The Great Barrier liveries are for the other side of the Tasman. Great Barrier Air flies Auckland to Great Barrier Island and back. Also happens to be Orbx land... Great Barrier is not a wide runway.

Tom Wright, on 03 December 2012 - 11:05 PM, said:

Get Earth Simulations' Scilly Isles scenery and do the flights from Lands End to St Mary's. Real world BN2 route. There is a Skybus livery available somewhere too.

 

Apparently I've been living under a rock. Just wanted to say thanks for posting this, I have never heard of them before! Their sceneries look great, and from what I've seen from Mutley's Hangar and Avsim are held in really high regard....will have to put them on the list for sure!

 

 

They're not flying out of St Just [a whole different place to Penzance if you're local] at the moment. The grass runway is thoroughly waterlogged after recent rain and there was footage of a lonely looking Twin Otter apparently trapped there on the local TV news last night...

 

This of course follows the scandalous recent closure of the helicopter service from Penzance Heliport [as opposed to Penzance St Just airport] to St Mary's:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk...rnwall-20152181

Many years ago I flew from Plymouth (was EGHD but is now closed) to Heathrow (EGLL) in an Islander on a scheduled service.

Wow thanks for all the replies, links, and ideas guys! Very much appreciated! Some great looking stuff there, definitely going to buy the Dangerous Airports 1 for Barra and the Glasgow/Edinburgh UK2000 sceneries for the LoganAir flights. Also have to say, after seeing the Scilly Isles scenery from Earth Simulations that is a definite must have for me now too, I'd never heard of that pack before so thanks a lot for that! The liveries look good too, I've now got an Aer Araan livery and the St. Barths Commuter too to mix it up a bit.

 

I installed a remote seismic montoring system on the island of Gau in 1978 and flew right seat in an Islander to get there and back. Dirt strip, fun landing, and once every two days schedule.

 

Have to say as well that sounds like an incredible experience, I would love to have an experience like that in this aircraft.

 

Thanks again fellow simmers!

Antigua to Montserrat in the Caribbean is another BN-2 route. SVG Air in St. Vincent flies to the Grenadines using BN-2's.

 

Great Barrier Airlines with Orbx New Zealand North Island.

- Whangarei, NZWR

- North Shore, NZNE

- Auckland Intl, NZAA

- Great Barrier/Claris, NZGB

- Okiwi Station, NZOX

- Whitianga, NZWT

- Tauranga, NZTG

- Kaitaia, NZKT

http://www.greatbarrierairlines.co.nz

 

Air Fiordland (Milford repaint) with Orbx New Zealand South Island

- Milford Sounds, NZMF

- Queenstown, NZQN

- Te Anau/Manapouri, NZMO

http://www.airfiordland.com

If I am quite honest, I find the BN-2 a bit of an 'eggy' addon.

 

So I no longer fly it, as it is too eggy.

Ok I will ask. Eggy?

Ok I will ask. Eggy?

 

Well, you know, it's just a bit 'eggy' in terms of the textures and feel of it.

 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eggy

 

No offence intended though - I just find it a bit eggy. :smile:

Does it really matter what real world routes are flown. Fly your own and enjoy the flight. At the end of the day, does it really matter what livery is on the airframe? I fly to all sorts of places with aircraft in Qantas livery. Its the flight itself that interests me not whether Qantas flies there or not

Well, you know, it's just a bit 'eggy' in terms of the textures and feel of it.

 

http://www.urbandict...e.php?term=eggy

 

No offence intended though - I just find it a bit eggy. :smile:

 

And I find the BN-2 very 'uneggy, diseggy, and noneggy.' For those that don't know the BN-2 you can read about her in a Avsim review. First link in my signature. http://forum.avsim.net/page/index.html/_/reviews/mad-catzsaitek-flight-simulator-cockpit-r690

 

Ray

Note the capitalization "Eggy" is different that "eggy" according to the above "urban" dictionary. I suppose "eggy" is easier to say and write than :edgy, but wait... there is an urban dictionary entry for "edgy" as well. Getting off topic here, sorry. :huh:

 

+1 with Ray. I like the BN-2 better than the TwotterX or the BeaverX.

I've always imagined BN-2 pilots to be 'eggy'...at least surly, island hopping pilots in bright button down shirts and shorts...Hollywood rendition.

Does it really matter what real world routes are flown. Fly your own and enjoy the flight. At the end of the day, does it really matter what livery is on the airframe? I fly to all sorts of places with aircraft in Qantas livery. Its the flight itself that interests me not whether Qantas flies there or not

 

Not everyone thinks the same about their flight sim experience - I personally like to simulate real world routes, in real world liveries. It's just another area where we're all different. Some like mega aircraft complexity, some like 'lite' planes, some insist on ATC, some just fly. Some like RW stuff, some fictional and free.

 

I've always imagined BN-2 pilots to be 'eggy'...at least surly, island hopping pilots in bright button down shirts and shorts...Hollywood rendition.

 

Ha ha ..... I agree! .... I bet they are 'eggy' (whatever eggy is!). :smile:

I've always imagined BN-2 pilots to be 'eggy'...at least surly, island hopping pilots in bright button down shirts and shorts

If you get the chance, read John Evans excellent autobiography "Only Angels Have Wings?" - only pennies on Amazon

http://www.amazon.co...s/dp/0954882008

The antithesis of eggy....

Amongst a wide and varied career he flew Islanders for Westward, including the Heathrow-Gatwick shuttle, squeezed in amongst the big-jets, having to accelerate (to 150 kts!) to join the approach queue, flying an offset ILS to stay out of the jet wake and squeaking off the runway at the first intersection with a Boeing up his chuff.

Don't know if we could simulate that....

Cheers

Keith