Stillwater
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Fantastic shots, showing how good p3d (still) is.
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On 5/3/2024 at 1:20 AM, Rob Abernathy said:
Here's a little strip on the big Island that caters to sky diving. Part of an Orbx partner release.
Okay, this can´t be US mainland, though it seems the plane has a "N" registration.
Not Alaska either, if climate change hasn´t gone further than I know.
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Once again a documentation of a nice flight, Mikee!
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Though I see your Saturday collection only on Sunday, I like this airport show!
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Looks quite crazy what these gentlemen were doing in the video. We should pass it over to the EHS department!
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I use MSFS Add-Ons Linker to minimize the number of add-ons to be started. Unfortunately, in order to have OrbxCentral working well, I have to leave all Orbx-bought add-ons always active.
It takes me 2.5 minutes to get to the main menu. And, after configuration, another 30 seconds until ready to start. Therefore I am basically in the area of Rod @stiletto2.
Sounds as if I am lucky.
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It must have been a flight with my parents in a propeller plane from Bremen to some place in Bulgaria in 1971. I can not remember much more, but there must be a photo of the plane somewhere...
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Great presentation & start.
And I can confirm: The cruise ships are real, they are flooding the whole Rototua area with day tourists.
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You call it leftovers, we call it winners, Iain!
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As Wayne @wain71 reported to have slight difficulties landing a chopper without crashing...
... I´d like to give a motivation: The CowanSim AS350 behaves quite reliable, once you got throttle and collective swapped for correct behaviour. I like it!
Here we are at Marions Lookout in front of Cradle Mountain (TAS):
And, on the way back to the Visitor Center, just an extra motivation:
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Nice view. And it took me some time to discover the plane, a fitting camouflage!
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On 5/2/2024 at 9:24 PM, Iain Emms said:
A happy Mr Rollo.
Aaah, he looks so relaxed… the King of your castle.
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Great shots Wayne, but... I am missing the most important city in the middle between B and B: Hanover!
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23 hours ago, wain71 said:
what a fantastic post Gerold, nice insight into the area and some great screenshots and pictures to...
Thank you Wayne. I love to share both!
13 hours ago, gumbypickett said:I love the shots Gerold as you know. The suspension bridge washed away in the 1929 floods, just to give you an idea how high the water was. My Grandfather helped in the building of the current one back in 1934 which still stands.
All the best.
cheers
Gumby
What a great insight, Gumby. You can be sure I have pictures of myself crossing the bridge in 2024 (so-called "selfies") and in 2002 (so-called "photos"). The bridge did not age much during that time.
6 hours ago, Iain Emms said:First off my apologies to you Gerold this is a informative post indeed.
cheers
Iain
No worries, Iain. Good that we can sort it all out!
2 hours ago, boetie said:Thanks Gerold, I enjoyed your interesting post.
Cheers
Graeme
Thanks for your feedback, Graeme. Call me travel-ambassador. Not just of the Milford Sound area, you may ask me on Tassie as well...
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That plane gives a real colourful whizz to the alps!
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For me that depends on the plane you fly: With an airliner there are quite some difficult places like
Innsbruck, Kai Tak, Sion, Calvi, Quito, Kathmandu, even Heraklion (due to the missing vertical reference).
With any plane my worst-to-land list contains
Lukla, Narvik and St. Barths (TFFJ).
I am sure some people even land a 747 in these places, in one way or another.
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2 hours ago, jean marc said:
great story to know Gerold...so we know about at present about your forum mysterious name 🙂 lovely screenshot of Mt Roland ... and very happy to see Cradle Mountain Wilderness Lodge where I slept about 26 years ago (1998) during a long trail ! we get snow and landscapes were splendid !
How time flies, Jean Marc. And I am sure you have great memories of thr Cradle area. I have been there 22 years ago as well, and I can tell you lots of touristic infrastructure has been built up there in the meantime, which changes the impression a bit. Until you walk into the wilderness...
8 minutes ago, adambar said:Who knew, nice story and pictures Gerald!
You´re welcome, Adam!
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And here we go... my vote this month goes to
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The airport looks a bit deserted when no commercial airliner and GSX are present and active.
But we can see the signs, antenna, dustbins etc. are placed absolutely correct.
When you leave downtown Launceston to the northwest and stop under the bridge you see this famous building.
Looks more famous in reality.
And just a few meters further you´ll cross Kings Bridge, the entry/exit of Cataract Gorge.
Walking just about 15 minutes you´d come to first basin, with Alexandra Suspension bridge in the background.
Slightly more upstream is Sentinel Lookout.
Enough of walking, let´s drive westwards. North of Westbury you (I) will find the Extractas facility. Probably the only forum member who knew this factory has passed away, rest in peace Terry!
More famous would be Trowunna Wildlife park in Mole Creek.
Lovely critters being protected there.
Mt. Roland.
The road lead me further across Cethana Bridge, but there was no good point to stop for a picture. You can imagine how green and difficult to travel the island was 200 years ago.
A good place to stay: Cradle Mountain Wilderness Lodge.
To be continued, if I find Orbx-sold scenery or aircraft for the tour. I know, there are too many touristic pictures here. But that is the key for me to buy scenery/airports: Preparing or repeating real life travels. Luckily enough for the providers I give them enough places to create 🙂 !
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I would prefer Mr. Scotts Engine room. Beam me up!
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Hmm, looks like a dirty glacier...
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Not many contributions so far, but Milford Sound gets me the right to vote!
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4 hours ago, boetie said:
Thanks for the P3D clue. There's a seaplane base next to Juneau. Are you lucky enough to have visited that Larry?
Cheers
Graeme
That would have been my guess as well. But PAJN is an airport pack, no area...
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5 hours ago, larryisenor said:
OK try this one. Not a custom airport but in one of the scenery packages:
https://i.imgur.com/NUEuPBG.jpg
Doesn"t seem to embed but the link works
Larry
Here it is, I could just copy and paste.
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Orbx airports visited in real life - a rolling story
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USA. Which proved to be correct.
Anybody here with a new picture?