Welcome to Sydney Kingsford Smith International.
A project from the team at the Sydney Flight Simulation Center.
http://www.comcen.com.au/~clivem/sfsc/index.html
Very detailed airport but where possible built with frame rates in mind. Still this scenery may be heavy going for low power computers. Changing the FS2002 scenery complextiy setting to "normal" may help some users. To enjoy the scenery as it was designed your setting should be "very dence" or higher. Much,much more could of been added to this scenery but to do so would render it unusable. We are aware that the default FS2002 can be a struggle for many computers in use today and this scenery may not suit you, if so treat yourself to an upgrade
Tested on PIII866 which obtained 10fps on landing.
Kingsford Smith International's location is very close to the Sydney CBD. Some residents say to close, however because of this location it affords one of the most spectacular approaches of any major airfield in the world, to those lucky enough to be sitting on the left side of the aircraft on approach to RWY 16L or 16R the sight is one to be remembered with the Anzac bridge, Harbour Bridge, Sydney Opera House, and beautiful Sydney Harbour.
Many thousands of visitors were afforded this view on arrival for the 2000 Olympic Games.
What a wonderful introduction to a visit downunder.
A few interesting facts:
Sydney Airport is over 80 years old, first opened in 1920, by 1924, it had regular Intra and Interstate services, however it was not declared an International Airport until 1935, and was given a major upgrade in 1946, it was around this time that it was carrying more traffic than any other airport in the world, outside the United States.
It was named Sydney Kingsford-Smith Airport in 1953 in honour of the famous Australian Aviator Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith.
RWY16R/34L is one of the longest runways in the Southern Hemisphere, a little know fact is that NASA helped finance its extension for Space Shuttle emergency landings. Now that would be a sight on your Sydney Airport Tour.
A great site for more facts on Sydney International is..
1. MANY ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE DEFAULT FS2002 KINGSFORD-SMITH FIELD AND SYDNEY CITY AREAS.
2. TAXIWAY AND TERMINAL SIGNS.
3. PARRAMATTA CBD.
4. IRONCOVE BRIDGE AND GLADESVILLE BRIDGE.
5. KURNELL OIL REFINERY.
6. PATRICK CONTAINER TERMINAL AND CTAL DEPOT.
7. SEVERAL NEW START POSITIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC POSITIONS ON THE: ADDED AREAS PAGE.
8. NEW GATES FOR THE DEFAULT POSITIONS IN THE ADF DIRECTORY: [OCEANIA, AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES, KINGSFORD-SMITH]
9. VIRGIN BLUE TERMINAL WITH MARSHALLERS
Sad news, as of Tuesday the 5th of March 2002 ANSETT Terminal is closed.
FLATTEN SWITCHES ARE INCLUDED IN THE SCENERY TO MAKE THIS COMPATIBLE WITH SATPAC AUSSIE MESH. NO ADJUSTMENT REQUIRED IF YOU DON'T USE MESH SCENERY.
-------------------------------------------
INSTALLATION..
No Flatten or Exclude is required.
For those unfamiliar with adding scenery to you FS2002 flight sim follow the steps below.
Open YSSY.v1.zip, Double click on the Sydney 2002.exe, this will open the installer, this is set to install the Sydney 2002 folder to C:/windows/temp.
If you wish to install to a different location just browse to that folder and direct the installer to that position. When the installer has finished cut and paste the Sydney 2002 folder from the windows/temp or your nominated folder to where you normally install your FS2002 scenery.
Now start FS2002 and open the scenery library. Click on "add area" and browse to the Sydney 2002 folder.
Single click on the folder it should light up automatically, you won't have to type in any entries in FS2002.
Click OK. Close the scenery library dialog box by clicking on the "tick" or OK. you will then find it in Added areas in FS2002 on the goto page.
--------------------------------
You will need APT (Airport 2.10 +) ASD, VOD, NOVA and NOVA GOLD TEXTURES, in your FS2002 main TEXTURE folder, for this scenery to show correctly.
These can be downloaded from most flight simulator web sites, including SurClaro [on the musthave files page] and SurClaro.com.
Nova and Nova Gold can be downloaded from NOVA'S site at http://www.fsnova.com/
Then to download page, all the textures are there including the trees.
The texture files you will require from the NOVA site are as follows :
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE ARE 82 NOVA TEXTURES, 24 NOVA GOLD TEXTURES AND 68 VOD TEXTURES.
-------------------------------
Thanks to Pascal Meziat, Brian Mcwilliams, Tom Hiscox & Manfred Moldenhauer for APT 2.60 & SCASM. Rafael Garcia Sanchez for his fantastic NOVA and NOVA GOLD textures.
To Abacus Software for FSDS.
Special thanks to the following people for the use of there macro's, rather than listing the macro's [as there are so many of them] the names will suffice:
John de Langristin, Paul Roberts, Allen Cremeen, Mike Wallace, Carmel Grech, Christian Friedrich, Marshall Brandt, Jeremiah Broughton, Duncan Johnson, Graham P Oxtoby, Rafael Sanchez, Raffaele Fiore and Frank Zimmermann.
To our BETA testers a special thanks for your time and patience especially Steven Royal.
I think that's everyone, if not thanks anyway, you all help make this hobby great!
-------------------------------------
WE RECOMMEND: The following sites to help enhance your enjoyment of flying downunder.
CMAA, Custom Made ATC Adventures, you will find many custom made adventures for MS flight Sim, it is well know for the QF001 Arrival qf1fs2k.zip and Sydney Olympic Tour yssytour.zip Adventures, these two adventures alone clocked up well over 10,000 downloads between them on various sites for FS2000.
Why not give the new Eastern 126 to Coffs Harbour for FS2002 [East1262.zip or East12xp.zip] a try, a full adventure from Kingsford-Smith to the beautiful North coast of NSW.
AUSSIM, lots of great Australian downloads including Aircraft repaints, scenery, sounds, panels, Forums, as well as updates and info on the soon to be released Melbourne CBD and Melbourne International.
Also Brad Disher's repaints of the default FS2002 aircraft are a musthave.
http://www.aussim.com/aussim
-------------------------------------------------
LEGAL STUFF:
DO NOT MAKE MONEY WITH THIS PRODUCTION. IT IS FREEWARE. NOTHING IN THESE FILES WILL HARM YOUR COMPUTER. IF BY SOME CHANCE IT DOES,I/WE WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY RESPONSIBLE. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
