Show off you hometown to other simmer's

[Chris_F]

Looks like the US residents have recieved a bit of preference when it comes to home town modeling.  My home town airport KMHT, Manchester NH, is well done.  The auto-gen buildings in downtown Manchester are just about perfect.  My actual home town (Londonderry, to the south of the airport about 5 miles) is just residential and the auto-gen houses are a good representation, along with all the major roads.

I downloaded a terrain map for the area and it really brought the whole thing to life.  Now the elevation is spot-on accurate (it was too flat before).  I can even recognize my favorite hills which I've suffered on many times on my bicycle.

[chops]

Yeah, I am lucky enough to live in the states.  I am in the middle of my primary flight training now at my weekender airport (Beverly, Mass, KBVY) and its almost frightening how easily I can fly the pattern/taxi about/get around in the airspace here in real life after having flow it a million times in the sim.  It's dead-on.  

I usually fly on Saturday mornings and then after dinner out with the misses on Sat night I'll re-fly the lesson in the sim, making sure I remember everything I did.

I'll work up a tour some time as well.

[Dan]

I haven't seen mine in FS9, but in 2002 Pro its.... not there! Go to Cardiff EGFF, and fly North for about 50 Miles and your there!
Dan

[phantom1]

Hey, Eskimo,
Good to see another pilot from Brisbane. There is some good scenery on the way for Brisbane, you can check it out here http://members.optushome.com.au/projectbne/main.html I can't wait for it to be complete. Another site is this one http://walhalla.mine.nu/fs2004/australia.php It has links to various sites with landclass and mesh scenery for most of Australia, and scenery for the smaller airports around Brisbane like Caloundra, Caboolture, and Redcliffe, as well as Coolangatta. Hope this makes life a little easier for you.

Alan

[taracer89]

My hometown is Albany, NY. The main airport is KALB. I think the largest plane that files here is an UPS 757, although a 747 landed here once. It was carrying Bill Clinton.

MS did a good job with the area. It is very realistic. If you check it out in FS, it will give you a good idea of what it really looks like.

[allosaurus1]

My home town is Idaho Falls Id, if you have fsgenesis installed then the 38m mountians are great to fly around on the east side and North West side of the Snake River Valley. There are also some volcanos that you can fly around on the valley floor. but they have not been active for thousands of years.

[iwannaflySC]

Hey y'all:

There's two airports in Columbia, SC -- KCAE and KCUB.  The former is the Metropolitan airport, and is fairly reasonably modeled by fs9.  I found an add-on in the simviation archives that updated the airport to make it look more like the remodeled newer one.  Does a pretty good job, except I need to work on something
with the file, since the AI aircraft park in the middle of the expanded buildings now.  

I've only been to KCUB, the downtown GA/charter airport, once, to pick up a friend who'd flown in (lucky dawg).  I know the area surrounding KCUB in fs9 doesn't really resemble what's on the ground out there.  The other surrounding areas in the city are half-way decent.  The mighty Congaree river is where it's supposed to be. Some of the buildings downtown are recognizable, though there seems to be no sign of the three biggest landmarks visible from the air -- the various buildings at the University of South Carolina, and the distinctive Williams Brice Stadium, home of the Fighting Gamecocks (GO COCKS!) :-), and a huge granite quarry across the river that's very visible on one of the approaches into KCAE.

Someone in the thread mentioned Ketchikan.  Incidentally, I was up there on an Alaskan cruise this summer, and as the ship pulled out of the harbor to go up the Lynn Canal, it sailed right past Ketchikan airport, just as an Alaska Airlines 737 was landing.  Needless to say, I wasn't listening to the onboard naturalist's commentary on bears at that moment. :-)

My home town is Idaho Falls Id, if you have fsgenesis installed then the 38m mountians are great to fly around on the east side and North West side of the Snake River Valley. There are also some volcanos that you can fly around on the valley floor. but they have not been active for thousands of years.

Allosaurus -- try millions.  The basalt flows near Twin Falls are about 2.4 or so million years old, if I remember my old graduate field of study correctly. [The flows near Arco, at Craters of the Moon are about 2k years old, the youngest in the contiguous 48.]  I tramped out in the Snake River plains in the mid-90s on fieldwork.  And I think fs9 does a pretty decent job of modeling the general emptiness of the land out there! :-)

[Ok, I think this has been my longest post on here to date!]

[jordonj]

Okay, I have posted some shots of Traverse City and the surrounding areas here and here

They are part of a larger story (the second link leads to the chapters).

Hope you like the tour!

[JBaymore]

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[Iroquois]

I'm from Milton Ontario, Canada. The closest airport is Burlington Airpark (CZBA). I'm not to far away from Pearson International (CYYZ) as well.

I have the terrain mesh and ground scenery for that area by Flight Team Ontario. My home town is acturally shapped like a rectangle in reality but it looks spread out in the sim.

[iwannaflySC]

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To fix the weird taxiting , landing, and parking issues with add on visual scenery you need to edit the AFCAD file.

[starseed419]

My hometown is Hawthorne, Nv (KHTH). The autogen is pretty far off, as there are no buildings in Hawthorne that are above 2 stories. I have FSGenesis scenery added, and the mountains and Walker Lake to the north are very accurate. Nothing like some good desert and mountain flying.

[4_Series_Scania]

I agree with the U.K. being poorly represented!

Strange, I'd have thought the beauty (!) of Stoke on Trent would be an obvious FS9 candidate!  ;D  ::)  :-[

Theres some excellent payware for the U.K. scenery but frankly I can't say I want to see Stoke from the air, its bad enough from down here!  ;D

[Foolygoofy26]

My hometown is Camaguey, Cuba and I have only seen it in FS2002 and it's pretty well done.  Now I currently live in Miami and this is my Homebase (KMIA) I think they have done a good job in FS2002, but they definelly need to work on South Beach.  For Miami, you get the Pro Player Stadium and the Orange Bowl which my crazy brother loves to go to in a chopper and land in there.  Downtown is great and I hope that sometime in the future they could let as land in one of the the few bridges that cross from Miami to Miami Beach.  It will be cool if they would put some of the cruise ships that leave the port of Miami daily.

Now the beauty about Miami is when I come from Europe right before sundown, most of the time the landing in Miami is done on Runway 9L.  So you start to enter the US you can see traffic coming out of OpaLoka which is another airport a couple of miles north of KMIA, then there is also the traffic of KMIA then you pass by the side of the Miami downtown and head west passing over the city with KMIA to your right and you fly until you get to the Everglades and then turn back East to land.  Aaaah, everytime it's an adventore I don't get tire of.  I have done it in FS2002 and I can't wait to do it FS2004.

[Mozz]

My local town, Northampton, England, is OK for a defualt town and you can take off from Sywell GA airport and fly north west to the big town area, my house is somewhere there. Never though they modelled much of Europe's scenery well. They had American city blocks in English cities, I mean come on, Our cities are higgledy Piggledy, we like 'em that way!