TigerTigerM Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Isan is at an elevation of 6,955' and said to have a strip 1,345' long. I overflew it several times yesterday after flying in from AYTP, so I went back today to start a flight from AYIS & get a better look at it. A few pics are attached. TTM Ubiquitous smoking chimney. Colorful washing. Angled view. The Porter is in fact on a small plateau & you can't see the full airstrip from the cockpit. To take off you trundle forwards then drop over the lip to the downhill ski jump remainder of the airstrip. & pick the gap in the trees at the end of the airstrip if you're running out of runway. Up in the top left is the airstrip. I think below in the pic is an adjacent village, or part of Isan. On my first approach here I noticed the tower structure in the upper center of this pic. Not sure what it is for, perhaps Ken could inform us, but I assumed it was a control tower so I was looking for the airstrip to be next to it. Took a couple of circuits for me to realize the airstrip was further over. Have left AYISO & dropped down to the right. Keen eyes will pick up the tower off in the distance, above & to the right of the aircraft. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Hall Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 another great set TT. That tower is most likely used for observation, but lack of elerticity procludes it as an airport control tower. A lot of the model placement is a combination of photos scrounged from various sources and good ol artistic licence, I was a landscape artist for years painting Australian scenes in oils and I learnt early on that when painting a picture requires carefull repositioning and exclusion and adding in parts to improve the composition, with so little information to go on I rely on my artistic licence and a what would most likely be there approach, earlier strips I did like Tapini Kokoda and Guari which are in the microsoft airports list now I had great photos and was able to get very close to real life, but somehow I like these better as I am free to improvise when I think it will fit in and improve the experience. Anyway I'm glad your enjoying them. In case you didn't notice there is an update out for Pack 2 I notice some rocks were missing , so I fixed that yesterday and Version 1.01 is ready to download on Orbx Central now. thanks again for showing the strips off I really do get a buzz from seeing peoples screenshots and reading their comments. cheers Ken 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boetie Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Beauties TTM. Such great scenery. Not a highrise in sight, real bush flying. Cheers Graeme 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean marc Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 (edited) 14 hours ago, TigerTigerM said: Ubiquitous smoking chimney. smoking tourist meat ;-D I mean the tourist himself as a meat 😄 Edited April 16 by jean marc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean marc Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 I love the second shot ! This hut on the top of the hill should be a fantastic place to stay 🙂 thanks TTM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Great set of shots. cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradB Posted April 16 Share Posted April 16 Terrific shots T !! . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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