NZWU Whanganui Airport / Midwest Helicopters Heliport Overhaul + Scenery Fixes/Upgrades
Whanganui Airport (named Wanganui Airport until 2016) is the airport that serves Whanganui, New Zealand (IATA: WAG, ICAO: NZWU). It is located to the south of Whanganui River, approximately 4 km from the centre of Whanganui. The airport was opened in 1954, and services to the airport began in November that year. In September 2013, Air New Zealand announced that it would withdraw services from Whanganui to Wellington and Taupo in December 2013. Sounds Air briefly took over the Wellington route, however this was later terminated on 15 May 2015. The airport has a single terminal with just two gates. Air Chathams now operates to Wanganui from Auckland. Source
Mid West Helicopters NZ is New Zealand’s newest Helicopter Company made up of some old and familiar company names. What was originally Hill Country Helicopters and Aerowork has merged and rebranded with an energetic, enthusiastic team providing all types of Helicopter services to the central and lower North Island. Source
Features
- Over 1,100 hand placed items
- Full overhaul of the airport scenery (Check Screenshots)
- Added Carparks
- Added tyre gables
- Added New Zealand International Commercial Pilot Academy (Textured building)
- Added Accurate painted lines
- Added Fuel Stations
- Full lighting for airport + runway 11/29
- Added runway 08/26
- Fixed the Whanganui airport runway. Before it was all over the place with a huge dip in it so have flattened it out. (Mikeaat DEM)
- Have added in some height to the hills around South Beach so it's not just a flat texture (WIP)
- Have added in the Open Country milk factory on Heads Rd
- Fixed the missing Island in the Whanganui River
- OrbX Support (Fixed river heights and some heights of terrain around Airport)
- Added ATC Support
- Added some boat traffic and container scenery
- New airport building and new ATC building
- Added Durie Hill Tower and Bastia Hill water tower
- Kilometers of perimeter fencing
- Added irrigators to farmland
- Added radio towers
- Added Midwest Helicopters spawnable heliport and textured building
Note: Make sure you have all the world updates downloaded and updated from the content manager <3
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Change Log
23/07/2021 (Version 1.1)
First version was built on the Mikeaat Elevation Data Mod (https://flightsim.to/file/15092/new-zealand-10m-dem-high-resolution-terrain-elevation-data-interpolated-from-20m) So have made a version for the standard game and version for the elevation mod. Please only use one of the files depending on if you are using elevation mod or standard.
Original file will still work if using Mikeaat Elevation Data Mod
25/07/2021 (Version 1.2)
Have fixed the Whanganui River and some of the height terrain around East and along the river. Fixed some South Beach height stuff and just more small stuff for looks.
Added support for OrbX
New Screenshots
26/07/2021 (Version 1.3)
Removed the default Tower on the apron (finally figured it out :D)
Added support for ATC
31/07/2021 (Version 1.4)
World Update 5 Version
Fixed Beacon on ATC building
Fixed airport scenery (WU5 changed autogen)
Added boats to the river
05/08/2021 (Version 1.4.1)
I had uploaded the wrong file for ORBX... embarrassing, only noticed now have uploaded a fixed version sorry :(
08/08/2021 (Version 1.5)
Full overhaul of the airport scenery (Check Screenshots)
Added Carparks
Added New Zealand International Commercial Pilot Academy
10/08/2021 (Version 1.6)
Added lighting to whole airport (Check Screenshots)
Changed painted lines to be more accurate
Added some more parked traffic
Added accurate fuel stations
Added runways 14-32 & 11R-29L
10/08/2021 (Version 1.6.1)
Randomly after building a taxiway has appeared.
Removed the random taxiway
20/08/2021 (Version 1.7)
Added kilometers of perimeter fencing
27/08/2021 (Version 1.8)
Fixed some taxiway lighting
Added animated windsocks
Added roading
Added gables
New Dependency: Mikeaat Library
New Dependency: Windy Things
31/08/2021 (Version 1.9)
Removed lighting from grass runways
Made grass runways transparent on map
Added radio towers around Whanganui
Added irrigation to farming
Re did the terraforming along the river up to speedway
Added aprons to papi lights
Removed C from runway 11-29
Added missing trees along south beach
Removed trees from irrigated areas
New Dependency: CBJ Library
21/09/2021 (Version 2.0)
Version 2.0 Full Remake
Redid screenshots
Fixed runway headings
Re fenced most of the place
Redid every apron
Patched up heaps of ground textures
Changed some textures
Changed papi concrete to square
Updated some painted elements
Adjusted runway lights to be on the runway (11/29)
Replaced 95% of auto gen buildings
Fixed overlapping frequencies
Moved some parked planes further away from taxiway
Redid most of the lighting
Added hundreds of new scenery items
Added new parking spots including a in hangar parking spot (GA Ramp 2)
Added plenty of new aprons / ground textures
Added tyre gables
Added heaps of new painted elements
Added powerstation
Added textured ICPA building
Added textured Midwest Helicopters building
Added midwest helicopters spawnable heliport
Added parked ATR-72
Added parked R44
Added thumbnail and content manager information
Added the two gates with jetways
Added runway 08/26
New Dependency: ATR-72 Community Version
New Dependency: RSP R44
New Dependency: Pascals Library
New Dependency: Dave's Library
New Dependency: Dave's People Library
CoolGunS
MattStuff
2 months ago
cowpatz
Is there anyway of downloading this scenery package from some other source?
EDIT: I did find this on another website but it hasn't fixed the missing terminal issue unfortunately.
Bigherbiezoid
It seems like the NZ World update messed up the scenery a bit. It might be worth taking a look at it, because now it looks a bit weird.
chaise27
Thank you, I love the scenery. With the latest NZ World update, is it possible to remove your Durie Hill Tower because MSFS has included a model of it now?
STR1KEStudioz author
I'll have to install everything to remove can try this weekend
1 years ago
afzal201
Lovely Whanganui scenery, very special airfield for me.
zkiwi
Unfortunately SU9 or the Orbx Mesh update seems to have broken this mod as there are large terrain anomolies around the CPA hangar and parking and between the hangar and runway.
STR1KEStudioz author
I've just had a look and can't find any issues
2 years ago
pingnz
Whilst testing SU8 Beta, I noticed that with his mod installed, there are no Departure/Approach/Arrival Procedures apprearing for NZWU in the World Map or the WT G3000 Procedures page for NZWU. Removing the Mod reinstates this info.
Update: Noticed I was using an older version of the Mod. Have installed Version 2.0 of mod with the same issue.
bstikkel
The version 2 must have been an awfull lot of work. Thanks for that!
STR1KEStudioz author
Pretty much a full rework thanks man. Been really busy lately so just chipped away at this over time
3 years ago
IanT2020
Hello, great scenery thank you. I too notice the terminal is flat. The texture of the roof is present at ground level. I have tried both standard and the mike elevation addon but this has not changed the terminal. Thank you
STR1KEStudioz author
Make sure you have all the content manager/marketplace world updates installed
3 years ago
NZWAG001
Recommended download.
Hazzanz
Not sure what's going on but I cannot get the sim to launch when any of your sceneries are activated? Freezes before getting to the Home screen. Any known incompatibilities? Have tried activating them one by one (includes the Library and Trees fix).
STR1KEStudioz author
Have you tried running game with just my mods installed? I'm not aware of any incompatibilities. I do seem to have CTDs when I'm tabbed out loading into a flight but I just stay tabbed in and no issue.
3 years ago
NZWAG001
Thankyou very much for creating this as is my home airport.Huge improvement over standard scenery.Only thing is the terminal is flat to the ground with no height of the building.All else is good.Have tried flushing cache and only having this in community folder.Any suggestions?
STR1KEStudioz author
Would you be able to send a screenshot of the problem?
3 years ago
Anthony
Thanks so much for producing this STR1KEtudioz. Now I have somewhere real to fly the New Zealand International Commercial Pilot Academy (NZICPA) liveries.
Keep up the great work!
TheMoose
Hi, I notice there isn't a choice of files with this latest version. Will this work with both default and Orbx ? EDIT: never mind.. I'm an idiot! It helps to look in the Zip before commenting 😀 I was expecting separate download links for the different versions. Thanks for your work.
STR1KEStudioz author
You're all good mate hahah enjoy
3 years ago
Forbidden
Finally some attention on Whanganui 😀
STR1KEStudioz author
Someone had to do it :)
3 years ago