Lake Cholila in Patagonia is one of the few last "great outdoors" left in this world, a paradise for mountain bikers, fishermen, hikers and hunters... the only drawback is that it is dificult to get there, there are some gravel roads but that is something for those really wanting adventure . Taking that into consideration the operator of the lodge on lake Cholila have created a grass airstrip making the access very easy...for those who don't mind flying in small planes.
As usual, rivers and roads have been configured for VFR pilots as well as landmarks and town limits included.
The new mesh extends over two LOD8 tiles and are sampled in LOD13 detail.
Now, to the problematic area, in the original Microsoft scenery had lake Cholila with the wrong altitude and an akward "near irreality" layout. There is no way to exclude that. There are two possibilities to fix that, one you get the hgt files (see below) and fix the area with Slartibartfast excluding the area of the lake in the original files (can be found on most good fsim websites) or two, you use the file I have included (cannot say that it 100% error free though it took me five days to create and revise it trying to ensure that).
The compromises: in the original MSFS scenery there are asphalt/concrete roads leading through this area, which, according to the latests satellite images I have, should be gravel roads. I have changed them to gravel in the 10 square kilometers surrounding lake Cholila, the rest remains asphalt..though they do not correspond to reality.
As with my previous Argentina scenery, the idea, data and images to create this scenery were collected by Federico Malfu Sanchez.
Installation:
The simplest installation is to drop all files contained in the scenery folder into the Addon Scenery/scenery folder of FS2004 and all textures into the Addon Scenery/texture folder but due to the fact that after a time these folders become very densely packed and unmaitainableit is better is to unzip these file and drop the created "Argentina" folder into you FS2004/Addon Scenery folder. If you already have a configured Argentina folder say "yes" eveytime you are asked for permission to overwrite a file. If you do not have an Argentina Area configured start FS2004 after copying the Argentina file, open the Scenery Library and add a new area. Place that area below the city sceneries but above South America.
If you want the "real" scenery open
....\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Scenery\Same\scenery
and remove the file HP92840.bgl putting it into a safe place in case you want to uninstall this scenery and put the included HP928470.BGL (notice the case difference in the ending, this is so you can identify it as a not original file) in its place. This file contains all water bodies in Patagonia and southern Chile. The other alternative is to change the original file with Slartibartfast (see the Slarti manual on how to do that) excluding lake Cholila.
To install the voicepack modification you need EditVoicepack.
Acknowledgments
These files have been partially generated by SbuilderX, Scenery Builder,FSDS 3.5 and ADE 9.x and the coordinates are generated from Google Earth.The new mesh was generated with public domain files from http://dds.cr.usgs.gov.
The legalities
Copyright is by Alf B. Meier et al. as indicated above (2010). These files are distributed as FREEWARE and intended to remain such, the distribution under condition of remuneration and/or material or non-material obligation is absolutely prohibited. Under this fall especially web sites that charge per download, download only available to paying members or where download is only possible by means of premium dialers.
The distribution on sites that advocate violence and/or pornography is also prohibited.
Contact
There should be no problems with any of these files, in case that you run into one send me an e-mail to: laughATotenetDOTgr and put FS for Alf into the subject or chances are good that your mail gets bounced by my spam filter.
