Combo Scenery of New Zealand

Product Features

• This combo scenery includes Mountains of New Zealand, Roads & Rivers of New Zealand and Landclass of New Zealand.
• Visit the breathtaking Southern Alps of New Zealand including the majestic Aoraki/Mt Cook and Mt Aspiring (the Matterhorn of the South).
• Fly above a fiery landscape sculpted by active volcanoes including Mt Ruapehu, Mt Ngauruhoe, and Mt Taranaki/Egmont.
• Discover amazingly scenic Fiords and Sounds including the almost unreal fiords of Fiordland, the beautiful Marlborough Sounds and the sounds of Banks Peninsula.
• Discover jaw-droppingly beautiful coastal areas like the Marlbourough Sounds, Milford Sound and Banks Peninsula recreated by high definition coastlines that cover the whole of New Zealand.
• Fly above the complete transport system of New Zealand recreated by high definition roads & rails which allows for realistic VFR navigation.
• Try exiting take-offs and landings on over 3500 private airstrips some of which are located at the most obscure and dangerous places.

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Product Details

Developer/Publisher: Sim Pilot Experience

Compatible with: FS2004 FSX

Release Date: Thursday, 01 September 2005

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Product Description

Fly and Experience World Famous Scenery

New Zealand's magnificent mountains have gained world fame as Middle Earth's mysterious Misty Mountains and the fiery Mt Doom. Imagine yourself flying over this stunning landscape that has been chosen by Hollywood's directors for several recent blockbuster films. Join simmers worldwide who are in absolute awe of what this scenery offers.

Our Promise

Whether you get lost in the jaw-dropping mazes formed by the mountains of fiordland, visit the panoramic mountain backdrops framing the idyllic southern lakes, race up the dramatic glaciers that twist their ways up into the icy snow fields of the Southern Alps, or visit the amazing landscapes of the North Island that have been shaped by active volcanoes, every single flight in New Zealand is spectacular and as close to the real thing as possible - that is our promise!

Visit World Heritage Nature

New Zealand is a country about the size of 268,000 sq km, which is a bit bigger than the UK and the same size as Colorado. It is world famous for its scenic landscape which changes dramatically from one area to another, and attracts over two million tourists per year - an amazing number considering the whole population of New Zealand is less than four million! A whopping one-third of New Zealand's total area is protected, and the country boasts 14 national parks, five of which have world heritage status. If you want to experience scenery at its finest, look no further. This scenery add-on delivers.

Explore Fiery Mountains

Sitting right at the edge of the Pacific and Australian tectonic plates, New Zealand is almost entirely made up of mountain chains. This defines why this high resolution mesh makes all the difference in your sim. There are 19 peaks that top 3000 m, including Mt. Cook at 3750 m. Sitting across a tectonic plate boundary means that New Zealand is geothermically active, which translates into dozens of volcanoes. Some of these are very active, including the 2700 m high Mt. Ruapehu, which last erupted in the late 1990s and scared hundreds of skiers off the mountain. With the 20 m mesh installed, all of these volcanoes have real craters, something the free SRTM meshes can't offer.

Soar above Icy Glaciers

New Zealand also features spectacular glaciers. The Tasman Glacier, at a length of 29 km, is the longest. Close by, you can find two glaciers that are among the most accessible in the world, and they extend right into the rainforest below - an awesome sight. These glaciers attract 1,000 tourists daily, and you can hear the buzzing of helicopters overhead. Also worth visiting are the numerous fiords and sounds that make up coastal areas of jaw-dropping beauty. In fact, Milford Sound (which confusingly is a fiord, not a sound) is probably the most famous scenic spot in New Zealand.

Explore Stunning Coastlines

New Zealand has a coastline of 15,000 km and features a total of 28 marine reserves. New Zealand offers some of the most attractive coasts in the world, and lots of them. The two most famous are probably the Marlbourough and Fiordland Sounds. Both areas feature twisted and spectacular water inlets, of which the Fiorldland Sounds are the more dramatic ones, because they are true Fiords. But New Zealand has much more attractive coast to offer, be it the beaches of the Golden Bay, Banks Peninsula which is an ancient volcano, or the numerous inlets of Northland, there is plenty to explore.

Fly Above Spectacular Lakes and Rivers

New Zealand offers a wide palette of lakes to explore, from the enormous Lake Taupo, which is one of the biggest volcanoes on the planet to the many other volcanic lakes of the North Island to the scenic mountain lakes of the South Island which all have their own individual character. There is the turquoise blue Lake Pukaki which is fed by the 29 km long Tasman Glacier and has an almost unreal colour. There is the quaint Lake Tikutapu to which the jaw-dropping Remarkables provide a most scenic backdrop, and there is the beautiful Lake Te Anau which serves as a gateway to the wild Fiordland country - to name just a few of the very many beautiful spots in New Zealand. In total, 10 lakes (of significant size) are located in these national parks. New Zealand also features many impressive rivers, perhaps the most famous being the untamed Wanganui River which borders its very own national park.

Follow the Real Road Network

This scenery add-on rounds up the 20 m mesh to give you an unbelievably realistic representation of New Zealand's natural landscapes. However, it also brings you an unbelievably realistic representation of New Zealand's manmade infrastructure. This add-on includes the complete road network from the highways to little ancillary urban roads. This completely changes your experience as you fly over built up areas. Suddenly the road network looks much more natural as the roads follow the terrain. All roads are classified as sealed or dirt roads and look appropriate. We incorporated tunnels and bridges, so that our scenery roads don't run over mountains where real life tunnels are. Aside from roads, we added the current rail network including tunnels and bridges. All of the roads, railway tracks, tunnels and bridges that you'll see in our scenery are what you would really see if you were exploring New Zealand yourself – for real.

Land Your Plane on 3500 Airstrips!

Of course, there's even more scenery. Imagine you could land on tiny airstrips that are only accessible to local farmers and private operators. This package includes over 3,500 of these tiny airstrips! Some of these will challenge every one of your flying skills – like Quintin which is located amidst the steep narrow valleys of Fiordland and where there is no place for a go-around. You can even land on the active volcano Mt Tarawera!

Experience a VFR Paradise

To top it off, we included other manmade structures like power lines, golf courses, race tracks, sports fields, TV and radio masts, and wind farms. The golf courses and race tracks add further character to the built-up areas and help you navigate on cross country flights. The power pylons, TV and radio masts add to the flying challenge because now you have to deal with obstructions that exist in real life - just like pilots do.

Essential for Your Real VFR Flight

The Combo Scenery of New Zealand combines Mountains of New Zealand and Roads & Rivers of New Zealand. Mesh defines the shape of the mountains in Flight Simulator. A good quality mesh can turn a landscape of generic uninspiring hills into an exciting landscape with dramatic mountains full of mindboggling ridges, cliffs and deep cut valleys. It can make mountains look much more realistic, giving you the immersive feeling of really being there while you observe a much more complex network of light and shadows created by rock outcrops and other natural irregularities that don't exist in low quality mesh. For many VFR pilots, a good quality mesh is essential for an enjoyable VFR flight.

Topographical vector data defines the water bodies and transport networks in Flight Simulator. Good quality topography can turn the generic default landscape of Flight Simulator, which only includes a few and heavily simplified roads and rivers that cut across the landscape without regard to the terrain into a much more realistic representation of the local roads and rivers. Now the rivers won't run uphill but will instead follow the mountain gorges to the dot; rivers in open planes will wind their way back and forth and are part of a much more realistic landscape. The roads won't simply cut across mountains anymore, they wind their way up and down just like in the real world. In built up areas, there are real road networks that include every single mapped road. Coastlines look like real coastlines with complex island systems and mazes of little inlets. Every single mapped lake and island is included many of these are just a few square metres big. All in all, this add-on makes the landscape look real and flying in it gives you the impression of really being there.

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