New Aircraft

Palmerston North is looking great Gordon! I noticed a 767 there, was it diverted from Auckland? :hehe:

Jamie, Due to an error on my end I have lost all the body files of the 737 so I will have to start again. :(
 
The 767 is on a Charter flight for the Rugby World Cup Officials

Latest update - Just added FedEx hub







Ohakea's new transport wing





Gordon
 
Nice Gordon
Do you mind if I steal your basic layout of
Your new airport

Jamie

Go for it Jamie,

If you look above the FedEx area you'll see a paved area for the light aircraft to be parked and behind the terminal there is the freight hub for New Zealand Couriers ( to be added next)

Gordon
 
Ian,

A big thank-you and congratulations to you on a job well done on all your recent aircraft/airport content, they have certainly been a great addition to my route building :) !

Just wondering if there was any chance you could model some Regional Express (Rex) aircraft, such as the Saab 340B? These would be a great addition to any Australian themed airport.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:R...383AE_Saab_340B_Plus_and_VH-ZRY_Saab_340B.jpg

Thanks again Ian for your excellent creations!




Matt :wave:
 
Hi Guys, nice to see the pictures. Been doing other things, perhaps time for a few answers and updates:

1. My website has been exceeding its allowed bandwidth lately, and I have had to unlink some popular pages to try to reduce that, and rethink them, sorry, otherwise it will cost me big money.

2. I have been doing some models for NormP, he is modelling the Lukla airport in Nepal, so some buildings were called for. You may have seen the History channel program on it being one of the most dangerous airports in the world, with a gradient of 12% and no go around option. :)

In doing an airport terminal model, it requires tight turnarounds, I did release a yellow line model for painting on the bitumen, perhaps some of you are using it. The segment length is too large for tight curves so I have done a 2 metre module line which looks better, it is Airport Module 6a Small Yellow Line, just uploaded, probably won't be available for 24 hours.

To go with those models, I have redone the Twin Otter in Yeti airlines colours, not uploaded yet. It now has passengers, new animated props, and opening doors. The models for Lukla and Yeti have not been uploaded yet.

3. I have uploaded the Pilatus Porter models, two in Swiss colours, an Australian Army, and Yeti, which also uses them, they are short take off and landing aircraft, need to wait 24 hours for approval.

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4. I was asked for a Piper Seneca, just have to do static models before I upload that one. It does rolls like the Tiger Moth, just for fun.

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5. Matt, had not heard of the Saab aircraft, perhaps that can be added to the list.

6. teddytoot, I have not had any success in having an aircraft start with the engines off. While you can control the animation as you say, the sound is the problem. If you use a silent sound file for the first, in order to get the engines to start on the second sound file, the aircraft would have to be moving. There probably is a way but I have not looked into that in detail.

7. hyderpotter, of course you can do inflight refuelling, with the FA18 and Tomcat models, read the config file:

"The aircraft deploys a refueling probe to couple with the FA-18 fighters for simulated refueling. The KC-135 operates on the same track as other aircraft. Using the B key or Action Trigger setting 10, the tanker lifts above the track by 7 metres and deploys the probe.

The FA-18 approaching from the rear couples with the probe with its own refueling probe. A second trigger further along the track retracts the probe, and lowers the KC-135 back to track level. After you decouple the FA-18, the aircraft operate separately again. If you use the B key when the aircraft are coupled, the FA-18 fires missiles, it may shoot down the tanker - use the track trigger at setting 10 for best operation."

8. The C5A Galaxy is basically finished, a few checks to do when I get the time. It has front and rear opening doors,and drops a jeep by parachute. The landing gear is unusual, the main wheels rotate horizontally 90 degrees before retracting into the fuselage.

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Ian
 
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Hello Pedrin, thought you might like that one, need to make a static model yet. It loads jeeps, Abrams tanks and general goods. I found that the original tank product, at a realistic mass of 48 tonnes, three in the aircraft prevented it from taking off, it would not accelerate, so I had to reduce the mass of the tank product and re-upload it.

Forgot about the question of commercial airports, I had done some commercial and military models (ones that load products), but was having problems getting them to also load passengers, so haven't finished any of those yet.

Ian
 
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Thanks hyderpotter, a friend had suggested that provider, and we are looking into it, and whether to modernise the webpages. Do you use that one yourself?

Ian
 
Hi Ian,

Excellent work as ever, you have been busy.

Looking forward to the C5 as we have these fly out of Christchurch International Airport for Operation Deep Freeze. Staging point for US flights to the south pole.

Gordon
 
I look forward to flying these to USAF Base Ian and to Vulcan Airport.

I cheated on my international route, it's only 250x8 baseboards, but, I fly the planes at 300km/h, no-one notices:hehe:
Ian, you mixed teddytoot and Matt's comments:o

Great looking models Ian, and great airport Gordon

Pedrin, I'm with you there, a favourite, these and the Hercules, great transporters, I like 'em
Ian, any other Big Commercial Airliners on the drawing Board??

Also Ian
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In this shot, the runway has no short-take off, any thoughts of doing one like this??

Jamie
 
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Thanks Jamie, now what was my name again?:o

Hi Gordon, haven't done any Russian yet, one day perhaps.

The Pilatus have been approved, should be available in 2 hours or so.

Ian
 
Ian, thanks for replying to my question but unfortunately it doesn't help me much. Firstly I'm not worried about sound as, having the PC in the living room, I hardly ever have it on for Trainz.

I assume from your reply that SetMeshAnimationState would work as I want it to. My problem is how to incorporate it in the code. As I said my knowledge of modern OOPs is almost non existant and I think my problem is that, unlike in my simpler Quickbasic and simple 8086 assembler teaching days, I haven't fully grasped program and logic flow in Trainzscript. Perhaps I'm getting too old (I hope not). I'll keep on trying however.
 
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