Rockcliffe Flying Club modifications for the Flight Ontario Rockcliffe CYRO scenery in Ontario, Canada
Made using SceneryGenX (hoorah for that programme! downloadable for free) by Roger Wensley. For FS9 only.
WHERE AND WHAT IS THIS?
Flight Ontario posted their scenery for Rockcliffe CYRO in 2008, having worked with all the information they had but not all the information they would have liked (the usual situation with all scenery designers, including me). Plus at the end of it all a computer hard drive crash meant that the almost-completed scenery was frozen as-it-was and could not be further modified. I learnt to fly at RFC and know Rockcliffe well so there are some additions and modifications here including the refueling point near the RFC buildings, revised apron shape, gravel car park, parked cars, extended perimeter fence, deck in front of the RFC clubhouse, more parked planes, the large and old willow tree, and the float dock in the river.
As an aside, since the tornado in April 2009 (yes, a tornado in Ottawa!) the large and old willow tree is no more, having fallen partly on the west end of the clubhouse and entirely on the catering shed. Darn. However, this is for FS 2004 not FSX and I liked the tree, so I am keeping it in there.
There is no way to properly deal with the levels issue around the float dock. The water texture will go a bit up the bank and we all just have to live with that. Getting that right just destroys the car park area and the fence.
The two lighter colour areas on the southern side of the apron in the aerial pic are not concrete, so don't think I got it wrong. There are several generations of asphalt at Rockcliffe and they are all different shades, and as far as I know there is no way to replicate that.
NEEDED
What do you need? Well apart from FS9 not very much; preferably Ultimate Terrain as otherwise there is no proper Ottawa River close by, which would be a shame.
You will need Runway12 (and the libraries) used for scenery objects such as fuel pumps, trees, parked cars and planes etc. As this modification is all about the small items there is probably little point in downloading this without using RWY12. The non-RWY12 items are the fuel tanks and "crash" posts (but not the pumps), apron modifications, gravel car park area, perimeter fence, clubhouse deck, and the float dock.
I suggest you also get Flight Ontario's free landclass for Ontario.
INSTALLATION
To install unzip to a temporary folder, then add the scenery bgl's to your existing Flight Ontario CYRO scenery folder, and the texture bmp's to your existing Flight Ontario CYRO texture folder. This will not change any of the original bgl's or bmp's. If you don't like them then just delete them later.
The new AFCAD revises the apron (the southern edge of the RFC apron and the southeast access taxiway) and adds the gravel car park outside the fence. If you have the Flight Ontario AFCAD in the Addon Scenery/Scenery folder then put this one in the CYRO/Scenery folder were it will over-ride the other; then if you don't like it for whatever reason you can just delete it again and the Flight Ontario AFCAD will still be functional.
Note that this is free at no expense spared and not to be sold. You can do whatever else you like with it so long as you ask me first and don't make money from it!
rogwen@rogers.com
Criticism and praise equally welcome. This post on 7th June 2009
