117th X-Plane.org fly-in (Hong Kong)

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With highly detailed scenery converted from MSFS the second Kai Tak fly-in was a real blast, giving everyone the chance to fly one of the world's most challenging (former) major airport approaches in a variety of heavy airliners. I had the older version of the Kai Tak scenery installed at first, so that's why you don't see as many buildings in the first pics and the fly-in banner. Later on (after a quick visit to Taiwan) I installed the new version with lots more buildings and, unfortunately, lower framerates. All the shots were taken with real time settings this time, so a few of the flights in the middle were in complete darkness (but for the benefit of the viewers, I used night vision for some of the shots).

Click here to view the fly-in screenshots

 

Aircraft
X-Plane Freeware Project's Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-400 (RR engines)
X-Plane Freeware Project's British Airways Boeing 777-200ER
Westland Sea King HAR3 by Brett Sumpter, Nils Danielsson and Ethan Teiger
China Airlines Airbus A300-600 by riviere
UPS Douglas DC-8 Series 62 by Mathias, based on earlier work by Marco Spada and Daniele Gigola
X-Plane Freeware Project's Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400 (GE engines, old colors)


Scenery packages
Kai Tak 1.1 scenery by Roger Mole, converted to X-Plane by rundek (various other authors, see readme file)
Tokyo scenery by Ted Davis

 

Fly-in banner (featuring the Cathay 747 listed above):