The DEW Line
This scenery was originally created for Timberwolf Aviation (www.TimberwolfAviation.com). It is meant to capture the essence of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line of radar and communications stations stretching from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska across the Northern shores of Alaska and Canada into Greenland. The DEW Line served as the early warning system for North America during the years of the cold war. Many of the stations were built in the 50's with others added in the 60's, 70's and into the 80's. Most of these installations have now been closed. Many of the objects have been modeled from site photographs. Where possible, site photographs were used to insure that the layouts were as representative of the sites as possible. They are, however, representations only.
An excellent history of the DEW Line including maps, photographs and navigational information can be found at http://www.lswilson.ca/dewline.htm#A. We encourage you to visit the site. Because of copyright laws, we will not duplicate here information, figures and photographs presented on that site. In addition, you might wish to visit the site at http://www2.magmacom.com/~lwilson/dewhist-a.htm, which contains an extended history of the DEW Line, and the projects that created it.
Civilian contractors with a minimum of military personnel ran most of these sites. The primary exception being the COB sites in the Aleutians. Both passenger and cargo flights to these sights were frequently provided by civilian air operations. While some of the sites have runways of sufficient length to handle aircraft such as the C-130, the majority were built using DC-3, 4, and 6's and C-119's and C-123's. Much smaller aircraft often provided operational support.
We hope you will enjoy flying to and between these sites. To make the task a little bit easier, we have added NDB's to many of the sites that did not originally have them. Please forgive this liberty in design, but we found that navigating to these sites in the winter particularly could be very difficult and do want you to arrive safely.
Included in the package is a table listing all of the sites modeled, their location and information on runway length and altitude as well as the appropriate NDB frequency. You will also find a set of suggested flights that you may wish to try.
Note that this scenery was designed for FS2002 using Denny's mesh, but we believe that it will work with the default mesh as well, at least for the most part. This scenery has not been tested in FS2000 and will not work in FS98.
INSTALLATION:
You should unzip the scenery file to a temporary directory. (Alternatively you may unzip the file directly to an install location if you so desire.) The package contains a folder structure as follows: DEWLine, DEWLine/ Scenery and DEWLine/Textures. Please check to make sure this is the case.
The scenery installs in the same fashion as any other FS2002 add on scenery depending on the where you choose to install it, you many have to add it through the Library-Scenery menus of FS2002.
In addition, if you are using FSNav, you must install the scenery through the add menu of the FSNavDBC.exe program typically found in ...FS2002/modules/fsnaigator/bin. This will make the scenery visible to FSNav and allow you to use it in flight planning.
WORDS OF THANKS:
A number of good folks, with more talent then we, have made it possible for us to produce this scenery. We wish to thank the following members of the flight simulation community:
* Tom Hiscox, Pascal Meziat, Brian McWilliams for their freeware software Airport used to construct this scenery (version 2.6, build 196).
* Manfred Moldenhauer for his SCASM program used to convert the Airport output to an MSFS usable bgl file (version 2.88)
* Doc George for his advice, macros and textures. Just looking at his work has been a great help.
* Ken Nelson for his advice, tutorials and general support to the community at large.
* Gerrish Gray for his Tree macros and textures that have greatly increased the visual appeal of many FS2000 and now FS2002 sceneries.
* H. Enos, Mike Rennie and Jim Jackson for their macros and textures.
* The TWA DHC-6 on was created by Don Hogue, TWF157, using MDLtoBGL by
* Bear Baker using the FSDS software, AdobePhoto Shop and the utility graphics programs provided by Martin Wright including BMP2000 for extended bitmaps created the majority of the objects.
* If we have forgotten to mention anyone, please accept our apologies. We are both old enough to remember the construction and operation of the DEW Line. We definitely find we are getting more forgetful with each passing year.
OWNERSHIP:
Bear Baker created several of the objects used in this scenery using the FSDS software and Adobe PhotoShop in addition to the freeware tools mentioned above. They belong to him and may not be used without his express permission (simply drop him and email). The scenery as a whole is further copyrighted by Al Gay and Bear Baker and may not be use in whole or in part without permission. Copyright of embedded objects and textures remain with their respective developers and owners.
CONDITION OF USE:
This scenery is provided as Freeware. It may be freely used, copied and distributed with the following restrictions:
* This document must be included in any redistribution.
* You may not place these files anywhere that requires a fee for downloading.
* These files may not be included in any commercial package or any CD collection without the authors' consent.
DISCLAIMER:
We are not responsible for any problems or damage resulting from the installation of these files. If you have problems installing these sceneries, please feel free to email us.
Be sure and visit us at www.TimberwolfAviation.com.
