Introduction
Installation & Optimisation
Credits
Contact Me & Legal Garbage
Introduction
Summer Island is a fictional rendition of Nggela Sule Island, off the coast of
Honiara. The scenery is centered around Summer Island Airstrip, an aerodrome on one of the few flat places on the island. It is a very challenging runway to land on, being only 530 metres in length, being only suitable for light aircraft and STOL turboprops. Of my own aircraft collection for FS2002, I have been able to land and takeoff from the strip in a C182, C208, Dash-8, Beech Baron 58, Dornier 228 and Beech King Air 350. As either end of the runway is situated on a beach, there is no room for miscalculation, as you will simply end up in the drink! Aswell as this, you can land only from the south, as there is a lighthouse right smack in the middle of the final approach from the northern end.
As well as Summer Island Airstrip, there are various other landing sites on the island. For bush pilots, there is the private strip on Sunset Beach, or should I say Sunset Beach IS the airstrip, also another challenging strip to land on! The runway is basically the beach, and may be hard to find from the air. Simply look for the Mansion ( a private residence) and it is adjacent to that.
For the amphibious pilot, there is two landing sites that may cater for your tastes. Firstly is at the front of the Summer Island resort, a 5-star hotel around the bay from the Airstrip. There is a jetty that extends from the resort where you may wish to land your floatplane. On the opposite side of the Island is Barnacle Petes Shack and jetty, under the shadow of 500ft-high cliffs.
And for the chopper pilot, there is one dedicated helicopter-only landing site, on Mt Caesar, where the Roman ruins are situated. But of course helicopters are catered for at both the main airstrip and private Sunset Beach strip.
The communications tower, situated on the highest point of the island, has no landing facilities as such but the terrain surrounding it is both cleared and flat enough for safe helicopter landings.
Installation & Optimisation
Installation:
Unzip this file into a temporary folder ( obviously you have already done this!)
Move the summer island folder into the ../fs2002/addon scenery folder
Start FS2002, start a flight
From the World menu, choose scenery library
Click on add scenery
From the folders displayed, click once on summer Island, then name your scenery whatever you want ( preferably summer island!)
Restart FS2002
To start flying from the runway ( summer island airstrip only), you will find an entry under Oceania-Solomon Islands-Summer Island
However, there are several entries for other starting positions on the island from the FS95 or before scenery prompt.
Optimisation:
This scenery will look best with all sliders maxed, however with my computer (PIII 500MHz 64 MB RAM) this produces low frame rates.
I choose to fly with the water effects on reflection only, and all sliders on medium-low except for mesh complexity and Autogen Scenery, which MUST be on high to produce the scenery I intended to display.
Credits
This Scenery was made using Airport v3.1, FS Scenery Designer v1.2.5 and Easy Object Designer V2.0.5, so thanks must go to the designers of these programs for their hard work in creating such wonderful freeware.
All textures are either standard FS2002 textures, my own original textures or my own adaptations of standard FS2002 textures.
All apis on the island ( other than autogen scenery and the cruise ship and yatch, both of which are standard FS2002 apis) are originals made by myself.
If I have missed anyone out I sincerely apologize.
Contact Me
If you have any queries, comments or suggestions to make about my scenery, please send me an email at jadmarshall@hotmail.com and I will endeavor to make a reply as quickly as possible.
This scenery is freeware, that means no-one can sell it or reproduce any part of it without my written permission.
So in other words, if ya gonna sell it, dont be so shoddy, and if your gonna use it in your own stuff, I dont mind, just tell me about it.
Thanks, and hope you enjoy the scenery
OH YER,
COMING SOON:
PERTH 2002, whole scenery for Perth City (Western Australia, Australia), International/domestic airport, and Pearce RAAF Airbase!
Copyright and Distribution
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This aircraft is released as Freeware. Copyright Jarrad Marshall.
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.
- The inclusion of any individual file from this archive in another
archive without the prior permission of the author is prohibited.
This means, for example, that you may not upload an archive that uses
our visual or flight models with your own aircraft or include it in a
package containing a panel or aircraft sounds without first obtaining
the authors' permission.
- No charge may be made for this archive other than that to cover the
cost of its distribution. If a fee is charged it must be made clear
to the purchaser that the archive is freeware and that the fee is to
cover the distributor's costs of providing the archive.
- The authors' rights and wishes concerning this archive must be
respected.
Copyright 2002 by Jarrad Marshall. All Rights Reserved.
