NZFF

Posted: **Thu Feb 14, 2013 8:12 am**

ORBX is working on NZAA!

"I am pleased to announce that we are 50% through development of NZAA Auckland International Airport which will join NZQN Queenstown Airport for NGX-ready flights in Middle Earth."

Forum thread here.

Dan

Posted: **Thu Feb 14, 2013 8:37 am**

That'll keep all happy

Posted: **Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:10 am**

Rather unexpected considering they said they wont do any more large airports. Im not a heavy driver but will probably get this...My bigger wish is that they do Ardmore and Dairy Flat

Posted: **Thu Feb 14, 2013 7:55 pm**

One more for Ardmore. Home of the now world famous Mosquito and the most buisy airport in NZ

Posted: **Thu Feb 14, 2013 8:09 pm**

Not home to a Mossie for much longer. She's pretty much packed for shipping to the US of A.

Posted: **Fri Feb 15, 2013 7:53 pm**

I can't wait for this Queenstown and now Auckland

Posted: **Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:13 pm**

Looking forward to both of these airports

Might need to upgrade the computer shortly to handle all these downloads im doing

Posted: **Sat Feb 16, 2013 4:01 pm**

Mattyman wrote:
QUOTE (Mattyman @ Feb 16 2013,2:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Might need to upgrade the computer shortly to handle all these downloads im doing

What the word on those then ?

Posted: **Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:08 pm**

So any NZ scenery people involved with this?

Posted: **Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:22 pm**

Sure they picked the right persons for the task , good thing is , and well what has been the cry for many years .. were the frig is Auckland .. have enough on me plate with Wobblyville and other stuff so you can count me out .

Posted: **Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:23 pm**

Jeeze, talk about an underwhelming response to this announcement...
I for one am pretty excited about this, I know these things aren't trivial, but cannae believe its taken this long for someone to take on NZAA at this level. Go ORBX !!!

Posted: **Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:38 pm**

I think that is going mean I'll be jumping into the Orbx camp, this is long overdue - an upgrade to our major airport, I hope it does it justice. Just going to have to do my flight planning before starting FSX to work out to load VLC or Orbx.

Posted: **Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:05 pm**

Some lovely Queenstow WIP shots here:

http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/495...elopment-shots/

Posted: **Wed Jun 05, 2013 5:22 pm**

A couple of Mike's early NZAA screenshots on the Orbx forum...
(Sorry, this may still be members-only.)
http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/598...date-june-2013/

Posted: **Wed Jun 05, 2013 5:35 pm**

Looks honki dori with a Capital Aey A

Posted: **Wed Jun 05, 2013 5:44 pm**

What a timely return to FSX, awesome.

Posted: **Wed Jun 05, 2013 8:51 pm**

"I am pleased to announce that we are 50% through development of NZAA Auckland International Airport..."

thats not bad - even the airport company isn't that far advanced!

I could take a couple of shots of my van for the ATC carpark if you like

Posted: **Wed Jun 05, 2013 9:59 pm**

toprob wrote:
QUOTE (toprob @ Jun 5 2013,6:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
A couple of Mike's early NZAA screenshots on the Orbx forum...
(Sorry, this may still be members-only.)
http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/598...date-june-2013/

Looks amazing, and from one of my favourite developers too. Congratulations Mike!

Posted: **Wed Jun 05, 2013 10:28 pm**

Great stuff Mike

Posted: **Thu Jun 06, 2013 9:45 am**

Its quite amazing how Orbx have invested a company into FSX inspite of its shortcomings and limited architecture. I wonder if they will eventually go into designing a sim of their own. Obviously a massive project but the way they have grown and become industry guru's on FSX and scenery, why not recruit the talent and design an engine?
Perhaps they will link up with an outfit like Outerra and add their two cents.

In any case its great that FSX lives on although I'd love to see an overhauled flight dynamics engine to really improve what I feel is the biggest letdown of the sim. Xplane is on the right track but it is nowhere near FSX with its intuitive interface and amazing scenery and aircraft add-ons.

NZFF

ORBX NZAA in 2013!