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| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Minstrel Island CAX7 float base in British Columbia, Canada |
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This is the third in a series of new and renovated float bases in BC. Minstrel Island is on the south side of Knight Inlet and 25 miles west of Knight Inlet Lodge (the previous post in this series). There is a resort on the island, though it is hidden from the air by the trees. Fuel and oil are both available at the dock, and there is a 17 feet tidal range, which would be interesting of it could be replicated in FS. The AI is an adaptation of that for CF36 and involves a GA Cessna, and a Seair Beaver flying from Campbell River to Knight Inlet Lodge via Minstrel Island. Again, because of large hills the landing of the AI may or may not take place, depending on wind direction and whether or not they fly into solid rock before landing. Take off and departure will take place. Ultimate Terrain Alaska/Canada would be a definite plus to get the water in the right shape and place. This scenery will not work without it.
| Filename: | Minstrel_Island_CAX7_float_base_in_British_Columbi.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 3rd January 2017, 15:38:57 |
| Downloads: | 224 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 3.54 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Alaska North Slope 4: Lonely Air Force Station (AK71) |
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The town of Barrow is in the far north of Alaska, and these are coastal villages or radar installations to the west, south, and now east of Barrow. There will be further additions. Lonely Air Force Station AK71 is 80 miles east of Barrow and on the coast. It was, and at first sight appears still to be, a DEW station until you are close enough to see that the gravel apron is deteriorating. There is a gravel runway around 5,000 feet long, a large hangar, the DEW buildings, radar under the domes, the remains of huge line-of-sight communications reflectors, and oil tanks. Some DEW sites are not worth a visit; others are surprisingly intact and this is one of those. The AI takes place three days a week and is a C130, in which case the DEW site is still functioning or under mothball maintenance, a chartered Reeve Aleutian in which case the site is closed and they are documenting wildlife, and a Cessna with a group of the curious.
| Filename: | Alaska_North_Slope_4_Lonely_Air_Force_Station_AK71.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 20th June 2016, 08:02:18 |
| Downloads: | 306 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 2.32 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| CYCQ - Chetwynd - British Columbia, Canada |
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The town of Chetwynd (population around 2,600) is on the east side of the Rocky Mountains, the first town to be encountered when descending from the Rockies on highway 97. Previously known as Little Prairie, the town name was changed in 1962. The main occupations of the town are linked to forestry, fossil fuels, and transportation; there are railway lines north to Fort St John, east to Dawson Creek, and south to Prince George. The airport is on the southern side of the town, with one runway aligned 05-23, asphalted in 1975 and just under 4,500 feet long. There are no scheduled services, although a new terminal building was constructed in 2008, and the helicopter operations by at least two companies (oil and gas and medical evacuation flights) are the primary operations from the field. These are included in the AI, incorporating helicopter modifications made by Holger Sandmann so that they function properly as AI at an airfield. As an aside, landing like a plane and using the runway and taxiways is in fact exactly what a helicopter does at a normal airfield in real life; everyone does the same thing so that guessing is unneccesary.
| Filename: | CYCQ__Chetwynd__British_Columbia_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 28th March 2016, 21:36:33 |
| Downloads: | 298 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 18.84 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| DTTG Gabes, Tunisia |
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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.
| Filename: | DTTG_Gabes_Tunisia.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 14th October 2008, 13:18:33 |
| Downloads: | 756 |
| Author: | John Hinson |
| Size: | 83.15 KB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| CYEN Estevan Saskatchewan Municipal Airport |
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CYEN Estevan Municipal airport is situated approximately three miles (6 Km) north of the City of Estevan. CYEN Estevan Muni was constructed using GMAX and represents the airport as it was in the Summer of 2006. It includes all the buildings at the airport, runway signs, addition of some fencing, anda new rotating beacon that is closer to the actual device. CYEN also includes a landclass file to better represent the terrain around the airport, at least as far as the limits of the default landscape will allow.
The airport is home to Sunrise Aviation (which operates the field for the city) and some 26 light aircraft. CYEN handles a wide variety of Canadian and U.S. corporate and charter aircraft given the large oil and coal mining industry in the area. With the U.S. border so close by, CYEN is also the first stop for many U.S. registered aircraft that land to clear customs and refuel.
(This is a re-upload of the scenery to replace the original that was lost in the AVSIM hack. No changes have been made)
| Filename: | CYEN_Estevan_Saskatchewan_Municipal_Airport.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 7th May 2010, 12:47:13 |
| Downloads: | 1,700 |
| Author: | Gregory Putz |
| Size: | 1.67 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Alaska North Slope 6; Oliktok POLI |
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Oliktok is a DEW station Air Force base to the east of the Colville River delta, 160 miles east of Barrow and 12 miles from Harmon Helmericks house and dirt strip in the delta on Anachlik Island. (See my previous post, made after reading his book about northern Alaska flying). The runway is just over 4,000 feet of gravel and aligned 03-21. The large hangar is still there, and so are the majority of the DEW buildings closer to the beach. There are now also some oil production facilities and living quarters nearby on the point, but these are not included in this scenery as to make them convincingly (and there is no point in making them unconvincingly!) would be 100+ times as laborious as making the airstrip. And as Sid has memorably said, "If you can't taxi up to it, then xxxx it". So this scenery is dated way before the north slope was changed from a wilderness to an industrial complex. The AI is one day a C-130, on another a Cessna, and on a third a Reeve Aleutian DC-6B.
| Filename: | Alaska_North_Slope_6_Oliktok_POLI.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 30th June 2016, 20:36:34 |
| Downloads: | 280 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 2.42 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| CYVQ - Norman Wells - Northwest Territories, Canada |
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Norman Wells is the last of a series of airfields that are along (or close to) the Mackenzie River and in the Northwest Territories. It is 290 miles southeast of Inuvik and just 40 miles northwest of Tulita. The town growth was accelerated by the discovery of oil in the 1930's and the building of a small refinery in 1937, which is included here; there are now around 840 folks living in the town. The airport is adjacent to the town and has just under 6,000 feet of asphalt runway. North Wright Airways is headquartered there and this is reflected in the AI, which is for all of the newly-posted Mackenzie River postings. There is also helicopter AI, Canadian North, First Air, and there are GA flights. There is a mandatory frequency and the Norman Wells tower is manned 24 hours a day so you will follow atc instructions. In real life the terminal is on two levels; this steep change in terrain level is not possible to achieve in FS9 so although I made it as a two level terminal (ready for the FSX version?) it is here modified into a single level building. There are several "taxiways" which lead to the runway but are without hold short markings. These have been shown but are not included as AI routes. The helicopters presumably hover-taxi to the runway across grass (and snow) in real life; the AI helicopter will taxi on wheels. Note that at mixed-use airports planes and helicopters all follow the same rules of procedure.
| Filename: | CYVQ__Norman_Wells__Northwest_Territories_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 12th July 2014, 11:22:10 |
| Downloads: | 472 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 14.57 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Echo Bay CAA7 in British Columbia, Canada |
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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.
| Filename: | Echo_Bay_CAA7_in_British_Columbia_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 18th January 2017, 17:09:19 |
| Downloads: | 202 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 6.92 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Port Hardy CAW5 in British Columbia, Canada |
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This is the sixth in a series of new and renovated float bases in BC. Port Hardy CAW5 is in a sheltered inlet on the northeast coast of Vancouver Island, close to the town and just 6 miles northwest of the Port Hardy airport. There is fuel (both JetA and 100LL) and also oil available, and the base acts as a refuelling centre for the other float bases in the neighbourhood. The dock is one-sided as the northern side borders a shallow area that is in fact exposed at low tide, as is most of the inlet to the south of BC Packers (adjacent to the float base, to the south). The parking along the dock is maximised by backing up each plane by hand so that it is close to the one behind it; this is not possible to replicate with AI in FS9 (watch the video). Watch out for the log boom on the other side of the inlet, it is there to protect fish farm "pools". The AI involves several Beavers and Otters, as listed in the AI folder. At Port Hardy all the AI works for both landing and takeoff for all of the planes, no matter what is the wind direction. There is a pic of the Supplement Port Hardy page, showing the two take-off and landing areas plus the third area that is to be used for take-off before 7am. 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 was suposed to be Sullivan Bay, another floating marina, but I digressed to Port Hardy and Port McNeill (next to be posted). The two hotels by the nearby marina are included. One of them gave me weird problems and I gave up on achieving the correct shape.
| Filename: | Port_Hardy_CAW5_in_British_Columbia_Canada.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 19th January 2017, 15:01:45 |
| Downloads: | 200 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 8.27 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Coal Harbour CAQ3 float base in British Columbia, Canada |
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This is number eight in a series of new and renovated float bases in BC. Coal Harbour is in a sheltered cove off Holberg Inlet on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island, close to the village and 10 miles southwest of the Port Hardy float base. There is 100LL fuel and oil available. Due to the deep fjords that run into Vancouver Island from the west coast Coal Harbour is actually closer to the east coast than it is to the west coast. The tortuous route in through Quatsino Sound and Rupert Sound shelters the waters of Holberg Inlet from the stormy seas of the west coast, and fishing boats take advantage of this. The floatplane dock is to the south of the large (and old) hangar, adjacent to the southern end of the fixed dock where the ramp bridge descends to the floating docks. The video makes it clearer. The AI is a further adaptation of the CF36 AI and involves Beavers and Otters as listed in the AI folder. Due to the surrounding hills there may be some interference with AI aircraft, depending on the wind direction, though I have watched succesful Beaver and Otter landings. Amid the hills there is a very large hole in the ground to the east. The village name suggests it may have been for coal but though in fact there was a coal mine, that was a much smaller and unsuccesful venture; this particular scene of enthusiastic digging was for copper, until 1996. The main claim to fame of Coal Harbour was that it was the last whaling station in North America, using the buildings that were part of the RCAF float plane patrol base during WW2. One downloader reported a texture problem with Port McNeill, to which we found a solution. As he was the only person to email me I am going to presume that nobody else had the problem.
| Filename: | Coal_Harbour_CAQ3_float_base_in_British_Columbia_C.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 25th January 2017, 00:29:05 |
| Downloads: | 224 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 7.79 MB |
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