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But despite the thoroughness
of it's makers and the efforts of numerous third parties, even
this program could not give armchair pilots the thrill of making
what is considered to be one of the toughest landing approached
in the world.
In other words, it didn't have a Kai Tak landing senario built
in.
Until, that is, Hugh Trethowan, a Cheung Chau based musician
and amateur pilot, decided to write the necessary module for
it.
With a shareware program called Aircraft and Scenery Designer,
Mr Trethowan used polygons to form the land mass for his Hong
Kong scenery module and then placed the road, buildings and
navigational lanes over it. |
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"I kept the graphic details to a minimum,
though," said Mr Trethowan, who runs a music firm called
Keyboard Pilots.
However, the module is detailed enough to to ensure that
Hongkong is unmistakable to users. The giant needle shapes of
the Bank of China and Central Plaza are clear enough to destinguish,
as are the red-tipped twin towers of the Shun Tak Centre in
Sheung Wan.
He plans to upload the module to the Compuserve information
service. Anyone with access to the service can then copy it,
but they will need Microsoft Flight Simulator and a copy of
Aircraft and Scenery Design to enable them to run it. |
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