If you would like to the 2025 version of the Lyndiman Ortho you can now do so! The scenery features all new imagery (except Chatham Islands which only features some minor changes. Harbours and inlets have been custom masked, around… Read More ›
If you want to update your default airports with my creations you can drop these folders into your X-Plane 12 custom scenery folder. (X-Plane 12 as it uses the new default assets. NZTK – Takaka Airfield Take a tour of… Read More ›
Spent a lot of time adding in harbours around the North Island. Here are some peaks at the results: I’ll try and remember all the places, but excuse my lack of geography: Hokianga Before: After:
Previously, I edited water masks around Whitianga resulting in the inlet / harbour displaying some striking colour and natural beauty: I’m not sure if this was released, or not, so potentially I’m the only one that has it looking like… Read More ›
Completing the triad of Nelson, Takaka and now Karamea, you can now download NZKM. This little airport is used by Golden Bay Air to help hikers begin or end their great walks. It features a little asphalt and a grass… Read More ›
Since releasing the new ortho yesterday, I’ve uploaded about 200GB of data. If you’re able to help seed the torrents, then that will help increase the download speed for others. It’s a pretty big ask to hold on to 200GB… Read More ›
Big progress this weekend with a few of the large tasks knocked over. I’ve removed all the clouds that are large enough to really notice this week and now masked the harbours and inlets that I’d done previously. I’ve removed… Read More ›
Good news! I’ve finished removing clouds from the scenery last night and remasked the harbours down to the Kaipara. There’s still quite a bit of clean up to get it ready, but here’s a look at some of the scenery… Read More ›
Closing out 2024 I made a lot of enhancements to the ortho around water masks and XP12 turbidity. It still doesn’t feel like a major upgrade though as 99% of the scenery is unchanged from 2017. That means much of… Read More ›
The Chatham Islands Airport has been out of date for some time as the government funded a runway extension as part of the COVID fast track projects. From Stuff.co.nz: “The completion of a $45 million runway extension at the Chatham… Read More ›
Continuing the series of new default airports, I’ve not put together a new Taupo Airport. It looks like some helicopter operations occur off to the north but X-Plane has a limitation that all taxi routes need to connect, so I’ve… Read More ›
X-Plane cut off my ATC once I landed at Tauranga Airport because there were only 4 parking spaces, that were all full, at the apron and none were added for GA parking. The four spaces were fill so ground cut… Read More ›
I’ve updated a few airports to include open door hangar starts and added NZMS Hood in Masterton. Here are a few pics:
So far with Ortho4XP 1.4 (forked), I’ve worked on unmasking water in harbours and inlets, and updating the ortho to be compatible with X-Plane 12 water turbidity. Early on, I checked the settings and realised that it was back to… Read More ›
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