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Post by zswobbie1 on Dec 4, 2018 1:38:57 GMT -5
Sadly not for FS2004!...
Darn!
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Post by leutnantwerner on Dec 4, 2018 3:39:26 GMT -5
Thank God!
Bernie
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 16:22:27 GMT -5
A quick but important point re this scenery - Unfortunately it will only be usable in FSX BUT it will also require you have FTX Global and Global Vector. The reason is simple; these two scenery products corrected terrain-land profiles in FSX all over the globe so they give correct coastal profiles and shapes and put back islands (with their correct shape) where they should be, this is particularly the case in the Pacific area where I do most of my simming. For example the Island Group of Fiji, in standard FSX scenery half the islands are missing and the main island Viti Levu is misshapen and missing part of it in the eastern side (right where the capital Suva is), FTX fixed this all up and the general ground textures LC etc those programs supply make most places a lot more realistic in the way they look.
I have also been re-working the great work on a lot of Flying Boat bases and ports by Bruce Kennewell. Bruce did a lot but it was all for 2004 and earlier and while the models and objects are fine because of the variations in the sim cartography between MS2004 and FSX they are all seriously misplaced but I have managed to find a way to correct a lot of the positioning so these will all be updated as well. I have been unsuccessful in contacting Bruce but I am sure he would approve. Full credit to him he did a lot of research to create his work.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 17:52:26 GMT -5
Going along it is amazing once you get involved in this Classic Era just how extensive flying boat operations were. Anyway a few more of the bases and of the era
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 17:53:26 GMT -5
Townsville Harbour as it was when Imperial Airways and Qantas went there.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 17:54:51 GMT -5
Karumba on the Normanton River in Queensland where Imperial/Qantas used to stop on the way to Townsville or coming back to Darwin.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 17:56:00 GMT -5
Darwin Harbour Stokes Wharf area where the flying boats operated from. The Doctors Gully Cat base is up around the corner.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 17:56:59 GMT -5
Aitutaki Lagoon Cook Islands where the TEAL Coral Sea route used to terminate.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 17:58:23 GMT -5
The Pan American Clipper Flying Boat Base at Canton Island. They had a hotel there and it was near the entrance to the Canton Island Lagoon where the shipwreck was.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 17:59:15 GMT -5
Basra Iraq where 209 RAF Squadron used to operate from.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 18:00:04 GMT -5
Dar Es Salaam where the RAF Sunderlands were frequent visitors until the late 1950s/
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 18:01:02 GMT -5
Khartoum in Sudan on the Nile River another regular stop for Flying Boats particular the RAF during the Suez Crisis.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 21:04:57 GMT -5
Kingman Reef Mid Pacific. This took a little finding initially but the reef is correct as far as lat and long is in FSX, even shows the shallower water. Luckily even managed to find an old picture of the ship anchored there for the clipper refuelling when they went Honolulu to Samoa.
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Post by jacklyon on Dec 9, 2018 5:13:35 GMT -5
A quick but important point re this scenery - Unfortunately it will only be usable in FSX BUT it will also require you have FTX Global and Global Vector. The reason is simple; these two scenery products corrected terrain-land profiles in FSX all over the globe so they give correct coastal profiles and shapes and put back islands (with their correct shape) where they should be, this is particularly the case in the Pacific area where I do most of my simming. For example the Island Group of Fiji, in standard FSX scenery half the islands are missing and the main island Viti Levu is misshapen and missing part of it in the eastern side (right where the capital Suva is), FTX fixed this all up and the general ground textures LC etc those programs supply make most places a lot more realistic in the way they look. I have also been re-working the great work on a lot of Flying Boat bases and ports by Bruce Kennewell. Bruce did a lot but it was all for 2004 and earlier and while the models and objects are fine because of the variations in the sim cartography between MS2004 and FSX they are all seriously misplaced but I have managed to find a way to correct a lot of the positioning so these will all be updated as well. I have been unsuccessful in contacting Bruce but I am sure he would approve. Full credit to him he did a lot of research to create his work. Hi, it's not sadly for me, i have those products, so if is for FSX (P3DV4 in my case), it's ok for me.
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Post by jacklyon on Dec 9, 2018 5:14:29 GMT -5
It's not sadly, i am a "vintage user", of FS91 and P3D4, so, i can use scenery of "both world"
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