Courierpost at Hamilton

[Dash8captain]

Landing at Hamilton in ZK-NQC

I also give thanks to deenow for creating this repaint for us

[deeknow]

Nice one Dash, always fun landing a Jet at Hamilton I reckon, runway seems a lot shorter than it really is from the air for some reason

[Adamski]

Ooh! Another one for the dreaded NZFSIM database!

Is it publicly available yet?

[deeknow]

QUOTE (Adamski @ May 15 2011,4:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ooh! Another one for the dreaded NZFSIM database!
Is it publicly available yet?

Just added it to nzfsim.org Adam, yeah its avail on flightsim.com (file: b732-nqc-courierpost.zip), also submitted it to avsim last week but for whatever reason they haven't published it

[Adamski]

QUOTE (deeknow @ May 15 2011,8:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Just added it to nzfsim.org Adam, yeah its avail on flightsim.com (file: b732-nqc-courierpost.zip), also submitted it to avsim last week but for whatever reason they haven't published it

Excellent - thank you! Shame I haven't got FS9!

[deeknow]

QUOTE (Adamski @ May 15 2011,2:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Excellent - thank you! Shame I haven't got FS9!

Ah, my bad Adam, sorry I marked it on your site as FS9, but there's an FSX model Tinmouse also so the repaints usable on both. Have updated the nfsim.org entry

[Adamski]

QUOTE (deeknow @ May 15 2011,5:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ah, my bad Adam, sorry I marked it on your site as FS9, but there's an FSX model Tinmouse also so the repaints usable on both. Have updated the nfsim.org entry

Oooh great - I might give it a whirl - I always fancied a bright yellow 737! Weird engines though <??>.

[deeknow]

QUOTE (Adamski @ May 15 2011,7:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Weird engines though <??>.

Yeah, that'd be the hush-kits hanging off the back

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Adamski @ May 15 2011,8:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I always fancied a bright yellow 737! Weird engines though <??>.

Adddam , you should no better than that , them there engines dangled off 73s from the very start and only to have an over sized Milo can slapped on the back to stop the whingers , strange boy racers put over sized Milo cans on the back off their cars and they cause more noise than the original 737 200 s ? ... i just dont get it

[Adamski]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ May 15 2011,9:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Adddam , you should no better than that , them there engines dangled off 73s from the very start and only to have an over sized Milo can slapped on the back to stop the whingers , strange boy racers put over sized Milo cans on the back off their cars and they cause more noise than the original 737 200 s ? ... i just dont get it

Don't even mention boy racers please ... I get positively homicidal!!

I think it looks strsnge because I'm more used to looking at the later 737's. When did they start getting the rounder/fatter engines? The 737-200 looks more like a 727!

[deeknow]

QUOTE (Adamski @ May 15 2011,11:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I think it looks strsnge because I'm more used to looking at the later 737's. When did they start getting the rounder/fatter engines? The 737-200 looks more like a 727!

The CFM56 engines which give the shape you mention first appeared on the 737-300's which were released in 1981, it wasnt until the late 90's though that AirNZ began introducing them to replace the 200 series machines. Check out the following link about the CFM56s cowling shape, basically to do with repositioning some elements of the powerplant to give better ground clearance. Also the CFMs are a higher-bypass engine compated to the low-bypass JT8s on the 200-series aircraft, which is what gives the overall increase in diamater too.
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/t...ead.main/43184/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_JT8D