Smith Mountain Lake, with its' two private seaports VA48 & 7VA7, has the most summer-time fresh-water traffic in Virginia. Another distinction besides a very popular vacation lake is American Electric Powers' hdryo-electric dam. The dam facilities recycles the water, used by the hydro generators during the day, back up-into the lake from the river and lake below. There has been several Virginia record fish caught on charter trips on the lake and it is considered to be the cleanest lake in the east.

This scenery is made to blend with autogen scenery (default) and WV48 & 7VA7 seaports are left default so one may add their own AFCAD & AI traffic. Included is an EZ-landclass SmithMtnLake.bgl, its' EZL & RAW files (source files) so one may edit the area using EZ-landclass that's available as freeware download. These landclasses use default textures that spawn the default autogen objects. It does not correct mesh, as you will see and remains default in it's nature. Ever mindfull of frame-rates and staying nearest to default for multiplay, it's for FS9 and does well on my machine.

Simply unzip and put in your addon scenery folder as you normally would for manual install. Start-up FS9 and goto the settings scenery addon page. Then, add scenery name "SmithMtn-va48-7va7" from where you placed its' folder. And, restart FS9 for it to recognize it.

To un-install, repeat, going to scenery addon page and choose delete scenery (SmithMtn-va48-7va7) Then mouse-over and confirm deletion. FS9 will un-do it next time it is started.

To un-install the landclass, simply delete SmithMtnLake.bgl and FS9 will re-indice the scenry when you start FS9.

Enjoy.

R Connolly
r_connolly@charter.net