Scenery for FS2002
Bowerman Field - Hoquim, Washington
Introduction:
Bowerman Field is located just west of Hoquim, Washington, a short flight from Seattle, Portland, or British Columbia. With a 5000' runway, Bowerman is the only airport on the Washington coast big enough to receive Jets. This field was a favorite destination for me; flying skyhawks from the Seattle area back in the "good old days", its not too far and you can get a great lunch at Lana's.
I had previously released a version of this airport for fs2000. My friend David Smith took digital photos of the structures for that project. For this work, I recreated the textures from the original photos as I felt I could do better. This is my first airport using GMAX for building the 3d structures. The towers are still from fsds. With GMAX structures and ground textures applied using resample.exe, frame rates have remained excellent compared to my fs2000 version.
All structures in this scenery are photorealistic. The ground textures are made from the USGS doqq aerial photographs.
This airport was made with FSSC, GMAX, FSDS, ASD, resample.exe/tmf2bgl.exe, and hand coded scasm files for taxiway markings and excludes.
Images of the "real thing"
Airport Details:
Runway Facilities
* Length 5,000 feet (1,524 meters)
* Width 150 feet (46 meters)
* Full parallel taxiway, 50 feet (15 meters) wide
* Four connecting taxiways
* Expanded apron
* Unicom 122.7
* For automated weather call 360/538-7021
Navigational Aids
* Localizer
* Glideslope (full Instrument Landing System)
* MALSR System and Runway End Identification Lights (REIL)
* Visual Approach Slope Indicator (VASI)
* Omni-directional beacon (VOR)
* Runway lights
Fuel Services
* 100LL Fuel
* Jet A Line Service
* Avgas dispenser -- cardlock system utilizing major credit cards
* -- Prices as of July 2000 --
* 100LL = $2.05/gallon including tax
* JetA = $1.80/gallon including tax
Aircraft Capacity
* Jets and other aircraft up to 80,000 pounds (36,288 kilograms) maximum gross weight with dual tandem landing gear
* Landing minimum of 250 feet (76 meters), 1/4 mile (402 meters) visibility
Other Facilities
* 4 twin hangars, 18 tiedown spaces
* Aircraft maintenance, repair and painting -- Aerotech Inc. 360/533-6655
* Full service restaurant - Lana's Hangar Cafe 360-533-8907
* Pilots lounge sponsored by EAA and WPA
* 20,000 square foot (1,858 square meters) utility hangar
* Modern passenger terminal facility
* Lodging and ground transportation available nearby
Installation:
No other files should be needed to use this scenery. I recommend installing this scenery into a folder remote from your main fs2000 scenery directory. Name the folder anything you like and make a subdirectory named "scenery", another named "texture".
Extract the contents of scenery.zip into your scenery subdirectory. Extract the contents of texture.zip into your texture subdirectory.
Start FS2002 and "add" the new scenery in the library under the world|library pull down menu in fs2002.
Thanks and Appreciation:
Thanks to David Smith, my friend that lives close to Bowerman. Hope your feeling well.
Ken Meier, thanks for beta testing and general morale boosts.
And thanks to James Bond, another of my local Washington simming friends, beta tester, and scenery designer. James provided the static aircraft models.
Thanks also to Ron Vorak for testing on WinXP
And thanks to my many friends at AVSIM scenery design, Dan, Arno, Georgio, Luis, John Ci, Richard, and many more. Also special thanks to Finn Newick at the Discreet support bb....
And many thanks to the tool makers:
Manfred Moldenhauer - SCASM
Peter Jacobsen - ASD
Discreet - GMAX
George Ioannu - Fsregen
Louis Sinclair - FSDS
Msoft - sdk tools
Finally some STUFF:
This scenery is freeware and is copyrighted. You may not include this scenery in any pay-ware in any form, no matter what, no way, no how...without my written consent.
Of course, you use this freeware with no guarantees, or warrantees of any kind. Its been tested and will undoubtedly work great, but if it were to cause a problem for you, you have only my sympathy.
If you'd like to upload this to any other sites, that's fine, just include this file completely and let me know, it's fun to follow where it's uploaded.
Feel free to share your comments and suggestions, my email is bob.bernstein@attbi.com
