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• Gearing up for Release 4

  By Lyndiman on June 2, 2020 • ( 10 )

  I haven’t made many changes over the past few days, apart from fixing some shoreline on Rangitoto Island. In order to test things out, I’ve installed my Bell 407 and taken several flights around the North Island. You can check… Read More ›

• The mechanics of Mechanics Bay

  By Lyndiman on May 30, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  I’ve been browsing through dozens of airfields to quickly see if I can find problems that will haunt me in the new release. Things like a sudden step half way through a runway, are really hard to catch, but totally… Read More ›

• Northlands Kaikohe- NZKO

  By Lyndiman on May 29, 2020 • ( 4 )

  The current NZKO is misaligned by hundreds of metres which makes it a terrible sloped airport up the side of a hill. There is a gateway airport that fixes this and does a basic job of putting objects into the… Read More ›

• Wonky runways patchwork

  By Lyndiman on May 28, 2020 • ( 6 )

  I had a weird issue at NZFH – Fox Glacier’s airfield that seems to be used by a tour company. It had a couple of really steep hockey stick jumps in the middle. I thought I had screenshot it, but… Read More ›

• A quick look at Flat Point

  By Lyndiman on May 27, 2020 • ( 3 )

  Here’s another fix locked in: I don’t think Flat Point is in X-Plane natively, but there is a mod for it here. If there are any urgent issues that need fixing in the ortho – let me know, and I’ll… Read More ›

• Thames is a bit too mainstream for me

  By Lyndiman on May 26, 2020 • ( 0 )

  I’ve been looking at the airports around the Coromandel again, particularly since I land at Whitianga and Thames a lot with Flight Simulator Economy. One thing that has always annoyed me is the hard cut that occurs when rivers hit… Read More ›

• Chatham Islands!

  By Lyndiman on May 25, 2020 • ( 5 )

  

  An X-Plane community member, Chris messaged me the other day to highlight their scenery for the Chatham Islands. The scenery can be found here. The scenery itself doesn’t come with any ortho, so users have been adding their own. To… Read More ›

• Gisborne again

  By Lyndiman on May 24, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Not a huge amount of work for this update. Gisborne has been updated to 2017 imagery which fixes a lot of discolouration. I’ve also added a mask to the harbour, around the outer side at least. I can’t get too… Read More ›

• Water you lookin’ at?

  By Lyndiman on May 23, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  I slowly lost my mind yesterday and probably spent a couple of hours last night trying to recreate the masks for the whole of New Zealand that included more coastline. As you can see above, the mask looks horribly broken… Read More ›

• It’s not a mask, it’s a coughy filter

  By Lyndiman on May 22, 2020 • ( 16 )

  

  I’ve gone through a few areas and unmasked the water ways to make them a bit more immersive. It’s funny, because doing this doesn’t really add any size to the scenery, as the imagery is already there, X-Plane is just… Read More ›