WETS, WHITNEY, ONTARIO, VERSION 1.0, PRESENT DAY, for FS9 released on
06 May 2012 by Stew Stewart (Robert J. Stewart, Jr.)
((The next few sections are background, limitations, quirks, and history. If you wish, go right to INSTALLATION which I plan to keep more sterile and direct.))
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I am neither a scenery designer nor a scenery builder. I do not purport to possess any real talent in such endeavors. I build scenery for my own use and I find it very easy to excuse myself for the many flaws in my scenery.
The Wacker Excursions and Transport Service (WETS) is my (virtual) air charter and air cargo company. I created it in the early 1990s shortly after I retired from the US Air Force and returned to teaching science instead of engaging in any endeavors which would gain me any wealth. WETS is my virtual effort toward the same end.
WETS is a living but not too much more because we throw most of our earnings back into the operation. Over the years we have become larger, have sufficient aircraft for any need, and have dedicated bases and leased facilities over an area that surprises even us! We operate no jet aircraft nor turboprops.
The Hancock AP, Syracuse, NY, Headquarters are located on the Northeast portion of the field on the paved (or mostly paved) remnants of the closed 06/24 RW (at the 24 end). This branch of the incorporated company serves anyone we can get to pay us for flying services. The backbone of the NY operations is passengers, their baggage, their fishing and camping gear, and the regular and emergency cargo needs of outlying and remote organizations of all descript. Our normal operations center in the Adirondack Mountains area of NY and up to the Algonquin area of Ontario. Shuttles to Lake Placid and a round robin shuttle in Central and Northland NY become scheduled flights as the need arises, usually during international winter sports events and during the New York State Fair in Syracuse.
There is also a Knik River, AK, Base with facilities service thousands of square miles in the Anchorage-Fairbanks parks, mountains, and bush areas of Alaska.
I may publish our existing facilities (WETS Syracuse, WETS1 at Knick River, our Anchorage lodge and shuttle facilities, along with our leased facilities around Alaska) at some future date. Unfortunately (though a great step forward when it was released), most of our main facilities were built using LAGO. Since they still serve their purposes, I have not even considered replacing the many structures with EZ Scenery or any of the current scenery building programs.
The Whitney Land and Float Base:
Whitney is our newest Base. Our traffic to Algonquin became and remains sufficiently dense to justify a closer base of operations than was available. Leasing, then owning and maintaining a bus and truck fleet to move people and equipment from even the closest existing air fields became a burden on our operation and to our customers (I am suppose to begin calling our patrons clientele, but I am having difficulty making the transition from hard working, hard flying boss of a vital air service to that of being a gentleman owner and operator of a large international flight transportation entity).
Whitney, Ontario, is generally centrally located to our needs and lies just outside of the East Portal of the Algonquin Provincial Park. The purchase of land and the construction to meet local building and Canadian government flight requirements created expenses offset by a reduction of motor fleet and the associated reduction in maintenance expenses, a marginal reduction in flight times, and a loan whose amortization period is ridiculously long resulted in the economy associated with actually owning and operating a general aviation base.
Yes, the land and float operation of the Whitney facility along with its facilities is as virtual as my WETS corporation and operation a figment of my imagination. The up side of a fictitious operation like mine is that I can also imaging it operates at a small profit!
((For those experienced in installing FS9 scenery: just unzip, place the Whitney folder where you want it, and install it in the normal manner. The following explanation is provided with the neophyte in mind))
THE FLIGHTS
Unzip Whitney_Ontario_v10.zip into a temporary folder of your choice. See THE FILES IN THE .ZIP FILE above.
Libraries:
OK. It is not mandatory to install the flight files. If you do not, you will have to either fly to the location (I recommend slewing) where Whitney is installed or use the GO TO AIRPORT screen to get here. The flights I have created and included start you at:
- Canada - Ont - Whitney - Default C-172: Places you on the RW15 overrun in the default C-172 ready to start your engine and take off.
- Canada - Ont - Whitney - Default C-208 Amphib: Places you on the RW15 (water) in the default C-208 Caravan Amphibian ready to start your engine and take off.
All four files go into your main \My Documents folder in the \Flight Simulator Files sub-folder. I am using Windows7. My main \My Documents folder is located in the \Libraries folder in the \Documents sub-folder, that is:
Canada - Ont - Whitney - Default C-172.FLT
Canada - Ont - Whitney - Default C-172.WX
Canada - Ont - Whitney - Default C-208 Amphib.FLT
Canada - Ont - Whitney - Default C-208 Amphib.WX
into the same subdirectory on your machine they will not be anywhere in your FS9 folder. Your folders may have other names or be in other sub-folders if you are not using Windows7. Do a bit of browsing if you are not using Windows7 and just find all of your other flight files (those .FLT and .WX files) and put these four files with them!
THE SCENERY
You will find a single scenery folder: Whitney. To install it, first copy it into your FS9 Addon Scenery folder (once again, almost anyplace will do, but the convention is in the Addon Scenery Folder). Just highlight it and COPY it, then Paste it into the Addon Scenery folder. Start Flight Simulator.
- On the opening screen click on Settings at the bottom left.
- When the next screen comes up, click on Scenery Library in the Scenery Box in the lower left of the screen.
- When the next screen comes up, click on the Add Area button at the right.
- the next screen which comes up is a browser used to locate the file names of the scenery you wish to install; you must now find the files you wish to install;
-- double click on computer icon in the dark grey window on the left;
-- double click on the drive letter of the FS9 drive, usually C:\
-- double click on your FS9 folder {{{My FS9 folder is in the main directory of my C:\ drive and is called \FS2004, --->---> yours may be in the \Programs folder in a \Microsoft Games sub-folder}}}
-- Double click on the \Addon Scenery folder
-- Single Click (SINGLE CLICK!!!!) on the scenery folders name (Whitney), then click on the OK button at the bottom. In a second, the scenery library screen will come back up and the scenery you just installed will be the first scenery on the list.
{{{If, after you click OK, nothing happens, click the up folder icon at the top of the window this should bring you back to the scenery library; if it does not, click cancel and try again}}}
You must restart FS9 for the scenery to show up. You can do this immediately by clicking the red X in the upper right corner. I suggest clicking on select a flight, waiting for the select flight window to come up, then exiting.
Now, restart FS9. When the opening screen appears (be sure you are on the Select a Flight screen), scroll down to either:
Canada - Ont - Whitney - Default C-172
or
Canada - Ont - Whitney - Default C-208 Amphib
Hit the F key or double click on the Flight Name or click on the Fly Now button at the lower right.
*** I believe the written explanation is more difficult than the actual installation operation!!! ***
((NOTE: I included no textures. I believe I possess every scenery object file every published up to about 2010 when I began becoming selective in my acquisitions. I keep track of which scenery objects I use (but sometimes I forget to log an object). If you get a black box or white or grey 2D or 3D polygon which looks like it should be a structure or object, please first download and install all the general scenery object libraries in normal use. If you really, really cannot get an object or set of objects to come up, e-mail me. I will look up the specific library I used and inform you.))
CREDITS: I used EZ-Scenery exclusively to place the scenery objects. I used Douglas A. Pouks wonderful (for the day) FS Architect to create the runway file. I used freeware scenery object libraries too numerous to list for the actual structures, roads, etc. My sincerest thanx to those who create all forms of freeware which I enjoy and use. You are the artists of our hobby.
LEGAL STUFF:
Freeware: Something designated as freeware is given away at no charge by the designer, however the designer retains the copyright and other rights. In the flightsim realm some people use the term freeware to also mean that no one may charge for copying, distributing or otherwise making available (i.e., through an online system of some sort); this extension to the actual meaning is contrary to usage outside the flightsim world and has been the cause of some confusion. A designer, as copyright holder, can include additional terms and conditions beyond those implied by the term "freeware" but should not assume that "freeware" means more than it actually does. (From SurClaro Uploading)
Copyright and Distribution
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This scenery is released as Freeware. Copyright Robert J. Stewart, Jr. As freeware you are permitted to distribute this archive subject to the following conditions,
- The archive must be distributed without modification to the contents of the archive. Redistributing this archive with any files added, removed, or modified is prohibited. Should you wish to expand or improve upon this archive, you must first contact the author and receive his written approval. No charge may ever be made for this archive or any part of it or any package or collection of files which includes it. Any approval from the author to modify this archive in any way will include a requirement to give him full credit for the original endeavor and renaming your effort with sequential version numbers.
- The inclusion of any individual file from this archive in another archive without the prior permission of the author is prohibited.
- No charge may be made for this archive or any part of it.
- The author's rights and wishes concerning this archive must be respected.
Copyright 2012 by Robert J. Stewart, Jr. All Rights Reserved.
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I reiterate! I created this software for my personal use. It serves my (very nostalgic) purposes.
Please use it freely if you think it of value. If you modify it for your own use, I will never know. If, however, you release any of your modifications, you must first get my approval. Never, NEVER demand any kind of charge for any part of my software, but feel free to distribute the unmodified original freely being sure to give me credit for creating it.
Should I discover you are distributing my product without giving me credit or should I find you demanding anything (money or anything else) for distributing it, I shall find and implement legal and/or social means to become a festering boil on the part of you which meets the chair when you sit. I am not vindictive, but I can be provoked! Teddy Roosevelt (I think )
Have fun and be well!!!
Stew
Robert J. Stewart, Jr.
Major, USAF (Ret)
Science Teacher (Ret)
Fayetteville, NY, USA
steworbob@live.com
06 May 2012
