NZFF

Took my new toy for a fly today ... Default NZCH to default NZAA, PMDG NGX. These images are clickable links, if you click them you'll get full size versions in a new window or tab.

Taxying out to runway 2



Lined up ... Hmm, pass me that airport diagram again please ?



Off the ground and turning back towards Burnham



climbing towards the west coast, with the alps on the terrain display



over the alps



somewhere :-)



somewhere else :-)



and a profile



descending past Te Kauwhata



here's the HUD approaching NZAA. The circle points to where you're actually going, very useful when you're crabbing. This video of PMDG's demonstrates it quite nicely. The centreline is defined, and the -3.00 line is on the touchdown point.



as you get closer the runway definition on the HUD grows some runway edges to really help you put it down in the right place. They do get tighter in as you get lower down ...


I would have included the obligatory touchdown shot but I accidentally hit ctrl-break instead of ctrl-printscreen and that was the end of the flight. Bugger.

Magic......Im almost sold ......great post, thanks very much .

Nice one Gary , I tried the HU and you can land on a teaspoon using it ,

Awesome shots of the HUD, that last one looks fantastic

great shots ...JAL though (nice scheme though)? Is there a ficticious Air NZ scheme? ..hmm you also neeed VLC

Kapai!

As far as I know that is VLC ! I think what you mean is "you need some decent add-on airport scenery" And nope, the paint kit hasn't been out long enough yet for anyone to come up with a local version. PMDG made the decision on this one to only do real paints, and leave all the fictitious ones to the community.

Chairman wrote:

QUOTE (Chairman @ Aug 9 2011,11:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

As far as I know that is VLC ! I think what you mean is "you need some decent add-on airport scenery" And nope, the paint kit hasn't been out long enough yet for anyone to come up with a local version. PMDG made the decision on this one to only do real paints, and leave all the fictitious ones to the community.

Great pics! I'm enjoying the NGX immensely. For once, I'm a bit daunted by the documentation - and am delighted to be able to get in the air with just the usual background Boeing startup and MCDU info acquired from other add-ons. I'm sure I'm missing out on a lot ... but that's the joy of it ... I can learn it all gradually.

I've been flying the Qantas repaint, which has at least got a ZK rego .

Beware when installing some of those repaints - the repaint manager plonks them in the wrong variation, so you have to move a couple of them (and edit the aircraft.cfg files accordingly).

I didn't get any of those (that I've found yet) but I did have the read-only aircraft.cfg files - when I tried to install the paints windows said "hey, these are read only, want me to fix that?" and that was the end of the problem.

I know what you mean about the manuals, here's a post I just put up on PMDG's forum :