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Our New Zealand tour, part 2

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It is time to continue my trip report

Warning: Not much flight action in this post!

 

After arriving in Milford Sound we took a walk around the village. The first place for a simmer (and probably for many other visitors as well) is the famous airport.

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Sure we spotted a number of planes going in and out - all within a few minutes.

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The scenery has lots of details, I can´t show them all here, ...

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... because we went along the peninsula a bit further to Roscos Kajaks.

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And surely we enjoyed the views of Bowen Falls.

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We took a boat to Sandfly Point, the end of the Milford Track - hard to spot in the RL photo, but there it is! - ...

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... and walked until Giant Gates.

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The last day in Milford we took a ride on this boat...

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... getting close to Stirling Falls.

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Finally we relaxed on THE bench at the mole, ...

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... you may spot her in the center of this picture as well.

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There should be some more flying in the next post, I propose.

Cheers, Gerold

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Your almost-seamless mix of RL and sim views kept me guessing! Great job!

Great !!!

And a nice sequel to your first part..

cheers 😉

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On 2/4/2024 at 4:43 PM, John F said:

Your almost-seamless mix of RL and sim views kept me guessing! Great job!

 

23 hours ago, pmplayer said:

Great !!!

And a nice sequel to your first part..

cheers 😉

Thank you both! Quite the work nowadays to compose such a post, but great fun.

Cheers, Gerold

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Hardware: Intel i9-13900K @ 4.2 Ghz, BENQ EW3270U (3840*2160), 32 GB RAM DDR5-6000, Gigabyte Gaming OC Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, Samsung 980 Pro M.2: 1 TB (Win 11-System), Samsung 870 QVO SSD: 2 TB (MSFS), 2 * Samsung 850 EVO SSD: 1 TB (P3D 4.5 HF3) & 500 GB (spare). Scenery / Add-Ons: Lots of commercial & freeware sceneries. Plus ActiveSky_MSFS - and for P3D: FS Global Mesh 2010, ActiveSky_P3Dv4, ASCA, EzDok v3, Pro-ATC/X and REX 4 Texture Direct.

 

nice comparison!

All my FSX/P3D repaints are here on Avsim, for my MSFS repaints, go to FS.2

Great Real vs Sim series!

But you do need to label the shots Real or Sim! 🙂

 

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10 hours ago, jankees said:

nice comparison!

Thank you Jan Kees!

7 hours ago, WingZ said:

Great Real vs Sim series!

But you do need to label the shots Real or Sim! 🙂

Thanks WZ! Indeed, in some pictures the sim ones look quite realistic, I had to look twice to distinguish...

Cheers, Gerold

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Hardware: Intel i9-13900K @ 4.2 Ghz, BENQ EW3270U (3840*2160), 32 GB RAM DDR5-6000, Gigabyte Gaming OC Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, Samsung 980 Pro M.2: 1 TB (Win 11-System), Samsung 870 QVO SSD: 2 TB (MSFS), 2 * Samsung 850 EVO SSD: 1 TB (P3D 4.5 HF3) & 500 GB (spare). Scenery / Add-Ons: Lots of commercial & freeware sceneries. Plus ActiveSky_MSFS - and for P3D: FS Global Mesh 2010, ActiveSky_P3Dv4, ASCA, EzDok v3, Pro-ATC/X and REX 4 Texture Direct.

 

Amazing collection.... feels like being there...Without some of those POI popups, I couldn't have told apart...

And that Stirling Falls looks really spectacular .... (Having visited the Niagara Falls 3 times....) ...

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7 hours ago, P_7878 said:

Amazing collection.... feels like being there...Without some of those POI popups, I couldn't have told apart...

And that Stirling Falls looks really spectacular .... (Having visited the Niagara Falls 3 times....) ...

Thank you mate. Indeed the comparison gets difficult sometimes. What a pleasure...

Cheers, Gerold

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Hardware: Intel i9-13900K @ 4.2 Ghz, BENQ EW3270U (3840*2160), 32 GB RAM DDR5-6000, Gigabyte Gaming OC Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, Samsung 980 Pro M.2: 1 TB (Win 11-System), Samsung 870 QVO SSD: 2 TB (MSFS), 2 * Samsung 850 EVO SSD: 1 TB (P3D 4.5 HF3) & 500 GB (spare). Scenery / Add-Ons: Lots of commercial & freeware sceneries. Plus ActiveSky_MSFS - and for P3D: FS Global Mesh 2010, ActiveSky_P3Dv4, ASCA, EzDok v3, Pro-ATC/X and REX 4 Texture Direct.

 

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