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Here's Why I was Asking....

Hi,

Splendid and thanks for giving me some credit (I haven't the faintest why) but, how the heck did you do this?:confused:
I noticed that you used some invisible runway to take off on, but the landing part baffles me.

Roby

PS (so that you know it is me): maybe there are some more Roby's?
 
Roby,

Recently, I was wondering why I couldn't make an airport suspended in air to help solve a problem getting AI helicopters to land on oil rigs. You helped with your post back when about making a hard surface airport for an aircraft carrier. I realized that the carrier was like "air" to FSX, just a picture or image and I could probably do what you suggested without the carrier. Once that was realized, I figured out the rest.

I put the rig in at 0 feet, the airport at the helipad height, and the separate airport with an apron at 0 feet (to hold down the terrain). I positioned the little midair airport with a parking spot on the helipad. Once I had a proper midair airport, I could get AI to land on it easy enough.

I have the test airport as a "template" now. Change the Lat/Lon to any I need, and match the dummy airport to the same lat/lon. Instant offshore airport.
 
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Well, although this works from a distance, flying next to the platform you can see the apron and runway. Can anyone point me to a program for creating a hard surface? I need a clear hard surface 850' by 300' oriented north/south and at 116 feet that I can feed a lat/lon to.

A clear apron would be a great addition to ADE I guess. Anyway, the concept works, now I need to go back to the drawing board...

Any help is appreciated.
 
Dawg- Yes- FSDS can make hard surfaces just fine. I made a couple for you some time ago. Are you still here?
Bob
 
BigDawg205 said:
Thanks to Roby for his Aircraft Carrier post and those who tried to help me with "midair" runways. Here's a test of the concept to land AI Helicopters on an Oil Rig.

Have more work to do but it works...
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Why post a link to a video that you made if we cannot see it?

 
Bigdawg sent me requests to make some helo padswith hard surfaces. He sen tsome design drawings. I did them and sen them back. This wa at least a year ago. Haven't heard from him since. No answer, no fu, no bye, nothing. I fear he may be gone from us? bob
 
jyarddog said:
Bigdawg sent me requests to make some helo padswith hard surfaces. He sen tsome design drawings. I did them and sen them back. This wa at least a year ago. Haven't heard from him since. No answer, no fu, no bye, nothing. I fear he may be gone from us? bob
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He last logged on here a year ago.
 
I did not notice the post date but

this post was on the front page and in bold print as to say someone had just posted it or bumped it up.

I surely did not go backwards through many post and pages looking for it.
 
OK

I see jyarddog brought it to the front and I missed the original posting date back in 2013.
 
jvile- et al- I was working with him back then or before then. Just recently I was once more trying to see if he had been active again. I guess not. Maybe he died. Sad if so. Bob
 
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