We’re very excited to announce the release of Vessels: The Hawaiian Islands which is now available to PC and Xbox users via the MSFS Marketplace and OrbxDirect. This is our first scenery to feature ‘landable’ moving ships with hard decks.
Aloha!
Welcome to Hawaii, home to the U.S Pacific Fleet, busy working harbours and many tourist destinations. With this scenery you will find thousands of boats populating ports and marinas together with a variety of nautical traffic travelling between and around the eight main islands. That includes many leisure boats such as sailing yachts and motor boats together with the large superyachts that are the reserve of the super-rich. You might also be lucky enough to spot one of the few nuclear-powered submarines that are on exercise near to the islands too…
Of particular note is Pearl Harbor, with its historical significance, wide array of US Navy warships and of course the USS Missouri aka ‘Mighty Mo’. The US fleet is very active around the these islands.
Moving Ships with Hard Decks
This is the first of our sceneries to feature ‘landable’, moving US Navy and tanker vessels that you will find off the coast of most of the airports.
*Helicopter NOT Included
Check the
User Guide for more detail
Included US Navy Vessels:
- USS Missouri (BB-63) Battleship
- Arleigh Burke Class Guided Missile (DDG) Destroyers
- Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile (CG) Cruisers
- Oliver Hazard Perry Class (FFG) Frigates
- Harpers Ferry Class Dock Landing (LSD) Ships
- Tarawa Class Amphibious Assault (LHA) Ships
- Virginia Class (SSN) Nuclear-powered Submarines
- USS Bowfin (SS/AGSS-287) Balao-class Submarine
Key Features
- PBR models
- Navigation and Night lighting
- Wake and Smoke VFX
- ‘Landable’ moving ships!
NOTES
- Requires Installation of the FREE Vessels Core Library (which is our common model library)
- Make sure you have the latest Vessels Core Library (v1.11.0) or above and reboot the sim after installation for the changes to take effect.
- The MSFS Marketplace version of the Core Library has weapons removed and/or covered up in order to comply with Microsoft Policy.
- Screenshots feature the Hype Performance Group H145 helicopter which is NOT included in the scenery.
- When a ship occasionally turns it will rotate beneath a landed aircraft.
- Moving ships continue to move when the simulator is paused/in menu.
TIP: For the best wake effects set the Ground Wind Speed to 3 knots or above.
Vessels The Hawaiian Islands - Orbx (orbxdirect.com)
Seafront Simulations | Vessels: The Hawaiian Islands (seafrontsims.com)
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The latest version of Vessels: The Hawaiian Islands has been released to the Orbx and the MSFS Marketplace for PC and Xbox.
Version 1.2.0 brings you additional moving, landable ships (including an LHA group and Coast Guard Cutters) together with some more general cargo traffic between the southern islands.
Full List As follows:
- Added ML Landing Helicopter Assault (LHA) ship
- Added ML Legend Class US Coast Guard Cutters
- 2 Extra ML Ticonderoga Class Cruisers
- 2 Extra ML Perry Class Frigates
- 2 Extra ML Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers
- Added ML Cruise Ships
*ML = Moving Landable
A reserve LHA that was resting in Pearl Harbor can now be found off the South West tip of Oahu together with Ticonderoga, Perry and Arleigh Burke escorts.
The US Coast Guard now has several Legend Class Cutters (with helidecks) operating near Maalaea Harbor south of Maui, Honolulu Harbor and near Lihue Airport, Kauai.
…and you will also find some Landable, Moving Cruise Ships in the areas around the islands… This one is near Kaneohe Bay.
Here is a simple map of the starting locations for these ships that you might want to search. The orange areas are those that have been added with this update.
Please make sure you install the Vessels Core Library v1.12.0 or above before using this update
We really hope you have plenty of fun with this update and thanks again to all our customers.
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Update v1.3.1 has been published by Orbx and is awaiting release by Microsoft. This is a small update resolving the duplication of the USS Missouri and USS Bowfin if using the World Update 13 - Oceania scenery.
PC users that wish to retain the World Update models can delete the ‘WU13’ folder within the package (seafront-sightseeing-vessels-hawaii/Scenery/seafront-hawaii/WU13).
The small ‘waterfall’ near USS Missouri is an issue with WU13 (reported) and not related to this addon.
Vessels: The Hawaiian Islands has received further updates for greater compatibility with WU13.
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Users can now see the Aloha Tower Marketplace structures
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Users can now see the rainbow design on the front of the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Resort as well as the nearby pier
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The USS Missouri Model has been updated with raised, uncovered guns
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The USS Bowfin Model has been updated with guns
This further update was just released via Orbx and is in the queue for Microsoft release. The new models will also be included (with guns shown) due to a revision in Microsoft’s weapon policy for the sim.
The main change is the restriction of “Any depiction of a weapon.” becoming “Any depiction of a weapon except on real-world static memorials, signage, logos.”
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Version 1.3.2 (see above) is now available to PC and Xbox via the MSFS Marketplace in addition to Orbx.
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Vessels: The Hawaiian Islands is now available on the Just Flight store along with many of our other popular coastal scenery addons!
Check it out here…
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