This is a completely new Kona, which is now more correctly laid out and very detailed. This is one of the most unique and beautiful airports in the world. It resembles a Hawaiian Village and Botanic garden combined, and is completey open air. The airport is built on old lava flows, and the terminal area is full of lava rock walls, which was probably mined while constructing the taxiways, tarmacs, and terminal itself. This scenery redoes the entire airport, and includes details like baggage carrousels, benches at the gate areas, check-in counters, parking lot shelters, and some purple baggage carts to go with the Island atmosphere. Since this airport has no jetways, I have created some new lower impact air stairs, and have positioned them around the two main gate areas. There is also a large air stair at each gate area to accommodate heavy jetliners. The unique ramp lights found at this airport are also included as well as some interesting night lit ramp textures. It has not been tested in FS2002.
I must first and formost thank Ling, Scott, and Johannes for the fantastic photos they sent me to make the accurate layout of this airport possible. I will include a few of them here in the file so you can see what the real airport looks like.
Thanks to John de Langristin for the auto parks, and the wonderful tree textures he has sent to me, which I have re-colored here to make even better trees with a more tropical feel.
Thanks to Christian Friedrich for the nice CF bus macro which I also re-colored to add to the tropical atmosphere.
Thanks to Tom Burnett for the baggage carts which I also re-colored to purple for this airport.
Thanks to Gabriel Concha for the nice push back tug, which I left in its own color!
Finally thanks to Jorge Pagano who I think made the towel texture I used on the check-in desks, and air stairs.
This airport came in on frame rates much better than I had expected, since I thought it would be worse than Honolulu. I got very suitable frames with traffic at 100%, and dense autogen. I did put a switch in here if you need to up them a notch, and if the scenery is run on dense you will get everything except the static Aloha jet, and all of the parked cars. I have had several requests to include Molokai in my Hawaiian scenery, but from what I have seen of the airport, the default FS scenery probably does it justice. If anyone has any good pictures of this particular airport please send them, and I will consider doing it. I also had a chance to see my Honolulu airport in FS2002 over the holidays, and I am no longer recommending it for that program due to many issues it has there.
1. Extract the zip into your main FS2004 Addon Scenery folder, or into a temporary folder, and then move it there, which ever method you prefer.
2. Start up FS2004 and when the welcome screen, or initial menu comes on, select settings, then click on Scenery Library, and Add Area. Find the Addon Scenery folder and open it, then find the KonaV2 folder and click on it. The name KonaV2 should now appear in the title window, then click OK. Then you will see KonaV2 at the top of your scenery library list, and click the OK tab at the bottom.
3. That's it! You must first exit FS2004, and when you restart it your scenery will be there. It is not necessary to use the Addon Scenery option to locate this scenery, simply go to the airport in FS.
This scenery is freeware, and may not be used in whole or part for profit. It may not be duplicated or altered in any form from the original except by the author. Since the upload proceedure is very time consuming, I can only upload to a few sites. If you wish to upload this scenery to your site, feel free as long as the site is flight sim related, and there is no charge for using the site or the scenery.
Feel free to contact me for whatever reason. I have started a scenery design screen name which is exclusively for questions, compliments, problems, or anything related to my scenery. If you use the name of the scenery in your subject, or the word scenery, it will make it easier for me not to delete your E-mail.
