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Reply #15 - Jun 12^th, 2009 at 8:27pm

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Novosibirsk - Tolmachevo

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Reply #16 - Jun 12^th, 2009 at 8:42pm

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I agree with Skoker. Come on though, the addon scenery for UNNT is so awesome!

I was originally going to say Nizhnevartovsk Airport, but it only gets domestic service, and you said the feature airfield gets a number of international flights.

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Reply #17 - Jun 12^th, 2009 at 9:49pm

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skoker wrote on Jun 12^th, 2009 at 8:27pm:

Novosibirsk - Tolmachevo

Who?!

Thanks for introducing me to that airport and that add-on scenery, though Wink

You're getting very warm. There is a direct flight to here from Novosibirsk according to one of these airlines.

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Reply #18 - Jun 13^th, 2009 at 7:21am

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Astana International, Astana, Kazakhstan. One asphalt runway, 11,484 feet long.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astana_International_Airport

Airlines - Destinations
Aerosvit Airlines Kiev-Boryspil
Air Astana - Dubai, Frankfurt, Istanbul-Atatürk, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Novosibirsk [begins 15 June], Urumqi
Austrian Airlines - Vienna
Avia Traffic Company - Bishkek
Belavia - Minsk [begins 29 June]
Etihad Airways - Abu Dhabi
Imair Airlines - Baku
KD Avia - Kaliningrad
Lufthansa - Frankfurt
Rossiya - St Petersburg
SCAT - Minsk
Transaero Airlines - Moscow-Domodedovo
Turkish Airlines - Istanbul-Atatürk
Uzbekistan Airways - Tashkent
Wind Rose Aviation - Kiev-Boryspil

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #19 - Jun 13^th, 2009 at 5:30pm

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patchz wrote on Jun 13^th, 2009 at 7:21am:

[color=#000000]Astana International, Astana, Kazakhstan. One asphalt runway, 11,484 feet long.

Yep that's it.

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Reply #20 - Jun 13^th, 2009 at 7:50pm

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Nope, but close. According to FSX, here is the shape of the Astana terminal (different than the picture in the original post):

I do have a direct flight to Astana, too!

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Reply #21 - Jun 13^th, 2009 at 7:56pm

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Tashkent?

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Reply #22 - Jun 13^th, 2009 at 7:56pm

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OOOH SO CLOSE!

Uygur people live here.

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Reply #23 - Jun 13^th, 2009 at 11:07pm

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Barbr wrote on Jun 13^th, 2009 at 7:50pm:

Nope, but close. According to FSX, here is the shape of the Astana terminal (different than the picture in the original post):

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I do have a direct flight to Astana, too!

That's why it's so difficult for me. FS9 and FSX do not look anything alike in that particular shot. I really thought I had it. Oh well, back to the drawing board. Sad

How about....
Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport, located in Diwopu, a suburb north-west of Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. 11,811' concrete runway. Just don't ask me to pronounce any of that. Grin

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #24 - Jun 14^th, 2009 at 12:26am

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patchz wrote on Jun 13^th, 2009 at 11:07pm:

Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport, located in Diwopu, a suburb north-west of Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China.[/color]

You got it!! YAY!

Good job!

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Reply #25 - Jun 14^th, 2009 at 12:39am

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Barbr wrote on Jun 14^th, 2009 at 12:26am:

patchz wrote on Jun 13^th, 2009 at 11:07pm:

Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport, located in Diwopu, a suburb north-west of Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern China.[/color]

You got it!! YAY!

Good job!

Finally! Don't know why I got so caught up in this, especially since geography is not my forte. But it was fun. I also found a beautiful little crater lake about 33 miles due east, called Tianchi Lake, which means Heaven Lake. Of course the FS9 version is nowhere near as beautiful, but I downloaded a pic I plan to use in a composite. If you fly in the area, watch the winds. I found my Porter flying almost sideways several times. Grin

Thanks Barb, you made it really difficult. You don't happen to be a geography teacher do you? Grin

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #26 - Jun 14^th, 2009 at 2:18am

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patchz wrote on Jun 14^th, 2009 at 12:39am:

Thanks Barb, you made it really difficult. You don't happen to be a geography teacher do you? Grin

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Hehe, thanks for playing! You guys made it fun... I was hoping you guys were up to the challenge as it would've been too easy for me to post "Google-able" hints

No, I'm not a teacher, but we watched this TV documentary on the Silk Road and it talked about the region.

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