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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:27 pm
by ardypilot
I have a bad habit of saying that I'll recreate real world flights after I have flown them, and never getting around to them- so today, for a change, I thought I'd recreate a RW flight before flying it, so I''ll have no excuses when I get back :)

So, last night, I loaded up my sim at Auckland International, created a flight plan for the 4 hour flight to the Cook Islands, and hopped into an Air New Zealand Airbus A320 bound for Rarotonga. Using ActiveSky for current weather and the new Project Airbus v2 aircraft that I had never flown before, made for a moderately interesting trip over the otherwise boaring empty ocean scenery- however, I couldn’t relisit the opportunity to take some screenies along the way, which you can see below:


Departing from a wet and windy Auckland
























Cruising along...












Diving down a steep approach into RAR, thanks to crappy M$ ATC’s late clearance















Sorry for the rather bland content- the only content really commentable on from the set are the neat looking dynamic shine on the A320 fuselage and wings, apart from that, sorry for wasting your bandwidth! :P

Right, now it’s time to go and pack my bags for the actual flight, I'll be sure to post some photos from the tropics upon my return. Cheers

PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:51 pm
by Charl
Hope your aircraft is as good looking as this one!
And your trip as smooth...beautiful shot #2!

PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:17 pm
by Q300
Charl wrote:
QUOTE (Charl @ Apr 23 2008, 02:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Hope your aircraft is as good looking as this one!
And your trip as smooth...beautiful shot #2!

Same from me Andrew, enjoy the break :thumbup:
Love shot 2 aswell!

PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:18 pm
by victor_alpha_charlie
I'm liking shot 4! When do you go?

PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:33 pm
by AlisterC
Have a nice time!
Whoever says the A320 doesn't look nice should just come check out your screenies. What a hottie lol! :wub:

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:59 am
by Florian_S
Quality stuff Trolly....That PA Airbus looks the goods!

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:29 pm
by ZKTOM
Good stuff..

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:10 pm
by scon
Nice :thumbup:
#2 is great


Nice A320 panel :rolleyes:

PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:34 pm
by Alex
Liking those pics Andrew, AKL-RAR/RAR-AKL is one of my favourite routes - especially when using the 767; but you show it off nicely. :thumbup:

Alex

PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:01 pm
by ardypilot
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Nice A320 panel :rolleyes: [/quote]
Well spotted- its just the default 734 panel that I alias with all my 737s and A320s- I'm only know the very basics of instrument flight, and prefer flying with autopilot on in spot view far too much to bother downloading a new airbus variant :P

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AKL-RAR/RAR-AKL is one of my favourite routes - especially when using the 767; but you show it off nicely.[/quote]
Turns out the 767 was used on the real flight, which IMO looks much nicer than the Airbus externally.

Here are some pics I took on approach to the island, the old windows had heaps of scratches on them which the camera picked up, but you can still see the island outline clearly enough to compare it with the mesh in the screenies above…





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I'll be sure to post some photos from the tropics upon my return.[/quote]
You can see these here.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:14 pm
by ronindanbo
nice shots andrew, does that bus have a VC?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:17 pm
by ardypilot
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does that bus have a VC?[/quote]
Unfortuantly not.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:01 pm
by victor_alpha_charlie
Damn, looks like you'll have to do it again with a 767 and post more screenies..

Oh and don't forget the 777 ride back! :P

PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:22 am
by ardypilot
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Oh and don't forget the 777 ride back![/quote]
I hate the Meljet 777, the only decent freeware ANZ one that I know of- the Overland one looks good though, but I think I need to buy the entire Boeing package just to get that aircraft... Are there any ANZ repaints for that version?

PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:41 am
by victor_alpha_charlie
Trolly wrote:
QUOTE (Trolly @ Apr 30 2008, 08:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I hate the Meljet 777, the only decent freeware ANZ one that I know of- the Overland one looks good though, but I think I need to buy the entire Boeing package just to get that aircraft... Are there any ANZ repaints for that version?


I know there are an endless supply of Asian paints for those models! :P

If you're someone like me who just knows that basics of instrument flight and doesn't need and FMC or that kind of thing, and wants a great looking, frame rate friendly model with great VC, the Overland pack (Airbus, Boeing or both) may just be the best FS aircraft buy you make ;)

PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:26 pm
by NZ255
Don't they have FMC's? Overland pack

PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:33 pm
by Mattnz
NZ255 wrote:
QUOTE (NZ255 @ Apr 30 2008, 01:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Don't they have FMC's? Overland pack


Nope, unfortunately not. I use VASFMC with the Overland series :)

PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 1:42 pm
by NZ255
<_<

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2008 9:22 am
by travnz
Lol dirty ass bandit in the background :lol: :D :P