Tips on flyin' in cold, mean places
Flying in Antarctica is a different thing to strolling around in Arkansas...first
something about navigation: distances are huge and navaids are rare. Also the mag
compass gets mad at the mag variations there. So you're better off with a GPS.
Second, the environment: always cold, always windy and daylight only in (southern)
spring and summer (roughly 04.00-20.00), rest is twilight. In winter and fall you
have twilight replaced by night and daylight by constant twilight.
I included two situation files: WegNice is for an easy flight at daylight with nice
weather, though a little bit windy. WegMean is real *MEAN*, so you better change to
a heavy, for your nice little Cessna gets blown off the apron! I recommend Trev's
ski-4rd.zip (DC-3) on tranfer flight to mountain camp Sierra or to Venice Station.
Switch your scenery density to "very dense" and explore!
But now, let's get serious.......
A.) Requirements
B.) Contents of wegener.zip
C.) Installation
D.) Features
E.) Known bugs
F.) History
G.) Recommended sceneries
H.) Credits
I.) Copyright issues
A.) Requirements:
Textures of Airport 2.x and VOD 2.7 are not included to keep this archive
reasonably small.
This scenery was created especially for FS98 (512K scenery buffer).
Scenery Complexity "very dense" requires fast system.
B.) Contents of wegener.zip:
*.bgl scenery files
*.r8, *.pat texture files
Wegener.txt you're reading it
WegNav.txt navigational data
WegMap.jpg flight chart
WegNice.stn, WegMean.stn situation files for
apropriate weather
Wegener.jpg, file_id.diz files for upload site
C.) Installation:
1.) Copy all *.bgl files in a scenery folder
( e.g. d:\fsscenery\antarctica\wegener\scenery\ )
2.) Copy all *.r8, *.pat and *.weg into a texture folder
( e.g. d:\fsscenery\antarctica\wegener\texture\ )
3.) Don't forget to add this scenery to the FS98 scenery library.
D.) Features:
* Huge base at the Antarctic Peninsula (1240 NM south of Falklands)
Highly detailed base between the shelf ice and the mountains, with ILS
* Shelf ice and icebergs, hills and mountains, all with dawn effect
Icebergs have water reflections
* Volcano with airstrip nearby
A nearby lava geysir creates some lift
* Airstrip on an iceberg
Just outside the canal, 1 km long and min. 50 m wide
* Helipad on a ship (research vessel)
Ship is oversized for easier landings
* Platform complex with a runway on pylons and a helipad on main platform
Even heavies can land on that runway, with red aligning aid ;-)
* Altogether 7 runways and airstrips, 3 ILS, 4 VOR, 4 NDB and 4 ATIS
Two auxiliary bases for long-range transfer flights from Chile/Falklands
* Flight map in JPEG format. Use a paint program for customizing the size
Email me if you want an original CorelDraw 8 file for brilliant print
E.) Known Bugs:
Mountains tend to dissappear if you're close to their edges.
Since this is a complex VectorJump problem I will completely overhaul the
mountainious regions by TexRelief in the next version.
Please email me any bugs you discover.
F.) History
When Trev Morson published his artcic DC-3 (ski-r4d.zip) a couple of guys
on Compuserve's Simgames forum (now Simpilot forum) thought that this
wonderful aircraft needs some fitting scenery around it. Andras Kozma and
Holger Schmidt created great antarctic sceneries shortly thereafter.
Looking at them I realized that Antarctica is the only "virgin continent"
where you can let your fantasy fly without stumbling about someone other's
scenery.
This scenery was created using various versions of SCASM, Airport and VOD,
as well as ScBuild, Mountain and Elevate. What those tools have in common
is that they're all for FREE. Thus a big THANK YOU to all freeware authors
(especially those mentioned under H.Credits).
The station is named after Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), a meteorolist and
geologist, who developped the continental drift theory, which is still
valid basic knowledge today. He also was a lover of the polar regions of
our planet. On his 50th birthday, November 1st 1930, during his second
Greenland expedition, he left station "Eismitte" after leading a two-men
rescue mission and never arrived at the western base camp...
Today's Alfred-Wegener-Institute is manning Germany's three antarctic bases
(biggest of them the Georg-von-Neumann Station)
The Institute also uses a research vessel, the "Meteor", and some aircraft
(Do-28, Do-228) of which one was shot down over the Sahara on it's return
flight from Antarctica some years ago.
G.) Recommended Sceneries:
The list below shows all scneries of Antarctic bases I've found on the net.
Antarctic Base 08 (antbase.zip) by Andras Kozma
Ice (ice.zip) by Richard Potts
MacMawson (mac-maws.zip) by Holger Schmidt
McMurdo (nzcmv1.zip) by Dan Geis
Outpost (antarcti.zip) by Philip Sutch
White Out (white.zip) by Tarek Siddiqui
Antarct (antarct.zip) by Ulf Norlinger
Use Stuart White's falkland.zip to take off from Mt.Pleasant.
Northernmost VOR CAP (Cape Aux., range 255)is heading 173 at 750 NM.
H.) Credits:
Manfred Moldenhauer for SCASM and SCLINK
Raphael Sanchez for VOD
Pascal Meziat for AIRPORT
Pete Jacobson for SCBUILD
Hans Meier for MOUNTAIN
Chuck Dome for ELEVATE
Hans Heck for his original textures
Some textures are from my FS6/texture directory. They don't seem to be standard
textures, but I can't resemble where they came from. If anyone recognizes his
original work, please contact me for completing the credits list.
Finally many, many thanx to all freeware authors, to all webmasters on the net,
to the sysops at Compuserve (simpilot & fsforum) and to the FS-guys at MS...
keep us busy!
I.) Copyright issues
This scenery is the property of the author, and cannot be resold or packaged
with any product for sale, without the expressively written permisson of the
author. This scenery is strictly freeware.
The author is not liable for any liabilities that one might incur as a result
of using this poduct. You assume the risk of use.
