Stillwater Posted October 8, 2020 Author Share Posted October 8, 2020 Just now, bernief said: Then it must YSCB Canberra ACT. Cheers Bernie. Sorry Bernie, I only visited Canbra airport at night. This one is further north... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 2 minutes ago, Stillwater said: Sorry Bernie, I only visited Canbra airport at night. This one is further north... Then it's Sydney? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Harmes Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 Maybe it's Cairns? Based on the generous clues. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted October 8, 2020 Author Share Posted October 8, 2020 3 hours ago, wolfko said: Then it's Sydney? Ah, Wolfgang, you forgot: That airport is excellently represented, but the work has been done by someone else, not Orbx... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted October 8, 2020 Author Share Posted October 8, 2020 3 hours ago, Scott Harmes said: Maybe it's Cairns? Based on the generous clues. You have it got, Scott. Good to see my quest was solvable, but not too easy. Hope someone else can hit the same level? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Stillwater said: Ah, Wolfgang, you forgot: That airport is excellently represented, but the work has been done by someone else, not Orbx... Oh yes! Silly me! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Harmes Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 12 hours ago, wolfko said: Oh yes! Silly me! I was thinking it was Darwin for quite a while before I finally remembered that Orbx had not done Darwin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Harmes Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 Here is one I took a few years ago: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikbenik Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 I hope follow guess is in right direction: Australean airport as a home for RFDS King Air's ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted October 9, 2020 Author Share Posted October 9, 2020 As the Queen is now disappearing in the hangars, the King becomes more and more beautiful. The tower to the right end of the picture might be a hint, but I don´t remember... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Harmes Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 12 hours ago, ikbenik said: I hope follow guess is in right direction: Australean airport as a home for RFDS King Air's ? 11 hours ago, Stillwater said: As the Queen is now disappearing in the hangars, the King becomes more and more beautiful. The tower to the right end of the picture might be a hint, but I don´t remember... Yes....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernief Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 Hi Scott. As you are a Victorian resident, it could only have been YMML, YMEN, or YMMB. My first guess would have been YMMB as you live close by. However after I downloaded the photo and zoomed in, I could see that the aircraft belonged to the Air Ambulance. not the Royal Flying Doctor as ikbenik called it. A quick search brought up the Air Ambulance as being based at Essendon. The answer is, therefore, YMEN now called Essendon Fields Airport. Cheers Bernie. PS, I have found a photo of an Orbx airport so I can post that one if I am successful.. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Harmes Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 2 hours ago, bernief said: Hi Scott. As you are a Victorian resident, it could only have been YMML, YMEN, or YMMB. My first guess would have been YMMB as you live close by. However after I downloaded the photo and zoomed in, I could see that the aircraft belonged to the Air Ambulance. not the Royal Flying Doctor as ikbenik called it. A quick search brought up the Air Ambulance as being based at Essendon. The answer is, therefore, YMEN now called Essendon Fields Airport. Cheers Bernie. PS, I have found a photo of an Orbx airport so I can post that one if I am successful.. Well deduced Bernie . YMEN it is. I actually took that photo quite a few years ago, and just happened to be working at the Air Ambulance base one day. I also lived nearby, so used to take many photos of planes on approach and landing at the airport. Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 When I was in Melbourne about 30 years ago, the told us a story, that once the crew of a very large aircraft had mistaken YMEN for YMEL and landed in Essendon by error. The aircraft was too large to be brought out of Essendon in one piece again. Does anybody have more detailed info about this story? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernief Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 Hi all. This is not a current Orbx airport but hopefully it will be in the very near future. It has been promised by a well known Orbx developer. The photo was taken on 1 June 2008 so the airport has changed quite dramatically. The occasion was a visit to the airport by a group of VOZ Forum members where we were escorted by a forum member and had a good look at a Beechcraft 1900C. The interesting thing about this aircraft is that it was not fitted with an autopilot, the crew had to hand fly it on FIFO flights all around the area. The answer is actually staring you in the face. Cheers Bernie 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted October 10, 2020 Share Posted October 10, 2020 4 hours ago, bernief said: This is not a current Orbx airport but hopefully it will be in the very near future. It has been promised by a well known Orbx developer. Perth? "...The answer is actually staring you in the face...."????????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernief Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 13 hours ago, wolfko said: Perth? "...The answer is actually staring you in the face...."????????????? Well, I made that too easy. YPPH Perth it is. Your turn wolfgo. The photo is actually around the Freight Apron near the threshold of Runway 06. Hence the Australian air Express and Toll Priority freighters in the photo. I hope Jarrad Marshall's version of Perth Airport is not too far away. Cheers Bernie. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 8 hours ago, bernief said: Well, I made that too easy. YPPH Perth it is. Your turn wolfgo. The photo is actually around the Freight Apron near the threshold of Runway 06. Hence the Australian air Express and Toll Priority freighters in the photo. I hope Jarrad Marshall's version of Perth Airport is not too far away. Cheers Bernie. Unfortunately I have no pics left to post. Yeah, the hint with the "promise of a well known developer" brought me on the track. But I still have not figured out, why "the answer was staring in the face". Can you please enlighten me Bernie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernief Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Here you go. Cheers Bernie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 27 minutes ago, bernief said: Here you go. Cheers Bernie Ah, blind me! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted October 14, 2020 Author Share Posted October 14, 2020 Anyone in posession of a nice real life shot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted October 29, 2020 Author Share Posted October 29, 2020 Now we have nearly kept this thread running over a year. And what a year this has been, with no new travels for many of us since at least 7 months. So I drop in another picture of the "good old times" without that virus. I nearly forgot where I had been here... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 32 minutes ago, Stillwater said: Now we have nearly kept this thread running over a year. And what a year this has been, with no new travels for many of us since at least 7 months. So I drop in another picture of the "good old times" without that virus. I nearly forgot where I had been here... By looking at that black car, me thinks it must have been in a dusty area. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 It is Alice Springs. Do you remember now, Gerold? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted October 29, 2020 Author Share Posted October 29, 2020 7 hours ago, wolfko said: It is Alice Springs. Do you remember now, Gerold? Ah, now it gets clearer... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Abernathy Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Here's one from the PNW I visited last week. I have better clues if no one knows which airport this is from Orbx. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper31 Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Is that 1S2? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Sniper31 said: Is that 1S2? I think, that's a good guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 6 hours ago, Rob Abernathy said: Here's one from the PNW I visited last week. I have better clues if no one knows which airport this is from Orbx. Very nice pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Abernathy Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 11 hours ago, Sniper31 said: Is that 1S2? Close! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper31 Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Okay, then my next guestimate would have to be 3W5 Concrete Cheers, Landon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share Posted November 9, 2020 Whereever these last pictures have been taken, I am so happy this thread is alive again! And I have not seen that beautiful truck painting in my Orbx collection yet... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 (edited) Found it. Google is you friend. I just entered "Mains Street". Landon is right, it is Concrete. This is a Google Maps Streetview shot of the fire brigade building. Edited November 9, 2020 by wolfko 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Abernathy Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 Excellent y'all! Some good detective work there. I knew I wasn't going to have to post this pic.... This one is just for fun. Such an iconic airport, love walking around it. Sadly we were leaving but then on to another airport! More later.... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper31 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 Awesome real world pics Rob! Concrete has been one of my longtime Orbx favorites (there are so many!). I don't have any real life shots of Orbx airports, so I will have to defer to anyone else that would like to take a run at the next one. Great choice Rob! Landon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Abernathy Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 Another PNW beauty. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper31 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 Well, I know exactly which this one is just because of the hill But, I will let someone else have a chance at it before I put my answer out Cheers! Landon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 5 hours ago, Sniper31 said: Well, I know exactly which this one is just because of the hill But, I will let someone else have a chance at it before I put my answer out Cheers! Landon Come on Landon, don't be so shy. Is this the hill which is modelled so superbly photorealistically well in the Orbx product? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregmorin Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 The log yard and hill just scream 1S2 Darrington. Greg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper31 Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 7 hours ago, wolfko said: Come on Landon, don't be so shy. Is this the hill which is modelled so superbly photorealistically well in the Orbx product? It might be ......;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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