All new GMAX models for FS2002. Includes Endeavour under sail east of Sydney Australia, along side the wharf at Whitby Harbour UK, and at anchor in Kealakekua Bay Hawaii.
INSTALLATION
1/ unzip all files to a temporary folder.
2/ double click on endeav.exe to start the auto-installation.
3/The vessels will be added to the "Addon scenery folder" (C:\Program files\Microsoft GAmes\FS2002\ADDON SCENERY\scenery) and the textures to the appropriate folder (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\FS2002\ADDON SCENERY\textures).
You should not need to do anything to activate the scenery.
FINDING THE VESSELS
OFF SYDNEY HEADS
Create a flight in your favourite aircraft. Start at Kingsford Smith Airport Australia (YSSY). I suggest you use runway 07. Take off over the coast, then turn north along the coastline. You should soon see the vessel off the Heads at Sydney Harbour (S33* 51.0, E151* 18.27). Or look in select a flight, myflights, and choose endsyd. This will place you in the Jetranger off the heads.
ALONGSIDE WHITBY WHARF (UNITED KINGDOM)
Create a flight in your favourite aircraft. Start at Teesside (EGNV). I suggest you use runway. Take off and track 070 until reaching the coast, then turn east and follow the coastline. You should see the vessel in Whitby Harbour (N54* 29.53, W0* 37.18).
Alternately, look in "my flights" under the "select a flight" tab, and select either the over Whitby flight or endeavour whitby. It will place you in the Cessna 208 amphibian some miles west on track to Whitby. The endeavour whitby flight places you in the harbour next to the ship.
AT ANCHOR IN KEALAKEKUA BAY HIWAAI
Create a flight in your favourite aircraft. Start at Kona Int At Keahole (PHKO). I suggest you use runway 17. Take off over the coast, then turn to the east and track along the coastline. Fly 150 with reference to the IAI VOR/ DME (115.7) You should soon see the vessel at anchor off Captain Cook village (N19* 30.0, W155* 58.08) 9.7 miles on the DME. You can choose the endhaw flight, which will place you near the ship for a nice sunset pictue!
WHY THESE SITES
Captain Cook's Endeavour was originally a collier ship that operated out of Whitby Harbour (hence that site). In his second voyage, he is credited as being the first European to see the east coast of Australia. He anchored in Botany Bay south of Sydney (actually taking off from runway 16L at Sydney YSSY takes you straight out over Kurnell where he went ashore on 29th April 1770). He then sailed north passing Sydney Harbour (which he called Port Jackson) on 6th May 1770. He did not go into the harbour.
On his third voyage in the "Resolution" he was killed on the beach somewhere near Kaawaloa village on 14th February 1779. Although the Endeavour did not go to Hawaii, I thought it a fitting tribute to the man to put the vessel there.
A BIT OF HISTORY
Cook set sail on 26th August 1768 from Plymouth on his second voyage. The Endeavour started its life as the "Earl of Pembroke" a Whitby Collier. She was bought by the Royal Navy in 1768 and refitted for Cook's voyage. This voyage took him to Tahitii, and New Zealand, before heading west to the east coast of Australia. They reached the coast at Point Hicks in Victoria on 18th April 1770. He went ashore on the 29th April 1770 at Kurnell in Botany Bay (Sydney). He followed the coast of Australia to the north for four months before heading to Batavia, and back home after 3 years at sea.
His last voyage in the "Resolution" was to Hawaii and resulted in his death as previously noted.
The Endeavour went on to make some supply trips to the Faulkland Islands. In 1790 she went to France and was refitted, before going to the USA. In 1793 she was damaged leaving Newport Rhode Island, and was left to rot there.
HM BARK ENDEAVOUR REPLICA
The keel of the replica was laid down in Fremantle Western Australia in October 1988 and launched in December 1993. The vessel has made a number of world voyages, and is currently in the United Kingdom (based in Whitby harbour). For more information about the Endeavour replica please visit www.barkendeavour.com.au It is possible to join the ship as a crew member and experience life as an 18th century sailor. I have done this myself and can thoroughly recommend it (See photo "end rigging" - it is a long way up!).
KNOWN ISSUES
for some reason, sometimes when you click on the saved flight, it places the aircraft and the ship some 50 - 100 feet above the water!! I dont know why this happens, but if you take off from the suggested airport and fly there, the ship is sitting in the water as it should. This seems to happen intermittently, and I don't know why. Hope it doesn't detract from the scenery.
I have made this scene from my own photos and what diagrams I could find. Please don't email me telling me I have drawn the clew / bunt lines wrong, ommited the stunsail yards and the braces etc. I make no claim that it is 100% accurate and I know that some things have probably been left out or are in the wrong place.
LEGAL BIT
This project is the property of Mike Hill. By downloading these files you agree to the following terms and conditions.
1. This product cannot be uploaded to any site without express written consent.
2. These files are free of charge, any attempt to collect a fee or charge to obtain the files herein is a direct breech of this agreement.
3. Do not include these files on a compilation CD in any form without prior consent.
4. Do not post these files in any form on online auction site.
5. If you charge a fee in any way in conjunction with these files, Compensatory damages will be demanded by a very mean person.
6. These files have been thoroughly tested and function properly. However, I can not be held responsible if for whatever reason this causes a problem on your system (which it should not anyway). You agree to use this file at your own risk.
If you agree to these terms then feel free to enjoy.
If you do not agree with the above terms, kindly remove all included files from you hard drive.
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Thanks for downloading this scenery
Mike Hill
tshikwara@bigpond.com
July 2003.
