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Postby Kiwia1spad » Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:59 am

I purchased the latest PC Pilot magazine the other day and on the Cover CD was an FSX updated version of Milton Shaupes Dash 7... what was i to do, onto flightsim dot com and get the Newmans paint... add it to my FS hangar and away we go... starting from Tekapo and heading to NZCH







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Postby Ian Warren » Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:24 am

Great Screens .. pity the NZCH scenery tho
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Postby Adamski » Sat Dec 24, 2011 11:41 am

A classy looking aircraft! Are you prop textures OK? I seem to remember them being a problem for some of the older Dash's (and ATR).

What's the cockpit like?
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Postby Kiwia1spad » Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:25 pm

Adamski, the prop textures are all good, no problems with them, when i put the newmans paint in i just copied the textures out of the paint that came with it.
Ian, im working on the scenery, having done a complete re-install of FSX & Acceleration its going to take a little to get it all sorted again, NZCH is currently v1.3 of the snowmans NZCH
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Postby Ian Warren » Sat Dec 24, 2011 3:38 pm

Kiwia1spad wrote:
QUOTE (Kiwia1spad @ Dec 24 2011,3:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
NZCH is currently v1.3 of the snowmans NZCH

Ok , not Lawries , a rubbish build from years back ......... sure as hell not Christchurch
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Postby Kiwia1spad » Sun Dec 25, 2011 7:08 am

Oh i didnt know that Ian, i got it from Snowman's site
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Postby lowflier » Sun Dec 25, 2011 8:03 am

Ian Warren wrote:
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Ok , not Lawries , a rubbish build from years back ......... sure as hell not Christchurch

Hey Ian, is there any way of converting your NZCH FS9 scenery to fsx? It sure would beat everything out there at the moment.
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Postby Ian Warren » Sun Dec 25, 2011 8:46 am

Thanx LF .. Heck,s that now really has become a retro airport , it look nothing like that today , there is a new Christchurch incoming , unfortunately cannot change the FS9 model as most models have been lost .
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Postby lowflier » Sun Dec 25, 2011 8:52 am

Ian Warren wrote:
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Thanx LF .. Heck,s that now really has become a retro airport , it look nothing like that today , there is a new Christchurch incoming , unfortunately cannot change the FS9 model as most models have been lost .

That's a shame, but a new one sounds great. I know what you mean, the airport has changed heaps, every time I go there end end up getting more and more lost.
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Postby Ian Warren » Sun Dec 25, 2011 9:10 am

There is a brilliant book by Tony Phillips 'With Great Foresight' The Story of Christchurch International Airport , this book id recommend to anyone , the quality of the print and one if you do not read for year just the study of the photos , just outstanding cool.gif
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Postby Splitpin » Sun Dec 25, 2011 4:11 pm

Just gave you some stars thumbup1.gif great shots !
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Postby Ian Warren » Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:49 am

Marty , Twas a Movie about you years back .... It was called STARMAN biggrin.gif
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Postby Kiwia1spad » Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:39 pm

Ok, so im still playing around with the Dash-7 this time starting in Nelson (snowmans excellent freeware) and heading for Ohakea (Gavin Andrews Freeware)





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Postby Ian Warren » Mon Dec 26, 2011 11:59 pm

I may be the first to say this winkyy.gif ya security fence is backwards ninja.gif Dang!
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Postby Kiwia1spad » Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:29 am

Ian Warren wrote:
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I may be the first to say this winkyy.gif ya security fence is backwards ninja.gif Dang!


I never noticed that Ian... though i havent added any fencing to the image, its all in the scenery pack
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Postby Ian Warren » Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:38 am

I have this problem ... some strange women in her REDsecurity rav looks at me the wrong way all the time then gos off and breaks all the rules .... little like the our leaders and many others with a little power ... maybe the fences are designed to us safe from them winkyy.gif
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Postby Splitpin » Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:42 pm

Nice shots thumbup1.gif I had a fly on that .....boy, seems like years ago now (it was bloody years ago) a pity they didn't survive.
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Postby connor » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:13 am

Does this bird have a VC? unsure.gif
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Postby Kiwia1spad » Wed Dec 28, 2011 4:21 pm

connor wrote:
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Does this bird have a VC? unsure.gif

Hi Connor, yes this does have a VC thats actually pretty good, bear in mind that in FSX it is a FS9 portover but so far im not having issues with it
Splitpin, it is a shame they didnt survive, but if they had of used Dash 8s on the longer routes and used the Dash 7s on the short haul short strip routes like Glentanner - CHCH or Ashburton - Methven they might have done a lot better
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