NZ B747-200 in LAX

[Court Line flyer]

ZK-NZV arriving in LAX in the late afternoon.






Karl
Court Line Flyer (UK)

[benwynn]

Very Nice! Love that Cloud Nine Scenery, really must get around to buying it!

[Daniel]

Cool Pics Karl
Is this FS 2004?
Keep them coming

Cheers
Daniel

[ardypilot]

That would be the 747-400, not -200 wouldn't it? Project Opensky v4 model I presume- one of my favourite freeware heavies

[NZ255]

QUOTE (Trolly @ Apr 8 2008, 05:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That would be the 747-400, not -200 wouldn't it? Project Opensky v4 model I presume- one of my favourite freeware heavies

Not -400 -no winglets, if if not a 200, its probably a 300

[Stumpy]

QUOTE (Trolly @ Apr 8 2008, 06:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That would be the 747-400, not -200 wouldn't it? Project Opensky v4 model I presume- one of my favourite freeware heavies

Most definately not -200. Look closely at the "bump". A lot smaller than -400

[victor_alpha_charlie]

It is most definitely a -200. Short 'hump' + no winglets= -200.

[greaneyr]

The -200s have different looking engines too. The back of the engines on the ANZ -400 protrude a lot further than those do. That's definitely a -200. It's confusing people since it's in the latest livery. I'm not sure how long our -200s wore that livery. I know the -400s wore the previous one.

[brownbox]

definately -200

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (greaneyr @ Apr 8 2008, 07:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The -200s have different looking engines too. The back of the engines on the ANZ -400 protrude a lot further than those do. That's definitely a -200. It's confusing people since it's in the latest livery. I'm not sure how long our -200s wore that livery. I know the -400s wore the previous one.

It actually depends what type of engine they have. The engines on this one (RR's), look short and fat, but the PW engines are longer/thinner.

[ardypilot]

QUOTE

It is most definitely a -200. Short 'hump' + no winglets= -200.[/quote]
Whoops, my bad! I did actually know this, but looked straight at the repaint on the model and automatically thought POSKY! What FS aircraft designer made that variant Court Line flyer?

After searching ZK-NZV on A.net, you are right in the fact it was a 747-219B (cn 22722/523), sold on to Virgin Atlantic Airways in 1999, and then Transaero Airlines in 2006.

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[greaneyr]

QUOTE (victor_alpha_charlie @ Apr 8 2008, 08:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It actually depends what type of engine they have.

Yeah, like I said 'the back of the engines on the ANZ -400s protrude a lot further than those do'. Those are the RB-211s that our -200s had.

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (greaneyr @ Apr 8 2008, 08:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yeah, like I said 'the back of the engines on the ANZ -400s protrude a lot further than those do'. Those are the RB-211s that our -200s had.

Whoops, missed that. Early morning this morning

[Daniel]

What does the title say? NZ B747-200 in LAX

Cheers
Daniel

[victor_alpha_charlie]

QUOTE (Daniel @ Apr 8 2008, 08:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What does the title say? NZ B747-200 in LAX

Cheers
Daniel

Hey, I said it was a 742 all along..

[Court Line flyer]

It is all POSKY work - I can't take much credit other than for modifying the -400 livery to fit the -200. It's not quite perfect as I think I need to remove those red blocks from the engines, and I'm missing the "-200" from the "Boeing 747" by the rear doors. Other than that I'm chuffed with the result - I just love the NZ livery - shame to see the Pacific Wave missing from some aircraft in service. Can't see why it needs updating though I hear on the grapevine that the change is on hold for a while.

Am working on putting the current livery on the DC-10...for which the purists will no doubt hate me! Pics to follow.

Karl

[Anthony]

POSKY's stuff is actually quite nice I must say.
I have lots of their stuff because mainly its free, and because its pretty good.

Nice shots.

Cheers
Anthony

[benwynn]

Shame Posky's FDE are really really bad!

[Peppermint]

Looks like they released a new FDE for their 744v4 and fixed the taxi issue, haven't got around to try it yet. It is a shame their FDEs are designed like they are, I think I read somewhere they made it so a full joystick movement to the left or right would only be equal to about 40% than the real world, they made it like that because of some stupid reason. Something about us flying them like fighter jets, pulling the joystick all the way to the left to start a turn etc etc. Kind of makes you think that POSKY think they're the only people who like to fly as real as possible.

But oh well.

The pics are nice, does look a lot like a 744 if you don't look at the engines, maybe a little too 'clean'?