This scenery redoes the entire Saipan Airport in it's beautiful Asian influenced Polynesian architecture. It depicts the airport as accurately as possible, and has spectacular night lighting complete with some illuminated palm trees. Much of the airport is open air, and you can actually drive a car into the terminal and see it's park like setting with fountains, benches, some people, illuminated trees, roof shelters, and security checkpoints. The control tower also reflects the same beautiful architecture of the terminals. It is also very frame rate friendly for all the stuff that is in it.
1. Extract the file into your Main FS2002 Scenedb folder. Start up FS2002 and go to the World tab, then down to Scenery Library, and open it. Click on ADD AREA, then find the Saipan folder within the scenedb folder, and click on it. The name Saipan shold appear in the title window, then click OK. Now Saipan should be at the top of your Scenery Library list, then just click on the OK tab at the bottom, and the scenery will begin to install.
2. That's it! I promised you that after finishing Guam I would upgrade my Airport program, so you no longer have to mess around with exclude lines. It is recommended that you exit FS after the scenery is installed, and restart it so FS can make all the necessary adjustments.
This scenery contains three static aircraft in liveries which service this airport. As usual I have placed the aircraft at the main terminal at the least desireable gate, and left the other gates open for those who prefer to manipulate A1 aircraft. The other two aircraft are located in the hangar area. The aircraft will only show up if you are running your scenery on very dense or higher. To eliminate all the static aircraft just put your slider to dense or normal, you will still have all the objects in the scenery, just no static aircraft.
This airport contains terminals which you can drive a car into the open air portions of them. It is recommended that you turn off your crash detection so you can drive through the objects without having to manuver around them.
If you don't already have a car in your aircraft library, they are a very nice way of getting around scenery areas to explore them. I use the Jaguar exclusively while designing areas. I know of two that are available, the Jaguar, and the Vito Van, but there maybe more. They are available at Avsim, and SurClaro, just type in the word jaguar in the search window.
Shehryar Ansari: For his great new jetways, which are beautifully textured and night lit.
John de Langristin: For his fantastic parked cars, and tree textures which allowed me to create great looking trees with a minimum of impact to frame rates. I also used John's textures on the roofs at Saipan.
Jorge Pagano: For his beautiful night illuminated palms. I wish I had these earlier for my other South Pacific scenery areas.
Rafael Garcia Sanchez: For the beautiful Nova hangars, and his Nova textures which were used in all of the buildings.
Richard Powell: For his banana tree, and ficus tree.
Gerd J. Winterfeld: For his very nice coconut palm collection.
Mike Wallace: For his fantastic collection of static aircraft.
I also wanted to thank the Saipan in 2002 website for the pictures of the real airport which I placed in the file to give you an idea of what it looks like.
This scenery is freeware and may not be used in whole or part for profit. If you wish to upload it to your site, feel free as long as you are not charging for it.
If you wish to contact me for any reason, feel free! Please use the scenery name or the word scenery in your subject line, so I do not delete it by mistake.
Bill Melichar
bilboyz@aol.com
Mission Viejo, California
USA
January, 2003
