Active pilots in Microsoft Flight Simulator should consider a new tour of New Zealand in their itinerary, with Microsoft and developer Asobo Studio releasing World Update XII: New Zealand. The contents of this update include:
- Seven new cities created using high-resolution photogrammetry data and triangulated irregular network modelling:
- Auckland
- Christchurch
- Hamilton
- Nelson
- Queenstown
- Tauranga
- Wellington
- 62 handcrafted points of interest
- Nine handcrafted airports
- Gisborne Airport (NZGS)
- Milford Sound Airport (NZMF)
- Martins Bay Aerodrome (NZMJ)
- Gorge River Airstrip (NZQE)
- Rotorua Airport (NZRO)
- Lake Tekapo Airport (NZTL)
- Whangarei Airport (NZWR)
- Westport Airport (NZWS)
- Quintin Lodge Airstrip (T004)
- 10 new missions that assists players in exploring the country’s myriad of sights, test their skills, and more. This is broken down into three bush trips, three discovery flights and four landing challenges.
Microsoft Flight Simulator World Update XII: New Zealand is available free to all owners. Confirm that your simulator is updated to version 1.30.12.0, download World Update XII: New Zealand and take in the natural beauty of New Zealand. The sky is calling!
The jewel of the southwestern Pacific, born of volcanic fire and hewn by the sea and sky, New Zealand is globally renowned for its breathtaking vistas from Aoraki/Mount Cook, the country’s highest mountain at 12,218 feet above sea level; to the Milford Sound, a spectacular fjord that novelist Rudyard Kipling called the eighth Wonder of the World; Auckland’s needle-like Sky Tower, one of the highest structures on the planet; and the Bay of Islands, a group of 144 islands and numerous small peninsulas and inlets.
