NZFF

T'was the night before the airshow
And all through the hanger
Not an aircraft was stirring
Not even the Boeing 737-800.

OK, so I'm a pilot, not a poet. But all us pilots and spectators who are attending the Forum Field Anniversary Airshow are going to have to fly in, right?
So on Friday night we'll fly into Forum Field from where the last airshow was held in NZ (Omaka). The aircraft of choice will be the DC3 (either Jon's model or the default). After we arrive, you'll be free to change into your airshow aircraft for one last practice before the airshow Saturday night.

Server Password: forum (case sensitive)

Server Date and Time - 7pm Friday 27 April 2007
Flight Type - 'Convoy fly-in'
Start Airport - NZOM (Omaka) - Spawn at gates
End Airport - NZFF (Forum Field), via NZWS (Westport)
Aircraft Type - Jon's airshow DC3 or default DC3
Shared Cockpits - None (it's more fun if everyone has their own DC3)
Weather - will use the same weather planned for the airshow- 8kt wind from the south, 1/5 cloud cover
ATC Roster - none, use traffic frequencies
Additional Details - Traffic & Chat Frequency will be 119.00

I'm not .. Not going ... to .. NOT GOING to Bee there DAK BUZZ'in sounds Great !

Sounds Great.........looking forward to it!!!!!

no atc? Would a real fly in from omaka to nzff have no atc? hmmm haha sorry thats negative of me..or..is it positive? you decide


I proably wont be there, will be franticly practicing my displays

Have fun thow

James

Jimmy wrote: no atc? Would a real fly in from omaka to nzff have no atc? hmmm haha sorry thats negative of me..or..is it positive? you decide


I proably wont be there, will be franticly practicing my displays

Have fun thow

James

I think the more relaxed, group social interaction thing is the appeal Jimmy, plenty of scope for ATC on other servers and other Friday nights if people want that. Good luck with the practise, from what I saw last night it should be a great display.

Fridays flight will be very cool, cant wait to see the DC-3's over the Southern alps, now that will be a sight to see!

I shall fly the RNZAF bird, it will make a nice contrast to the others. I hope we see at least 1 NAC bird

Cool
does the NZFF NAC DC-3 have a full panel or just the airshow one ?

Jon what RNZAF one ?

JonARNZ wrote: I hope we see at least 1 NAC bird

Where can we find a DC 3 in NAC colours?

it's part of the Forum Field airshow package. If you don't have it, don't sweat because I believe it's only in beta, and Jon will release the 4 pack of DC3's soon- you'll have to put up with the plain ol' default model

Scenery link:

IMPORTANT NOTE - This file is FREEWARE and is not intended for general public release beyond NZFF, as are any of the other files made available on the CD or peer to peer transfer. If David chooses to release the scenery at a later date then that is for him to decide, we appreciate your support and respect in this matter.
Download here

Dont forget that you could download the RNZAF skin for the deafult DC-3, it works for both the FS9 and FSX models, the 32bit texture works fine, or convert it to DXT5 if performance takes a hit (DXT5 compresses it to 1/4 the 32bit file size).

I confirm this does work in FSX, be sure to use the .cfg in the FS9 pack so I can see your aircraft

JonARNZ wrote: Dont forget that you could download the RNZAF skin for the deafult DC-3

But where can I find that

Here: http://z11.invisionfree.com/nzff/index. ... topic=3125
But you don't need the RNZAF skin to participate in the server, feel free to use the default textures.

Arrgghh... can't make it. Have tickets to the rugby (I know, I know... should get my priorities right )

Scenery looks great though! Top job - well done!

Go the 'Canes!

monsta1978 wrote: Arrgghh... can't make it. Have tickets to the rugby (I know, I know... should get my priorities right )

Scenery looks great though! Top job - well done!

Go the 'Canes!

Buggar!!! oh well........hope to see you next week Garrick.

Um a wee qestion

I went and got Jon's RNZAF DC3 for tonight but it only come with one file?
also should this be installed with the Airshow DC3 or the default

scon wrote: Um a wee qestion

I went and got Jon's RNZAF DC3 for tonight but it only come with one file?
also should this be installed with the Airshow DC3 or the default

No, it needs to be installed in the Default FSX model, the Airshow DC3 is the new model.

In your default DC-3 folder make a copy of the folder called texture, then rename it texture.RNZAF.

Copy the 32bit file (the one thats 4MB) into that folder and click yes when asked if you want to overwrite

Open the aircraft config file and add a new section for the skin, pointing it to texture.RNZAF.

PM me if this dont make sense.

Thanks got it now

here are all the screenshots I took tonight


Jon suggests these two pilots get a room. Zöltuger suggests Jon *@!#% *&@$%@$ $@%^*#*!


Climbing out towards Forum Field, hopefully climbing fast enough to avoid the alps ahead