Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Miscellaneous Files
Hank's Trading Post IAP (with missing file)

File Description:
This is a GPS approach for those interested in the ability to get into Hank's Trading Post, located on the Taku River southeast of Juneau, Alaska. This freeware scenery is available on Avsim.com and is compatible with Holger Sandman's Glacier Bay scenery. With so few land based navaids available, the GPS system is quickly becoming the approach of choice in this region. Included in this download is the missing flightplan file I neglected in the earlier release.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Hawk Logging, for Holger Sandmann's scenery

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File Description:
This is a logging camp, on Admiral Island at the northern end of Chatham Strait in southern Alaska, around 30 miles south of Juneau. It is marked on the chart of the area; if you are chartless then there is a section of the chart included here. This scenery is designed specifically for use in the Tongass Fjord scenery (or Glacier, or Misty? I don't remember now which area it is in!) and probably does not work with just Ultimate Terrain; I haven't tried it. The camp has an identifying code so it will show up on a gps as PELC but there is no interaction with atc as there are no designated water runways; PELC on the GPS just acts as a waypoint. There will be further posts for use with Tongass Fjords, Misty Fjords, and Glacier Bay, and I still find these scenery areas by Holger and his crew the most satisfying in FS9.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Miscellaneous Files
Holger's Glacier Bay Instrument Approach Charts

File Description:
This is a collection of instrument approach plates for the area encompassed by Holger Sandman's outstanding Glacier Bay scenery (available here at Avsim.com as freeware) located in the northern third of southeast Alaska. These IAPs serve communities where no previous instrument approach existed, utilizing either GPS or NDB as the primary navaid.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Little Port Walter for Holger Sandmann's Tongass Fjords scenery

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File Description:
This is a second fish farm at the southern end of Baranof Island and Chatham Strait in southern Alaska. Big Port Walter is named on the chart of the area, and there is a section of the chart included here. Little Port Walter is a much smaller offshoot bay, sheltered from the weather and ideal for a fish farm. This scenery is designed specifically for use in the Tongass Fjord scenery. I may have incorrectly identified Tongass Fjords as being required for Hawk Logging when Glacier Bay is needed. Ah well, it is one or the other of them. The fish farm (or hatchery, the description varies) has an identifying code so it will show up on a gps as PWL. There is no interaction with atc as there are no designated water runways, so PWL on the gps just acts as a waypoint. There will be further posts for use with Tongass Fjords, Misty Fjords, and Glacier Bay, and I still find these scenery areas by Holger and his crew the most satisfying in FS9.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
LOD10 (38-m) Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska

File Description:
This LOD10 (38-m) add-on mesh of Glacier Bay National Park and the adjacent Lynn Canal area between Juneau and Skagway (N58-60 W134-138) is an optional (!) upgrade of gl_bay_1.zip (by Holger Sandmann and Jim Keir). It adds more detail to the mountainous areas and allows to locally override other installed Alaska add-on meshes without having to deactivate them. The USGS NED seamless digital elevation data used for this mesh have a 2-arcsec (~60-m) resolution. Thus, the compilation as LOD10 (38-m) will reveal all terrain details contained in the source data. Please read the gl_bay_1.zip read-me file for further information about the special features of the Glacier Bay Project.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
PAFE - Kake - Southern Alaska, USA

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File Description:
This is the terminal for Kake PAFE in southern Alaska. Try not to laugh; Kake is a small town and a bus shelter works very well when there might be just one or two passengers for the only flight of the day. This presumes you have installed Tongass Fjords, one of the three by Holger Sandmann and his team, the other two being Misty Fjords and Glacier Bay.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Pete & Sid's Viva Scenery Volume 4

File Description:
This is a collection of scenery enhancements for 81 airports, mostly smaller ones, located primarily in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Western Canada. (Yes, there's one in New Zealand.) It was not our intention to do anything fancy or particularly accurate, but simply to make the default scenery less boring and more fun. General aviation AI traffic (using default FS9 aircraft) is also included for some of these airports. The scenery for any individual airport may be removed without affecting the other airports. Some the airports we've done may also be included in Glacier Bay and other scenery add-ons; you'll need to remove one or the other to resolve any conflicts. This scenery was designed to work with Flight1's Ultimate Terrain and has not been tested with the default FS9 scenery. Most of the airports will probably work fine with the default scenery; those airports near water features (lakes, rivers, coastlines) are the ones most likely to have problems.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Point Ellis cannery V1, for Holger Sandmann's Tongass Fjord scenery

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File Description:
This is a revised version of Point Ellis cannery, originally posted in 2007. It is unsurprisingly just east of Point Ellis, on the east side of the southern end of Chatham Strait in southern Alaska. It is marked on the chart of the area, and if you are chartless then there is a piece of the chart here. This scenery is designed specifically for use in the Tongass Fjord scenery, and probably doesn't work with just Ultimate Terrain. The cannery has an identifying code so it will show up on a gps as "PECA". There is no interaction with atc as there are no designated water runways, so the "PECA" on the gps just acts as a waypoint. There will be further posts for use with Tongass Fjords, Misty Fjords, and Glacier Bay, and I still find these scenery areas by Holger and his crew the most satisfying in FS9.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Port Armstrong, for Holger Sandmann's Tongass Fjords scenery

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File Description:
This is a fish farm, at the southern end of Baranof Island and Chatham Strait in southern Alaska. It is named on the chart of the area, and there is a section of the chart included here. This scenery is designed specifically for use in the Tongass Fjord scenery. The fish farm (or hatchery, the description varies) has an identifying code so it will show up on a gps as PAG. There is no interaction with atc as there are no designated water runways, so PAG on the gps just acts as a waypoint. I may have incorrectly identified Tongass Fjords as being required for Hawk Logging when Glacier Bay is needed. Ah well, it is one or the other of them. I still find these scenery areas by Holger and his crew the most satisfying in FS9.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Seward PAWD in Alaska V2 plus 6AK5

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File Description:
This is V2, the combined original and also V1. If you have already installed V1 then you do not need this. The town of Seward (population around 2,700) is on the east coast of the Kenai Peninsula, 70 miles east of Kenai town and also 70 miles southeast of Anchorage, amid mountains and glaciers at the northern end of the 20 mile long and fjord-like Resurrection Bay. It is also at the southern end of both the Alaska Railway and the Seward Highway, and has a sheltered dock for freight and also for cruise liners. Passengers from the liners can enjoy local attractions (dog sledging on a glacier?) and also easily continue further north by bus or train to Anchorage or to other tourist attractions such as Denali. The airport is next to the port and the town, with two runways aligned (in FS9, not taking account of the recently wandering magnetic north) 15-33 and 12-30, both asphalt and 2,100 and 4,200 feet long respectively. Only 12-30 (and its taxiways) is lit, with VASI on 30. There are no regularly scheduled flights to Seward; with buses and trains running direct from Anchorage there is no money to be made. There are some charter flights coordinated with cruise liners, and some freight flights, the very occasional visit by the Coastguard, but most flights are GA, air taxi,or short scenery-viewing trips for summer tourists. In a mountainous area the only sure thing about the behaviour of AI aircraft is that it is unpredictable but often involves a mountain; nothing to be done about it. At Seward there is also marine AI from and to the port, in the shape of a cruise liner and an Alaskan ferry, but the latter only if you have Holger Sandmann's Alaska scenery installed. Also included with this is a correction for Fire Island 6AK5, near Anchorage, that takes the airfield out of the water; this is something I have meant to do for the last 5 years.