Are hard mud flats possible?

[emfrat]

Hmm, if I'm not mistaken the new Barra scenery is on the West side of the peninsula instead of the East in Traigh Mhor Bay, as maps show it. Or have I got the chart upside down? I think the default scenery had something in that area which might have been misleading but I'd have to install fs9 again somewhere to be sure.
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Like the snails.

No, there's no mistake, even tho' I am looking at the chart from Downunder..."Traigh Mhor" is Gaelic for "Big Beach" and that is where the planes land. From a brief look around FSX, I seem to remember a runway running approx SE-NW across the peninsula and I would say it was placed in that flat green area in your pic starting where the N edge of the beach swings to the SW. I have the Scotflight payware scenery in my FS9, and having installed FSX on another machine, I checked out the Western Isles, looking particularly at Barra and St Kilda.

ATB
MIkeW

 

[Desert Rat]

Scotflight's VFR payware scenery* includes Barra according to the docs, never tried it, but will take a look now.

Jamie

PS. the pics. Quite an old scenery, not up to modern standards, but in the correct location with some nice buildings, etc.

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*it , in a similar way to the earlier parts, does for Scotland what UK2000 scenery does for England and Wales.

 

[aeromed202]

Good detective work, I couldn't find a single shot to entice a sale. Does look better but I can't quite get past the sand strips that just aren't there in aerial shots. Apparently there are stakes at the far ends of where you'd BETTER land if you don't want seafood in your lap, and if pushed they will use cars to illuminate/guide desperate pilots at night, if the tide is out that is. While doing my own searching I rediscovered FSDome and have just spent over 1.5hrs grazing through some very unique sceneries.

 

[Desert Rat]

aeromed,

the poles are there if you look closely, and I had already thought of using AFCAD to thin the runways down to 1ft wide or something, zero would be good. It would be nice to add the wave effect over the sands and to use a decent texture too.

Jamie

 

[aeromed202]

You read my mind. Maybe the strips could be diffuse or colored like the surrounding texture?

 

[Mick]

... I had already thought of using AFCAD to thin the runways down to 1ft wide or something, zero would be good... Jamie

If I recall correctly from making invisible water runways, zero is not possible, but you can use a number like 0.00000001 and get the same visual effect.

When you make a runway that's invisibly narrow like that, you won't be able to grab it with your mouse pointer to move it around, so make sure it's exactly where you want it before you shrink it down. Make it a few feet wide while you're working on it, and narrow it down as the very last step.

Remember that the runway taxi link must also be almost zero. Getting the runway taxi link and the runway to align when they're both almost zero width can be a real challenge!