FS2002 Scenery_Lake Perseverance Fishing Camp and Resort. (Purely Fictional). Located on the smallest of the three main
lakes just above Ketchikan, Alaska. Owned and operated for many years by Yodar Grumpy Mutt Kritch (formerly known
as Maddog, but he aint as young as he useta be, nohow). Activities include fishing; boating; hiking; picnicking, etc.
Lakeside cabins, both Deluxe and Economy are available, including private bathrooms (sorta), as well as bait and tackle,
canoe rental, and dock space. Maddogs Saloon offers dining, dancing, refreshments, skeeball, foosball, nurfball, Moose
Drool Beer Gear, and your occasional snail race, weather permitting of course. Everyone welcome!!
Local legend claims that the ancient wooden water tank up there contains, not H2O as would be expected, but rather some
sort of exotic golden elixir, the partaking of which is reputed to induce many varied and sundry earthly delights, as well as
the occasional pitfall and/or pratfall. This rumor has yet to be confirmed or disproved. Over the years, many of the areas
more daring adventurers have vowed that, regardless of personal sacrifice or inconvenience, they would get to the bottom of
the mystery ---- or the tank, as the case may be. Most have proceeded fearlessly, and with much ado, into the mountains,
only to vanish, rarely to be heard from again, surfacing only to attend to such urgent matters of homeland security as spouses
birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and the odd Superbowl party or two (in a few cases, only the latter). The mystery remains.
For seaplanes only. Designed with Eddie Dennys FS2000 Alaska mesh. Requires TREES_V3.ZIP by Gerrish Gray. Please
see the READ FIRST file before installing. May not be suitable for slower computers.
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OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT (Recommended but not required).
1) A good hefty file to sharpen prop blades, in case its necessary to trim a few trees on the way in or out.
2) A generous supply of toothpicks to remove pine needles from the teeth in case of misjudgment.
While this may not be the easiest approach in the world, the above may only be true if you fly the Sikorsky S-38, as I often
do. The S-38s lack of flaps, and the trees at the approach end of the lake, some of which top out at about 120 feet above the
lakes water level (523 feet), can require some tree top skimming, as well as most of the lake, to get it onto the water and
stopped. Any aircraft with a good set of flaps and some halfway decent STOL characteristics will likely make
comparatively easy work of it. Not surprisingly, the Beavers seem particularly well suited to the task.
While meant primarily for seaplanes, I have managed to get the Pilatus Porter on and off the beach a few times, and even the
S-38 off. Off is a piece of cake, the on part--not quite so much so, due to the pronounced dogleg. Those with younger
reaction times and more polished flying skills than mine would undoubtedly have an easier time of it.
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NIGHT OPERATIONS
The location is obviously not ideal for night flying, being situated down in a bowl as it is, but it is possible. The main float
has two green marker lights, as well as a pole light, and the buildings are all lit in varying degrees.
In the Buoys folder you will find lkperboy.bgl, which if installed, will place five lighted buoys around the perimeter of the
lake, furnishing some reference points. There will be one buoy, flashing red at the West end, two flashing green at about the
midpoint, and two flashing red at the East end where the lake starts getting pretty narrow. It will also place a lighted
Barber Pole at about the midpoint of the notch in the ridges, leading down to the lake. Positioning between the two red
buoys at the East end, with a heading of about 320 degrees, and lining up with the West end red buoy and the barber pole,
should get you out of there in fine shape, assuming you climb like it was going out of style, in order to clear the trees.
Landings involve a slightly higher pucker factor accompanied by a certain amount of wishing for the best, as well as a
steady hand and keen eye. Alternatively, you can forge blindly ahead with the fervent hope that you will be blessed with extraordinary amounts of good luck, which is my most frequent MO.
A handy file to have in conjunction with this is Gateway Forest Products in Ketchikan Alaska (gwfp.zip) by Dave Erickson,
if you dont already have it. Located toward the back of Ward Cove, and well lit at night, it should come into view on the
left, not long after passing over the barber pole, and provides a good reference point to start a turn toward Ketchikan, if thats
the intended course.
If groping around in the dark in mountainous terrain, on the ragged edge of disaster, is not your favorite pastime, its not
necessary to install the buoys.
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INSTALLATION
Unzip lakepers.zip into a temporary directory, being sure to check "Use Folder Names". If youre going to install the buoys,
place the lkperboy.bgl from the Buoys folder into the scenery directory of the Lake Perseverance folder with the
lakepers.bgl. Then move the entire Lake Perseverance folder and its contents to wherever you keep your add-on sceneries,
and activate it using the SETTINGS/SCENERY LIBRARY/ADD interface.
My preference is to keep all add-ons in a separate ADDON SCENERY folder completely outside of the FS2002 folder, but everyone has their own system.
You can also dump the contents of the Scenery and Texture folders into the Scenery and Texture folders of the ADDON
SCENERY folder inside FS2002, but keeping it all together in the Lake Perseverance folder will make it easier to dispose
of, if the frame rates are not to your liking.
Place the included flight into the flights/myflts folder in FS2002.
Put the NOVA smoke effect files in FS2002's effects folder, if you don't have them already.
Install trees_v3.zip using Gerrish Grays excellent instructions.
Eddie Dennys FS2000 mesh files can be downloaded from SurClaro.com, and SurClaro.
The only problem with Mr. Denny's mesh in this area, is the weird thing that it does with the road around Ward Cove,
zigzagging it across the face of the vertical cliff on the East side of the Cove. It also glows at night, which can be a bit
disconcerting, although that doesn't have anything to do with the mesh itself. Other than that it's certainly a worthwhile and
widely used addition.
This scenery has NOT been tested with Mr. Dennys FS2002 mesh, or any other mesh.
PLEASE NOTE
There is no AFD file included. My installation of FS2002 has taken a dislike to many of them, accepting some and balking at
others, including those from many downloaded sceneries. Since I couldnt test it personally, I wasnt comfortable including
it.
The location is easy to find, being on the center lake of the three lakes above Ketchikan, and the included flight will place the
default Caravan at the main float. It also shows up on my copy of FSNavigator as a Seaplane Base symbol, but without a
name. If anyone wants a copy of the AFD file to try, on an as is basis, please email me.
Apparently this is not a common problem, though not unheard of. There was a discussion about it on one of the forums,
although I didnt see a fix mentioned, and I ran across it too late to participate.
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CREDITS
Many thanks to the following people for their various macros and programs:
Gerrish Gray, Frank Betts, Jim Jackson, Doc George, Chuck Dome, Jim Faircloth, Jim Martin, Jordan Moore, Ray Scott,
Mark Remien, Eddie Denny, Martin Wright, Louis Sinclair and Abacus, Tom Hiscox and Brian McWilliams, and JASC.
If I have missed anyone, I apologize.
A special note of thanks to Frank Betts for his kind advice.
All custom macros were made with FSDSv1.6 and FSDSv2.11, PaintShopPro 7.04, and DTXBmp.
Morton L. Rupp
oldfool72@yahoo.com
"No longer 72, but still kickin' --- admittedley not very often and not very high, but kickin' nonetheless."
