NZFF

I've got a soft spot for radial classics so splashed out on the DC-6 after seeing this. (Haven't bought anything from PMDG since their 1900d series back in the FSX days!) Your TEAL colors look great on her with the PBR rendering in the sim. Awesome work!

Wow..looks great! Didn't know about the dropping doodad things either.

Dat's clever... what does ArcGIS do for you? Charl - as a source for orthophotos, their shadowing is too heavy. I noticed that when I was trying to get a good source for the Aoraki region. But I tried them for the coastal stuff south of Westport, and there was that beautiful water blending :clap: none of those awful corbie steps I got with LINZ as a source. So now I will make sure it is their standard, and if so, I will redo all my NZ sceneries with coastlines, with ArcGiss orthophotos. Better than hand editing thousands of tiles. Watch this space :D Mike

I missed that, nice work! There's also ZK-BEM in eyecatching NEIAF colours: I expect many more modern photos are online also, as well as older schemes worn before restoration.

I like the AMPHIBIAN AIRWAYS one best (ZK-BAY) .... given its supporting model features the "correct" RANGER engine configuration. NZTAT aircraft (ZK-AVM, -BAY, -BGQ, -BPX, -CFA, and -CHG .... to which a number of livery variations apply) originally featured the same RANGER engine configuration too until converted to CONTINENTAL power during the early to mid 1960's. Not sure, but, Wellington based OLD MODELS may still offer a decals for the AMPHIBIAN AIRWAYS aircraft (ZK-AVM and -BAY) and which include "both fonts" (as well as that following the NZTAT acquision too) .... I...

My Dad was born in 1913, when aviation was just getting into its stride. When my sister arrived in 1943, the Jet Age was under way and a couple of months after my first appearance, the Comet 1 made its debut. Seven years later my youngest brother, not quite one year old, was watching Sputnik 1 pass overhead as we listened to it on the BBC wireless. The Space Age had begun. Fifteen years later my daughter was born, over two years after the Moon Landing. All that in less than 70 years :o

Re the Irish Air Corps , found this.

Are there any Garmin type Nav units aroun,d for flight sim, that don't use the Garmin nav data? I just cant stomach the thought of flying around with dated nav data and even more so, the thought of paying Garmin's eye watering subscription fee.

Mighty beasts they were. I have the AH one in my FSX, and I am sure I have a book somewhere by a WW2 pilot, Polish or Dutch chap I think. Apparently that huge prop was very handy if your ground crew wanted to lay down a few tomato plants or similar :lol: ps EDIT I had a look for that old 2017 post and corrected the link, which had been updated by PostImage. So now it has been 'bumped' as if it was a new post :o

Thanks for looking gents ...Naki, its a La5FN(series 2)... but they all look the same in the dark :)

I think you gave me links to that before....but I think I lost it someplace <_< Mesh: My stuff is not for the general public, so if you have mislaid the link for my Gurgle Drive, let me know and I'll PM it again :thumbup:

:lol: Radar, I was aware of the sale ...but I have everything they produce at the moment, just haven't had time to screen all of it. As I said earlier, I'm really looking forward to the Normandy release, some really nice flyable aircraft on the way including a Mosquito...and rumours that the AI C-47 will be flyable in the future. They really are working hard on updates for things like ground texture, reflections and clouds. If they could get the clouds a little more HD, I will be a happy man. Interesting to note they do work with the Gijin group (Warthunder) who are advancing their stuff very...