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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.......

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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..

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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,

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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?

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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

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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...."????????????????

 

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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.

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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?

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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...

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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...

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By looking at that black car, me thinks it must have been in a dusty area.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Found it. Google is you friend. I just entered "Mains Street".:lol:

Landon is right, it is Concrete.

This is a Google Maps Streetview shot of the fire brigade building.

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Excellent y'all!   :D   Some good detective work there.   I knew I wasn't going to have to post this pic....:lol:

 

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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....

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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

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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. :lol:

Is this the hill which is modelled so superbly photorealistically well in the Orbx product? 

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