One and a half flights to Auckland

[AlisterC]

I did a couple of flights technically today, departing Christchurch for Auckland. Both were on FSX, via the standard routing - CHAA1
But, the first was in the Level D 767, and about Taranaki FSX closed down with an out of memory error (haven't seen one of them before). So i restarted and took off again in the QWsim 752 instead, and made it all the way without issue.
Here are some screenies from these two flights, on FSX, and of course with VLC. (plus a couple of random extras at the bottom)

Taxi for departure towards NZCH runway 20


Climbing out of Christchurch on airway V175


Take two! This time in the RNZAF 752 - passing the foothills in North Canterbury


Past Culverden if I had to guess


Past where this flight is really taking place, sunny Nelson. I love the views at this point flying north/south. Wellington and the Marlborough Sounds off one wing, Nelson to Farewell Spit out the other. The best view in the world , and I've flown most of this world


Past POKOM and on the descent to WI


Getting lower, aiming for runway 05R NZAA


Approaching the head of the harbour, with a tail wind struggling to hold the airspeed down..


Getting all lined up, down and dirty, for the landing


Nearly there!


The autopilot landed this one - 51% landing, 49% crash landing, margin of error 2%



And some randoms from some sight seeing lately

The default DC3 out of Dunedin


The Cresco exactly where it should be, somewhere in the middle of no where - honestly I have no idea where this is


And another 767 flight out of Christchurch, which ended with a strange terrain.dll crash. Think I'll stick with LDS767 in FS9


Cheers,

[Ian Warren]

Mate ! you have spent two many hours as training Capt at 'Flight Experience' , Great Screens

[AlisterC]

That may be true Ian! But I can never understand why in that case am I not sick of this yet? I loooooooove simming ... If I have a heart attack and die simply plug me into my simulator and I'll be good as new again Despite the Level D crashes it goes to show what a modest machine can achieve, providing it's well tuned.

[ardypilot]

That shot of the 75 approaching the Manukau Barbour entrance is sweeeeeeeeeet!

[Splitpin]

Great post, great screens...... god forbid you ever have a heart attack....but i can just picture a resuss team running with pc and connecting you via a usb .....CTRL E...CTRL E....Yes , we have a good start.....quickly , bring SP2.........and VLC stat..........

[AlisterC]

Cheers guys I love that CRTL-E bit I hadn't thought of that one!

[Ian Warren]

Alister , if i had to choose , No.2 , the 767 over VLC in that lighting and atmosphere is as real as you can get , it really defines North Canterbury

[AlisterC]

Thanks Ian. glad you like it. I almost didn't include it in this series, it was a bit of an after thought to be honest