Tioman island FS-9 style

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ManhattanMan - 30 Jul 2008 22:22 GMT

I recently saw some pictures of a series of "interesting" airports, and
Tioman Island, off the Malaysian coast was one. I thought I'd see how FS-9
showed it. bwahahahahahahahaha... Oh well.... But, it is a fun place,
especially in something fast, as shown here:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v674/ArkyTazman/Tioman%20island/?albumview=sli
deshow

Take off Singapore, head north towards VOR 114.0, which is located on
another small island just n/w of Tioman, but as you pass the big island to
your right, you'll see the strip - just proceed out to the VOR, take a right
back to Tioman, and hug the right side of the island (since you'll be below
the hills :), and turn into it.. Have no idea how it appears in FSX, but it
has runways 3/21, 3255' long, 15' agl.

Cheers'n beers... [_])
Don

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Vernon Balbert - 30 Jul 2008 22:37 GMT

On 7/30/2008 2:22 PM, ManhattanMan went clickity clack on the keyboard
and produced this interesting bit of text:

> I recently saw some pictures of a series of "interesting" airports, and
> Tioman Island, off the Malaysian coast was one. I thought I'd see how FS-9
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> the hills :), and turn into it.. Have no idea how it appears in FSX, but it
> has runways 3/21, 3255' long, 15' agl.

Hey, Don, I'd love to take pics of this in FSX to show you, but you've
come up across on a bit of navigation that I haven't even started to
broach. I rely heavily on GPS so I really don't know much about using
VORs for navigation. It seems that this is a bit of a complicated
subject to deal with in the ng, but if you have a good site on how to
learn to do this, I'd love to hear it.

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ManhattanMan - 30 Jul 2008 23:09 GMT

> On 7/30/2008 2:22 PM, ManhattanMan went clickity clack on the keyboard
> and produced this interesting bit of text:
[quoted text clipped - 18 lines]
> subject to deal with in the ng, but if you have a good site on how to
> learn to do this, I'd love to hear it.

http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/#top

Just take off Singapore, head directly north ~60 miles, your GPS should show
Tioman by then. Probably a half dozen smaller islands in between, but
you'll notice Tioman, and the strip is on the northern end, or north western
side in FS-9.

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Vernon Balbert - 30 Jul 2008 23:48 GMT

On 7/30/2008 3:09 PM, ManhattanMan went clickity clack on the keyboard
and produced this interesting bit of text:

>> On 7/30/2008 2:22 PM, ManhattanMan went clickity clack on the keyboard
>> and produced this interesting bit of text:
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>
> http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/#top

Thanks for the link! I'll look into it.

> Just take off Singapore, head directly north ~60 miles, your GPS should show
> Tioman by then. Probably a half dozen smaller islands in between, but
> you'll notice Tioman, and the strip is on the northern end, or north western
> side in FS-9.

I found it and took pictures. Here they are:

http://flickr.com/photos/10238757@N03/2718252502/
http://flickr.com/photos/10238757@N03/2718252206/
http://flickr.com/photos/10238757@N03/2717435195/

It doesn't look a lot different than FS9, although the airstrip appears
to be 20/02. Landing at 02 looks like it would be tough, but 20 is
pretty easy.

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BernieFlyer - 31 Jul 2008 00:31 GMT

> I recently saw some pictures of a series of "interesting" airports, and
> Tioman Island, off the Malaysian coast was one. I thought I'd see how FS-9
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> Cheers'n beers... [_])
> Don

If you go to the site here it will point you to some good freeware stuff
for Malaysia including Tioman. Much better than the default thats for
sure. The site is very valuable for finding free world scenery!

http://walhalla.mine.nu/fs2004/malaysia.html

Bernie

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Mad Mike - 31 Jul 2008 01:55 GMT

> I recently saw some pictures of a series of "interesting" airports, and
> Tioman Island, off the Malaysian coast was one. I thought I'd see how FS-9
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> Cheers'n beers... [_])
> Don

Nice Don,

Any special addon scenery?

MM

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