Moorabbin Airport (YMMB) is Australias 3rd busiest airport following Bankstown (YSBK) and Kingsford Smith Intl (YSSY). Moorabbin is host to a multitude of General Aviation activity, predominately flying training. As one who has a Pilots License (PPL), I have flown into Moorabbin many a time whilst undergoing training, suffice to say, going from a quiet country airport such as Bendigo (YBDG) to Moorabbin is quite an experience the first time around!!!!!!
The reason I have done this scenery is to try and correct the inaccuracies of the default FS2000 airport. The tower, fuel area, was in the wrong spot. Runways 04/22 have incorrect length and there were no taxiways.
Thus I used Airport 2.6 build 93 to construct a new version to correct this, and add some other scenery, such as taxiways, buildings, streets, street lighting and parked aircraft. All of the add-on scenery is default Airport 2.6 stuff so as to be easier on the frame rates and is scaleable (i.e. the detail shown depends on the scenery complexity settings in FS2000).
Installation:
The full steps in installing the scenery are:
1. Go to the "ADDON" folder within FS2000 main directory.
2. Create a Directory called "MOORABBIN".
3. Then Create a Directory called "SCENERY". Thus you should have for example: C:\Games\FS2000\ADDON\MOORABBIN\SCENERY\. (the default install of fs2k is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\FS2000\)
4. Extract the contents of the YMMB.zip to a temp directory e.g.: C:\TEMP\
5. Within the C:\temp\ folder navigate to the Scenery folder (will be C:\Temp\Games\FS2000\ADDON\MOORABBIN\Scenery\)
6. Now copy ALL the files within this scenery folder.
7. Navigate to the Main FS2000 folder and go to the Fs2000\ADDON\MOORABBIN\SCENRY\ folder and PASTE the files there.
8. Now open the Scenery.cfg file with notepad and copy & paste the following entry into Scenery.cfg:
Change "xx" to the next layer number up from the last (e.g.: if you had 95 then the moorabbin scenery should be 96)
9. Make sure that the folder names correspond EXACTLY with the Scenery.cfg entries.
10. Copy the files in the Texture folder to the main FS2000/Texture folder.
A second method would be (after putting the scenery files into the moorabbin\scenery\ folder as explained above):
1. Start FS2000
2. go to World --> Scenery library ---> Add
3. Browse to the "ADDON" folder and now locate and double click on the "Moorabbin" folder.(By doing this automatically selects the scenery folder)
4. Type in the title as "Moorabbin" (or YMMB).
5. Click on the ticks to get back into the game.
6. Now shut down FS2000 and open the "Scenery.cfg" file.
7. Now from this email, HIGHLIGHT AND COPY ONLY the Exclude and Flatten parts from the above entry.
8. Paste these underneath the moorabbin entry as above.
9. Copy the files in the Texture folder to the main FS2000/Texture folder.
10. Run the game & go to Moorabbin (YMMB)!!
Known Issues with this scenery:
1. This scenery is made to fit where the default YMMB is, however, when you select the runways you WILL be slightly off centre (only a matter of 2 or so feet). Sorry but this is the best I could do, because when I created the add-on with an attached AFD file, about 20 runways would show up on the drop down runway listing in the airport select menu of FS2000.
2. This scenery is not perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the one and only version as my source code was lost (by me) during my PC upgrade sorry! I may do another version in the future for FS2002 if the default YMMB is the same as the FS2000 one.
Recommended Links:
1. Mr. Brad Dishers Page for Australian Flight Sim Add-ons: http://home.iprimus.com.au/bdish/Disher_Designs/
2. SATPAC for ADD-on Australian Terrain Mesh Scenery: http://www.satpac.pcsa.net.au/
Acknowledgements:
1. Mr. H Relva (& fellow Pilot) for inspiring me to get off me backside and do the scenery. AND for BETA testing it for me.
2. The people who created Airport 2.6
3. Microsoft, one for creating FS2000, and secondly for the inspiration to upgrade to a Pentium 3 1GHz CPU just to run it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4. The people who created the Street Light Macros for airport 2.6 a job well done, Im sorry but I have forgotten your name(s).
5. If I have left anyone out my profuse apologies are extended to you.
NOTE:
1. All airports are fully compatible with FS2000.
2. This archive is set to extract to C:\Morrabbin\ by default.
3. This archive is FREEWARE ONLY. NO COMMERCIAL GAIN BY ANYONE IS ACCEPTABLE. YOU MAY HOWEVER, BACKUP THIS ACHIVE TO A CD THAT IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.
4. The author of this package is in no way liable for any damage it may cause from incorrect use (however unlikely that it may be).
5. Questions Comments etc can be made to the following email: davef@origin.net.au OR dave_friswell@hotmail.com (Hotmail is NOT my preferred option)
