Aloha , any recommended addons for Hawaii ? Mahalo

For some reason just when i have northern sky enabled i see two… disable this one and enable the landmarks and the other and its fine.

I guess ill just look for another phmk to fill the void.

Just saw this one pop up over at flightsim.to! I haven’t tried it yet, but I will!

Kauai and Oahu the Hawaiian Tour

Aloha Kakahiaka!

I know there’s a payware A330 (not sure which variant) in progress, but I just found out that the Project Mega Pack gang has a freeware A330! It’s a -300 model, whereas HAL flies the -243s, but it’ll work as a stand-in for now. :slight_smile:

Then @Nerbulus already had a Hawaiian livery for it (based on N370HA, which didn’t have the newer style “ghost” lei across the fuselage).

I’m checking out the aircraft now. Might have to invite my senior A330-243 FO friend over (who also happens to work in training at HAL) to help me out. :wink:

Lots of cool stuff for PC, but sadly not so much for Xbox, since we can only use what’s on the Marketplace. Fingers crossed that some of these items make it there.

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Good question, why wasn’t the Hawaiian islands looked during the last two US world updates??? There is some pretty amazing photogrammetry 3rd party of Honolulu, Pearl City, Waikiki, and PNHL on flightsim.to but its hard on frame rates…

LOL I’d be happy if we could get the correct local time. :wink:

I’ve got Hawai’i looking pretty good I think (minus PHNL & PHNG) - took some cash though to get it that way. I still need to get “my” list up for that stuff!!

The Honolulu City addon was absolutely beautiful from 2,000’ - trying to use PHNL and PHNG was an exercise in frustration though. I tried posting on flightsim.to as well as messaging the creator directly but never got anything back indicating that they were or were planning on fixing it.

Default PHNL is…well, at least the runways are there. 8L has looked goofy since launch with that weird runway edge line on the Mauka (mountain) side. The buildings (and lack thereof) are lacking. The third-party freeware offerings so far haven’t been current enough (like, am I only aware of the new HAL terminal that replaced “my” old commuter terminal since I live here?). I’ve heard rumors that Flight Sim Dream Team is producing a PHNL, but the last time I checked (a month or so ago?) there was no update.

I would start working on making a GSX profile for PHNL, but it’s in such a poor state that it’s not worth doing yet. …now PHOG on the other hand, using Northern Sky’s brilliant add-on… yes, please. :slight_smile: I’ll have to add that to my ever-growing list of stuff I want to do in MSFS.

I want to start developing for MSFS, I just have too much IRL crud happening at the moment. :frowning: Hoping that things will slow down and I can dedicate some time to learning tools so that I can start. Even “just” sticking with Hawai’i and the self-declared 1,500 nm around PHNL I think I could find a lot to work on.

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the state of all the Hawaiian island makes me sad, I love the island and have been many times IRL, I hope they hurry up and fix so I can visit again… :slight_smile:

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Aloha Kakahiaka!

I was doing my daily wander-through of new stuff at flightsim.to and ran across another Hawai’i related aviation bit! :slight_smile:

Looks like they started out in 1971 as Hawai’i Wings (a tour operator), and then became Royal Hawaiian Air service in 1965 and operated until 1986. I can’t find their historic fleet aside from Cessna 402s, but hey even if this is a “fictional” livery, I like it! More Hawai’i stuff!!!

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MARKETPLACE BONANZA!!!
(well, relatively speaking)

Honolulu Night Enhanced - Dreamscenery

  • PC & Xbox

PHHN Hana - Northern Sky

  • Xbox

PHMK Molokai + PHLU - Northern Sky

  • Xbox
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Does anyone know why the area around pearl harbor doesnt have masks for water, its basically satellite water imagery? (i thought it was one of the addons in this thread but i disabled everything)

Im guessing its just the way Asobo made it, for now?

Any 3rd party cures?

There’s a terrain mesh, but no water masks that I know of. The only one I can think of might have it could be the Honolulu City addon, but… if you want to fly out of PHNL or PHNG, don’t get it. Both airports are unusable. :frowning:

Ah, so what im seeing is normal then? I was confused because i swear i saw some videos on youtube from this area and msfs that didnt look like this.

Yes, unless something has changed in the last couple of days - I’ve been dealing with CTDs so I haven’t flown.

Hawai’i has only had the default scenery since launch. :frowning: Thankfully we have lots of talented third party developers to fill the void though!

Ooh - Seafront SImulations released a trailer for the Hawaiian Islands! Been watching this one with great interest. I think it would really liven up the waters!

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Yes, the water in the harbor in the bays has been looking awful since a recent update.

Hey Lash! If I recall correctly, you’re back to the FS world?

Any updates on your Windward O’ahu scenery? :slight_smile:

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Very excited for the Seafront Simulations Hawaiian Islands add-on since they mention XBOX as well as PC, and XBOX users like me are limited to only using the official Marketplace. Great stuff!

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Agreed its nice to see something, anything for the islands over here. XBX user too and Hawaii needs some love, been saying this since for the longest. way over due. We really need at least a world update, was skipped in both USA WU (which is the 50th state) and photogrammetry, water masking the works. im surprised no one has made a pay ware PHNL at least. Asobo/MSFS… a near future Oceania world update perhaps?

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FSDT (Flight Sim Dream Team) is working on one, but I haven’t heard anything about it for a long time.

I am happy that we’ve got free downloads and payware to fill the void, but yeah - the biggest airport in the State hasn’t been done yet! :frowning:

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Aloha mai e!

Just got notification that Seafront Simulations’ “Vessels: The Hawaiian Islands” was just released! I just grabbed it from ORBX, but you might be able to get it elsewhere as well.

I haven’t used it yet, but the videos and screenshots I’ve seen really look good.

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