Manchester Airport (KMHT)
By John B. Loney, Jr.
October 31, 2005
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ABOUT THE AIRPORT:
Manchester Airport serves Manchester and Hillsboroughugh County and is owned by the City Of Manchester. The airport has more than one runway. The longest is a paved runway extending 7001 feet. The facility is at an elevation of 234 feet at a distance of about 3 miles from Manchester.
Airport Operational Statistics:
Aircraft based on the field: 82
Single engine airplanes: 60
Multi engine airplanes: 12
Jet airplanes: 10
Aircraft operations: avg 277/day
Commercial 39%
Air Taxi 32%
Transient general aviation 19%
Local general aviation 9%
Military <1%
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ABOUT THE SCENERY:
This airport was another request from a member of the flightsim community. Again I enjoyed doing this airport and I do hope you enjoy flying in and out of it.
The first thing I want to mention about this scenery is that in the East Parking area where Wiggins Aviation is located, from some angles, you will see the buildings do a disappearing act. I don't know why this happens, but I've discovered that some other airports in FS9 do the same thing. It's not bad. The buildings re-appear almost immediately. I will do some research to find out what's happening and if there is a fix for it.
The next thing about this scenery is that near runway 6 where the taxiway intersects the roadway, I tried to reproduce the effect of the roadway going under the taxiway as it is in a picture of the airport. I was not successful in re-creating that effect. I can make a depression to go under the taxiway, and at first it seems like a vehicle would go under the taxiway, but as you approach the "underpass", FS9 bumps you up to the level of the taxiway. FS9 so far does not allow you to tunnel under the taxiway. I will investigate this also and see what I can come up with.
In this scenery, I used Rwy12 exclusively for the static cars and trucks. I realize that not everyone has FSE and I decided to render these vehicles using only Rwy12. The dynamic cars, however, are from FSE, as are the people, so if you don't happen to have FSE, this is all you would miss in the total scenery. As an experiment, I rendered a man and a woman "walking" in front of the terminal on the street side. These were created with FSDS2 using an animated segment for movement.
The startup situation contains an aircraft I created with FSDS2. It is only available at my website if you care to use it with this scenery. It's a Cessna T303 Crusader. Just go to my website (Address below), Click on Aircraft then go to Hangar #2. Look for the file t303v1.exe. Please enjoy this airport.
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ABOUT THE AIRCRAFT:
The aircraft used for the scenery startup is the Cessna T303 Crusader.*****
The aircraft used in the flight plans are listed below:
AC# Type/Livery Zip File
62 Boeing 757-200/UPS aia752up.zip
74 Boeing 777-300/Fedex fdx7772b.zip
80 Embraer EMB-145/Continental Express serj1452.zip and conx145.zip
81 Embraer EMB-145/US Airways Express Search SurClaro or SurClaro.com
88 Airbus A319/Air Canada ac_a319.zip
105 Boeing 737-400/Continental Airlines 737conti.zip
115 Boeing 737-500/Southwest Airlines search SurClaro or SurClaro.com
116 Boeing 737-300/United Airlines Search SurClaro or SurClaro.com
118 Bombardier CRJ-200/United Express usalcrj.zip
134 Bombardier CRJ-200/Delta Connection Comair oscrjdcc.zip
146 de Havilland Dash7-100/Tyrolean Air dash7v1.zip
148 Boeing 737-400/US Airways usair73.zip
159 Boeing 727-200/Delta Airlines search SurClaro or SurClaro.com
160 Boeing 767-200/Airborne Express Search SurClaro or SurClaro.com
168 Airbus A320/Northwest a321nwn.zip
174 Beechcraft King Air B200 kab2004.zip
175 Beechjet 400A bj404.zip
178 Beechcraft King Air C90B kac90b.zip
180 Beechcraft Starship starshp.zip and starfix.zip
193 Pilatus PC-12 pc12comb.zip
213 Gulfstream G100 g100moz4.zip
228 Hawker 800XP h8xp04.zip
246 Bombardier CRJ-200/Independence Air indyair.zip
***** This is an aircraft I created with FSDS2. You can download it from my website listed below. The aircraft is not available anywhere else.
Of course, you can exchange the aircraft for ones you like. There is a copy of the flight plans source file included.
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THANKS TO:
Philip Usher who suggested this scenery.
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INSTALLATION:
Author's Note:
After receiving many emails, I find that I am a little off the beaten path. My FS file structure is not the default setup. So as you read these instructions, keep in mind that most of the files will work from anywhere as long as FS knows where they are. If your file structure is C:\Programs Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\ it's ok. Just place or check to verify that certain files are in certain folders. I will refer to the above structure as the DEFAULT FILE STRUCTURE, and the following file structure as MY FILE STRUCTURE. Which is: D:\fs2004\ and my scenery files are in D:\fs2k4_scenery\.
I have it this way because I've also done scenery for fs2002 and I didn't want to get the two versions mixed up. (Bet'cha can't guess what the folder name for the fs2002 scenery is). So in explaining where the files go, I'll try not to confuse anyone, but if I do, please contact me for clarification.
AFTER UNZIPPING THE FILE kmht_v1.ZIP TO A TEMPORARY FOLDER, HOPEFULLY, YOU ARE READING THIS README FILE.
If you don't have them already, download Lee Swordy's Traffic Tools v2x and AFCAD2x. Follow the instructions from the files and install them onto your system. While you're at it, download the texture files necessary for this scenery and put them into the main FS texture folder. They are: ASDv2.1, Nova, Nova Gold and NovaSim textures, plus my own custom textures. All are available for free at my website, www.lfssd.net (the "l" is an L, not a one). You also should download Rwy12 objects/textures. You don't need the complete Rwy12 program. (See the Rwy12 open letter on SurClaro or SurClaro.com search file rwy12_-_open_letter.zip)
Using the folders switch, unzip the file kmhtscen.zip to the drive where you have your FS. Using your file manager (Windows Explorer) check to make sure that all the files are in their proper folder.
C:\My Documents\Flight Simulator Files should have the .FLT and .WX files (This is for the Windows XP users.) For all other OS the .FLT and .WX files are under the main FS folder. (I think)
Drive:\FS9 folder\Addon Scenery\scenery should have AF2_*.bgl (Refer to Default file structure if different)
Drive:\FS9 folder\Scenery\World\scenery should have TrafficManchester.bgl
Drive:\fs2k4_scenery or Addon Scenery folder\KMHT\scenery should have the kmht_*.bgl scenery files (The KMHT folder can also go under the Addon Scenery folder if you wish)
Drive:\FS9 folder\Texture should have the following textures:
The ASDv2.1, Nova, NovaGold and NovaSim texture sets. With this download, the textures in the KMHT/texture folder can be moved to the FS main texture folder if you wish.
If you have Lago's FSE 2004, then check the following:
Drive:\FS9 folder\Lago\FSE\Data\should have Manchester.SE2 for Static scenery and
Drive:\FS9 folder\Lago\Common\Tracks\should have Manchester.OSC For dynamic scenery
Drive:\FS9 folder\KMHT\xml\contains the Rwy12 xml files for those who need the source files for the Rwy12 objects. If you do not wish to change any of the Rwy12 objects, you can delete these files.
I added textures for this scenery to the texture folder under the scenery folder (KMHT\texture). You can move them to the main FS texture folder. If it asks you if you want to overwrite you already have them and you can delete these if you wish.
Activating the scenery in FS9:
1. Start FS
2. At the Menu, select Settings
3. Then select Scenery Library
4. Select Add Area
5. Go to where you have the scenery folder in the file structure and just open the scenery name folder ie; (KMHT) Then click OK
6. Set the priority using the "D" Key or the Move Down button or the "U" Key or the Move Up Button
7. Click OK
8. Close FS and re-start
9. At the menu select "Select a Flight"
10. Scroll down to your flight, hightlight and click FLY NOW
You're at the airport of your choice. Go fly.
You should be ready to fly. Happy landings!
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Legal stuff. Copyright and Distribution
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This scenery is freeware. Copyright John B. Loney, Jr. Feel free to add or change this scenery. Especially if you know a more accurate placement of items. You do not have my permission to make any monetary gain from this scenery. It started out as freeware and it shall remain freeware.
- The author's rights and wishes concerning this archive must be
respected.
Copyright 2005 by John B. Loney, Jr. All Rights Reserved.
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Disclaimer
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I do not accept any responsibility for any damage to any system as a result of running this scenery.
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Contact:
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As usual, I welcome any comments. I will try to answer as many as I can.
