Nice tour of Auckland. I’m from NZ originally and lived in Auckland in 1987-1988, and I’ve just learned a thing or two I didn’t know, thanks! You’re right with Pukaki, not pronounced ‘puke’. I did my fixed wing PPL in Auckland at Dairy Flat, which is now North Shore. You should check it out, very narrow runway. Used to watch the heli pilots practising autorotation on the other side of the runway. Another trip you could do could be Queenstown (which is a featured airport in FS2020 so might be again), fly though to Mt Cook and land at, wait for it, Pukaki Airport near Twizel.
Great video, as you say pretty accurate visualS, except for the airport which bears no relation with what is there. Flightbeam will upgrade their amazing NZAA. I due time I am sure. 😂
Hi there,lively but I noticed no road traffic? In my opinion,some areas look very artificial and "pasted over",also that popping stuff kills it! They should change to something like half cloud/half hard drive!
Yeah, I keep all the traffic (roads, planes, animals, etc) turned off because anything animated is a big FPS killer. It's a preferential tradeoff for me since stuttering is more of an immeraion-breaker than dead streets, IMO. I'm hoping once I can upgrade my card to a 5090 I'll be able to start bringing stuff back in. Particularly the planes, I like seeing some life at the airports.
I've got a 3090, 64G of RAM and an i9 3.5GHz processor. I use the DLSS setting in Graphics and had everything at Ultra with all the animations (cars, people, planes, etc) turned off except shipping.
That's what I set it to, but now I'm kind of wondering if the sim just reset my configurations when I got back in before that flight. It's done that quite a few times on me, which is immensely irritating. Do you have the marketplace versions of any of the Cowansim Robinsons? If so, are they showing up in the sim?
Do you like the Robinson? I’ve never flown one and don’t really like the looks, but I’ve seen several videos of people saying they fly well. I like flying the H125 but the visibility isn’t good and the trim needs work in 2024. I like the visibility in the 50E but it’s a bit squirrelly. Beautiful trip!
Ha! I think the Robinsons are some of the ugliest aircraft ever produced (maybe the Optica is worse), but they are just so great for sightseeing with that giant bubble canopy. I'd grab the R22 if you just want to have one in your hangar, it's not real quick, but very tame and I've heard it's one of the most realistic flight models in the sim.
I'm not talking about Auckland, but I hope they fix roads being dirt instead of metal, and trees growing in those roads when obviously they shouldn't be.
I did. Everything was ultra but the traffic, which I keep off. I usually set the ships to high if we are near water, however. I think my terrain LOD was 250 for that trip.
I really don't know. Before seeing Auckland, I was under the assumption they'd changed something about the coding that prohibited too much data in any one area to improve performance. But since we now know it really can look this good, I just can't fathom why all the other places don't at least look AS GOOD as they did in 2020. You'd think they'd just use the same template if they already had the data, right?
Wow! That is a great photogrammetry area! If you’re wondering why not all the scenery is the same quality, I talk a little about it in my H225 video. I used to work in survey with GIS back in another life. HPG H225 MSFS2024 Helicopter Gameplay! | Real Pilot Talks Helicopters and Scenery #msfs #msfs2024 ua-cam.com/video/18Lzft4tRfI/v-deo.html
That IS a fun fact, thank you for that. If figured the number was probably lower down there. We always come across these sites on our flight that are the "biggest, tallest, longest" etc in the SH and I always think, "Jeesh, that's not very big ... there must not be too many of them down here."
Incredible visuals!
This is fantastic. On a smaller screen it's almost difficult to tell parts from real life.
I was even having trouble discerning on a big one in some areas!
Wow Sistema, make really nice quality food containers, i have a few nice to see where there made..
Ha! I was wondering what kind of company that was. 🤔
You are awesome! 🥰
Verry detailed👌
Great video! could you do wellington next?
Bathymetry looks amazing. Was just blue water in 2020
Nice tour of Auckland. I’m from NZ originally and lived in Auckland in 1987-1988, and I’ve just learned a thing or two I didn’t know, thanks! You’re right with Pukaki, not pronounced ‘puke’. I did my fixed wing PPL in Auckland at Dairy Flat, which is now North Shore. You should check it out, very narrow runway. Used to watch the heli pilots practising autorotation on the other side of the runway. Another trip you could do could be Queenstown (which is a featured airport in FS2020 so might be again), fly though to Mt Cook and land at, wait for it, Pukaki Airport near Twizel.
I love flying into Queenstown, we'll definitely make our way down there before long. Glad I didn't trust the web on the Puke thing!
Awesome!
Clock tower is part of Auckland University. Scares you see on mountains are the top are remains of food storage pits.
Ahhhh ... interesting. Thank you!
Great video, as you say pretty accurate visualS, except for the airport which bears no relation with what is there. Flightbeam will upgrade their amazing NZAA. I due time I am sure. 😂
Hi there,lively but I noticed no road traffic? In my opinion,some areas look very artificial and "pasted over",also that popping stuff kills it! They should change to something like half cloud/half hard drive!
Yeah, I keep all the traffic (roads, planes, animals, etc) turned off because anything animated is a big FPS killer. It's a preferential tradeoff for me since stuttering is more of an immeraion-breaker than dead streets, IMO. I'm hoping once I can upgrade my card to a 5090 I'll be able to start bringing stuff back in. Particularly the planes, I like seeing some life at the airports.
Amazing video! I was wondering what specs you are running for these settings in Auckland? Thanks!
I've got a 3090, 64G of RAM and an i9 3.5GHz processor. I use the DLSS setting in Graphics and had everything at Ultra with all the animations (cars, people, planes, etc) turned off except shipping.
@@MSFSFlightPlans Thank you!
For the CowanSim R66 map the throttle to "Set Helicopter Throttle Axis".
That's what I set it to, but now I'm kind of wondering if the sim just reset my configurations when I got back in before that flight. It's done that quite a few times on me, which is immensely irritating. Do you have the marketplace versions of any of the Cowansim Robinsons? If so, are they showing up in the sim?
Do you like the Robinson? I’ve never flown one and don’t really like the looks, but I’ve seen several videos of people saying they fly well. I like flying the H125 but the visibility isn’t good and the trim needs work in 2024. I like the visibility in the 50E but it’s a bit squirrelly. Beautiful trip!
Ha! I think the Robinsons are some of the ugliest aircraft ever produced (maybe the Optica is worse), but they are just so great for sightseeing with that giant bubble canopy. I'd grab the R22 if you just want to have one in your hangar, it's not real quick, but very tame and I've heard it's one of the most realistic flight models in the sim.
I'm not talking about Auckland, but I hope they fix roads being dirt instead of metal, and trees growing in those roads when obviously they shouldn't be.
Roads are metal?
hello you choose ultra settings?
I did. Everything was ultra but the traffic, which I keep off. I usually set the ships to high if we are near water, however. I think my terrain LOD was 250 for that trip.
why some cities show proper nice photogametry while others cities not?
I really don't know. Before seeing Auckland, I was under the assumption they'd changed something about the coding that prohibited too much data in any one area to improve performance. But since we now know it really can look this good, I just can't fathom why all the other places don't at least look AS GOOD as they did in 2020. You'd think they'd just use the same template if they already had the data, right?
Wow! That is a great photogrammetry area! If you’re wondering why not all the scenery is the same quality, I talk a little about it in my H225 video. I used to work in survey with GIS back in another life.
HPG H225 MSFS2024 Helicopter Gameplay! | Real Pilot Talks Helicopters and Scenery #msfs #msfs2024
ua-cam.com/video/18Lzft4tRfI/v-deo.html
Thanks for the vid link! I'll be checking that out this morning.
Fun fact, did you know only 10% of the world population lives in the southern hemisphere, and 90% live in the northern hemisphere.
That IS a fun fact, thank you for that. If figured the number was probably lower down there. We always come across these sites on our flight that are the "biggest, tallest, longest" etc in the SH and I always think, "Jeesh, that's not very big ... there must not be too many of them down here."
Your lucky it looked like shit on my machine, couldn't bring the data in quick enough
I was only lucky for a little while. I haven't been able to load the sim since yesterday's update.🤢 🤮
Looks like cowan it’s not as detailed and the flight model of the ms2024 r-66 is way good than cowan