ATHENS BEN EPPS AIRPORT (KAHN)
By John B. Loney, Jr.
December 1, 2005
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ABOUT THE AIRPORT:
Athens-Ben Epps Airport serves Athens and Clarke County and is owned by Clarke County. The airport has more than one runway. The longest is a paved runway extending 5522 feet. The facility is at an elevation of 808 feet at a distance of about 3 miles from Athens. The airport is named for Georgia's first aviator, Ben T. Epps Sr., who began building and flying airplanes in Athens in 1907 and opened Ben Epps Airport in 1917.
Airport Operational Statistics:
Aircraft based on the field: 118
Single engine airplanes: 69
Multi engine airplanes: 37
Jet airplanes: 11
Helicopters: 1
Aircraft operations: avg 203/day
Local general aviation 53%
Transient general aviation 40%
Military 5%
Air Taxi 3%
Commercial <1%
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ABOUT THE SCENERY:
There are basically two reason for doing Athens. First of all, I have not done an airport in Georgia yet. As you may have guessed, I am on a mission to do at least one airport in states I have not gotten to. I started out with nine states to go with my last release, West Memphis, Ar. The second reason for doing Athens is in researching Athens on the websites, I noticed there was Athens, Greece, there was even mention of Athens, Ohio, but nowhere was there anything about Athens, Ga. Soooooooo there you are, Athens was a perfect choice, I think, to start my Georgia airports with. The scenery has dynamic scenery crated with Lago's FSE. Athens is serviced by US Airways with daily flights to Charlotte, so there are US Airways AI flights based loosely on the real life schedule. The only thing about the scenery is the placement of the FBOs. They are all represented, but may not be in the correct position. The reason is the usual, no pics and no good satellite images. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy flying this scenery. Happy landings.
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ABOUT THE AIRCRAFT:
The aircraft used for the scenery startup is the Beechcraft King Air B200.***** b200v1.exe
The aircraft used in the flight plans are listed below:
***** 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:
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 kahn_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 kahnscen.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 TrafficAthensGa.bgl
Drive:\fs2k4_scenery or Addon Scenery folder\KAHN\scenery should have the kahn_*.bgl scenery files (The KAHN 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 KAHN/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 AthensGa.SE2 for Static scenery and
Drive:\FS9 folder\Lago\Common\Tracks\should have AthensGa.OSC For dynamic scenery
Drive:\FS9 folder\KAHN\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 (KAHN\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; (KAHN) 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.
