Post by mick on Aug 30, 2005 20:17:10 GMT -5
First, I can't find the words to say THANK YOU as hard as I mean it. I've been wishing for an updated GW since I first got FS2002! ;D
I won't get a Chance to install GW until the weekend, so maybe I'll find that this is already in it, but if not maybe I can make a small contribution to the work in progress.
I recently whipped up an AFCAD file for my main FS9 installation, which I call "Flight Simulator 1954 - A Half Century Of Flight." It reactivates the old seaplane-only Coast Guard Air Station at Salem, Mass. It provides a parking apron in the correct location and approximately the correct size and shape, two seaplane ramps into the water, a water runway in the proper location, and the usual parking and taxiways required for AI use. In 1954 I have Paul Clawson's PBM Mariner in 1950s USCG livery flying in and out of there, and Greg Pepper's Grumman Albatross and Mike Stone's Grumman JRF Goose, also in fifties USCG livery, parked on the apron. (They don't fly, at least not when anyone's around to see them, because AI amphibs don't know enough to keep their gear up when they're in the water.) In GW I expect to substitute Mike's Hall PH in 1930's USCG livery for the PBM, and Joe Binka's J4F Widgeon for the Goat. I'll have to see if I can whip up a pre-war USCG livery for Mike's Goose. (But I have a nagging thought that there must be a reason why I didn't do that ages ago. Maybe a problem putting the serial number on the bottom of the hull???)
As it happens, FS9 plops down an autogen building in exactly the right place to represent (poorly, I admit) the sole hangar at CGAS Salem. I don't know if it would do that on anyone else's system, or if it will do that in mine in GW. (Maybe when I have time I'll see if I can follow Tom's scenery tutorials and put a real hangar there.)
Just last evening I added a standard FS9 rotating beacon so I could find the place at night.
All this is made to fit the corrected coastlines of FREEflow New England, and I have no idea whether it would fit in with the stock scenery. It might work, or the parking apron might be floating in the bay...
Anyhoo - if anyone wants the AFCAD and the beacon I'd be happy to share. Just let me know where to upload them. I don't have the GW traffic files ready yet, and have no idea when I'll get them done. In their present form the files have the PBM visiting my custom fictional seadromes on Quabbin Reservoir and Cheshire Lakes, which don't exist in anyone else's FS9. And before I set up new traffic files, first I'll have to make AI versions of the Hall and the Widgeon. So for now, all that's ready to offer are the AFCAD and the beacon. Unless anyone wants the 1954 traffic files to modify for themselves...
Question: am I right in figuring that it shouldn't screw up GW if I use FREEflow New England to correct the waters? I don't think it changes anything else, other than where the water and shorelines go...
I won't get a Chance to install GW until the weekend, so maybe I'll find that this is already in it, but if not maybe I can make a small contribution to the work in progress.
I recently whipped up an AFCAD file for my main FS9 installation, which I call "Flight Simulator 1954 - A Half Century Of Flight." It reactivates the old seaplane-only Coast Guard Air Station at Salem, Mass. It provides a parking apron in the correct location and approximately the correct size and shape, two seaplane ramps into the water, a water runway in the proper location, and the usual parking and taxiways required for AI use. In 1954 I have Paul Clawson's PBM Mariner in 1950s USCG livery flying in and out of there, and Greg Pepper's Grumman Albatross and Mike Stone's Grumman JRF Goose, also in fifties USCG livery, parked on the apron. (They don't fly, at least not when anyone's around to see them, because AI amphibs don't know enough to keep their gear up when they're in the water.) In GW I expect to substitute Mike's Hall PH in 1930's USCG livery for the PBM, and Joe Binka's J4F Widgeon for the Goat. I'll have to see if I can whip up a pre-war USCG livery for Mike's Goose. (But I have a nagging thought that there must be a reason why I didn't do that ages ago. Maybe a problem putting the serial number on the bottom of the hull???)
As it happens, FS9 plops down an autogen building in exactly the right place to represent (poorly, I admit) the sole hangar at CGAS Salem. I don't know if it would do that on anyone else's system, or if it will do that in mine in GW. (Maybe when I have time I'll see if I can follow Tom's scenery tutorials and put a real hangar there.)
Just last evening I added a standard FS9 rotating beacon so I could find the place at night.
All this is made to fit the corrected coastlines of FREEflow New England, and I have no idea whether it would fit in with the stock scenery. It might work, or the parking apron might be floating in the bay...
Anyhoo - if anyone wants the AFCAD and the beacon I'd be happy to share. Just let me know where to upload them. I don't have the GW traffic files ready yet, and have no idea when I'll get them done. In their present form the files have the PBM visiting my custom fictional seadromes on Quabbin Reservoir and Cheshire Lakes, which don't exist in anyone else's FS9. And before I set up new traffic files, first I'll have to make AI versions of the Hall and the Widgeon. So for now, all that's ready to offer are the AFCAD and the beacon. Unless anyone wants the 1954 traffic files to modify for themselves...
Question: am I right in figuring that it shouldn't screw up GW if I use FREEflow New England to correct the waters? I don't think it changes anything else, other than where the water and shorelines go...
But part 2 should make it fairly easy to place a hangar.