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IFR - along the road that Doug built

Great post Mike
I love that part of the country. Is that your scenery?

Splitpin wrote:Great post Mike I love that part of the country. Is that your scenery?

Ta, mate! I did some AFS2 photoscenery for the N half of the South Island, but Geoffkiwi was doing it better and faster, so I decided to focus on the small sirfields, and use his mesh and scenery, but the Airport Creation Tool for AFS4 hasn't been released yet. I think there is a gap between mine and GK's and that is the AFS4 default showing through around the Haast. There seems to be a double helping of trees and I am still trying to find why. Fortunately it doesn't look too bad.
Short answer is, I'm not sure

PS: NZWF is AFS4 default and autogen.
ATB, Mike

Seemed to double up your reply, so I deleted the duplicate.
Well I'm giving you 100% for the work And to Doug ...that drive is spectacular .

If you ever get the chance, go to the Gates of Haast on that road...its amazing.

"Seemed to double up your reply, so I deleted the duplicate." Quick work, that man! I have noticed in the past, if I go to Submit instead of Preview first, it gets its undies in an uproar, and if you then Submit again to get out of the Review thing, it produces a duplicate. I was expecting that, and ready to delete it myself, but you got there first

it gets its undies in an uproar,.....

Touché mon ami.
Fond as I am of the Jungmann, the radial does add a little to the mix.

emfrat wrote:IFR - along the road that Doug built

Mike I haven't even driven over the Cromwell to Hasst road. I was working on the more scenic West Coast part of the road just below Lake Paringa.
Our 2 year contract was for one mile of road around the Moeraki bluff and we actually finished it in just over 15 months.
It was hard going there were 4 of us 1 Cat D6 1 Cat D4 1 Fordson tractor with a compressor on the rear end and a welder on the front.
We went through a hell of a lot of Gelignite and Ammonium nitrate as about three quarters of a mile was a rock bluff.

dbcunnz wrote:

emfrat wrote:IFR - along the road that Doug built

Mike I haven't even driven over the Cromwell to Hasst road. I was working on the more scenic West Coast part of the road just below Lake Paringa.
Our 2 year contract was for one mile of road around the Moeraki bluff and we actually finished it in just over 15 months.
It was hard going there were 4 of us 1 Cat D6 1 Cat D4 1 Fordson tractor with a compressor on the rear end and a welder on the front.
We went through a hell of a lot of Gelignite and Ammonium nitrate as about three quarters of a mile was a rock bluff.

Doug, do you have any photos of those days ?

Splitpin wrote:

dbcunnz wrote:

emfrat wrote:IFR - along the road that Doug built

Doug, do you have any photos of those days ?

Cheers Doug! I found quite a few newsreels on YT but they are mainly about the actual Haast Pass section. https://www.youtube.com/@thecoastersclub7993/videos
Looks like I'll have to fly the Paringa section now....sigh

I found this later: https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/25534/cut ... st-section

Splitpin wrote:Doug, do you have any photos of those days ?

Sorry Marty I didn't have a camera while working there.
But I did find this https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/21125
That is me on the D6 Joe Robinson got the contract and I was working for Stan Robinson his brother in Murchison from where we shifted the D6 down to the Moeraki bluff.
As you can see it was bloody hard going Joe's son Earl was doing the drilling with the help of Young Jack Condon I was on the D6 and George was on the D4.
We used to start work at daylight and finish when it got to dark to work we would work three weeks on and then take a week off they were good times and I would live them all over again if I had the chance.
Mike this might help you find it.
[url=https://postimages.org/]
[url=https://postimages.org/]

Thanks Doug - I was well out of my ground. Truly, I'd be lost wthout you

Big D what a great reply....I'm glad you show up in the historical stuff.
I have much more respect for that road now.
In my tour driver life, we used to stop at Paringa for a Salmon lunch.