johnfromoz

Please, more Aussie stuff for the western 2/3 that has been comparatively ignored! Stop me if I've said this before but there's been no good YPPF Parafield since Steve Royals in FS9 did it. Love to see his old fields done by Orbx! (YPPF also has a weather stone. Or had, it was stolen) There's a good YPAD Adelaide available, but it's been upgraded a lot in the real world since then. YPAG Pt Augusta YWHA Whyalla YPIR Pt Pirie (all three might fit in one "Iron Triangle" pack!) YMTG Mt Gambier I liked a suggestion for cattle station airstrips elsewhere in this thread. Alan Blencowe has already done several for WA and he seems to be moving on to Orbx compatibility (many already work fine). That still leaves South Australia and the Northern Territory. As for non-Aussie;- PAUN Unalakleet - mentioned by others (maybe I'm not the only one who liked that TV show!) CYQT Thunder Bay (loved my FS9 version and I like the location) CYZF Yellowknife (yep, saw it on TV too. Seems to me it, and any other bonus fields nearby, cries out for an Orbx pack)

jbertelson, I also remember visiting La Conner and you're right, beautiful area. Found a nice friendly place to eat on Farm to Market Road, set in a red barn (which FS overdid as a default object, except in America) which I think was between La Conner and Skagit. Nice gardens (and tulip farms) and a superb backdrop. Snohomish was nice, too, right beside Harvey field. G'day, Ed from Adelaide. I'm not a heavy metal person but that cockpit is really impressive!

Well, then... name is John Burford, from Adelaide, South Australia. Retired from government stuff. Always lived near or under a flightpath or circuit and within easy reach of some airfield or other, usually YPPF Parafield for GA, YPED for air force and YPAD for regional/international. Among various uniforms I've worn Air Training Corps cadet (WW2 leftovers!), and later army reserve clobber. First sim I got working was FS95. Got into tinkering in FS2002 (never got 2000) and five minutes later FS2004 came out, better still. Fiddled with AFCADs, scenery object-placing software, AI traffic and other bits and pieces. My PC just handles FSX well enough to enjoy FTX provided I live the the occasional "out of memory!No, not upgrading yet - a thousand or two bucks is a lot - after all it's just a game! (Ducks for cover) Into aviation in general, have been in and even flown the odd aircraft briefly, but not a pilot. Crashed a link trainer in the Air Training Corps. Seems like a lot of pics relate to our common hobby one way or another. So here's my connection. FTX Skagit area, around April. Me in 2009 among those coloured patches. A few more pics. I don't care much for flowers but glad I saw this. Very spectacular. At a pinch the buldings among the trees in the 2nd thumb might be those under the aircraft, and sheds in the third shot might be the ones ahead of the aircraft in the FS screenie. The relative positions are right. And I also visited Snohomish and Harvey Field.