Nazca, in Peru, is a strange place indeed. It has lines and figures drawn on the ground that have lasted a long, long time.
The area is arid, receiving very little precipitation. A lot has been said and written about these lines, most of it by people with a very fertile imagination. Nonetheless, the lines on the ground are intriguing, and make you wonder who made them and why, if they definitely couldn't see them. There are no mountains in the area that can be climbed for a view. Even today there is an observation tower near two of the major figures, and all the others are invisible from the ground. Well, one of them, the "Spaceman", is on a slope and can just be seen, but the real spectacle has to be appreciated from an aircraft.
The figures are about 20 miles north of the Nazca airport. The location of one of the figures is S 14° 41.46' W 75° 06.76. You can easily find them using the "Go to Airport..." function to locate yourself at the Nazca airport and follow north-west, along the highway (the Trans America). First you will see the observation tower in the distance.
Well, aircraft is what Flight Simulator is all about, but Microsoft didn't place the lines in Nazca. So, I spent some time trying to find information on the latitude, longitude, orientation and size of one figure, as well as relative positions of most of the figures. Pictures of the figures are easy to find on the Net.
The figures I made are almost where they should be. I had to take some liberties to accommodate some terrain features and roads. The Spaceman is on a slope, but too gentle compared to reality.
Everything was made with FSSC (Thanks Derek!)
Thanks for downloading! Fern Marques, marquesfern@hotmail.com
Installation:
This package can be installed using two different methods, and it is NOT self installing.
Unzip the file, which you already did, or you would not be reading this. It contains one folder: "Nazca".
The folder "Nazca" contains two sub-folders: "Scenery" and "Texture".
First Method
1. Copy the contents of "Scenery" into the "Scenery" folder which is inside the "Addon Scenery" of your FS2004 (Flight Simulator 9).
2. Copy the contents of "Texture" into the "Texture" folder which is inside the "Addon Scenery" of your FS2004.
That's it. Run FS2004 and the Nazca figures should be there.
Second Method
1. Place your new Nazca folder anywhere on your disk where you can find it.
2. Start FS2004, go to Settings, Scenery Library, Add Area.
3. Follow the sequence indicated, and navigate to the folder "Nazca" mentioned in step 1.
That's it. You will have to re-start FS2004 for the new area to appear.
If you have any questions, send me an e-mail at marquesfern@hotmail.com.
