Questions for MaskRider...

[dvslats]

I find myself doing a lot of overlaying/fitting old maps on top of Google earth images in my work but never had the talent to undertake such a task as Mr Imreh has accomplished.

And the time. Oh lord! Kudos to Mr. Imreh.

 

[MaskRider]

Very interesting.....
I just flew around Taiwan in FS2004 and FSX.
Neither of them have a harbor at Keelung even though there is one there in real life and according to all the BPF information I have read, there was one there in WWII.

Hiya DD,

Oh yes. Keelung has a very neat harbor and had one during the war too. Observe the following image from the U of Texas maps collection. It is a map of Keelung harbor during the war. It hadn't changed much when I used to go there during the early 1970s. We would always tie up at the warehouse warves indicated by the arrow just past the "Inner Harbor" notation. If I am not mistaken it was the same warf where many of the in-port scenes in the movie "The Sand Pebbles" (1965) were filmed. The scene where they conduct the port-side repel borders drill was definitely right there. I also made it to Kaosiung (sp?) a couple of times.

MR

 

[Devildog73]

AVSIM has a set of 12 scenery downloads plus a few updates and patches from the Formosa Group for FS2004.
I'm going to D/L them all and install into my FS2004 and see what they cover and look like.

 

[MaskRider]

Would it also be possible to update the airfields on Formosa to GSL?

Hiya Rami,

I have a nice GSL version of Formosa ready to go. Well, almost ready. Just need to rework the readme and zip it all up. Shall I go ahead and upload it when ready?

Chris

PS: Were you suggesting that I might also GSL-ize Darwin and the rest of the original Aussie airfields?

 

[Rami]

Reply...

Chris,

1) Yes, absolutely.

2) Darwin was done (GSL-ized) for the Port Darwin raid package, but the rest of the Aussie airfields are kind of a tough call because they are not highly utilized; if I recall, I used only one other one for the RAAF 75th Squadron.

So you'd be doing a lot of work for not much gain.

3) Since I have you waiting for a reply, I am currently working on taking the stock airfields that Gavinc moved to fit Rhumba's new coastlines with Dog1's enhanced stock airfields, converted to use Rhumba's new coastlines. No one had bothered to do this, and I also found myself enhancing some of Gavinc's original work.

My question for you is...with regard to the stock coastlines, which airfields have essentially been "replaced" by your work? I know Henderson in the Solomons has, for example.

 

[MaskRider]

Chris, My question for you is...with regard to the stock coastlines, which airfields have essentially been "replaced" by your work? I know Henderson in the Solomons has, for example.

Oh, sure. Okay. I gotcha. Yes Henderson, Pelelieu, many of the Marianas airfields... I'll think on it and let you know if any others come to mind.

MR