From: Vivian M. <viv...@li...> - 2007-10-04 11:50:58
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Jon > Sent: 04 October 2007 10:03 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] oil platform... > > > AJ MacLeod wrote: > > > If you want to practice landing on platforms, try the > Cromarty Firth, > > which is > > packed with the things and is right next to several > airfields - take off from > > EG73(Fearn) or EGPE (Inverness). You can hop along the > Firth on them (the > > Cromarty Firth is used as "parking" for drilling rigs when > things are slack > > in the business - currently there are actually very few > there IRL, but there > > are sometimes many more than are in the FG scenery.) > > If someone has a decent oil platform model then I'd be happy > to replace > the red and yellow box with it too :-) Alternatively if > anyone has any > diagrams I'd be happy to produce a new model (though the > local reference > library has proved to be a great source of info for other models I > haven't been able to find anything useful for oil platforms). > There's enough here to enable you to populate the whole of the N Sea: http://www.maritimereplicas.com/oilRigs.htm Vivian |