Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Port McNeill CAT5 in British Columbia, Canada

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Port McNeill is at the northern end of Vancouver Island, on the coast and around 20 miles east of Port Hardy. The town population is just over 2,000 and the main industry is logging, followed by sand and gravel quarrying and exporting for the construction industry. Tourism rates third. The airport, a mile or so east of the town, provides a swift connection for nearby islands and the surrounding area to the rest of the west coast, and serves as the HQ main base for West Coast Helicopters. Their newly built large hangar and office accommodation is next to their older hangar to one side of the central public parking area, opposite the club house cum terminal and hangars. There are two runways: 06-24 which is asphalt, 2,400 feet long, and lit; and 11-29 of gravel, 3,650 feet long and also lit. There is some taxiway lighting, but not, for instance, for the connection between runways, which is in real life a ramp up to the gravel runway which is 15 feet higher. There are no regularly scheduled flights and traffic consists mainly of the West Coast helicopters, plus GA and irregular charters, the latter being mostly from Port Hardy.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Qualicum Beach (CAT4)

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This package adds detailed airport scenery to Qualicum Beach airport and French Creek marina on beautiful Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Included are accurate renderings of almost all buildings on the airport, cars and ground objects, detailed ground/taxiway layout and general aviation traffic.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Revised East Vancouver Islands - compatible with vicenh05

File Description:
These files are a revision of the default Vancouver Island shorelines and landclass textures from Chemainus to Campbell River, British Columbia. Included are the islands from the Southern Gulf Islands to Texada Island and inland to Cowichan Lake. Most of the smaller lakes within 20 km of the shoreline have been redrawn as well. In this version shorelines have been revised to match Jon Patch & Holger Sandman's vicenh05.zip. As well major corrections for the shorelines in LOD5 area 117-114, Comox, have been made so that the shorelines now conform to the 38.2m mesh and to Vern Opperman's CFB - Comox version 042. Shoreline types are changed to look more like the Pacific Northwest courtesy of Holger Sandman's who made his shoreline textures for vicenh05 available. Also in this version no roads are included since complete British Columbia roads in bcroadsys.zip are now available.

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

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Sproat Lake is in the middle of southern Vancouver Island, 6 miles west of the town of Port Alberni and 30 miles directly south of Comox Valley Airport. It is some 14 miles long and around the eastern shores has a large number of houses with docks and boats. Plus, in the offshoot called Upper Sproat Lake, it has the Sproat Lake Tankerbase CAA9, home to two rather large Martin Mars firefighting planes. Their history is interesting, and their capacity for carrying water for dousing forest fires during the summer months has kept them in use since their construction in the 1940's. They have finally been retired from fighting fires in 2013, having been first retired from military service in 1958. This scenery is made for use with Ultimate Terrain; there was another version made several years ago which either predated or ignored UT. This scenery is for the month when a Mars was being repainted before retiring to a museum as a military plane, date unkown but perhaps 2013? If it is a time when there were three in existance then it is sometime in the 1960's; take your pick. Because of hills adjacent to the lake the landing of the AI Mars may or may not take place, depending on wind direction and whether or not it flies into rock before landing. Take off and departure seem to be more reliable than landing on a daily basis. The Mars flies to Vancouver Harbour, but only in theory; it does not land and park as there is no parking available for such a large aircraft. The AI follows in the second post.

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

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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 - Scenery
Squamish CYSE in British Columbia Canada

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Squamish is a town with a population of just under 20,000, located at the northern end of Howe Sound where the Squamish River reaches the sea. Howe Sound is 25 miles deep and around 10 miles northwest of downtown Vancouver. It was for years based on the surrounding timber and a pulp mill, but with the closure of the saw and pulp mills now is more tourist oriented and the escape for Vancouver residents looking for (relative) peace and quiet. The runway is 2,400 feet of asphalt aligned 14-32. The buildings are built on differing levels of terrain, and the taxiways are sloped access ramps between the levels. This, of course, cannot be replicated in FS9, but it explains what at first sight appears to be a strange layout. The buildings are fairly well replicated. This is not an airport, it is an airfield meant for summer use as there is no lighting of any sort for runway or taxiways. The AI includes both GA and the helicopter flights by the two companies with bases at Squamish, Black Tusk and Blackcomb, the latter having several bases in this area with a HQ in Whistler. If you have the Vancouver scenery by FSAddon then you will need to move some of their bgl's aside; there are screenshots so that you can see which ones I have relocated. The UT settings are optional; I have been asked for my personal preferences. If you find a defect, email me.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Squamish CYSE replacement with AFCAD file

File Description:
This is a replacement for my previous post, this time with the missing AFCAD file, and thanks to Richard for pointing this out. Squamish is around 40 miles north of Vancouver, at the top end of a BC fjord, past Bowen, Gambier, and Anvil Islands. There are 2,400 feet of asphalt runway 14/32, and watch out for the noise abatement procedures that either take you around the town on a much enlarged circuit and back to 14, or keep you away from the town with a slant final to 32, turning left 20 degrees when on short finals. There is no fuel.

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

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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 - Scenery
Terrace CYXT in BC Canada Updated

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This version of Terrace has night textures that work, good news for the 319 downloaders who did not tell the author that the ones already posted did not work. Why? Terrace is fifteen miles east and inland from Prince Rupert, which is 500 miles north of Vancouver up the BC coast. It is at the point in the mountains where two fjords meet, one coming from Prince Rupert and the other from Kitimat. There are two runways, the main one is a recently-extended 7,500 feet long and lighted 33/15 and the second is 5,373 feet of unlit 03/21. The apron has been enlarged to be able to accomodate a Boeing 737; though I don't think there is an airline using a 737 for flights to Terrace I have parked an Air Canada jet and the pics show the planes that do fly to Terrace, Air Canada and Hawk Air Dash 8-300's. The aircraft and the textures are down-loadable and and can be used for AI.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Terrace CYXT in British Columbia, Canada - REVISED

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This version includes the correct Piper Cub texture, unreported by all but one downloader (why?).

Terrace is fifteen miles east and inland from Prince Rupert, which is 500 miles north of Vancouver up the BC coast. It is at the point in the mountains where two fjords meet, one coming from Prince Rupert and the other from Kitimat. The airport is a couple of miles south of the town and on the south side of the Skeene River. There are two runways, and the main one is a recently-extended 7,500 feet long and lighted 33/15. The second is 5,373 feet of unlit 03/21. The apron has been enlarged to be able to accommodate a Boeing 737 so I have parked an Air Canada jet there, but the pics show the planes that do fly to Terrace, and these are Air Canada and Hawk Air Dash 8-300's. The original aircraft and the textures are down-loadable and and can be used for AI.