NZA Milford Sound Region will be released on Sep 13

[RALF9636 1,659]

1 hour ago, brucewtb said:

Have they fixed the permanent icy winter with real time weather at Milford Sound?

Bruce

That was my first thought as well.

I'm afraid this is something that cannot be fixed by a scenery developer.

It's a shame this long standing most annoying bug of MSFS is affecting in particular some of the most beautiful places on earth.

 

[Adamski_NZ 867]

55 minutes ago, HybridNz said:

Great news is Sergio (the original NZMF freeware developer) is part of the NZA team and this been his primary project. Sergio, myself and  the team have been working hard to give it some NZA x-factor. I'm glad its being compared to 2024 as this is what were going for.

Congrats to Sergio for making the well-deserved transition from freeware contributor to full developer. So many of us enjoyed his freeware NZMF - and it's great to see such talent put to good use! He was always helpful and courteous.

NZMF has always been the "Jewel in the Crown" for NZ scenery (if not the whole world, IMHO) so I expect/hope sales will go through the roof!

[AnkH 2,050]

Sadly this scenery will be useless half the time of the year using live weather due to the ridiculous snow coverage bug which is still not fixed more than three years after the release of MSFS...

[Rockliffe 1,470]

Wow! Oops, I've just wee weed myself! 

[Adamski_NZ 867]

3 hours ago, AnkH said:

Sadly this scenery will be useless half the time of the year using live weather due to the ridiculous snow coverage bug which is still not fixed more than three years after the release of MSFS...

I'm confused about this. I'm not saying it's not true - but I just did a flight from NZQN using REX Weather and got decent/realistic snow coverage. Or is it that you're saying it's not *natively* displayed correctly (and there we need 3rd party addons to make it happen <??>. 

2 hours ago, Rockliffe said:

Wow! Oops, I've just wee weed myself! 

That's OK - you're lucky it wasn't a No.2 LOL!

[Naki18 68]

Hey Adam, maybe Rex fixes it?...last flight in NZMF I had a few weeks ago, IIRC had frozen sea ice which never happens there... same issue at MtCook and Glen Tanner

[AnkH 2,050]

REX «fixes» this, yes, I was talking about native MSFS live weather...

[CapnCrunch 75]

8 hours ago, brucewtb said:

Have they fixed the permanent icy winter with real time weather at Milford Sound?

Bruce

I don't know if that's ever going to get a proper fix in the current sim. But a RW pilot did post some pretty nice weather presets for NZ over on flightsim.to. I haven't tried them all yet but what I've seen so far looks good.

EDIT: I should have been clear that I didn't test these to see if snow coverage was changed. In my defence, I'm only on my first cup of coffee this morning lol.

Edited September 12 by CapnCrunch
Missed some info

[edpatino 1,884]

NZA has just released a new version of its assets library at Flightsim.to:

Recent Changelog for 5.0.0

- New models for new sceneries including NZMF.
- Updated a bunch of models for NZCH Christchurch Optimisations

[Torsen 469]

...and the NZMF package is avail... downloaded and installed... be aware you have to delete some WU NZ update stuff... pdf tells more. Can't wait to load up... wooohooooo!

love you NZA!

Cheers T.

[RALF9636 1,659]

3 hours ago, Adamski_NZ said:

6 hours ago, AnkH said:

Sadly this scenery will be useless half the time of the year using live weather due to the ridiculous snow coverage bug which is still not fixed more than three years after the release of MSFS...

I'm confused about this. I'm not saying it's not true - but I just did a flight from NZQN using REX Weather and got decent/realistic snow coverage. 

 

The issue is with the default live weather. It has kept me from flying in beautiful regions like the Alps, Alaska and Norway for most of the time; it's a shame.

But maybe it is time to give REX weather another go now.

 

[petz_e 74]

Here is an interesting video for all you VFR pilots. A real life NZ pilot (?) shows how to get from Queenstown to Milford Sound.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_QppVdcZVz0&list=WL&index=16&pp=gAQBiAQB

[Christopher Low 4,909]

That is very impressive and beautiful scenery

[sniper31 510]

I just watched the 4k trailer for this scenery release, and WOW! NZA is killin' it! 

[RichieFly 689]

Pardon me if it's right in front of me, but where is this available? The Market Place or wut?