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Feb 7th, 2010 at 8:18am

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Congrats to all who managed to finish the 107-stop, monster tour of the Pacific! 

For the first half of 2010, we're going to focus on New Zealand!  Kiwis rejoice!  Cool


The North Island section of the Hop list is ready to fly now, with the Southern Island being added in soon. 

This tour, along with a complete list of available addon scenery has been compiled by our very own SeanTK, major thanks to him once again for his invaluable homework on this project.  Smiley



North Island Tour

Wellington - Masterton

Masterton - Dannevirke

Dannevirke - Palmerston North - Wanganui

Wanganui - Hastings - Napier

Napier - Taupo -Stratford

Stratford - Te Kuiti

Te Kuiti - Rotorua

Rotorua - Opotiki

Opotiki - Whakatane - Tauranga

Tauranga - Matamata - Hamilton

Hamilton - Auckland

Auckland - Coromandel

Coromandel - North Shore

North Shore - Great Barrier

Great Barrier - Auckland




Features 19 unique airports fully supported by freeware addon scenery on the north island of New Zealand.

Direct links mentioned when possible.  Wink

Environment and Miscellaneous:


VOZ 1.8 "North Textures".



Red Baron New Zealand Landclass Scenery & Updated Airspace Boundrys

http://www.simpilotexperience.com/flight-sim-add-ons/free/free-downloads.html


GeographX 75m New Zealand Mesh

http://geographx.co.nz/downloads/mesh75.zip





Airports, In order of appearance


Wellington

nzwn04v1.zip
nzwn04v2.zip
nzwnaf2.zip


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Masterton

masterton07july08.zip


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Dannevirk

http://www.simviation.com/simviation/?ID=85&page=18

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Palmerston North

http://snowman.ozsimdev.com.au/index.php?ind=downloads&op=entry_view&iden=232

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Wanganui

http://www.simviation.com/simviation/?ID=85&page=15

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Hastings

http://snowman.ozsimdev.com.au/index.php?ind=downloads&op=entry_view&iden=176

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Napier

http://snowman.ozsimdev.com.au/index.php?ind=downloads&op=entry_view&iden=265

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Taupo

taupo_airport_nzap.zip


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Stratford

http://www.simviation.com/simviation/?ID=85&page=16&mark=4935

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Te Kuiti

te-kuiti_nztt.zip


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Rotorua

http://www.nzscenery.com/fs2004.html

* I highly recommend the payware "RealNZ Rotorua/Tuaranga" package!
http://windowlight.co.nz/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products....

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Opotiki

http://www.simviation.com/simviation/?ID=85&page=18

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Whakatane

http://www.simviation.com/simviation/?ID=85&page=15

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Tauranga

http://snowman.ozsimdev.com.au/index.php?ind=downloads&op=entry_view&iden=244

* I highly recommend the payware "RealNZ Rotorua/Tuaranga" package!
http://windowlight.co.nz/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products....

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Matamata

http://snowman.ozsimdev.com.au/index.php?ind=downloads&op=entry_view&iden=259

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Hamilton

http://snowman.ozsimdev.com.au/index.php?ind=downloads&op=entry_view&iden=257

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Auckland

http://snowman.ozsimdev.com.au/index.php?ind=downloads&op=entry_view&iden=283

auckland2005fix.zip (if not included in above link download)
nzaa_v3_akl05.zip

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Coromandel

coromandel_nzcx_godzone-ver.zip


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Great Barrier

gbisld-1.zip



The following website has free downloads of all relevant instrument approach/departure charts, plus airport diagrams and stuff. (Under the "Aerodrome Charts" row)

http://www.aip.net.nz/




South Island Tour

Auckland Intl - Wellington Intl

Wellington Intl - Nelson

Nelson - Kaikoura

Kaikoura - Westport

Westport - Greymouth

Greymouth - Christchurch Intl

Christchurch Intl - Waimate

Waimate - Mount Cook

Mount Cook - Milford Sound

Milford Sound - Queenstown

Queenstown - Dunedin

Dunedin - Manapouri

Manapouri - Invercargill

Quote:
If you can put the following when you post the tour please:

"As you may have noticed, I do not have addon scenery recommendations for this route. I have noted the fact that the majority of users that I am aware of that fly these tours are not interested in addon scenery for these trips, so I will not go through the effort. If you are interested in using freeware addon scenery with this trip, private message me and I will assist you in finding the best stuff available. I can no longer guarantee that there is custom scenery for every airport on this tour, but there definitely are a few destinations here that are supported.

I hope you have enjoyed both the north and south island tours of New Zealand that I have created!
If you are interested in providing comments or criticism on these routes, feel free to contact me. If you have serious suggestions for future tours, I encourage you to post them in the multiplayer forum area, or consult with tour uploader and hoplist technician ShaneG. If you want, you can talk to me about it too, but Shane is the one who actually uploads the hoplist to the multiplayer server and does the official announcements.

Have fun,
-SeanTK"



Thanks for doing the grunt work with getting them on the server, Shane!

-Sean



You can keep track of your progress on the hoplist here:

http://cockpit.netfrag.org:81/User999.html


ENJOY!!!  Smiley
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Reply #1 - Feb 8th, 2010 at 12:04am
SeanTK   Ex Member

 
This one was a lot of fun to create!  Smiley

Note to anybody who flies this. If you use the mesh and and addon airports, I would suggest loading up the airport to take a peek at it before you do the actual flight. I think there might be a few airports that need the following adjustment:

Copy the AFCAD file from the airport's scenery folder into the scenery/world/scenery folder.

You will then have 2 AFCADs, one present in the addon scenery area with the actual airport's folder entry, and another exact same one in the world/scenery folder.

That seems to resolve some issues of the problem airports sitting on the mesh.

I am pretty sure Dannevirk, Whakatane, and Opotiki needs this, but I am unsure of some of the other smaller ones. I know Wellington, Auckland, Tauranga, and Hamilton do not need the fix.

Easy, quick fix resulting in much more enjoyable arrivals and departures.


I cannot emphasize enough my recommendation for the use of at least the VOZ North textures, along with the landclass and mesh. If you want to limit your addon consumption, at least get those three. It makes an enormous difference when flying in New Zealand, and looks quite impressive.

The addon airports are all very good quality, and most use custom objects to accurately depict the fields. My personal favorites include Wellington, Napier, Taupo, and payware Rotorua & Tauranga.
 
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Reply #2 - Feb 14th, 2010 at 9:28pm

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Where can I get the textures for FSX?
 
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Reply #3 - Feb 14th, 2010 at 9:50pm
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This tour is designed around FS2004, due to the availability of many custom addons for the country of New Zealand, and the distinct lack of good addons for this region that work with the FSX platform.

The mesh, landclass, and possibly a few airports may work in FSX, but once again, this is unsupported.

Regarding the "textures" specifically, I believe you are referencing my recommendation for VOZ "North". Unfortunately, this freeware addon does not work with FSX to the best of my knowledge.


I understand that the nature of this tour may alienate some that are stuck with FSX, but I wanted to try to make this tour as realistic as possible, and unfortunately, that desire can only be accomplished with the abundance of FS2004 New Zealand items at this time.
I know that there are some elements of FSX that are outstanding, but I have realized that outside of parts of the US, Australia, and some western European countries, FS2004 is the way to go until the addon community catches up in the coming years.

It never hurts to have both sims on your system!  Wink
 
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Reply #4 - Feb 22nd, 2010 at 10:07pm

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with 5 hops left in the tour... whats going to be next??? hehe?? I tend to do about 7-9 hops at a time.  Right now Im sitting at NZTG giving my variety of planes a much needed rest.


Planes I fly tonight.. Beech D18S amphib, F14, P51, Beech C-45G. 

Nice area, but I should have gotten the downloads. Oh well, better FPS without them.



I'll be waiting on the Waikato Carrier at the end for the next trip.
 
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Reply #5 - Feb 23rd, 2010 at 2:42am
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Next tour will be on the South Island of New Zealand. I just need to:

1. Remember to create it for Shane.

2. Find time in my schedule to create it.

After this, I have no idea where the next one would be, although I have a few ideas of my own for possible consideration in the future.
 
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Reply #6 - Feb 23rd, 2010 at 7:41pm

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if i might throw a few suggestions...

Papua New Guinea,  China,  Indonesia.


somewhere that just the general pilot might not ever really think about heading to.
 
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Reply #7 - Feb 23rd, 2010 at 8:53pm
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Thanks for the suggestions!

I was considering the following after the South Island of NZ:

-Philippines

-Northern Europe/Scandinavia (would basically ring around the coast beginning with northern Netherlands and gradually wrapping around the waterway eastward before heading back to the southern coast of Norway.)

-Mediterranean (coastal circuit covering the area around the Mediterranean)

-Alaska (with significant portion of it in the Aleutian islands)

-Coast of South America (coastal flight covering the edge of the entire continent)

-Black Sea tour (coastal covering many towns around the Black Sea)




I am trying to pick spots with a variety of scenery attributes that are noticable on a default installation. If I create future tours I will NOT be going through the trouble of suggesting addon scenery for the tour, since no-one seems to use it, and I felt like I wasted the effort.
Luckily the current New Zealand series still lends itself well to default installations, but it was mainly produced around freeware addon scenery availability. I will not be basing future tours on that now.

For any future tours created by me, if you want addon scenery recommendations, just PM me. This policy will be in place beginning with the upcoming New Zealand South Island tour.


UPDATE: I just sent my hoplist for the south island to Shane, so hopefully we can expect it on the forums in the coming days. Have fun.
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Reply #8 - Feb 24th, 2010 at 5:55am

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We've done that Tour courtesy of Shane, a while ago, covering the whole Coast, Sean..Wink..!

I didn't install all the Scenery for the NZ North Island because my add-on Library is already overloaded with all my Scenery for California...

...but I did install the Scenery Mesh and Land Class for the NZ North Island Tour, which was handy, (in addition to my VOZ and FS Global)...Wink...!

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Reply #9 - Feb 24th, 2010 at 1:13pm
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Ah, thanks Paul. I suspected we did that a while ago, but could not remember for sure!

It's understandable that some won't install the scenery. I'm just making it known that I'm not bothering with it unless someone wants it.  Wink


The task continues to find locations that look great in the default world.
 
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Reply #10 - Feb 24th, 2010 at 2:10pm

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I'm liking the Alaska idea. Smiley

  So many different addons available for both sims, and even the default country side looks good up there, and even better when just a simple mesh is added in.

We've had some great multiplayer flights up there in the past.  Cool
 
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ShaneG wrote on Feb 24th, 2010 at 2:10pm:
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Me too.

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B-Valvs wrote on Feb 24th, 2010 at 3:08pm:
ShaneG wrote on Feb 24th, 2010 at 2:10pm:
I'm liking the Alaska idea. Smiley


Me too.

Cool



Beware......at temperatures of -50* up there, its cold enough to freeze your "Carburettors" off!.. Shocked.... Shocked....!

Paul... Grin....!

...anyone watching the latest TV; "Ice Road Truckers" in Alaska, for an example of the local weather?
...Brrrrr.... Wink.... Grin....!
 
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Reply #13 - Feb 24th, 2010 at 6:32pm
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But Paul, you always use clear and sunny weather anyway!  Grin Wink

The real world weather conditions up there would definately be interesting during a tour.
It seems like there is actually substantial interest in an AK trip, so I suppose I'll start generating one sometime within the next week.  Wink
 
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Reply #14 - Feb 24th, 2010 at 6:46pm

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If nothing else, Paul could give us lessons on the proper usage of carb heat.  Wink

I never paid attention to it until he pointed it out, and now I find my self fiddling with it at times.

A warm carb is a happy carb.  Grin

Alaska for the win.
 
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