Ketchikan PAKT in southern Alaska, part 4


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 fourth and last part of Ketchikan which creates 5KE, Ketchikan Harbor floats. This is close to the moorings for the cruise liners, where several float plane companies are based. The AI for this and for the already-posted AKM1, when combined, create a float plane take off or landing in Ketchikan every 20 minutes, on average; probably not even close to the busiest times of Summer. In actuality the designation 5KE applies to wherever a float plane in Ketchikan is taking off or landing; within FS9 this has to be modified so that a particular runway is used for a particular flight. There are AI Otter floatplanes included, and again thanks to FSAddon for these and all the previously used AI planes and ships.

As mentioned before, in order for this scenery to work exactly as designed then the payware Misty Fjords scenery is required. However, it might work just as well with only Ultimate Terrain Alaska Canada installed (except for the gaps where the Misty marinas are missing) but I would appreciate some feedback on this by email or by "comments" in the Flightsim library.



NEEDED and PROVIDED

What do you need? Well apart from FS9, Misty Fjords, and/or ULTIMATE TERRAIN Alaska/Canada as noted above.

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



INSTALLATION

This Ketchikan part 4 presumes you have already installed Ketchikan parts 1, 2, and 3.

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, BUT BEFORE INSTALLING THE NEW BGL'S DELETE ALL THE OLD, then add the contents to the already installed folder; the names of the replacement bgl's are not all identical to the old. 

For the AI, add the "TF AI Floatplane DHC-3 Otter" folder to your aircraft folder, and add the Traffic_CF36.bgl 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 24 January 2017