McGrath is located 221 miles northwest of Anchorage and 269 miles southwest of Fairbanks in Interior Alaska. It is adjacent to the Kuskokwim River directly south of its confluence with the Takotna River. It serves as a major transportation, communications, and supply center in Interior Alaska. The BLM has a refueling center for fire fighting aircraft here also and the airport gets heavy traffic from these aircraft during the summer fire season.
The floatplane landing area is in the Kuskokwim River and is marked with bouys, stay within this area or you may find an unexpected sandbar.
This scenery is an enhancement of the default airport, no exclude switches have been used. Keep your scenery density setting at normal or less, or you will have default buildings showing up in places that seem very strange.
You'll need to have Airport and VOD textures installed in your main FS2000 texture folder. The file names are aip210tx.zip and vodtex30.zip. You can get them at any of the major download sites.
-Unzip mc_grath.zip in any folder
-Open FS2000
-Go to "world/scenery library"
-Click on "add area"
-Using the browser, go to where you have unzipped mc_grath
-Highlight the file
-Type a name in the bottom text box of the browser,"McGrath" for example
-click OK, then click the green checkmark
-DO NOT put the textures into the FS2000 main texture folder
Alternate Method:
If you have any of my other sceneries installed (Beluga Lake, Iditarod, Summit Lake, Brooks Camp, etc) you can place the contents of the mc_grath scenery folder into the scenery folder of the already installed scenery and contents of mc_grath texture folder into the texture folder of the installed scenery. Overwrite when prompted. That's it. This method will save on disk space and the number of entries in the scenery.cfg file.
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Credits:
This scenery would not be possible without the hard work and efforts of a lot of people with far more talent than myself. This scenery is after all just a collection of their work.
First, thanks to Derek Leung for the "FS Scenery Creator", this is a great program that's very easy to use.
Thanks to The following people for their Macros. These are the guys who put the realism in any scenery.
Doc George - Hanger, Barracks, Cessna Sign, Sinclar Sign and many of the textures that were used in macros that were created for this scenery
Paul Harmon - Hangers
Joe Watson - AV gas tank and the textures for the red containers
Del Hopkins - Oil Drums
Andy Johnston - Forklift
Gerrish Grey - Trees
Also thanks to the following people for their aircraft:
Jerry Arzdorf - Supercub Flts, Noorduyn Norseman Flts, Piper Colt, Cessna 170, Maule Comet, Bellanca Cruisair, J4 Cub, Luscomb Sadan and Spartan and the Fuel Truck.
Captain Slug - Cessna 180 Flts, Cessna 180, J3 Cub and the Glastar Flts.
Dennis Wasnich - Rockwell OV-10 Bronco
Barry Ellis - Piper Cherokee
Fred Banting - DHC-2 Beaver
Pierre Mardaga - Cessna 210
John Cooper and Bob Tremblay - USFS B-17
Deane Baunton - ERA Bell 212
Barry Blaisdell - DHC-6 ERA Twin Otter
And thanks to Trevor de Stigter for the program M98toBGL, which allowed these aircraft to be converted to static objects.
I would like to thank also other bush scenery designers who's work I admire and have tried to emulate. This list includes, but is not limited to: Don Moser, Ken Nelson, Ron Ackerly, Jim Jackson, Dave Erickson, Dave Gillespie, Joe Watson and Mathieu Tremblay.
This scenery is released as freeware, so don't try to make any money off it! If this scenery is uploaded to any site for redistribution this read me file must be included.
Some of the texture files for this scenery came from my FS2000 texture folder and I don't know their origin, If I have violated anybody's copyrights let me know and I will take immediate steps to resolve the problem.
Use this scenery at your own risk. I am not responsible for any damage done to your computer, real or imagined.
Tom Fica
tcfica@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/tcfica/VFRAlaska.html?992399996060
