Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
North Cascades Landscape Enhancements for Vancouver+

File Description:
This is a re-issue of my previously published landscape enhancement package for the North Cascades of northwestern Washington State, us_wa_nc.zip. These files have been edited and adjusted to be fully compatible with FSAddon's "Vancouver+ Part1" product and can be used with or without FlightOne's Ultimate Terrain USA or Canada/Alaska installed. Also included are batch files to remove incompatible flatten files from Richard Goldstein's Georender 4 "Darrington Muni", published by LAGO. Please note: don't use this package unless you have a registered copy of "Vancouver+" by FSAddon!!!

Filename:	North_Cascades_Landscape_Enhancements_for_Vancouve.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	19th December 2005, 21:42:33
Downloads:	4,165
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	11.66 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:	8,857
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	12.79 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Scenery Enhancements for the Innsbruck (LOWI), Austria

File Description:
New roads, railroads, streams, river, landclass, and waterclass for the Innsbruck area, Austrian Alps. Based on 30-m and 10-m satellite imagery. Not a finished product but rather a "Sunday afternoon" project :-) to illustrate the visual improvements that can be achieved with a few hours of time commitment and the help of the wonderful Ground2K4 by Christian Fumey. The scenery looks best with one of the SRTM-based add-on meshes. I have included my Ground2K4 source code so that interested users can improve on and expand the project area (requires a separate download of my pre-processed satellite imagery).

Filename:	Scenery_Enhancements_for_the_Innsbruck_LOWI_Austri.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	1st March 2004, 14:17:27
Downloads:	21,781
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	1.3 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
LOD10 (38-m) Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska

File Description:
This LOD10 (38-m) add-on mesh of Glacier Bay National Park and the adjacent Lynn Canal area between Juneau and Skagway (N58-60 W134-138) is an optional (!) upgrade of gl_bay_1.zip (by Holger Sandmann and Jim Keir). It adds more detail to the mountainous areas and allows to locally override other installed Alaska add-on meshes without having to deactivate them. The USGS NED seamless digital elevation data used for this mesh have a 2-arcsec (~60-m) resolution. Thus, the compilation as LOD10 (38-m) will reveal all terrain details contained in the source data. Please read the gl_bay_1.zip read-me file for further information about the special features of the Glacier Bay Project.

Filename:	LOD10_38m_Glacier_Bay_National_Park_Alaska.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	16th February 2004, 03:40:57
Downloads:	8,593
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	24.98 MB

Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery
Bella Coola Valley Landscape Enhancements

File Description:
One of the most spectacular watersheds of British Columbia's Midcoast, the Bella Coola Valley looks pretty boring in its default FSX rendition and the oddly shaped default Bella Coola River cuts deep into the terrain. These files provide a terrain mesh made from CDED1 0.75-arcsec data (multi-LOD, with maximum resolution of 38-m grid spacing), updated land class, water class, and seasons files, and accurate placements of lakes, rivers, streams, roads, and bridges. Also added are the glaciers of the Monarch Mountain Icefield as well as several forestry roads and clearcuts in the side valleys. Main roads have vehicle traffic moving in both directions. Coverage area is N51*45'-52*40' and W125*35'-127*25'. These files are fully compatible with other landscape enhancements for FSX, such as FS Genesis North America terrain mesh, Cloud 9's X-class, Adam Mill's ground texture replacements, or Flight1's Ultimate Terrain Canada/Alaska.

Filename:	Bella_Coola_Valley_Landscape_Enhancements.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	24th February 2007, 08:27:54
Downloads:	12,654
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	15.68 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2002 - Helicopters
AI Helicopters 102: 'European Masters'

File Description:
Second in a series of files for setting up helicopters and their repaints as AI aircraft. Set-up templates for five freeware GMax helicopters by European modelers: AS341 Gazelle, AS365 Dauphin, Eurocopter EC130, Bell 47 G2, and Westland Merlin. Includes sample AFCAD "heliports" and flight plans for London, Sydney, Paris, Helsinki, and Kuiu Island. Flight behavior is approximated (!) with custom flight models. Requires additional downloads (see documentation).

Filename:	AI_Helicopters_102_European_Masters.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	5th June 2003, 23:53:44
Downloads:	3,952
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	645.83 KB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery Design
Maltese Islands, Mediterranean Sea

File Description:
This package DOES NOT contain finished FS scenery products! Instead, the three bitmaps (N35.7-36.1 E14.1-14.6) 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.

Filename:	Maltese_Islands_Mediterranean_Sea.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	4th March 2004, 23:59:57
Downloads:	443
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	3.78 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:	2,007
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	5.35 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2002 - Helicopters
AI Helicopters 103: 'Modeled in Ireland'

File Description:
Third in a series of files for setting up helicopters and their repaints as AI aircraft. Set-up templates for four of Alan Devins' excellent freeware GMax choppers: AS361B Alouette 3, Bell 206L Long Ranger, Bell 222b, and the Airwolf. Includes sample "heliports" and flight plans for Rome, Belfast-Aldergrove, and Juneau. Flight behavior is approximated (!) with custom flight models. Requires additional downloads (see documentation).

Filename:	AI_Helicopters_103_Modeled_in_Ireland.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	5th June 2003, 23:54:38
Downloads:	2,199
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	352.25 KB

Category: Flight Simulator 2002 - Helicopters
AI Helicopters 106: 'Armed Forces'

File Description:
Sixth in a series of files for setting up helicopters and their repaints as AI aircraft. Set-up templates for five freeware GMax military helicopters: Bell 205 UH-1H, Hughes MH-6, CH-34A Choctaw, Sikorsky S-51, and UH-60 Blackhawk. Includes sample AFCAD "heliports" and flight plans for several bases in Washington State, Alaska, British Columbia, The White House, as well as two mountain glaciers. Flight behavior is approximated (!) with custom flight models. Requires additional downloads (see documentation).

Filename:	AI_Helicopters_106_Armed_Forces.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	5th June 2003, 23:56:22
Downloads:	4,369
Author:	Holger Sandmann
Size:	513.66 KB