Thankyou for downloading this special DEDICATED Bush Pilot Scenery.
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Larry & Judy Deuster
This scenery project is DEDICATED to the couple above and their wonderful memories of 1984 when they flew in a Cessna Floatplane from Chena Marina Alaska to Hidden Lake. With great memories and many pictures, they were able to express the JOY they encountered while there. Please send Larry & Judy Deuster a special note for shareing their REAL adventure at: larryd@paulbunyan.net
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( SPECIAL NOTE )--> These sceneries require EASY FS2000 SCENERY LIBRARY INSTALLATION and the installation of Flatten Switches placed into the FS2000 SCENERY.CFG file. Please scroll down the page to see the installation section below for the easy 4 step instructions.
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~ DISCRIPTION - COMMENTS - LOCATIONS - VIEWS ~
(This scenery was created using the Freeware scenery design program Airport 210 and my Gateway 400Mhz Pentium II - 128 ram - 16Mb Voodoo Banshee AGP)
AK 28 - CHENA MARINA
Setting almost right next to Fairbanks Intl Airport, Chena Marina Airport, AK28, is home to many wheeled and float aircraft. The gravel runway is over 4,000 feet in length and the dredged out, Chena Marina Pond, is almost as long which makes it nice for many small floatplanes and larger seaplanes. Please check out the real Chena Marina Airport at the Airnav web site at: http://www.airnav.com/airport/AK28.
One end of this default runway had texture and elevation problems so I fixed this with the Flatten Switch. Included in your download is an OPTIONAL STATIC AIRCRAFT scenery add-on.
HIDDEN LAKE
Designed using some real photos and a drawing, Hidden Lake is about a 45 minute flight from Chena Marina at heading 219 degrees. Also, Hidden lake was found to be an FS2000 default lake with almost the same shape except FS uses straight sided textures for these areas. I placed another FS2k default lake texture over it and rounded the edges for realism so it is a little larger than the real thing. And again, the Flatten Switch was used here to sink it in to the default Alaska forest. Larry and Judy's Cessna pilot, Rick Gould, flew in the lumber to build the cabins and Ron Acherley duplicated Rick's cabin and shed using the photo shown in the Readme.1st.HTM file. Great job Ron!
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~ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ~
Ron Acherley, thanks for the great 3D Macros of Rick Gould's cabin, shed, dock, and the real cool looking Moose macros. Ron's a true graphic artist and FS friend, his works are known throughout the FS community. Please visit Ron's web site at:http://www.fsadventure.com/
I really owe Mr. John Grammer of Indiana, USA a great big "THANKS" for getting me started in creating Bush Pilot Sceneries. It was John's original idea and I created my first Bush scenery (Dark Lake) only 16 miles from his remote lake called A FISHING CAMP. I get the MOST pleasure from doing these Created Bush Pilot Sceneries. THANK YOU VERY MUCH JOHN !
A Big thanks to Brian McWilliams and the entire Flight Sim Group for creating the Scenery design program Airport 210 which I used to create this scenery. The APT210 program is a freeware program and is really quite easy to use. Please go to the Flightsimgroup home page at: http://www.flightsimgroup.com/ and check it out.
I enjoy ADDING 3rd Party 3D Macros to the scenery file so the FS user has a more pleasent and enjoyable experience. And I want to give a Super Big Thank You to the following designers for their hard work and effort to help make my sceneries look way they are.
Mark Remien For creating all the great "Wild Life" macros. The great Alaskan outdoors needs wild life for sure. Thanks Mark !
Gerrish Gray For the super nice Log Cabin macros. His Cabin macros really adds much to the realism in FS2000. I really enjoy them!
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~ FILES LIST ~
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( "IMPORTANT NOTICE" )
(These sceneries must be installed together into the EASIEST EVER FS2000 SCENERY LIBRARY and REQUIRES the FS USER to COPY and PASTE the FLATTEN SWITCH INFORMATION BELOW onto the FS2000 SCENERY.CFG file. ALL files needed for a FULL INSTALLATION of CHENA MARINA and HIDDEN LAKE SCENERIES ARE INCLUDED. PLEASE DO NOT MOVE ANY FILES from the chenam folder or folders within. ) ( Please see the installation section below)
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SCENERY (BGL's)
FS2000 will read ALL 11 scenery .bgl files from anywhere on your hard drive in which you place the chenam folder. ( Please see the installation section below)
OPTIONAL SCENERY (STATIC.ZIP)
This file will add EIGHT (8) static Bush type aircraft to the Chena Marina airport.
TEXTURE FILES
Same as the above scenery files. Do NOT place these textures into the FS2K texture folder. ( Please see installation section below)
README.1st.htm . . . . . . . . . .HTML document of this readme file.
README.txt . . . . . . . . . . . .This is the file your reading now.
The pictures inclosed in the chenam / Pictures folder are used for viewing with this HTML file that your reading now SEE ABOVE. If you remove these pictures or the folder, this page won't show them either.
THE SOURCE CODE FILES
These are the files from within the FREEWARE Airport 210 scenery design program. When these files are placed into the apt210 program folder, you will be able to view the sceneries like a BLUEPRINT. You can then alter each scenery to you likeing, adding 3D macros or even changeing the coordinates if you wish. There is one .apt file for every scenery .bgl file. Remember, ALL sceneries created with the Airport 210 program MUST be FREEWARE.
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~ INSTALLATION SECTION ~
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These sceneries have been zipped together in the correct folders provided, to ensure you the best and easiest installation. PLEASE do not remove any files or folders from the chenam folder. For a PERFECT FULL INSTALLATION of these TWO scenery locations, PLEASE follow ALL STEPS BELOW.
STEP 1 UN-zip the chenam.zip file to ANY location on your hard drive. FS2000 will read ALL files from there. Oh yea, you've done that!
STEP 2 START the FS2000 program then CLICK the WORLD MENU and SELECT the SCENERY LIBRARY option. Then in the Scenery Library window, CLICK the ADD AREA botton which will bring up the SELECT SCENERY DIRECTORY window (browser). Now in that window, CLICK the botton in the upper LOOK IN box to LOCATE and HIGHLIGHT the chenam\Scenery folder. ( just HIGHLIGHT the folder ) Then TYPE: CHENA MARINA in the lower box called the SCENERY AREA TITLE box and CLICK OK then CLICK the GREEN CHECKMARK. AT THIS POINT, FS2000 WILL INSTALL THE SCENERIES AND MAY APPEAR TO GO CRAZY! (THAT'S OK LET IT) AFTER THE SCENERIES ARE INSTALLED, DO NOT GO TO THE SCENERY LOCATIONS, INSTEAD, SHUT DOWN AND EXIT FS2000 !
STEP 3 I've provided a text file enclosed in the chenam folder called FLATTEN SWITCH.txt, OPEN this file and COPY ALL THREE SWITCH LINES just like they are, then go to your main FS2000 folder and OPEN the SCENERY.CFG file. SCROLL down to the CHENA MARINA entry and PASTE ALL THREE Flatten Switch lines to the next line under the entry.
STEP 4 After you've completed STEP 3, EXIT the SCENERY.CFG file and SAVE the changes.
"INSTALLATION IS NOW COMPLETE"
To locate the sceneries while flying, go to the GO TO AIRPORT option in FS2000 and CLICK the botton for 6.0 SCENERIES AND BEFORE.
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OPTIONAL STATIC AIRCRAFT INSTALLATION
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Unzip the enclosed static.zip file to any temporary folder. Then open the folder and COPY the file called chenasa.bgl and PASTE it into your chenam\Scenery folder. Then go back to the static folder and COPY the rest of the files and PASTE them into your chenam\Texture folder.
:NOTE: If you get poor FRAME RATES after installing the static aircraft, delete the optional files mentioned above. Some video cards can't seem to handle too much scenery.
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~ OTHER SCENERY'S I'VE DONE ~
Please visit my scenery Home Page at: http://www.flightsimnetwork.com/webads/ It's not a real fancy web site but you'll see and be able to download all my Bush Pilot Scenery's and WWII Scenery's there. ALL FREEWARE ! !
I always upload my scenery files to "SurClaro" at: http://www.SurClaro/. Once there, go to the Main Menu, click on the Search File Librarys option. Then in the box titled: Search For Text, Type in my name: Ken Nelson and you'll see all of my Scenery Files. 18 sceneries to this point.
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~ DISCLAMER ~
This Author (ME), or any other names listed on this file, is not responsible for any problems or damage resulting from the installation of these files. Iam sure everything will work fine as long as you install these files according to the installation instructions. If you do have any problems installing this scenery, please feel free to e-mail me and I'll do the best I can to help you.
ALSO
This scenery is released as Freeware. As freeware you are permitted to distribute this archive subject to the following conditions, All sceneries generated with Airport/SCASM must be distributed as freeware (no money's charged). *.OAV and *.?aF texture files can be freely included in the sceneries generated with airport and SCASM. As copied from the Airport 210 readme file.
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I really do hope you enjoy this scenery. Have a good flight and a nice soft landing. Please e-mail me with any comments or sugestions. Thank you and please ENJOY.
