pilotforfun Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 I tried to fly to NZS4 (Port Gore, Malborough Sounds, NZ South Island) this afternoon only to find that it dosnt exist. Could you please advise if there is a way to get this airport?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friedi Gulder Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 NZS4? Not found in Google Earth Cheers. Friedi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 As far as I know is - NZS4 a small strip on the North Island, north of Masterton/NZMS S40* 52.27' E175* 36.57' 853 Cootes Road Airstrip Dieter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Harris Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Hi there, NZS4 is a water runway, it adds a start point in the bay to start at if you have a seaplane, check the NZSI coverage area kmz, you'll see its icon is a different color to the normal airport ones Cheers Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddy Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Yes, NZS4 is a water runway. And thus has docks and start points for seaplanes. Sadly, I was unable to get AI planes to land and takeoff from there (nor NZS1, NZS2, NZS3 or NZSO). I believe for that to happen the AFCAD must have "concrete" taxiways and runways, but they must be set with a width of 0 (zero) so that they are not "visible". This allows the AI to operate. I've looked at the AFCADs for these airports with ADE, and whilst the taxiways etc are indeed set with a width of zero, they are not "concrete". Here's hoping that this may possibly be changed by a later patch or Service Pack. I could do the change myself, with ADE, but prefer for now to simply leave things as they are and enjoy everything as is. (Hmmm ... I am not using it, but perhaps the ORBX freeware AI package has seaplanes working from these airports? If it does, then I wonder what trickery the clever people at ORBX did to make that happen. And, thus, what tricky I must therefore perform to achieve the same result? If it doesn't, then, no drama ... I will still enjoy using these airports and taking off and landing at these locations.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilotforfun Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 Thanks for your posts guys. The problem I had was with using Air hauler. I had imported all my scenery after I had installed Obx so I would have thought if it wasnt in the SI scenery it wouldnt have caused Air Hauler to generate a job from NZS4 to NZWN. It said it had a concrete runway so imagine my frustration when ATC was guiding me in and I couldnt see the airport when on finals. Finally abandoned the flight and landed at NZWN. When I started FSX by itself with the King air and set airport as NZS4 it did indeed place my aircraft without floats!!! in the water!! Lol.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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