Venezuelan ANDES Scenery (VENAND2K.zip)
For FS2000 - May 2001
By David Maldonado (davimald684@cantv.net)
Created with Airport v2.60
Macros done with EOD - Easy Object Designer 3.0
Requires Airport and VODTEX30 textures, which can be downloaded from
flight.sim or Avsim
This scenery encompasses the airports of the following seven (7) Venezuelan cities which
are all located in the Venezuelan Andes: Merida, Valera, San Antonio, San Cristóbal,La Fria,
El Vigia and Bocono. The last two airports (El Vigia and Bocono) were not included in FS2000
My Venezuelan Andes Scenery also includes the mesh terrain for this area (Andes.bgl).
IMPORTANT: If you had already installed my Venezuelan mesh terrain scenery (VEN_MESH.ZIP),
then you must delete the file ANDES.BGL from that scenery since its is already included in
this "Andes Scenery" (VENAND2K.zip) .
If you have enough ram memory (at least 256 megas-384 is better) and you have a reasonable
fast CPU (say 750 Mhz) then I recommend that you also install my Venezuelan Mesh scenery
(VEN_MESH.ZIP) which covers all of the mountainous area of Venezuela. It can be found at
flight.sim or Avsim or at my Web Site: http://davidmaldonado.tripod.com.
My new "Venezuelan Andes Scenery" adds the following to the default FS2000 scenery of the
above mentioned airports: terminal buildings, complete aprons, ramps, lighting, hangars,
control towers, fueling terminals, vehicles, general buildings, static aircrafts of Venezuelan
airlines. All the airports are equipped for night operations, with proper approach and
landing lights, taxiways lights, and PAPI signaling. All of the terminal buildings
incorporate night lighting effects.
This scenery also includes dynamic scenery and continuous aircraft traffic between the
cities of El Vigia and Merida and between the cities of La Fria and San Antonio.
The Venezuelan ANDES:
The Andes in Venezuela have a very abrupt topography creating a very distict barrier between
the lowlands (Llanos) of the Maracaibo basin and the western plains, encompassing the
greatest part of the Mérida, Trujillo and Táchira States.
It limits in the extreme southwest with the Táchira State depression, and in the extreme
northeast with the Carora and Barquisimeto depression.
The Andes in Venezuela, are steep and rugged formations, encompassing an area of 32.500 sq Km,
450 km in length and an average width of 80 Km, rising abruptly towards snow covered
mountains reaching its maximun level at peak Bolivar (5007 meters/16420 feet).
These Andes are subdivided into several Sierras separated by deep valleys and "Paramos"
(high, bare and cold mountainous plateau area). At the southwestern part the predominant
mountain is the Batallon Paramo (3913 meters) and the Tovar Sierra, which ends up in the
Narino Paramo (3517 meters), In the Central Part of the Venezuelan Andes you will find the
spectacular Snow covered Merida Sierra, and the Santo Domingo Sierra with elevations exceeding
4000 meters (13.200 feet), these two are separated by the Chama River from the Culata Paramo
with a maximun elevation at the Piedras Blancas Peak of 4.729 m (15520 feet).
In this area you can observe lots of Paramos, glaciers, and Lagoons.
How to install :
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The file VENAND2K.zip contains the following :
File_id.diz -> Brief description of the Scenery
Readme.txt -> The English reame.
Leeme.txt -> The spanish readme
venand2k.gif -> Scenery image gif format
Map_Andes.jpg -> Map showing the extension and topography of the scenery
and the locations of the airports.
*.BGL -> Scenery files (static and dynamics)
*.bmp,.*R8, *.oav -> scenery textures
*.*af -> Static and dynamic aircraft textures
1.-Unzip the file VENAND2K.zip EN C:\
2.-Once zipped it will look like this :
C:\ANDES 2000
\SCENERY
\TEXTURE
3.-Start FS 2000, go to: World / Scenery Library .. once there, press "Add Area". In the
dialog box called "Select Scenery Directory" search your Hard Drive for the "ANDES 2000"
directory which was created in step 2. When found, the "Scenery Area Title" area box will
BECOME ACTIVE, Write there the title of the area (expl. ANDES 2000) and then press OK .
Do not forget to press the check mark
4.-Re start FS2000 and once the startup is completed position the aircraft in any of the
Venezuelan Andes airports in accordance with the following procedure:
From the FS2000 main Menu go to World / Go to Airport... / Scenery from FS95 and before / Scenery areas
Valera (SVVL) - VOR 114.40 - NDB 278
Merida (SVMD) - VOR 115.10 (ficticious, put there so that you can locate this airport)
La Fría (SVLF) - VOR 113.00
San Antonio (SVSA)
San Cristobal (SVPM) - NDB 310.00
El Vigia (SVVG) - NDB 393.00
Boconó (SVBK) - NDB 300.00 (ficticious, put there so that you can locate this airport)
Then go Flying in the Venezuelan Andes!!. Do not use anything bigger than a DC9, B737 or B727.
Why not try also an ATR, a Dash 8, and for sightseen a Cessna or a Beech Bomanza
(watch out for the heights and your aircraft ceiling. You would have to do some extensive
valley flying and use some oxygen !!!!. Never done it myself, a bit tricky.
NOTES:
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An additional reminder!!. I you had previously installed my Venezuelan mesh terrain scenery (VEN_MESH.ZIP)
then you MUST delete the file ANDES.BGL from this Venezuelan Andes Scenery
In order to correctly visualize the textures of some macros of the VENAND2K.zip scenery,
it is necessary that you DEACTIVATE the option :
Options/settings/Disply/..../Image Quality/Ground Scenery Shadows
Thanks to:
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to Pascal Meziat y Manfred Moldenhauer for their Airport 2.60
to Matthias Brücknerfor his EOD
to the macro creators
to los aircraft designers and painters
Legal Aspects:
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This scenery is freeware.
Any type of commercial use is not allow under any circumstance.
Modifications to this scenery is not allowed without previous authorization of the author.
All the software mentioned is the sole property of their authors.
You can find all my work at http://davidmaldonado.tripod.com
http://www.SurClaro,
http://www.SurClaro.com
I hope that you enjoy this scenery as much as I did when making it.
I would appreciate any comments and suggestions, please use my email
or my Web page URL.
