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Sticky: Plum Island Airport Contest

It's a small field for something huge as a DC2 :ernae:
You can take of and land all right, but finding a suitable parking spot is something different:kilroy:

But the burgers are nice overthere.

R.
 
There's a DC-3 that lands and takes off from North Hampton, New Hampshire (7B3) airport which is the next one north of Plum Island. The field is smaller, it's all grass and surrounded by big trees. Plus they have a nicely restored Grumman Goose.
There's plenty of parking space at Plum Island. Maybe we'll just have a DC-3 meet there just for the heck of it.
 
IanP said:
WAAARGH! Austin K2Y Ambulance, but it's FS2004 only! :banghead::banghead::isadizzy::redf:

Oh well. :friday::icon_lol:

Ian P.
(P.S. I can't enter. I've got more RAM than my O/S can cope with already! I can post pretty pics of the airfield if you like though? :))
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The Austin works pretty well in Dx9c.
 
Helldiver said:
I am no expert in memory. These are made by Crucial. One is 1GB and the other is 2GB. They are new, they're green with black chips on them with contact strip on the bottom. They're memory, What else can I say?
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Memory only works in the type motherboard it was designed for, so maybe you can find the TYPE and SPEED, such as DDR2 1066, or DDR3 1333. That would allow people to determine if the memory would work in their system. I'm sure if somebody wins and they can't use the memory they'd rather you send it to somebody who can.
 
navychief said:
Very cool looking ambulance. Would be nice to add as scenery object too.

NC
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That's what I want it for. ;)

Roger: I tried to download it, but the link was dead. I might see if I didn't already because back in days of yore, I used to grab any Hama vehicles I saw on principle, as they were usually great fun.

Ian P.

P.S. Not competition entries, just for fun...
 
They are DDR2 1066 if that means anything to anybody. I'm giving away a dog. I make no guarantees about the pedigree or fleas.

Oh, I just got to try a C-130 out of Plum Island. That has to be a record for size.

At Hancom AFB, I once watched a C-130 land in 1200 feet. They have even landed on a Essec Class carrier without a hook. But the wingtip was a scant five feet from the island.
 
The answer is to take out a lot of fuel, Helldiver... It made it in and out easily (in was with a tailwind, because coming over the trees, I kept falling foul of crash detection boxes that are twice the size of the object they are connected to), but with a tiny fraction of full fuel load. To reverse course, I did a three-point turn putting the nose up the taxiway.

Good fun, though. :jump:

Ian P.
 
Here's that Austin

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I'm not competing. I just wanted to show Bill's wondrous work and Mega Sceney's Massachusetts-001 together. The aft end of the airplane is lush and green, just like Newburyport is in the Summer.
The nose of the aircraft shows Mega Scenery's dull, grey background. I will say they are very accurate except that after a while the dullness does get boring.
 
Helldiver said:
I'm not competing. I just wanted to show Bill's wondrous work and Mega Sceney's Massachusetts-001 together. The aft end of the airplane is lush and green, just like Newburyport is in the Summer.
The nose of the aircraft shows Mega Scenery's dull, grey background. I will say they are very accurate except that after a while the dullness does get boring.
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I agree that Megascenery does seem a little "washed out" in places
The blending on the edge is really good!
 
I'm amazed how good it blends with the default scenery, or even with UTX installed. Really when you're over the photo patch it's near impossible to tell where the photo patch ends and the landclass begins.

I do love this scenery for many reasons. For one thing the framerate in the area is awesome, which allows me to lock at 30fps for a glass smooth experience and tack sharp ground textures. I always take off and land as the same location, and tend to do my flying within the confines of standout scenery locations, so this one is perfect for that as it's big enough to contain me and beautiful enough to keep my attention.

Plum Island has actually been my prefered flying area for the last two weeks, which says a lot being that it pulled me away from my favorite FTX locations. These little photo packs with full autogen and blending are where it's at when combined with some detailed landclass. I bet if Bill does one of these to sit on top of FTX PNW it would be a good seller.

Anyway here's a few more shots, though these are older ones, so I didn't have REX at the time like you see in my last shot.

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Just a reminder that today is the last day of the contest.
Winner will have to IM me for shipping instructions.
 
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