Rapide under Tarawera

[AdrianPetford]

Tarawera photoscenery (Timmo), VLC, de Havilland DH.89a Dragon Rapide Floatplane V4 (Dave Garwood)

[Naki]

Beautiful screenie!...betcha a DH-89 struggled with floats

[Ian Warren]

Another region suited to the Rapide .. good photoreal , great plane , brilliant Screen

[Splitpin]

and stars.

[AdrianPetford]

QUOTE (Naki @ May 14 2012,10:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Beautiful screenie!...betcha a DH-89 struggled with floats

Cheers, Paul. Heh heh, I'm finding Dave's new DH.89 has a bit more of a learning curve than the old version. A more accurate (less forgiving) flight model means I've had a few nose-first landings on ground, so at least Lake Tarawera gave me something big to aim at...


Ade

[AdrianPetford]

Thanks Ian and Marty, I thought you'd both be along for a look

That's one of my favourite sightseeing runs with a floatplane, probably because "Volcanic Air" (from Real NZ Rotorua) is one of the only water starts I have in FSX. It's great to take off from Lake Rotorua, fly over the city and lakes, up right over the top of Mount Tarawera then circle round and come in for a landing on the lake below the mountain.

I'm very interested in that area in real life, mostly for the weird geology and history of the eruption, buried village of Te Wairoa etc and have been there many times although never for a sightseeing flight. Perhaps I'll do it for real one day?

Cheers,


Ade

[Naki]

Yep nosed over the Rapide too!

I live about 40 minutes from Tarawera...its certainly a beautiful part of the country

[Ian Warren]

Only recent have they found remains and shoals of the famous terraces in this area in a diving explore of one the lakes around Tarawera , ... strange each time i here or the word mentioned i keep thinking of Tarawa and the famed battle in 1943 ... guess that's the war monger coming out off me