Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
KQA Akutan, Alaska

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File Description:
This is Akutan, which comprises the water airport, the town, and the Trident crab and fish processing plant just to the west of the town. Akutan is in the Aleutians in an inlet on the island of the same name, around 35 miles ENE of Dutch Harbor, and is served by a Grumman Goose amphibian that flies from Dutch Harbor. The population is just over a thousand, though this can increase as more seasonal workers are employed at the plant. The church is not as big as it looks; the long part is a gymnasium. The Ai includes the Akutan end of a Grumman Goose flight from Dutch Harbour (the AI files are part of the Dutch Harbor scenery) which will take off from the Dutch Harbor runway and land on water at Akutan. It will then park at the bottom of the ramp up onto the apron, which is actually usable if you want to taxi up it. In reality it is a PenAir flight, here it is Reeve Aleutian for technical reasons. The Sea AI includes fishing boats from the Trident dock and a Coast Guard cutter from the town dock; the latter as explained in the updated version of Dutch Harbor, which you should already have installed.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Sounds
Miscellaneous ATC-AIRLINE Voicepack Mod - Vol. 4

File Description: The 4th volume of ATC_AIRLINE vcpmod files for use with the editvoicepack program. This group includes call signs for the following: Tropical, Alaska Airlines, Interocean, Channel Express, Alaska Coastal and others. Many are for AI, including Ford Trimotor, DC-4, DC-6, and Grumman Goose.

Filename:	atc_airline_vol4.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	27th January 2015, 23:56:31
Downloads:	831
Author:	Bill Grasha
Size:	14kb

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications
Oceanic Grumman G-21 Goose

File Description:
Designed to be a 'commuter' plane for businessmen in the Long Island area, the Grumman Goose was first manufactured in 1937. She was designed to cater for up to 7 passengers. The US Navy showed an interest in the amphibious aircraft in 1938, eventually acquiring 222 airframes. The Goose also served with the US Coast guard and the US Army, and later served in a military role with the British, Canadian, French, and Portuguese armed forces. 376 of them were built by 1945. Subsequent modifications (since 1966) have seen some of the aircraft modified to use turbine powerplants. This particular Goose is in a fictional paint scheme. TEXTURES ONLY! This model requires Mike Stone's G-21 Goose, which is available on AVSIM or on Mike's homepage (http://www.pmstone.com). Repaint by Graeme Porter.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications
Pacific Coastal Airlines Grumman G21 Goose

File Description:
Fixes the missing ADF-instrument at "pc-goose.zip"

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - AI Aircraft
Peninsula Air (Penair) coomplete Package *Update*

Other files which are related to, or may be required by, this file:

• Peninsula Air (Penair) coomplete Package *Update* (Download #131817)
• Peninsula Air (Penair Alaska) complete package (Download #131722)

File Description:
This is an update of our previous released Package. This package contains the missing Texture for the Saab340 N364PX, a replacement of the Metroliner III N892DC instead of the N650PA. The N650PA made a very hard landing last year and has some structural damages so the N892DC will be a replacement in the PenAir fleet. I have also added a detailed Readme made by Rene for the installing of the Grumman Goose by Bill Lyons And the AFCAD's by Renè Tanggaard. For this Update you need the Complete Package. penair_package.zip

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Port Hardy CYZT in British Columbia, Canada

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File Description:
Port Hardy airport is on the coast of Vancouver Island in BC, at the far northern end and 5 miles east of the town. The town and the airport are both gateways to local touristic attractions such as Cape Scott Provincial Park, the North Coast and BC Marine Trails, and kayaking, caving, surfing, fishing, camping, and scuba diving (and I discovered just how big orca are). Fishing, logging, and mining have been important and to an extent still are for the town population of just over 4,000. The airport, along with the ferries, connects Port Hardy to the rest of the west coast with Pacific Coastal Saab 340 or Beechcraft 1900C flights to and from Vancouver at least twice a day. There are also Grumman Goose amphibious flights to local float bases such as Port McNeill, Alert Bay, Whaletown, Surge Narrows, Echo Bay, and Minstrel Island. These are all included in the AI and previously posted. There are three runways: 11-29 of 5,000 feet with ILS on 11 and righthand circuits on 29, 07-25 of 4,000 feet with righthand circuits on 25, and 16-34 with a much shortened 3,500 feet on 34 due to a displaced threshold. There is a control tower but it is not manned 24 hours a day; a "mandatory frequency" (MF for short and a Canadian invention) is used by the tower when it is manned, and when there is no tower response the aircraft continues to announce intentions and position. Something I have been meaning to explain to those who query it, is that in real life as well as in FS9 helicopters at a mixed use airport or airfield will act as if they are planes and join downwind, turn on base and then finals, "land" along the runway and then use the taxiway to the parking. This means all aircraft are doing the same thing and an orderly queue avoids collisions. This is one of a series connected in some way with Pacific Coastal airline destinations, the first being Bella Coola. There is AI available for Pacific Coastal online.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Sproat Lake CAA9 V2 on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada

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File Description:
This presumes you have already installed Sproat Lake CAA9; it is not a stand-alone scenery. In the original post I omitted the traffic bgl. This is now included, as are the two AI Beavers that FSAddon gave permission for inclusion and use as AI with Sproat Lake. So if you already have installed the pay scenery they came with they will show up anyway, but if you don't then install these two and they will; just drop the Sproat Lake AI Beavers folder into your aircraft folder, and the traffic bgl into the FS9'Scenery/World/Scenery folder as usual. I have now also included a Grumman Goose amphibian as this was the plane that the Fire Boss would be operating in while fire fighting. The textures are what were available and that I could (limited skills here) revise to at least have a Canadian registration. If I find a more accurate version I will include it at a later date. Drop the bgl's and textures into the already installed Sproat Lake scenery and texture folders and say yes to overwrite or replace.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Panels
Streamlined panel for Grumman Goose G-21

File Description:
This panel streamlines the cockpit and virtual cockpit (VC) views in Lynn and Bill Lyons' Grumman Goose G-21 (cc9g21f2.zip). Why mess with perfection, you might ask? I like the Goose a lot: it's elegant, versatile, and has great views for VFR sightseeing. But on my system, the virtual cockpit's a bit sluggish. There's nothing wrong here with the airplane: it's just what happens when you try to run a complex piece of software on old hardware. Rather than give up, I decided to reduce the number of gauge objects, first in the cockpit (which I don't use very much anyway) and then in the virtual cockpit (which is where you should be flying this great old bird anyway). I also eliminated some of the hotspots. With fewer gauge objects, there are more system resources left over for the sim. The result, on my system, is smoother flying. While I was at it, I also replaced the magnetic compass with a VOR gauge. I know that's unrealistic, but that's what I did.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Surge Narrows CAG9 in British Columbia, Canada

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File Description:
Surge Narrows is a float base serving a small village on Read Island, one of the many islands squeezed between Vancouver Island and the mainland at this northern end. At this island passengers are delivered by amphibious Grumman Goose from Port Hardy, the main airport of the northern half of Vancouver Island with daily scheduled flights onward to and from Vancouver International. The AI was included with the post of Port Hardy. Regrettably, the amphibious Goose behaves as if it is on land and moves on the water with it's wheels extended; there is no way around this. This scenery is a modification of a post made some years ago that did nor support AI.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications
U.S. Coast Guard Grumman Goose G-21

File Description:
Grumman G-21 Early Coast Guard colors circa 1940 Textures only repaint for Bill Lyons' Grumman Goose Classic Original pay ware file available at: http://windrfters.com/ Thanks to Bill Lyons for a beautiful package and textures, portions of which are still used.