Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - AI Flight Plans
Water Effects for AI Ships

File Description:
These are updated water effects for my AI_ships.zip file package. They remove the issue of wind influence on the wake and spray effect. Simply overwrite the previous set of effects in your FS9 Effects folder.

Filename:	ai_shipx.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	24th January 2004, 04:47:09
Downloads:	8,358
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	17 KB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - AI Flight Plans
Floatplanes Starter Kit

File Description:
This Starter Kit provides AI traffic of three floatplanes in the San Francisco Bay (Pier 39) and instructions for setting up other floatplanes and additional AFCAD2 water strips anywhere in the FS world. Simple installation! The AI floatplanes - Piper J-3C-65 Cub, Waco Classic Biplane, and Aviat A-1B Husky - have their contact points adjusted so that their floats are actually in the water. Realistic wake and spray effects. Also includes three additional floatplane templates for the default C208 Amphibian and a DHC-2 Beaver and Noorduyn Norseman (separate downloads).

Filename:	ai_float.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	24th January 2004, 04:48:45
Downloads:	7,861
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	2.31 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery Design
Ketchikan and Annette Island, Southeast Alaska Background Bitmaps

File Description:
This package DOES NOT contain finished FS scenery products! Instead, the three bitmaps (N54.3-55.4 W130.6-131.9) are meant to be used for FS landscape scenery design with Ground2K4 (by Christian Fumey) or similar utilities. Source data are public domain Landsat 7 TM satellite images, at 15-m and 30-m ground resolution. I used professional GIS software for the geographic transformation to lat/long-WGS84 projection, and photo processing software for channel merging and image enhancements. Each image has been tested in Ground2K4 for accurate placement. Note: these images have been ECW-compressed and need special (free) software for decompressing (instructions included).

Filename:	Ketchikan_and_Annette_Island_Southeast_Alaska__Background_Bitmaps.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	8th March 2004, 16:00:20
Downloads:	375
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	14.92 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
US North Cascades Mountains and Northwest Washington Coast

File Description:
The files in this package completely replace the FS default landscape of the North Cascades Mountains and coastal areas of northwestern Washington State. Between Bellingham and Arlington (N-S), Orcas Island and Lake Chelan (W-E) you can now enjoy your VFR flights with accurate locations of coastlines, lakes, rivers, streams, roads, railroads, and power lines, as well as land use type (landclass) and terrain (add-on mesh). Also added are the larger glaciers of the majestic North Cascades volcanoes and peaks as well as several forestry roads and clearcuts outside the National Park and Wilderness areas. Made mostly with Christian Fumey's "Ground2K4" and Jim Keir's "Slartibartfast". Fully compatible with the recent freeware LOD10 add-on meshes of the western US. Mesh and landclass files will work in FS2002 but not the special scenery enhancements.

Filename:	US_North_Cascades_Mountains_and_Northwest_Washingt.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	18th May 2004, 23:12:57
Downloads:	14,309
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	12.72 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Landscape Enhancements for Ultimate Terrain Canada/Alaska

File Description:
This is a re-issue of my previously published landscape enhancement packages for parts of Southeast Alaska, British Columbia, Alberta, and Washington State. These files have been edited and adjusted to be fully compatible with FlightOne's "Ultimate Terrain: Canada/Alaska" product. Also, I have adjusted some of Ultimate Terrain's lake and river elevations to better fit new third-party add-on mesh files, such as the "Cordillera" mesh by FS Genesis and my freeware mesh files made for the individual coverage areas. Please note: A registered copy of "Ultimate Terrain: Canada/Alaska is required!!!

Filename:	Landscape_Enhancements_for_Ultimate_Terrain_Canada.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	8th June 2005, 03:47:26
Downloads:	7,311
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	3.44 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Terrain Mesh of Glacier National Park

File Description:
New and updated scenery enhancements for the mountain ranges of southeastern British Columbia and parts of the Alberta Rocky Mountains. They require an existing installation of my files bcmesh9d.zip and/or bcmesh9e.zip. Scenery coverage follows the Trans-Canada Highway from Banff National Park to west of Revelstoke (~350km), with accurate transportation network, rivers and lakes, hydro dams, ski hills, glaciers, and landclass/waterclass updates based on satellite imagery. Also, similar enhancements to the parks and towns of the southern Kootenay, Selkirk, and Monashee mountains. The mesh source data are 0.75-arcsec (~23-m) CDED files, compiled at LOD10 (38-m) resolution. Due to significant changes in FS2004 to vector layering and autogen features, the special scenery enhancements cannot be used with FS2002. However, terrain mesh, new lakes and land/waterclass replacements will work well in FS2002.

Filename:	Terrain_Mesh_of_Glacier_National_Park.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	18th December 2003, 23:17:35
Downloads:	8,844
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	12.79 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - AI Flight Plans
AI Ships Starter Kit

File Description:
Bored with AI traffic in the skies only? Try these AI ships, which move independently across the waters of San Francisco Bay, complete with custom wake and other water effects. Vessels included are Lynn & Bill Lyons' Garwood Cruiser and Mike Hill's HMS Bark Endeavour. Richard Hogen's LA Class submarine requires an additional download. Easy installation! Includes tips and tricks for setting up other ships and additional AFCAD2 "shipping lanes" anywhere in the FS world.

Filename:	AI_Ships_Starter_Kit.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	23rd January 2004, 13:51:58
Downloads:	12,530
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	2.03 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery Design
Caribbean Island of Dominica

File Description:
This package DOES NOT contain finished FS scenery products! Instead, the two bitmaps (N15.1-15.7 W61.2-61.6) are meant to be used for FS landscape scenery design with Ground2K4 (by Christian Fumey) or similar utilities. Source data are public domain Landsat 7 ETM+ satellite images, at 15-m and 30-m ground resolution. I used professional GIS software for the geographic transformation to lat/long-WGS84 projection, and photo processing software for channel merging and image enhancements. Each image has been tested in Ground2K4 for accurate placement. Note: these images have been ECW-compressed and need special (free) software for decompressing (instructions included).

Filename:	g2k4-bmp_dominica.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	12th March 2004, 01:07:01
Downloads:	515
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	1.42 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery Design
Austria & Germany - Innsbruck to Bad Toelz, Background Bitmaps

File Description:
This package DOES NOT contain finished FS scenery products! Instead, the three bitmaps (N46.7-47.8 E10.7-12.0) are meant to be used for FS landscape scenery design with Ground2K4 (by Christian Fumey) or similar utilities (see my Innsbruck_G2K4.zip). Source data are public domain Landsat 5 TM satellite images, at 30-m ground resolution and a NIMA SPOT satellite mosaic, at 10-m ground resolution (Innsbruck area only). I used professional GIS software for the geographic transformation to lat/long-WGS84 projection, and photo processing software for channel merging and image enhancements. Each image has been tested in Ground2K4 for accurate placement. Note: these images have been ECW-compressed and need special (free) software for decompressing (instructions included).

Filename:	Austria__Germany__Innsbruck_to_Bad_Toelz_Backgroun.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	1st March 2004, 14:14:31
Downloads:	2,005
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	5.35 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Himalayan Peaks Volume 2 - Mt. Everest photoreal textures

File Description:
The photoreal textures in this package cover an area of about 100km (E/W) by 60km (N/S) featuring Mt. Everest and several neighboring peaks and are based on a Landsat 7 ETM 15-m multispectral image taken in October 2000. The relatively low resolution of the image makes for pretty grainy textures up close and I did not add any autogen, seasonal textures, or flattened water bodies. Nevertheless, I do believe the photoreal textures do a much better job at showing the grandiose alpine features of this area - rock faces, snow fields, glaciers, and bare ground - than generic landclass textures possibly can. The textures are placed for a best fit with our Mt. Everest area LOD10 terrain mesh, fs_him_01.zip, but probably work OK with the default LOD8 mesh of this area or third-party terrain mesh files.

Filename:	fs_him_02.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	10th March 2010, 22:27:43
Downloads:	25,460
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	75.71 MB