom objects, most of them photoreal, or darn close, and most of them had autogenned photoreal terrain as well. It's a great place to fly, most recommended.

Another scenery that stood out was Paphos International Airport in Southern Cyprus. This airport had full photoreal buildings, great custom runway and taxiway textures and a brilliant photoreal ground cover of the surrounding area. Admittedly it is a fair way from anywhere most of you guy will be flying, but still a great scenery.

As far as aircraft go it was all pretty standard. The only freebies I got for this leg were the Project Airbus A319/A320 in Cyprus Airways, Olympic Air, and Syrian Airways paints, and the Project Opensky 787-800 in Turkish Airways regalia. The PA A319/20 is pretty good; the external model is fantastic, but it is limited by the default A321 VC and systems. Still can't complain as it is free, and many people put a lot of effort into it. It's pretty much the same story with the Posky 738, however I've found away around it. A few weeks back a Default 737-800 VC enhancement was relased, by Alejandro Rojas Lucena (available at SimV). It adds opening cockpit widows, working window wipers and a working FMC just to mention a few features. I wrangled it into the Posky 738 (When I say wrangled, I mean I replaced a few mdl's and panel files), and got it working pretty sweet in that. So now I've a semi-decent 737-800 to jet around the place it. Still, I really want the PMDG NGX, but I can't afford it at the moment, so if you want to shout me a round.....

Apart from those two, it's been mostly Captain Sim repaints (757 and C-130) a few iris paints and even a few defaults. Anyway here are the shots. Hope you enjoy them.


Not the first time the Arkia Israeli Airlines 757 has popped up on my travels, but it's a fantastic model, and I love the blue and yellow.



This is the Iris F-16D (Pretty fantastic for the fiver i paid for it) in an Israeli Air Force dress. The lake you can see under the nose is the Sea of Galilee.



The Arkia 75 again, out of Tel Aviv Israel to Cyrpus. As it turns out, despite my map, you cannot travel directly from Israel to Syria, or Lebanon. So I thought I may as well learn something while I'm here, so I decided to fly to Damascus and Beirut via Paphos.



This is the Project Airbus A319 in Cyprus Airways colours, on the ground at Paphos. By the sounds of it, Cyprus Airways will be going to Aeroflot before long.



There aren't many airlines still flying a 747SP, so I took a shot of a Syrian Airlines shorty at Damascus International Airport. The scenery was quite good, but if things keep going the way they are in Syria both Damascus Intl and Syrian Airways might be facing there end.



Another International anomaly caused by disputed borders is that you cant travel from Southern Cyprus (Paphos) to Turkey, after the Turkish invade Cyprus in 1974. They still hold the North of Cyprus, which is a bit sad. So I decided I'd fly my Greek leg before I got to Turkey, stopping of in Athens.



Yes it's another 757, and yes it's also another wing shot, but REX was being amazing again, and the contrast between the blue sky and red of the AtlasJet paint was too good of an opportunity to give up.



Playing around with the ever-brilliant Captain Sim C-130, in a TuAF scheme, at Konya Air Base, Central Turkey. It's quite high here, and the weather was less than stellar (catching the last of their winter I suppose), I caught snow several times, and the temperature at ground level was often below zero.



On the way to Bursa Airport, in my re-VC'd Posky 737-800. Still open to any PMDG shouts. It started snowing quite heavily as I taxied in at Bursa, I was considering diverting to Istanbul, but got on the ground in time.



The C-130 again, over the Black Sea (did a few accurate water colour changes) in farily low-visibility weather.



The Iris F-16D in a default TuAF scheme out of Trabzon Airport in North Eastern Turkey. This was a very good airport, with custom apartment buildings along the road next to the runway.



I found a Turkish paint for the DG-808s glider, so I flew to Canakkale Airport in Western Turkey to have a fly. Then the weather packed a sad. The Airfield is just over the Dardanelles from the Gallipoli Peninsula, so I got a good mental picture of the area.



And finally, a rare occurrance, me flying two default aircraft in a row. The default DC-3 in a TuAF livery. This particular aircraft resides at the Turkish Air Force Museum in Ankara, the capital. I forgot how much I love flying on 130 octane...



Thanks for looking. Next I'm off into Iron Curtain Territory. I'm planning to head into Ukraine, then Russia before going around the to through Scandanavia and into London. I'll post the map soon.

Thanks again!

[deeknow]

Great stuff Connor as usual, lovely pics, and some interesting flying going on there, great that you researched the access coz wouldn't like to see your virtual ATP license revoked when you entered forbidden airspace
Thanks for the heads up on the Paphos (note to others, look for it spelt Pafos when hunting for scenery) and Damascus airports, both are great for freebies, just been buzzing about in them. I spent a few months around that area in the 90's so am virtually revisiting it now
Looking FWD to your eastern block stuff