Excellent flight plan and video, capturing a slice of the beauty of New Zealand that the NZ World update brings to MSFS. Flying this area after Orbix mesh to a great extent, fixed the rounded off mountain top affects, I found flying along the ridges, vs in the valleys, to be spectacular. Timely and well done Jon.
This is a fantastic world update, plus a good day as I had a day off work and got Turtle Beach Velocity One Flightstick delivered from Amazon. Great place to test that out with the new update. Some of those airstrips where tricky to get into with my Kodiak. Great video, your one of the best msfs2020 RUclipsrs.
Quinton Lodge (it's an actual lodge on the Milford Track, with a real airstrip) has always been one of my favourite bush flights. The only sensible way to get there is to start from NZMF (on the ground or not) and follow the Arthur River at around 1000, the way you left :) You get almost zero warning when you get to the strip so you have to be slow and down around 300' AGL when you see it, then you toss the plane into a spitfire approach and try not to slam into the ground or a tree. There were a couple of different mods of the strip which made it way easier but the vanilla now is way more fun and the lodge looks like it should. With the mods I got a BN2 and even a Twotter into there but I had no luck yesterday with a kitfox, the only thing I've managed to land there so far is a helicopter LOL
That first landing, yikes! I wouldn't be surprised if the Caravan's spring gear couldn't take that in real life, though. More Black Square flights, please! See if you can get the King Air into the lodge!
It's a beauty of an World update...that first landing i'm going to try as well...probably will hit something because it looks unforgiven if you miss Thanks for the - as always entertaining and informative - video
I'm following you for a long time now and would like to thank you for all the knowledge you share with the simmer community. Which is the Little Navmap settings that allow showing the relief when zooming in?
I did start using prop condition towards the end. For much of the cruise out, didn't need it. For the climb out of Milford Sound towards Martins Bay, definitely needed it lol
I see you are using the latest version of Little Navmap, on there known issues it says when you use Active pause in MSFS breaks the connection and does not allow to reconnect even when restarting Little Navmap. This is a MSFS issue. Use the key Esc for normal pause or click the toolbar button for pause to avoid problems. How do you get around that.
It's Mostly good for me this update but I have found that around Queenstown (maybe potentially other areas? not found others yet) I experience framerate stuttering. I have noticed it does look nice there so perhaps hammering my PC hardware and turning down my graphical settings didn't make much difference. Hopefully it's something that can be optimised by either Nvidia or ASOBO/MS but like so many things PC gaming related not everyone will have the same experience.
Beautiful! Question regarding season; it is Summer in NZ and on my Msfs most lakes are frozen… is there an adjustment to be made? I am using real weather and dates
Hello, are you flying on PC? The reason I ask, is when you moved the heading bug, it was just a half circle arrow. I don’t know how to get that. Mine lights up blue and is a bit annoying. Thanks
This is weird... There's a girl I went to school with when I was ages 9-12 (I'm now 50), whom I used to be friends with on Facebook (I'm not now as I'm on a different account). She often comes up as friend suggestion on FB, and I was scrolling thru this morning after watching this - and you came up as 'Someone I may know'. I just figured it was the whole Google algorithm thing, but turns out you're friends with her. Small world, eh? Oh, nice vid as always 👍.
Quintin Lodge is not an airstrip for Caravans. In real life I think you have to go over Milford Sound and then fly in the valley toward Quintin Lodge , of course with a much smaller aircraft like Cessna 185 or 206. The way you have flown is really dangerous. Not to do in real life. I also think (not sure 100% ) that it is a one way airstrip, opposite with your landing. NZ is stunning but many airports are really dangerous and not made for big aircrafts. Probably even Milford Sound is a one way airport with a mandatory very precise approach from the sea side. There is much traffic in this well known airfield.
Most approaches are on 11, from the seaside, but it is common if there is a seabreeze to land in the other direction on 29, by making a left pattern with a dumbbell turn. Takeoffs are almost always off 29, even with a tailwind, but can be done into the rising terrain on 11 with a light load.
Martin's Bay in a Cessna Caravan? I have some doubts..... simmers are quite optimistic, think they can land everywhere but this strip is much narrow and the Caravan have quite wingspan and heavy too, not suite for that soil . I think not much then a Cessna 206 can land there and they dkbt't go yonthe Lodge. Only helivopters can land in front of the Lodge. There is a readon why there are quite a lot of C206 and C185 in NZ tourist company.
Your vid inspired me to give that area a go in the Kodiak. Loved it. For Quinten Lodge, even coming from Milford Sound is a challenge, but if you are coming from that way, there is a little bowl just above Quinten Lodge to the northwest in sight of the runway. If you come from Milford Sound, as you reach that last corner revealing the runway, the area is directly to the right. You can pull a circle in there and come back down in line with the runway as I did here. Super fun! ruclips.net/video/UuZHbz_ia38/видео.html
I used to live at Martin’s bay lodge, remarkable how accurate this is
Do you have any pics of it ?
Excellent flight plan and video, capturing a slice of the beauty of New Zealand that the NZ World update brings to MSFS. Flying this area after Orbix mesh to a great extent, fixed the rounded off mountain top affects, I found flying along the ridges, vs in the valleys, to be spectacular. Timely and well done Jon.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video , very amusing! Thanks a lot jonathan.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is a fantastic world update, plus a good day as I had a day off work and got Turtle Beach Velocity One Flightstick delivered from Amazon. Great place to test that out with the new update. Some of those airstrips where tricky to get into with my Kodiak. Great video, your one of the best msfs2020 RUclipsrs.
Thank you! :)
Awesome flight. The Southern Alps now look amazing.
They are!
I love that we are all flying in New Zealand now. Truly beautiful place and update. I'll have to check this one out tonight.
The owners of the lodges must have used the same builder and his plans...they both are identical.
Nice flight!!
Quinton Lodge (it's an actual lodge on the Milford Track, with a real airstrip) has always been one of my favourite bush flights. The only sensible way to get there is to start from NZMF (on the ground or not) and follow the Arthur River at around 1000, the way you left :) You get almost zero warning when you get to the strip so you have to be slow and down around 300' AGL when you see it, then you toss the plane into a spitfire approach and try not to slam into the ground or a tree. There were a couple of different mods of the strip which made it way easier but the vanilla now is way more fun and the lodge looks like it should. With the mods I got a BN2 and even a Twotter into there but I had no luck yesterday with a kitfox, the only thing I've managed to land there so far is a helicopter LOL
It's great fun, isn't it :)
Is there a special school for bush flying? Those maneuvers seem highly irregular.
I just spent 2 weeks in New Zealand and this is amazing!
:)
Beautiful scenery, good flying & useful navigation tips. All good, Captain
Glad you enjoyed it
Nerves of steel for that first landing at the lodge
Yeah - it was... dangerous lol - in the real world I would have flown in from the arthur river end.
That first landing, yikes! I wouldn't be surprised if the Caravan's spring gear couldn't take that in real life, though. More Black Square flights, please! See if you can get the King Air into the lodge!
That's not a bad idea :)
It's a beauty of an World update...that first landing i'm going to try as well...probably will hit something because it looks unforgiven if you miss
Thanks for the - as always entertaining and informative - video
Go for it!
Would be flying by hand as soon as I get into those mountains.
The wings hitting the trees at Quintin Lodge help slow the plane nicely!
Hehehe
beautiful, thanks for the nice trip
Thank you too
@@jonbeckett I really liked the part where you circled around the airstrip just in between the steep mountains.
33:44 That approach and landing !
Yeah - a bit hairy :)
Looks amazing I will be downloading this now
Cool :)
Can you please review the RV-8 made by Terrainy Studios. I really like the real plane, and I would like to know if its worth to buy or not :)
Erm - so you want me to buy it so you can decide if to buy it? lol
It's poor made. Wait until the SWS RV8 comes.
I'm following you for a long time now and would like to thank you for all the knowledge you share with the simmer community. Which is
the Little Navmap settings that allow showing the relief when zooming in?
It's an unofficial map tile layer using Google terrain view
Absolutely no use of prop or Engine condition. Love it
there's no mixture knob in a caravan, it's a turboprop
I did start using prop condition towards the end. For much of the cruise out, didn't need it. For the climb out of Milford Sound towards Martins Bay, definitely needed it lol
Beautifull
I see you are using the latest version of Little Navmap, on there known issues it says when you use
Active pause in MSFS breaks the connection and does not allow to reconnect even when restarting Little Navmap. This is a MSFS issue. Use the key Esc for normal pause or click the toolbar button for pause to avoid problems. How do you get around that.
Yeah - the active pause bug has been present for a while. I would always tell people to just press ESC.
It's Mostly good for me this update but I have found that around Queenstown (maybe potentially other areas? not found others yet) I experience framerate stuttering. I have noticed it does look nice there so perhaps hammering my PC hardware and turning down my graphical settings didn't make much difference. Hopefully it's something that can be optimised by either Nvidia or ASOBO/MS but like so many things PC gaming related not everyone will have the same experience.
Everyone is getting stuttering.
Beautiful! Question regarding season; it is Summer in NZ and on my Msfs most lakes are frozen… is there an adjustment to be made? I am using real weather and dates
I changed the weather.
What map software are you using at the start and throughout the video? For flight plan etc.
LittleNavMap
Is this part of mfsf or additional software? Additionally if it is part of it. How to bring up?
@@brendonwhite8865 LittleNavMap is a free download from the internet for the PC. If you search for LittleNavMap you will find it.
@@jonbeckett download will automatically install as part of the sim?
did u take off with the prop feathered?
I can't remember - I don't think so.
Hello, are you flying on PC? The reason I ask, is when you moved the heading bug, it was just a half circle arrow. I don’t know how to get that. Mine lights up blue and is a bit annoying. Thanks
I'm using PC. You can switch the control method.
@@jonbeckett I did try to play around with it, but could not find the right option. Any chance you can give me directions? Thanks
Wait, sorry worked it out, thanks
208 with steam gauges? Is this a mod or is this part of the game now? I fly the one with the glass cockpit in game but haven't flown in a few months.
Blacksquare version i think
It's the blacksquare version :)
@@pouetpouet941 Thanks I'll look for it.
@@pouetpouet941 Thanks for answer. I'll check it out.
are you not in bed yet lol Thank You for a good video and do have a good weekend.
Thanks, you too!
Please land the 208 at lady elliot island and take off from bunderberg
This is weird... There's a girl I went to school with when I was ages 9-12 (I'm now 50), whom I used to be friends with on Facebook (I'm not now as I'm on a different account). She often comes up as friend suggestion on FB, and I was scrolling thru this morning after watching this - and you came up as 'Someone I may know'. I just figured it was the whole Google algorithm thing, but turns out you're friends with her. Small world, eh? Oh, nice vid as always 👍.
Who's that ??
@@jonbeckett Lucy Child.
grass mod?
No.
Quintin Lodge is not an airstrip for Caravans. In real life I think you have to go over Milford Sound and then fly in the valley toward Quintin Lodge , of course with a much smaller aircraft like Cessna 185 or 206. The way you have flown is really dangerous. Not to do in real life. I also think (not sure 100% ) that it is a one way airstrip, opposite with your landing. NZ is stunning but many airports are really dangerous and not made for big aircrafts. Probably even Milford Sound is a one way airport with a mandatory very precise approach from the sea side. There is much traffic in this well known airfield.
Yep - I was just playing with the simulator :)
Most approaches are on 11, from the seaside, but it is common if there is a seabreeze to land in the other direction on 29, by making a left pattern with a dumbbell turn. Takeoffs are almost always off 29, even with a tailwind, but can be done into the rising terrain on 11 with a light load.
Martin's Bay in a Cessna Caravan? I have some doubts..... simmers are quite optimistic, think they can land everywhere but this strip is much narrow and the Caravan have quite wingspan and heavy too, not suite for that soil . I think not much then a Cessna 206 can land there and they dkbt't go yonthe Lodge. Only helivopters can land in front of the Lodge. There is a readon why there are quite a lot of C206 and C185 in NZ tourist company.
Your vid inspired me to give that area a go in the Kodiak. Loved it. For Quinten Lodge, even coming from Milford Sound is a challenge, but if you are coming from that way, there is a little bowl just above Quinten Lodge to the northwest in sight of the runway. If you come from Milford Sound, as you reach that last corner revealing the runway, the area is directly to the right. You can pull a circle in there and come back down in line with the runway as I did here. Super fun!
ruclips.net/video/UuZHbz_ia38/видео.html
Great idea.
A Caravan is nothing! I've landed a DHC-4 Caribou at Quinten Lodge! Isn't flight simming grand?