Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
DTTG Gabes, Tunisia

File Description:
Googly scenery for Gabes (ICAO: DTTG), a somewhat nondescript airport shoe-horned into one of Tunisia's largest industrial cities. Famed for its beaches, the city hosts cement, chemical and brick factories and an oil refinery, resulting in poor levels of air pollution. The airport is a joint military and civilian operation although military traffic appears to be mostly helicopter activity and the civilian traffic consists of an ATR of Sevenair calling in once in a blue moon. Microsoft have only provided a runway at this airport in Flight Simulator 2004 and this scenery seeks to redress the situation so that you and your "AI" traffic can use the airport realistically. The scenery does not purport to be ultra-accurate. Based on high quality satellite imagery from Google Earth, the layout is proportionally correct but the added airport features, such as buildings, are built from default Microsoft objects and add-on libraries so will not look exactly like the real thing. You are not obliged to download and install any additional scenery libraries, but to enjoy this scenery in its entirety, you may wish to. It will work fine, with or without.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
DTTR El Borma, Tunisia

File Description:
Googly scenery for El Borma (ICAO: DTTR, IATA: EBM), a small airport with a long runway deep in the Tunisian desert near the Algerian border. El Borma, also known as Al Borma or Al Burmah is one of Tunisia's top onshore oil and natural gas sources and it is this that probably justifies the twice-weekly flights operated by ATR turboprops of Sevenair. Microsoft have only provided runways at this airport in Flight Simulator 2004 and this scenery seeks to redress the situation so that you and your "AI" traffic can use the airport realistically. The scenery does not purport to be ultra-accurate. Based on high quality satellite imagery from Google Earth, the layout is proportionally correct but the added airport features, such as buildings, are built from default Microsoft objects and add-on libraries so will not look exactly like the real thing. You are not obliged to download and install any additional scenery libraries, but to enjoy this scenery in its entirety, you may wish to. It will work fine, with or without.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Echo Bay CAA7 in British Columbia, Canada

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File Description:
This is the fifth in a series of new and renovated float bases in BC. Echo Bay is a floating marina on the northwest coast of Gilford Island, just 6 miles northwest of Health Bay (the previous post in this series). It is run by a beard called Pierre and his wife, and the food seems to attract crowds. Watch the video, and others about the marina; some of the more interesting buildings are replicated here, others are representative. There is no fuel or oil available but you can post a letter as there is a post office in the store that sells food etc to boaters. The AI is a further adaptation of the CF36 AI and involves a Baxter Beaver flying from Port Hardy on a round trip in the area through Port McNeill, Health Bay, Echo Bay, and Sullivan Bay, plus Harbour Air from Vancouver, and small GA. At Echo Bay the AI appears to work for both landing and takeoff for the Beaver and sometimes for the Otter, depending on wind direction. All of these float bases can be installed together in the same folders, with a saving in duplicate textures. So a series called BC Floats (or whatever you want to call it) or individually installed float bases; your choice. The next in the series will be Sullivan Bay, another floating marina. I have used what was a RWY12 boat here, but my RWY12 no longer includes the "Port and Sea" part that included this and other boats. Somewhere I must still have the textures as they are showing up as required, but I cannot find them to include them here. Hopefully your installation will find them on your hard drive and use them. If not, complain to me and I will attempt to demonstrate diligence.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Faroe Island Offshore Field Part 1

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

• Faroe Island Offshore Field Part 1 (Download #42656)
• Faroe Islands Offshore Field Part 2 (Download #42657)
• Faroe Islands Offshore Field Part 3 (Download #42660)
• Faroe Islands Offshore Field Part 4 (Download #42662)

File Description:
This scenery places a number of platforms and vessels to the South of the Faroe Islands, loosely based on the proposed Oil and Gas Field that is currently being surveyed. Also included are a Refinery (fictional) and Construction Yard (fictional), and fictional custom scenery at Vagar Airport. AFCAD 2 files are included for use in FS2004 There are four parts to this scenery

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Faroe Islands Offshore Field Part 2

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

• Faroe Island Offshore Field Part 1 (Download #42656)
• Faroe Islands Offshore Field Part 2 (Download #42657)
• Faroe Islands Offshore Field Part 3 (Download #42660)
• Faroe Islands Offshore Field Part 4 (Download #42662)

File Description:
This scenery places a number of platforms and vessels to the South of the Faroe Islands, loosely based on the proposed Oil and Gas Field that is currently being surveyed. Also included are a Refinery (fictional) and Construction Yard (fictional), and fictional custom scenery at Vagar Airport. AFCAD 2 files are included for use in FS2004 There are four parts to this scenery

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Faroe Islands Offshore Field Part 3

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

• Faroe Island Offshore Field Part 1 (Download #42656)
• Faroe Islands Offshore Field Part 2 (Download #42657)
• Faroe Islands Offshore Field Part 3 (Download #42660)
• Faroe Islands Offshore Field Part 4 (Download #42662)

File Description:
This scenery places a number of platforms and vessels to the South of the Faroe Islands, loosely based on the proposed Oil and Gas Field that is currently being surveyed. Also included are a Refinery (fictional) and Construction Yard (fictional), and fictional custom scenery at Vagar Airport. AFCAD 2 files are included for use in FS2004 There are four parts to this scenery

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Faroe Islands Offshore Field Part 4

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

• Faroe Island Offshore Field Part 1 (Download #42656)
• Faroe Islands Offshore Field Part 2 (Download #42657)
• Faroe Islands Offshore Field Part 3 (Download #42660)
• Faroe Islands Offshore Field Part 4 (Download #42662)

File Description:
This scenery places a number of platforms and vessels to the South of the Faroe Islands, loosely based on the proposed Oil and Gas Field that is currently being surveyed. Also included are a Refinery (fictional) and Construction Yard (fictional), and fictional custom scenery at Vagar Airport. AFCAD 2 files are included for use in FS2004 There are four parts to this scenery

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Fort Nelson CYYE in British Columbia, Canada

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• fort_nelson_bc-6.jpg

File Description:
Fort Nelson is close to the Peace River in the northeast corner of British Columbia, around 70 miles from the northern border, 90 from the eastern border, and 80 miles east of the Rockies. The wartime construction of the Alaska Highway actually started from Fort Nelson, as there was already a road from Fort St John (which is close to Dawson Creek) north to Fort Nelson. The airfield was part of this construction effort and after the wartime ferrying of planes to Russia it was used by the US Army Air Force and then by the Canadian Air Force. Fort Nelson flourished with the oil and gas exploration of the 1950's and the following years, and this continued to grow until the collapse of the oil price in 2014. The town of Fort Nelson became the capital of the Northern Rockies Regional District when it was founded in 2009, and as a result the official name of the Fort Nelson airport is the Northern Rockies Regional Airport. The date for this scenery is around 2016, by which time the economic fortunes of the town were in decline. Five times per day flights by Central Mountain Air were starting to be reduced in number to the current (in 2022) one per day and none on Sunday; in the AI included here there are two flights per day. The main resident users of the airport are four helicopter companies, the helicopters presumably used for maintenance trips to whatever parts of the oil and gas fields that are still in use in the surrounding area. There are two runways, the main one is aligned 03-21, 6,400 feet long and 200 feet wide, with ILS at the southern end and PAPI at the northern. The second runway (a narrower rebuild on a previously existing runway) is aligned 07-25 and 77 feet wide, and is without any lights. These are the alignments as per the original build of FS9 and not as per the approximate 2016 date of the buildings; I had a problem at a very late stage in making this scenery which prevented me from continuing with some final details. On YouTube there is a series of posts by Angle of Attack showing the preparation and then the flight of an old Cessna 172 from Homer to Oshkosh for the installation of modern instruments. Interesting for me as they visit or fly over airfields I have made (Homer, Merrill, Tok Junction, Burwash, Silver City, Haines Junction, Watson Lake, Fort Nelson, and Grande Prairie) but in the winter so it all looks very different.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
FS9 Fort St John CYXJ in BC Canada

File Description:
Fort St John is close to the border between British Columbia and Alberta, around 40 miles north-northwest of Dawson Creek. The airport was originally a Royal Canadian Air Force base, associated with the wartime construction of the Alaska Highway. The airfield was part of this construction effort and the wartime ferrying of planes to Russia. It is currently named "North Peace Regional Airport", or "North Peace Airport"; apparently there has been no final decision? The date for this scenery is around 2006. I was given an old video tape cassette which was filmed on an uncertain date, but which had to be before the terminal building was renovated in 2007 and totally changed in appearance. The only way to view the video was to play it in the camera and watch it on a small screen. After I had completed everything except the buildings I started to view the video to establish the building appearances and within an hour or so the camera died. It was so old there was no way to repair it, so I then made some new buildings from memory of the video and what was available online. I also used some that I had already made for other scenery but which were similar. I may replace the terminal building that is in this version with a build of the new one, as I know this one is not a very accurate reproduction. The replacement, if I do it, will be towards the end of this year. The AI included here is for GA, Air Canada Jazz, and two helicopter companies that were (and still are?) based there. One is at the western end of the apron and the other is at the eastern end but separated from the apron. To gain access to the taxiways and runways (so that all airport users follow the same procedures, for safety reasons) the eastern end helicopters just taxi across the grass. The helicopters are used for maintenance trips to the oil and gas fields in the surrounding area. My screenshots show Westjet at the terminal; this is because I have later Canadian AI installed, while the AI included here is only for the time around 2000 to 2010, when Westjet were not flying to Fort St John. The airport is square in plan, with the apron running along the northern side and two runways forming diagonals. The two runways are 11-29 (6,882 feet long and 200 feet wide, with ILS at the 29 end and PAPI at the other) and 02-20 (6,684 feet long and 200 feet wide, and with PAPI at each end). The eastern side taxiway that runs north-south is not used. The western side taxiway is in use but only as a race track for cars. Please email me if you find faults, such as a plane without textures.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Haifa VFR 1.0 - Northern Israel

File Description:
Haifa VFR Scenery covers the most important VFR features in the area: Haifa University, Panorama Center, Ba'hai Temple, Egged Bus Station, Rappaport Building, Bet Dagan seeds warehouse, Sail Tower, IEC power station, Oil Tank farms, Haifa Refinery and the Port of Haifa. Designed with gMax for maximum quality and performance.