***   AK180thru186 - Geneer AKR Stations A Thru G for FS2004  ***
           Alaska, Juneau / Ketchikan Area. By EdGeneer Cox
     Full Install, Version 3.0 - June. 14, 2010 (Ak180v30.zip)

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***REQUIRES*** Glacier Bay v2, Tongas Fjords, and Misty Fjords by Holger Sandman. May work with Ultimate Terrain, but I have never tested.
  


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Update History:

v3.0 - COMPLETE re-design for Fs2004 using GMAX and compatability with Holger Sandman's Glacier Bay v2, Tongas Fjords, and Misty Fjords breathtaking Alaska scenery. Also added 3 more locations for a total of 7!!!

v2.1 - Added missing textures.

v2.0 - Complete Rebuild for FS2004.

v1.0 - Initial Design for FS2002



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Notes:

AK180 thru Ak186!
7 fictional seaplane bases (3 new!!!) located south of Juneau, Alaska for Fs2004. This pack is full installalation for all 7 spots. 
REQUIRES Glacier Bay v2, Tongas Fjords, and Misty Fjords by Holger Sandman. May work with Ultimate Terrain, but I have never tested.

Mainly used for cargo distribution and supplies, these 7 AKR Stations were also intended to serve as tourism spots for hunting, fishing, skiing, camping, etc.  Just fun little spot to hit in a floatplane or helicopter. All spots except A186 have a helipad or three.

No AI traffic in this version however afcads do accomodate for ai traffic.  

There are also NO automatic fuel boxes in this scenery... However, these spots do serve as fuel available stopovers for virtual pilots who, like myself, turn the 'engine stops when out of fuel' switch ON for realism, and look at stops for viable refuel locations. 

This scenery has been tested and designed on an Lapop dualCore 2.0ghz system, 2Gigs RAM, crappy laptop graphics, and is suggested to use machine w/ 3d vid and somewhat fast processor. I never got less than 16fps with my setup. Also, no extensive destinction is made in scenery detail level, most to all objects show on dense, sorry... no time to take trees and such, and spread across detail levels. There are Optional DXT3 Textures for smaller videocards.

This Scenery has only been tested in Fs2004. (ie, Fs9) Transparancies do NOT show propperly in FSX.

Any questions, problems, and/or suggestions, please email to address below.
Thanks for downloading this scenery, i hope you enjoy it! 



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Installation Instructions:

Most should know how to addon scenery in seperate folders by now. if not, read below. I personally like addon scenery this way instead of all dumped in the default addon scenery folder. This way, if you dont like, or have problems with, you can uninstall individual sceneries.

1. - Place Ak180_v3 Folder in your Addon Scenery folder and activate it in your scenery library. Restart sim. 
2. - Place fx_Chimneysmoke.fx from Effects folder into your main Effects folder.

Get in a floatplane and have fun!

***Optional*** DXT3 Textures for smaller memory Videocards. Just take all textures in the DXT3 folder and overwrite textures in the Ak180_v3\Texture folder. 

Thats it!


Folders should look like this:
-->Ak180_v3
   -->Scenery - (all *.bgl files ONLY)
   -->Texture - (all textures files, *.bmp)

*.txt - these files can be deleted once scenery is installed and working...
*.jpg - screenshots for zipdivers (grin), can be deleted after install...
*.pdf - Printable Map of all 7 spots and surrounding area nav info.



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Operation:

Sectional maps and legend information available at http://skyvector.com/

Hangar doors on large hangars open using 110.05 and 110.15 in Nav1 and Nav2. See signs posted on Hangars for specifics. 

Locations are listed A180, A181, A182, A183, A184, A185, and A186

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Known Issues:

*Important*
TURN CRASH DETECTION OFF!!!!!
To enter hangars, crash detection MUST be turned off, as the crashboxes are NOT curbed for the objects used. As with most of my scenery, its tough to curb crashboxes and easy to turn crash detection off. I NEVER fly with it anyways, as fs often impropperly models and prematurely activates crash, and I know when I have hit something and/or crashed. I may figure out how to shut down crash boxes on all objects one day, but untill then, its easier to turn crash detection off before you enter the hangars.

Depending on where you start the simulator, the terrain and coastlines vary by perhaps as much as 15 feet. Because the scenery is seaplane based and on the coastlines, sometimes objects such as the lighthouses and windsocks sit in the water. Individual locations can look correct if the sim is restarted and you go to the respective start location, but if you start at one, and fly to other spots, some objects at the destination may seem shifted. This changes depending on where yous tart in the sim. I have no idea why, or how to fix this. Perhaps it is ref point drawing related.



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Special Thanks to:

Developers, for whom we get great tools, converters, compilers, etc that make addons and user-end goodies possible:

GMAX - Descreet Software
DXTBmp - Martin Wright, www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk
AFCAD - Lee Swordy
SceneGenX - Tom Hiscox
FsDeveloper.com - Especially guys like Arno, Bill Leaming, Bill Womack, and many others. Invaluable help and tips for developers!!!

Warm fuzzy Thanks go out to the Beta testers, Austin "Salty" Davis (salt_air), Nate "Dusty" Geiger (N3353D), Douglas "Dark Water" Merkler (N350BC), and Mike "Maddatshell" Maddox (N3306TX).



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questions:
edgeneer@adelphia.net

Important: This Scenery, and ANY of its parts and textures are NOT to be used in packaged SOLD (ie, for ANY money) scenery. This is Freeware, and is also to be distributed freely intact. NOT with any other pay/payware bundle, period. This is to always remain FREE, packaged FREE and/or distributed FREE. (besides... who 'would' pay for this crap???)

NOTAMS: This scenery is freeware and made by an amature hobbyist... Appologietic, though not responsible if this scenery doesn't work, causes mild to severe psycological discomfort, and/or makes your computer explode... Other such symptoms include, but are not limited to; loss of sleep, prop and/or jet flying euphoria, long late night hours on flight sim, and dry mouth.

