NZFF

I wanted to make a short flight over Canterbury tonight to admire the scenery. I was feeling a bit retro, so I settled on the default Piper cub to fly in, mainly because I haven't found a nice plane to download/buy yet.

The Flight: Ashburton to Forest Field. I was initially planning on landing at Kaikoura, but decided I didn't have enough time before bed.
Time: just after 7 in the morning NZ time (real time)
Weather: real weather.

I took off to the south, then turned and headed along State Highway 1 and the main south railway line



Not too long afterwards, I crossed the Rakaia river, after having changed course to head straight towards Forest Field




After a while, I crossed the Waimakariri river and headed over a patch of forest



After a while I spotted the airfield below me, turned to sort of enter a traffic pattern, decended and sloppily turned onto final (I'm still not that great a pilot)


Almost down...


Landed with hardly a bump.


Next flight: Forest Field to Kaikoura. Any suggestions as to a nice scenic route or interesting airfields in between?

Nice flight .... and great pics! If you want to stay "retro" then I think A2A do a great Cub. You even get "Heidi" the talking passenger! Attractive as she initially appears to be, you'll soon find yourself wanting to kick her out (at 3,000ft ). Any of the Accusim planes are well worth it, in my opinion.

Good to see you picked the best part of the country to fly around.....great screens. Re your next leg, you could inland via hanmer springs (But Im not sure if fsx has hanmer)
Keep posting , and fly safe.

Nice shots, Niels, but you are not at Forest Field -- you seem to be one field over. The actual airfield is just over that hedge in the last shot. However there do appear to be runways where you are, and it would be interesting to know why. Is it possible that you have an AFCAD for NZFF somewhere?

toprob wrote:

QUOTE (toprob @ Jan 21 2011, 12:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nice shots, Niels, but you are not at Forest Field -- you seem to be one field over. The actual airfield is just over that hedge in the last shot. However there do appear to be runways where you are, and it would be interesting to know why. Is it possible that you have an AFCAD for NZFF somewhere?

I'll check it out tonight, but it's hard to see how. At the moment I have the following NZ Scenery installed:

- Vector Landclass (obviously)
- VLC Library + South Island pack beta
- your Asburton
- your Kaikoura
- Christchurch Airport & Christchurch city photoreal for FSX offered by Ian Warren & Creator2003 (can't remember the site exactly)
- Milford Sound for FSX by Creator2003
- Dunedin Airport & dunedin photoreal

And from the air, these were the only visible runways, and the layout seemed to match the NZFF layout. Placement issue? Airport offset or something? One of the runways ran through the hedge, and there was a tree irritatingly close to the runway threshold (you can see it in the third to last shot).

nalbers wrote:

QUOTE (nalbers @ Jan 21 2011, 09:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'll check it out tonight, but it's hard to see how. At the moment I have the following NZ Scenery installed:

- Vector Landclass (obviously)
- VLC Library + South Island pack beta
- your Asburton
- your Kaikoura
- Christchurch Airport & Christchurch city photoreal for FSX offered by Ian Warren & Creator2003 (can't remember the site exactly)
- Milford Sound for FSX by Creator2003
- Dunedin Airport & dunedin photoreal

And from the air, these were the only visible runways, and the layout seemed to match the NZFF layout. Placement issue? Airport offset or something? One of the runways ran through the hedge, and there was a tree irritatingly close to the runway threshold (you can see it in the third to last shot).

Ok, bearing in mind that NZFF is not a default FSX airfield, I'd do a search for 'nzff' in your fsx folder, and see if anything shows up. I know that Laurie has a FS2004 Forest Field, which some use in FSX. His install instructions include this: