MSFS 2024 Scores Big Photogrammetry Points in Auckland, NZ

[@sebastientumahai9560]

18:30 Crazy detailed tour. I live up just next to Micheal Savage park on bastion point

[@GavinCoertzen]

I love this. I found your channel possibly by luck, but the UH-1H flight got me hooked. Learnt to fly the Robbins, and love to follow these flight plans around. Not to mentioned the research you do as well. Keep it up, looking forward to flying some more.

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

Welcome! Glad you made it!

[@rcca07]

This is bringing back memories when we were in Auckland Hey, we went up the sky tower and ate in the restaurant. This is an awesome video thank you.

[@ThorNjord]

Did you get your MFGs? You are going to love them! Great video, very well researched! Thank you for taking all that time.

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

I did! They are sitting in my trunk. We had to do an emergency appendectomy tonight on my youngest daughter, so everything got a little backed up on me.

[@ThorNjord]

@@MSFSFlightPlans I sincerely hope your daughter is well. I wish her a prompt recovery and you and your family all the best.

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

Thans, man. She is back home recovering. I'm just glad we caught it before things got worse. Plus, I got to take a day off work to prepare tonight's London flight!

[@rcca07]

Wife and I were there new zealand and australia awesome. Hey, if you're sitting in there with your simulator what's your wife's say? At least she knows where to find you, instead of sitting at a bar , ha ha. That's what I tell my wife too!

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

Yeah, lucky for me (maybe), she did plenty of wondering where I was when when I was a much younger idiot. So she's just delighted to hear me talking very loundly into a microphone all night long. Probably helps her sleep better!

[@sebastientumahai9560]

33:11 fun fact those barracks there aren’t open or known to the public, they’re basically abandoned and turned into graffiti practice areas or nurseries for bees for the local iwi. We used to play in them and do all sorts of shit in them. Untill about 15 20 years ago there were no trees up there. You could see them from my houses. Now since the iwi had grown large amounts of native trees back up there it’s been fully covered. There are still remains of old AA guns up there. The north shore preserve those old battery guns and tunnels. While if you drive Tamaki Drive from CBD to Mission bay. You can see the remains of old barracks aswell built into the Clift side. They’re many many tunnels through the city and my area that nobody knows about. You can still access one near Micheal Savage. Right across from the Tamaki Yacht Club there is a staircase that you’ll have to find but it’s there and blocked off by a guard rail. You climb that staircase you’ll enter what looks like a cave but then opens up into an old air raid tunnel. One of the many.

[@darrellm9915]

Gorgeous video! -- You might also like to check out some even more scenic places in NZ, like Nelson, Mount Cook, Wanaka, Queenstown & Milford Sound. I promise, you will not regret it. They are one of the most beautiful areas in the world you'll ever see. If you also want more North Island areas, some of the best are in the Bay of Islands, Lake Taupo, Tongariro National Park, Coromandel Peninsula, Tauranga, Pauanui & Wellington. :)

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

I've heard good things about those areas, I'll have to check them out for a future video!

[@JDVVV378]

Verry detailed👌

[@petergordon610]

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.

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

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!

[@scarter9447]

Wow Sistema, make really nice quality food containers, i have a few nice to see where there made..

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

Ha! I was wondering what kind of company that was. 🤔

[@craigmacgibbon9166]

As far as Americans on youtube go, your pronunciation of Maori was as good as I've ever heard, good job! MOTAT is absolutely the place to go. There's an old school tram that runs between each of the areas, past the zoo. And btw, the trees next to the helipad you wanted to land at? They're definitely there, lol, I was driving across the SH20 bridge just to the west and thought a helicopter was crashing into them, it landed so close.

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

Thanks for the reporting from the ground! So do they have a full-on train section at MOTAT, or is that area just for the tram?

[@craigmacgibbon9166]

@@MSFSFlightPlans The train tracks you were looking at are for the steam trains, and you can ride them, though I I think the track you saw is the extent of it (not been on them, unfortunately). The tram leaves from the entrance to the aviation hall, on the other side from the tracks, and goes south, then around the lake to the other half of Motat. That was a DC3 you saw on the map, but there is MUCH cooler stuff inside, like a WWII Lancaster bomber.

[@Luke-xe4dh]

Great video! could you do wellington next?

[@kevinbrook7033]

Incredible visuals!

[@Blxz]

This is fantastic. On a smaller screen it's almost difficult to tell parts from real life.

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

I was even having trouble discerning on a big one in some areas!

[@CowanSimulation]

You are awesome! 🥰

[@97Nickw]

Amazing video! I was wondering what specs you are running for these settings in Auckland? Thanks!

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

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.

[@97Nickw]

@@MSFSFlightPlans Thank you!

[@VoandoPreator]

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!

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

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.

[@MotorisedGecko]

Awesome video, Is it possible for you to provide your PC specs? the imagery looks amazing

[@lancecovel1]

For the CowanSim R66 map the throttle to "Set Helicopter Throttle Axis".

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

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?

[@benjaminnice]

Clock tower is part of Auckland University. Scares you see on mountains are the top are remains of food storage pits.

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

Ahhhh ... interesting. Thank you!

[@jress9967]

Awesome!

[@andrewjamez]

Bathymetry looks amazing. Was just blue water in 2020

[@hobiegal]

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!

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

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.

[@laihimchan8540]

hello you choose ultra settings?

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

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.

[@haroldnicholson8603]

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. 😂

[@ThomasAnderson-d6m]

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.

[@mammid9622]

Roads are metal?

[@vracan]

why some cities show proper nice photogametry while others cities not?

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

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?

[@Belatu42]

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 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2mvq5mqadmFnKs

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

Thanks for the vid link! I'll be checking that out this morning.

[@simemsayss4395]

Fun fact, did you know only 10% of the world population lives in the southern hemisphere, and 90% live in the northern hemisphere.

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

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."

[@Hotdognzz]

Your lucky it looked like shit on my machine, couldn't bring the data in quick enough

[@MSFSFlightPlans]

I was only lucky for a little while. I haven't been able to load the sim since yesterday's update.🤢 🤮

[@ankitbhandari8752]

Looks like cowan it’s not as detailed and the flight model of the ms2024 r-66 is way good than cowan

[@sebastientumahai9560]

Only thing wrong is the grass texture. Way too dry looking. NZ is famous for its lush green grass everywhere