Last week on teamspeak, Ron said something about us all using a PMDG type as long as it started with a "7".

 

Also... he mentioned us all using ASN so we all could share the experience of having the most realistically depicted weather.

That's perfectly true, I DID advocate the use of something with a bit more substance. Then I came to my senses!

 

As for the weather, REAL is the only way to go so I guess that makes ASN obligatory.

 

I have no preference as to aircraft, but keep it to one that doesn't do a lap of the island while the rest of us are still on leg 1. 

 

Has anyone made any changes to the route? I confess to it being a fairly arbitrary scribble across the map.  :(

 

Don't forget to change FTX Central to 'Oceania'.

 

EDIT: Mike I love you! I was about to make an FSX .pln when I saw your post. :wub:

I seem to remember a challenging airport in the Tasmanian highlands with a steep uphill landing that might be worth a brief detour en-route. Mount King William III (YZKW).  We could fit it in after Strahan (YSRN). :smile:

Jeff, this is a wonderful addition. Mount King William III (YZKW) presents a splendid challenge. YZKW is an OZx strip and thus is not naturally in the FSX database. (For pilots' convenience, I have added YZKW as a waypoint in an alternate Tasmania flightplan, Tasmania_a.pln, in the same Dropbox-located zipfile. Simply download it again here. )

Jeff, this is a wonderful addition. Mount King William III (YZKW) presents a splendid challenge. YZKW is an OZx strip and thus is not naturally in the FSX database. (For pilots' convenience, I have added YZKW as a waypoint in an alternate Tasmania flightplan, Tasmania_a.pln, in the same Dropbox-located zipfile. Simply download it again here. )

 

 

 

Thanks Mike, I also created a modified flightplan that includes YZKW and also adds YZCM (Cradle Mountain - near plan waypoint TAZWP01) and YLPR (Lake Pedder - near TAZWP03).  The flightplan (Tasmania mod1.pln) is in teamspeak in casual flights file browser.

Hi guys,

 

Please could you check on where you got this Mount King William YZKW airport scenery from?  It's not in FSX as we know, and I've just installed the Ozx scenery package and there's still no sign of it.  Before anyone asks, yes I've activated the Ozx scenery, all the others are there but no YZKW.  I could also find no mention of it in any of the Ozx manuals.

 

Edit: yes, it's there.  It's not fully set up as an airport so it's not listed anywhere, but the visual scenery is there.

Nick,

 

Your installation is probably fine and YZKW is probably there, but there is one more step you need to follow in order for the airfields to show up in the FSX flight planner.  Download and follow the instructions:

 

 

http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/file/1753-340-ozx-airstrips-selectable-in-fsx/

Jeff, from the TeamSpeak server please try "Tasmania mod2.pln" -- the revised version has the airstrips that you mentioned...I think.

Today was fun.  I think the visibility issues we all had just added to the experience.  I really enjoyed getting used to the idiosyncrasies of the Lancair Legacy.  Sweet plane, but you really have to manage the speed/energy.  Looking forward to next Saturday at Yellowstone.

 

Sorry I had to bail early, but Saturdays afternoons are when the wife and I do our weekly hunting and gathering.  Since I do the cooking, I have a vested interest in what we buy to cook with.  B) (Need a smiley with a chef's hat...)

Despite Virgin Media taking exception to my 'feedback' and knocking out my internet for 25 minutes, (That'll teach me to be nice in future :rolleyes: ) it turned out, quite frankly, better than I expected. As Craig said, the visibility was...interesting. :biggrin: