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Mountain Air Resort scenery

ThinkingManNeil

ThinkingManNeil

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A few months back I mentioned coming across some video and web info about a remarkable and beautiful airstrip at the Mountain Air Resort outside of Raleigh, North Carolina, and wondered if any FS9 scenery gurus might be able to come up with something for our FS2004 sim community to fly our Citations, King Air's, Mu-2's, and Super Cub's into. Well, AeroSoft has, but sadly it's only available for FSX. The screenshots for the strip look pretty damn good IMO.

Some RL Mountain Air vids:

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It may not be paradise, but it's pretty damn close!

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I was working on scenery for this airstrip for FSX as well some time back. Nice thing about FSX is that it allows for "abnormal" rwy configurations, as in the rwy here that slants down and then back up to the parking area. Unfortunately that can't be duplicated in FS9 and probably one reason this isn't an FS9/FSX release. . .other than the fact that many designers have moved on from FS9 for payware like this.:salute:
 
Thanks, Falcon, for that info; I wasn't aware of that limitation with FS9. I know that there are a couple of Swiss and French altiport sceneries out there - eg., Courchevel - but I never used them, so I don't know how they did the curving surface of those runways, especially Courchevel


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Aerosoft's Lukla was one of few scenery releases for FS9 that actually did have the slanted, non-perfectly flat, runways. However, they went to great lengths, and actually had to make the runway out of a Gmax model. If you landed too hard, you plopped right through it.

They did make it work, but it wasn't easy. But yes, FS9 doesn't like runways that aren't mirror smooth and perfectly flat. Kinda sucks, as you always see aircraft at airports in real life subtly bouncin' along as they taxi by. I hate how aircraft simply 'float' on their gear in FS; never bouncing from old cracked taxiways and runways. Anyone who frequents a small airport knows what I'm talking about. ;) :ernae:
 
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