Scenery for FS2002
Tacoma Narrows Airport (TIW), Tacoma, Washington

Introduction:

Washington State's Tacoma Narrows Airport is a favorite destination for pilots from the entire Puget Sound Region. Located 15 NM SW from Seattle, and 22 NM NE from Olympia, this airport provides full services for both jet and piston powered aircraft in the shadow of the famous Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge. With a 5000-foot runway and US Customs service, TIW is an ideal location to use as a port of entry to the US.

All structures in this scenery are photorealistic. The ground is made from the USGS doqq aerial photograph, displayed over the elevation mesh as a direct replacement for the default textures.

The airport was assembled using both ASDver2.1 and FSSC. The macros were made with Abacus FSDS. The ground images were placed using the fs2000 sdk tools from Microsoft.

The project:

This airport project was originally conceived last summer and released as Tacoma.zip for fs2000. Shortly after fs2002 was released, we all began to enjoy a far better sim. I couldn't help but want to know how to do some of the new types of scenery. Then Andrew McClean posted a discovery, Custom could be used as a source file type in the resample.exe routine previously used for "mesh". That did it! What better place to try out those ideas than one of my favorite airports...Tacoma Narrows.

What's New from the previous version?

If you've downloaded the previous version of Tacoma Narrows, you've seen many of the macros on the airport, although there are a few new ones added. The ground is the biggest difference, its all new and because its replacing the original textures there is not the big frames hit as you might imagine. In the previous version all my photoreal ground was flat, not now...and the water now is true fs2002 water. Also you'll now see night lighting on the terrain, and all seasons are represented. Since the water is so fun, I added a private dock on the west side of the penninsula. I also re-created the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. This effort had been requested for the fs2000 version but I ran out of steam at that time. With the photoreal images, it was more needed because the roads don't go to where microsoft put the bridge! While putting it in the right place, I also smoothed out the arc of the roadway, which is more like the real thing.

AI aircraft visit Tacoma, even with the default traffic.bgl. Course with the new ttools, you can put as much ai traffic in your sim as you wish.

Aircraft:

James Bond lives on Whidbey Island in Washington, and is an excellent designer in his own right. He kindly provided the statics at Tacoma. Thanks James, the planes look great. As his work is conversions using m98tobgl, let us take a moment to thank the original authors for the planes themselves:

Howard (Mulligan).........Jerry Arzdorf
Helo.B 212....................Dean Baunton
Cessna 210....................Maradega Pierre
Cherokee amphib...........Eric Johnson
C-172,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Chris Lampard
Beaver............................Bob Wening

And of course, M98toBGL by Trevor De Stigter


Installation:

I recommend installing this scenery into a folder remote from your main fs2002 scenery directory. Name the folder anything you like and make a subdirectory named "scenery", another named "texture".

Extract the contents of scenery.zip into your scenery subdirectory. Extract the contents of the texture.zip file into your texture subdirectory.

Start FS2002 and "add" the new scenery in the library under the world|library pull-down menu in fs2002.

No Exclude Switch Needed!
The exclude is supplied as part of the bgl files.


Thanks and Appreciation:

Jordan Moore, for his "horse" macro...its rare when I use someone else's macros ... Jordan's work is so unique and so marvelous that I had to display it. Thanks for your art, J.
Richard Goldstein, beta tester
Ken Meier, beta tester
Ken Nelson, beta tester
And the folks at Misho's TB forum who worked with me to figure out how to make the SDK tools work for photoreal terrain, Misho Katulic, Elrond Elvish, Jim Kanold, Andrew McClean, and a guy only known as Michael!

And many thanks to the tool makers:
Manfred Moldenhauer - SCASM
Peter Jacobsen - ASD
Louis Sinclair - FSDS
Martin Wright - BMP2000, DXTBMP
Elrond Elvish - Texture Converter Utility
Derek Leung - FSSC


Finally some STUFF:

This scenery is freeware and is copyrighted. You may not include this scenery in any pay-ware in any form, no matter what, no way, no how...without written consent from both me AND KEN NELSON (which ain't likely!).

Of course, you use this freeware with no guarantees, or warrantees of any kind. Its been tested and will undoubtedly work great, but if it were to cause a problem for you, you have only my sympathy.

If you'd like to upload this to any other sites, that's fine, just include this file completely and let me know, it's fun to follow where it's uploaded.

Feel free to share your comments and suggestions, my email is:
bob@w-link.net

Bob Bernstein
Edmonds, Washington

TIW - TACOMA NARROWS AIRPORT (Information from www.airnav.com)
TACOMA, WA
AIRPORT INFORMATION AS PUBLISHED ON 12 JULY 2001

Location
Lat/Long: 47-16-04.552N / 122-34-41.159W
(47.2679311 / -122.5780997)
(estimated)
Elevation: 292 ft. / 89.0 m (surveyed)
Variation: 20E (1990)
From city: 4 miles W of TACOMA, WA
Airport Operations
Facility use: Open to the public
Sectional chart: SEATTLE
Control tower: yes
ARTCC: SEATTLE CENTER
FSS: SEATTLE FLIGHT SERVICE STATION [1-800-WX-BRIEF]
NOTAMs facility: TIW (NOTAM-D service available)
Attendance: 0700-2200
Pattern altitude: TPA 1300' (1008)
Wind indicator: lighted
Segmented circle: yes
Lights: DUSK-DAWN
ACTVT MALSR RY 17 & PAPI RY 17 - CTAF.
Beacon: white-green (lighted land airport)
Landing fee: yes, LANDING FEE ACFT OVER 12500 LBS.
Int'l operations: customs landing rights airport
FOR CUSTOMS CALL 253-593-6338 EXT #2.
Airport Communications
CTAF: 118.5
UNICOM: 122.95
ATIS: 124.05 [0800-2000]
WX ASOS: PHONE 253-858-6507
TACOMA GROUND: 121.8 [0800-2000]
TACOMA TOWER: 118.5 [0800-2000]
253.5 [0800-2000]
SEATTLE APPROACH: 120.1
SEATTLE DEPARTURE: 120.1
WX ASOS at SEA (15 nm NE): PHONE 206-431-2834
WX AWOS-3 at PWT (15 nm NW): 121.20 (360-674-2811)
WX ASOS at BFI (19 nm NE): PHONE 206-763-6904
WX ASOS at RNT (20 nm NE): PHONE 425-255-6080
* FREQ 121.5 NOT AVBL.
Nearby radio navigation aids
VOR radial/distance VOR name Freq Var
------------------- ----------------------- ------ ---
TCMr308/8.4 MCCHORD VORTAC 109.60 22E
SEAr205/14.8 SEATTLE VORTAC 116.80 22E
OLMr018/22.2 OLYMPIA VORTAC 113.40 19E

NDB name Hdg/Dist Freq Var ID
-------------------------- -------- ---- --- -------------------
GRAYE 349/7.1 216 20E GR --. .-.
DONDO 220/12.4 224 22E ODD --- -.. -..
CARNEY 109/13.6 274 20E CAN -.-. .- -.
KITSAP 132/15.3 206 20E PWT .--. .-- -
LACOMAS 337/15.6 328 20E LAC .-.. .- -.-.
RENTON 207/20.1 353 20E RNT .-. -. -
MASON COUNTY 068/20.7 348 19E MNC -- -. -.-.

Airport Services
Fuel available: 100LL JET-A
Parking: hangars and tiedowns
Airframe service: MAJOR
Powerplant service: MAJOR
Bottled oxygen: LOW
Bulk oxygen: NONE
Other services: avionics service, charter flights, flight
instruction, aircraft rental, aircraft sales
Runway Information
Runway 17/35
Dimensions: 5002 x 150 ft. / 1525 x 46 m
Surface: asphalt/aggregate friction seal coat
Weight limitations: Single wheel-50000#
Double wheel: 80000 lbs
Double tandem: 80000 lbs
Dual double tandem: 150000 lbs
Runway edge lights: medium intensity
RUNWAY 17 RUNWAY 35
Traffic pattern: right left
Runway heading: 167 magnetic, 187 true 347 magnetic, 007 true
Markings: precision instrument nonprecision instrument
Markings condition: good good
Latitude: 47-16-29.047N 47-15-40.045N
Longitude: 122-34-36.782W 122-34-45.626W
Elevation: 289.2 ft. 292.3 ft.
Threshold crossing height: 50 ft. AGL 51 ft. AGL
Visual glide path angle: 3.00 degrees 3.00 degrees
Visual slope indicator: 4-light PAPI on right 4-box VASI on left
Approach lights: MALSR: 1,400 foot
medium intensity
approach lighting
system with runway
alignment indicator
lights
Runway end identifier lights: yes
Instrument approach: ILS
Displaced threshold: no no
TOUCHDOWN POINT: yes yes
TD elevation: 292.0 ft. 292.0 ft.
Obstructions: TREES
Airport Inspection
Inspected by: State of Washington aeronautical personnel
Last inspection: 23 February 2000
Federal agreements: - National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS)
- Grant agreements under FAAP/ADAP/AIP
- Assurances pursuant to Title VI, Civil Rights Act of 1964
Airport Operational Statistics
Aircraft based on the field: 200 Aircraft operations: average 256/day
Single engine airplanes: 162 55% transient general aviation
Multi engine airplanes: 31 42% local general aviation
Jet airplanes: 7 2% air taxi
1% military
Remarks
-
NOISE SENSITIVE ARPT; FOR NOISE ABATEMENT & TFC PROCEDURES CALL AMGR 253-853-5844.
-
DEER ON & INVOF ARPT.
-
(E94) LAWRS OPERS DURING TWR OPNS ONLY.
-
THIS AIRPORT HAS BEEN SURVEYED BY THE NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY.
Services or Facilities at this Airport
FBO
100LL
Jet A
Date
Discounts
Crossings Aviation
$2.56
$2.48
28 Jun 2001
5% discount on fuel for Crossings tenants and corp. 500 plus
Pavco Flight Center
$2.432
$2.17
28 Apr 2001
Jet-A volume over 100 gallons
Zephyr Aviation
$2.32
$2.38
20 Jun 2001