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| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| PABA - Barter Island (Kaktovik) - Alaska North Slope 8 |
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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. Barter Island is a DEW station Air Force base 310 miles east of Barrow and 75 miles east of Bullen Point. The runway is just under 5,000 feet of gravel and aligned 06-24 on a spit of land at the northeast corner of the island. The big hangar is still there on the apron. Most of the DEW buildings have now been removed but this scenery is dated around 2005 when there were more of them still there. Between the DEW station and the airstrip is the village of Kaktovik, with a population of some 300 mainly traditional Inupiat. The village was first pioneered when the DEW station was built in the 1950's and grew as the years passed. The FS9 error discovered when making this scenery was that FS9 had mistakenly "placed" Kaktovik at Bullen Point (not physically, it was just wrongly stated as the local town); this is now only partly corrected as FS9 refused to accept my Bullen Point revision but allowed me to associate Kaktovik with Barter Island. Kaktovik is definitely on Barter Island. I could also mention that the runway was in the sea, but there isn't much point in that as Bill would say it was all the fault of Ultimate Terrain, so I won't bother. The next DEW station to the east is in Canada and called Komakuk; this has already been made and posted. The next in this series will be far to the west. The AI has daily flights by ERA, plus Northern Air Cargo, and some GA.
| Filename: | PABA__Barter_Island_Kaktovik__Alaska_North_Slope_8.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 19th July 2016, 17:49:16 |
| Downloads: | 208 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 3.42 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Alaska North Slope 9; Point Hope PAPO |
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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 east of Barrow on the North Slope. There will be further additions. Point Hope is a village on a spit of land that is one of the oldest and continuously inhabited places in all of North America, not just the polar regions. The "Point" is what brought this about, migrating whales passing close to land as they rounded the point, and the traditional way of life continues to this day. The population is now around 670. The airport surpassed all my expectations of FS9. Go look at the area before you install this. The first thing you will notice is that FS9 does not list Point Hope PAPO. The town is there (way too big and in totally the wrong place) and the airport background is there (wrong place of course) but there is no airport! Some buildings, but no runway, no apron, nothing that can be used by a plane?!? In real life the town is 3 miles east of the point, the runway is situated between town and point and, unusually in the north, is asphalt. This is presumably possible because of the gravel make-up of the point itself, with very little vegetable content and the warming sea restricting permafrost movements. 4,000 feet of 75 feet wide asphalt, lit, PAPI at both ends, and aligned 01-19. The building that appears to be wrongly situated away from the apron is like that intentionally; it is a helicopter hangar (not used in winter?) and they presumably did not want the apron traffic to get in their way. The AI has daily flights by ERA, plus Northern Air Cargo, and some GA.
| Filename: | Alaska_North_Slope_9_Point_Hope_PAPO.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 25th July 2016, 20:20:35 |
| Downloads: | 254 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 3.02 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Alaska South Slope 7; Kobuk OBU & Dahl Creek DCK |
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There are four main northwestern Alaska towns which are serviced by Alaska Airlines, and from which local flights spread out. The northernmost is Barrow. Southwest of Barrow is Kotzebue, then Nome, and the furthest south is Bethel (not yet made). This is a continuation of the series for the flights from Kotzebue, 170 miles to the east where Kobuk is on the bank of the Kobuk River, and Dahl Creek is 2 miles to the north. Kobuk is a small village on the Kobuk River, like Ambler and Shungnak, but with a population of only around 150. The river is the reason for the existance of the villages as it served (and still does) as both a source of food and a transport route. The airfield is just beside the village, with a runway around 4,500 feet of lit gravel and aligned 09-27, with PAPI on both ends. There are scheduled flights by Era (now renamed Ravn) and by Bering Air, both of them originating in Kotzebue and routing east to Ambler, Shungnak, Kobuk, and then back again. The AI includes these flights along with Everts Air and GA. The FS9 airfield has been relocated by approximately a mile to the correct position, and the elevation accordingly adjusted. The Dahl Creek strip is publicly owned, with no maintenance and a deteriorating gravel runway that has not long to survive. This probably does not work properly without Ultimate Terrain Alaska Canada as the village is now on the river bank. I am presuming that you have downloaded and installed Nome PAOM, along with the instructions on how to adjust Ultimate Terrain Alaska Canada to get the most realistic results. If you are not making the UT adjustments then you may be seeing duplicated roads, as I am including new local dirt or gravel roads to connect village to airfield etc to get the best overall result; I will not be making alternate versions.
| Filename: | Alaska_South_Slope_7_Kobuk_OBU__Dahl_Creek_DCK.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 13th October 2016, 18:10:08 |
| Downloads: | 233 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 2.94 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Bethel area airfields in southwest Alaska close to the Yukon River |
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This presumes you have already installed my post of Bethel PABE. In the Yukon River area of Alaska there are a lot of small villages close together, which is unusual for Alaska. Almost all of them are on the coast or a river bank, and the local economies depend on fishing. Some are larger than others and have a fish processing plant, such as in Emmonak. This is the largest such plant and it exports prepared fish by cargo planes which fly in on a daily basis, using an extended runway. This post includes airfields to the south and west of PABE, 17 of them; some of them already included and now modified. There will be more airfields to the north and northwest of Bethel in a future post. There are revisions to Bethel to include parking spaces for Yute Air (newly included here) and extra spaces for Ryan Air. Both of these flew Cessna 205 planes into the smaller village strips from Bethel (past tense as Yute Air recently went bankrupt). The northwest area is served both from Bethel and also from St Mary's PASM, which is in the northwest and at a more economical range to the local airfields (100 miles closer than Bethel). These smaller airfields have few airfield buildings or any other creature comforts; featuring heavily are a new standard blue garage building (sometimes not yet installed) and a small and old terminal shed (that has sometimes collapsed and been removed). Go to "http://vfrmap.com/" for free vfr maps of the area, There is a pic of the local chart area included here. The screenshots are a random sample. Kipnuk PAKI is the one that appears to have a second and long grass runway; what it actually has is the ground prepared for a new and long gravel runway but which hasn't been started yet as it has taken 10 years just to prepare the ground. I have no idea why.
| Filename: | Bethel_area_airfields_in_southwest_Alaska_close_to.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 16th April 2019, 22:47:47 |
| Downloads: | 155 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 5.93 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| St Michael Island in Alaska-St Michael 5S8 and Stebbins WBB |
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St Michael Island is 50 miles southwest of Unalakleet, an island that in fact appears to be a cape and a firmly attached piece of the mainland. On the island there are two villages, St Michael on the northeast corner and Stebbins on the northwest. St Michael has a new airfield that is west of the village by around a mile or so, with a gravel runway 4,000 feet long. The old and now closed airport was known as SMK, and is now readily identifiable by the new red-roofed school building that occupies the centre of the runway. The new airfield now has an icao code of PAMK, but FS9 does not readily accept icao code changes so we are stuck with the original code it was given, 5S8. The SMK icao of the old airport will still show on your gps as if I deleted it the runway would also have to be deleted, and a substitute and unsatisfactory gravel apron made to impersonate a runway. Stebbins is 5 miles west of St Michael and next to the shore, a smaller village than St Michael with around 250 inhabitants. The airfield is at the southern end of the village and has a gravel runway that is 3,000 feet long. The icao code is WBB. There is no AI included here as it was already included in the post of Shaktoolik. There is a correction here for Shaktoolik, which I now find should have had a blue garage, not a red one; I wrongly named a photo. A note here about my scenery making. This is post number 501 and there will not be many more to follow this as I am almost at the end of the photos I took or found for scenery purposes. There is a limit to what can be located online and I have already been making use of the little there is; eg Unalakleet. So, if you are near an airfield (preferably Canadian or Alaskan) and have a camera..... Let me know.
| Filename: | St_Michael_Island_in_AlaskaSt_Michael_5S8_and_Steb.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 1st August 2019, 16:45:58 |
| Downloads: | 95 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 3.88 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Tok Junction 6K8 in Alaska, USA |
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Tok Junction is a village, or small town, on the Alaska Highway some 180 miles east of Fairbanks and 60 miles west of the Alaska-Canada border. The town is spread over a wide area on the flat terrain and barely registers among the trees, and as such is not shown in FS9 except as a grid of roads as there is no town terrain texture like it used in FS9. The airfield is at the eastern end of the town and adjacent to the Alaska Highway and I have included some surrounding houses, workshops, shops, lodges, etc. The single runway is 3,000 feet of 50 feet wide asphalt aligned 07-25 and lit. There is a small airline based on the airfield called 40-Mile Air. Their hangar is red and the name written large and 100LL fuel is available beside it at all times. Jet A-1 is available by a telephoned pre-arangement. They are, I believe, no longer flying scheduled flights but they do still function as an air taxi and they have a contract to deliver mail to surrounding villages that are not served by all-weather roads. The airfield now has a new icao "PFTO" but in FS9 it remains as the original FAA LID, 6K8. The FS9 roads are not accurately placed, and the grass airfield background is not really appropriate as the reality is more like gravel mixed with earth; it is however difficult to replicate this with the available textures and still prevent bushes or trees appearing. But, in the winter and with snow on the ground it looks as it should. A note here about my scenery making. There will not be many more to follow this as I am almost at the end of the photos I either took or found for scenery purposes, plus I expect to move on from FS9 at some point during next year.
| Filename: | Tok_Junction_6K8_in_Alaska_USA.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 14th January 2020, 17:49:21 |
| Downloads: | 176 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 25.47 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Cameri and Turbigo sceneries (rev. 3) - north Italy |
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The following files are required by this file:
http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=163723&UploadID=&Name=&FileName=&Author=&CatID=root
http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=186350&UploadID=&Name=&FileName=&Author=&CatID=root
This scenery includes a global review of the previous Sceneries of Cameri Military airport (rev.2 Oct 2011), Cameri Museum (rev. 2 Oct 2011), Cameri Babini (rev. 2 oct 2011), Turbigo power station (rev. 2 Sep 2011 and update rev. 2.1 Oct 2014). All the above ARE NOW INCLUDED in this new unique scenery. Contents: Terrain in new version photo-realistic multi-seasons/night; adapted to Western Europe special elevation meshes; cover area of over 120 sqkm from Bellinzago-Oleggio (NW) to Magnago-Bienate (NE), from Novara (SW) to Cuggiono-Inveruno (SE); all the terrain has been restorated with 3D buildings, either through autogen that with specific dedicated objects (by GMax) and with significant addition of library objects ("dva51" and other existings). This scenery (located on the final approach to the Milan Malpensa international airport) includes the Cameri's Mil Airport with the Babini closed Army area and the planes of the Historical Museum of the airport; it is also included the thermoelectric power station of Turbigo. All the buildings are placed to recreate cities and villages covered in the photo-realistic terrain, including Bellinzago, Bienate, Buscate, Caltignaga, Cameri, Castano Primo, Castelletto Ticino, Cuggiono, Galliate, Inveruno, Magnago, Malvaglio, Nibbia, Novara, Oleggio, Pernate, Robecchetto, Romentino, Sant'Anna, San Pietro Mosezzo, Turbigo , Vanzaghello, and the covered Turin-Milan highway.
Details of the new buildings for the care and maintenance to F35 completely recreated, as obtainable from the current satellite view.
It REQUIRES the use of the following, to be downloaded separately :
- the libraries dva51 - the system of vegetations TreePlanter - the West Europe Meshes of Daniele Lanfranchi. See the Readme file. Enjoy!
Videos available here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38829151/FS9/Cameri_Turbigo_v3%20shots.WMV
http://youtu.be/yVI2KeJKS5o
http://youtu.be/oKa0e_5kxIk
| Filename: | Cameri_and_Turbigo_sceneries_rev_3__north_Italy.zip |
| License: | Freeware |
| Added: | 21st January 2015, 21:32:36 |
| Downloads: | 994 |
| Author: | Aldo Della Vedova, Daniele Lanfranchi and Gian Mario Verga |
| Size: | 103.7 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Nome PAOM on the northwestern coast of Alaska |
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There are four main northwestern Alaska towns which have good airports and are serviced by Alaska Airlines. From these airports local flights connect to nearby villages, "nearby" in Alaska meaning up to 200 miles away. The northernmost is Barrow. Southwest of Barrow is Kotzebue, then Nome, and the furthest south is Bethel. The town of Nome is south of the Bering Strait on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula, around 185 miles south of Kotzebue, with a population of about 3,800. It is the town that led to the creation of the most famous dogsledge race in the world, the Iditarod, which is based on the delivery to Nome of diphtheria serum during the blizzard conditions of the winter of 1925. The Nome airport (it currently has no other name) was originally built as the last of the refuelling airfields for planes being ferried to Russia during WW2. It has two runways, aligned 09-27 and 02-20 in FS9 (the wandering magnetic north has recently renamed the magnetic headings) and both of them around 6,000 feet with an ILS on 27. There is a modern airport layout diagram included showing taxiway names etc. Alaska Airlines, ERA, and Bering Air (which is headquartered in Nome), along with the shared cargo terminal for Northern Air Cargo and Everts Air, are all on the southern apron. The northern apron is mainly for GA, along with maintenance facilities, a garage building that also houses a weather bureau, and at the far northern end of runway 02-20 an apron and hanger for the Alaska Air National Guard. All AI aircraft in FS9 much prefer to use a runway that has an ILS and so will continue to use 09-27 even if the wind is from the north or south, right up until it reaches 30+ knots, so for AI realism in FS9 a permanent wind from the west would be the most realistic on a daily basis. There is also a small gravel strip just north of the town and this is included (94Z), as are some old line-of-sight radio communication reflectors on the hills above the town. There is a note about making adjustments to Ultimate Terrain Alaska-Canada regarding both realistic road lighting and also auto-generation.
| Filename: | Nome_PAOM_on_the_northwestern_coast_of_Alaska.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 18th October 2016, 02:38:42 |
| Downloads: | 487 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 22.65 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Panels | |
| Golovin N93 and Solomon AK26 in Alaska |
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Golovin is a coastal fishing village 70 miles east of Nome and around 20 miles west of Elim, with a population of under 200. The village is a check point on the Iditarod race and the name originates from a Russian admiral in the far distant past. The airfield has a gravel runway which is over 4,000 feet long; the older runway amid the village housing is still visible but not usable. The majority of flights to and from the airfield originate in Nome, but there are also others to and from nearby fields such as Elim, Unalakleet, Shaktoolik, and Koyuk. The AI includes a daily ERA flight. Most flights to villages of this size are in fact not "scheduled", but are "air taxi" being used by three or four villagers to go supermarket shopping in a larger neighbouring town, which in this case is Nome. In many cases the numbers of flights to and from a village in a year average out to one a day. There is a further scenery included here, which is Solomon AK26. Solomon is around 40 miles west of Golovin and from 1898 was suppporting a gold mining operation on the Fish and Niukluk rivers further inland at Council. Solomon, and the airfield which obviously came later, gradually faded from use in competition with Nome, leaving almost nothing behind at Solomon by the 1980's except a gravel runway and the nearby Solomon roadhouse. There are other buildings near the airfield which appear to be new and in good condition, but their function is unknown to me. The Solomon terrain modifications and grass deletion bgl's did not function until loaded in a "Top" folder; this is unusual, and may be required only in my FS9 setup or in all situations. I have no way of knowing as I can only design for my situation. A note here about my scenery making. This is post number 503 and there will not be many more to follow this as I am almost at the end of the photos I either took or found for scenery purposes. There is a limit to what can be located online and I have already been making use of the little there is; eg Unalakleet. Post 520 is unlikely. So, if you are near an airport (preferably Canadian or Alaskan) and have a camera..... Let me know.
| Filename: | Golovin_N93_and_Solomon_AK26_in_Alaska.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 5th August 2019, 16:19:07 |
| Downloads: | 83 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 4.23 MB |
| Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery | |
| Nenana Municipal Airport PANN in Alaska |
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Nenana is a village on the river of the same name around 40 miles west of Fairbanks, which is the second largest urban area in Alaska after Anchorage. Nenana, as a result of this proximity, is served by road and railway and unlike other Alaskan villages is not reliant on air cargo for necessities. The current population is just under 400, which is way down from its peak of 5,000 in the 1920's when gold was being mined and the railroad being built. Nenana's main claim to fame is as the starting point for the 1925 mushing delivery to Nome of the serum to combat an outbreak of diphtheria. Any Nenana Municipal Airport history is difficult to find, even the date of construction. It has two runways 3L-21R and 3R-21L, the first being asphalt and just under 5,000 feet with PAPI at both ends, the second grass and 1,800 feet. Both are lit. It also has a further water runway similarly aligned and 3,000 feet long. Maintenance is available and there is also fuel at the end of the northern apron, close to the crashed and stripped DC4 that sits among other unwanted items that are too large to make it worth the cost of moving them off the site. There are no regular scheduled flights to the airport, with air taxi or owner operated being in the majority. The scenery, in addition to the terrain, town, bridges, and airport items also modifies the terrain in an area further south where FS9 depicted as a city an Air Force base that is mainly concerned with radar and communications and in fact has very few buildings. The AI includes some Beavers on floats that were used in previous BC scenery with the kind permission of FSAddon. As I have already posted them I have not included them again here. The float plane AI uses the same radio frequency as the land based planes, but they fly to PANX and not to PANN as FS9 has problems with getting floats and wheels separated. Or maybe I just haven't worked out how to cope with FS9. A note here about my scenery making. There will not be many more to follow this as I am almost at the end of the photos I either took or found for scenery purposes, plus I expect to move on from FS9 at some point during next year.
| Filename: | Nenana_Municipal_Airport_PANN_in_Alaska.zip |
| License: | Freeware, limited distribution |
| Added: | 2nd December 2019, 18:12:42 |
| Downloads: | 155 |
| Author: | Roger Wensley |
| Size: | 7.36 MB |