Ketchikan PAKT in southern Alaska, part 3


Made using SceneryGenX by Roger Wensley for FS9.



SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING LIGHTS AND SMOKE EFFECTS

I should have mentioned long ago that to see the apron lighting you need to have Sidney Schwartz's lights installed as library objects. You will also need his revised textures as he had a problem with one that was faulty; if you have a scenery or ground textures that go blurry then that could be the problem.

Plus, I sometimes use smoke effects (houses in winter, oil refineries, etc) and this requires you to have installed the "EZEFFCTS.ZIP" by Ron Jeffers; again, it is a simple and one-time installation.



WHERE AND WHAT

This is the third part of Ketchikan, which fills in the remaining gap on the town side between the two marinas, stretching from the shopping plaza to the cruise liners. There are also significant AI additions. The screenshots show the housing that parallels the water up to and alongside the cruise liner moorings, with docks for fishing boats and for float plane companies. There is now also float plane AI use of the airport-side float dock, and the video shows one trip from the "taxi rank" airport dock to a town-side dock for new arrivals. There is also an AI cruise liner included here, with the permission of FSaddon, from one of the original three Misty sceneries. Other minor variations include the Alaska ferry now docking at it's assigned loading dock instead of at the adjacent shipyard dock (though in reality it docks at both, for whatever reason).

In order for this scenery to work properly, as designed, then the payware Misty Fjords scenery is required. There is a map included that shows the area covered by Misty Fjords, but note that this sectional is old and the airfield on Annette Island (south of Ketchikan) was already closed. For it to work at all without the Misty Fjords scenery then Ultimate Terrain Alaska Canada is needed; in this case there will definitely be gaps on the town side where Misty included the marinas shown in the screenshots, there will probably be coastline variations, and also there will be no moored cruise liners.

There is no night lighting for the original PAKT airport terminal by Alan Wright; I may make a new terminal that includes night lighting, at some point.




NEEDED and PROVIDED

What do you need? Well apart from FS9, Misty Fjords, and/or ULTIMATE TERRAIN Alaska/Canada would be a definite plus to get the water in the right shape and place, or as close to it as possible. This scenery is unlikely to work without at least UT.

A paper chart of the area would be experience-adding and very useful.



INSTALLATION

This Ketchikan part 3 presumes you have already installed Ketchikan parts 1 and 2.

To install unzip to a temporary folder, then move the contents of the the new Ketchikan PAKT scenery and texture folders to the already installed folders, saying yes to over-write or replacement.

Do the same for the KetchikanTOP scenery folder, adding the contents to the already installed folder, saying yes to replacement.

For the AI, add the "MF AI Cruise Ship - Volendam" folder to your aircraft folder, and add the three Traffic bgl's to your FS9/Scenery/World/Scenery folder, saying yes to replacement.




LEGAL STUFF

Note that this is free at no expense spared and not to be sold. You can use it within FS9 for your own fun, but if you want to do something else you ask me first, which includes loading it on a site other than the one I post it on. Above all, don't make money from it, and this remains my copyright, I am just loaning it out for FS9 use.

rogwen@rogers.com

Criticism and praise equally welcome, and particularly if you point out a missing texture or something similar! I just wish that the downloader who points out an error will one day be downloader number 1, instead of the more usual number 181; why does nobody think that they should be the one to tell me I messed up? It never bothered Sid (past tense as he stopped using FS9 now).

This version posted on Flightsim 22 January 2017