A few more Hamble WIP shots.....

[ukmil]

here is the UKMIL Ai Chippie, now converted to FSX

[DaveB]

Smart as a guardsman if not quite as tall

ATB

DaveB

[Trev Clark]

That looks lovely, however I have decided against putting an AI file in Hamble, this time. It means that I have to connect the Rwy's up via a taxiway link (for AI to respond propery) and that taxiway does not look good against the grass of the airfield. When you are using tarmac (which hamble has a limited quantity of) it is OK, but on grass it looks like a bright green ribbon.

With the oil refinery at Fawley (at least represented in principle, if not in full detail), Hamble is not easy on the FR's either, however, I have made several 'easy delete' files to reduce the fancy 'eye candy' if you have troubles.

Yes, John, the LEC airfield (scene of the last flight of ex-GP driver and all round action man David Purley GM) at Bognor. The RWY is till there, but the hangar went about 5-10 years ago. In my last job in the UK, I worked about 100 yards away from it, and it still took Google to convince me it was still there!!!!

[Motormouse]

ah, but thats' BP's Hamble terminal in the screenshot, Fawley is across on the west bank of So'ton Water.
While youre fiddling around with Ford, you could also add Bracklesham Bay airstrip (next to the caravan park)

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Pete

[Trev Clark]

ah, but thats' BP's Hamble terminal in the screenshot, Fawley is across on the west bank of So'ton Water.
While youre fiddling around with Ford, you could also add Bracklesham Bay airstrip (next to the caravan park)

There are two sets of oil terminals in the model, fawley is so huge, I just added about 25% of the stuff there. This one is already a bit of a FR hog if you run all the eye-candy at once. I will try and upload it in time for the bank holiday weekend, just awaiting a couple of beta test reports.

As far as Bracklesham Bay goes....where is the airstip there!!! I spent many happy day there when I was young (my family home is 6 miles away) and even worked in the Pontins holiday camp there for season, I know of no airstrip!!!

Off for a Google Earth session I think..........I'll report back

[petermcleland]

That looks lovely, however I have decided against putting an AI file in Hamble, this time. It means that I have to connect the Rwy's up via a taxiway link (for AI to respond propery) and that taxiway does not look good against the grass of the airfield. When you are using tarmac (which hamble has a limited quantity of) it is OK, but on grass it looks like a bright green ribbon.

Trev,

I don't know what you use in FSX but for FS9 you can make totally invisible Taxiways or Apron routes in AFCAD...You just make the width of them ZERO and then they don't show at all on your scenery but the clever AI Traffic know all about them

[Trev Clark]

Hi Peter, I am using ADE 9X and I do not think I can do this, but I will check it out. This scenery building is a steep learning curve when you are working it all out yourself!

[Trev Clark]

Well, I have found the Bracklesham Bay airstrip!!! I have never seen or heard of it before. It is not technically at 'Brack Bay' but on the eastern side of the old holiday complex (owned, when I learned to canoe there, by Joe Lyndhurst, father of Nicholas Lyndhurst, the actor) which is really Earnley. It is only a strip and a shed, but it exists, you learn something new every bloody day

The strip is thought to have closed in 2005 (possibly after this fatal accident...http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cf ... 006-06.pdf) and I will include it in a 'double pack' with the old LEC airfield at Bognor, possibly titled 'The two lost airstrips of south-west Sussex'!!! The land there is so flat, it will take me about a day to build the whole strip, the .pdf above proves the Cessnas can use it, as well as micro-lights.

[Motormouse]

Well, I have found the Bracklesham Bay airstrip!!! I have never seen or heard of it before. It is not technically at 'Brack Bay' but on the eastern side of the old holiday complex (owned, when I learned to canoe there, by Joe Lyndhurst, father of Nicholas Lyndhurst, the actor) which is really Earnley. It is only a strip and a shed, but it exists, you learn something new every bloody day

The strip is thought to have closed in 2005 (possibly after this fatal accident...http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources.cf ... 006-06.pdf) and I will include it in a 'double pack' with the old LEC airfield at Bognor, possibly titled 'The two lost airstrips of south-west Sussex'!!! The land there is so flat, it will take me about a day to build the whole strip, the .pdf above proves the Cessnas can use it, as well as micro-lights.

Thats' the one, Nick 'Rodney' Lyndhurst used to fly from there to Bembridge on the odd wekend to go to the
'Crab and Lobster' with his 'er indoors

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Pete

[Trev Clark]

Thats' the one, Nick 'Rodney' Lyndhurst used to fly from there to Bembridge on the odd wekend to go to the
'Crab and Lobster' with his 'er indoors

I am not suprised, I used to know a little when we were kids, the last time i saw him was in Waitrose! He drives the biggest range Rover i have ever seen! The days of being a 'surf-dude' are well behind him.

I wonder if he fancies buying an Auster? My estimate of a day's work was a bit over the top! Bognor will take longer though.