Merrill Field PAMR 2016 V2 in Anchorage, Alaska, for Ultimate Terrain, plus Hope 5HO and Lawing 9Z9

Made using SceneryGenX by Roger Wensley for FS9


WHERE AND WHAT IS THIS?

This V2 version of Merrill Field 2016 combines the original and the V1 version. If you have both installed already then you do not need this. Now read on with the original notes:



This V1 version of Merrill Field 2016 adds windsocks, a parked Fedex 727 that was recently donated to the University of Alaska, some missing taxiway lights, and makes small corrections to the apron layout. It also includes Hope 5HO and Lawing 9Z9 with revised AI to include flights to Hope. Please also note that the instruction to add the AFCAD bgl to the Addon Scenery/Scenery folder should have been deleted from the installation instructions as the bgl is now not required and not included; it is now deleted from the instructions below. Also:

IF YOU HAVE THE AFCAD INSTALLED FROM THE PREVIOUS MERRILL FIELD SCENERY YOU SHOULD DELETE IT

If you do not, then the changes to the layout and the taxiway lights etc will not show up. My error, made because I had limited time available on that day and rushed it.


Hope 5HO is a small gravel strip southeast of Anchorage in the Kenai Peninsula, on the southern side of Turnagain Arm, adjusted to fit with the UT roads and with a few houses added.

Lawing 9Z9 is a small gravel strip to the north of Seward on the corner of Kenai Lake that I adjusted while correcting the lake elevation for the Seward scenery.

INSTALLATION: Add the contents of the folders to the original post, saying yes to overwrite where they are replacing originals. The AI bgl goes into FS9/Scenery/World/Scenery




THE TEXT BELOW HAS NOT CHANGED FROM THE ORIGINAL 2016 POST



This 2016 version of Merrill Field PAMR deals with a spectacular malfunction reported by one recent downloader, and that I had briefly seen while originally making it but not since, and so had ignored. See the two screenshots. There are also other minor changes and additions.


Merrill Field is in Anchorage Alaska, between Anchorage International to the southwest and and Elmendorf Air Force Base to the north. It caters for general aviation and is the land equivalent of the Lake Hood float plane base, with fuel and numerous maintenance facilities, and several hundred parking spots for small planes. There are three runways, and the longest is 4,000 feet of 100 feet wide asphalt, the second 2,635 feet of asphalt 75 feet wide, and the third 2,000 feet of 60 feet wide gravel. The first two have runway lights. It is a controlled airfield with a relatively new control tower to cater for the numerous flights and to coordinate with Elmensdorf and Anchorage International, the latter also controlling flights from Lake Hood and the adjacent gravel strip Z41. (See my Lake Hood scenery). The gravel runway at Merrill Field is not connected with active taxiways to the rest of the airfield; this avoids you being ordered to land on it when flying a plane too large to do so.

The enclosed layout shows the runways and the taxiways complete with their assigned letters to help you find your way around, but note that this shows the current gravel runway wandering magnetic headings, not the ones prevailing when I made Merrill. The signage on the airfield is not total. The main taxiways are signed and each entry to a runway has a runway sign, but intermediate taxiways to or from a runway are not; if you have turned off the runway at the first possible exit you could then whether it is R or T is, I suppose, irrelevant. Try not to turn onto Merrill Field Drive at an intersection, this is a road that runs through the field. There are almost 50 buildings on the field and threequarters of them have been modelled from photographs specifically for this scenery; some of them were modelled from photos that were of not very good quality, but when the photos were taken I wasn't thinking that I would ever model the field. Which explains why there are buildings I had no photos of at all, of any sort of quality.



NEEDED


What do you need? Well apart from FS9 you need ULTIMATE TERRAIN Alaska/Canada so the water is in the right place; I haven't tested it without.

You should also download and install the airfield textures from Flight Ontario, which gave a realistic "aged" appearance to taxiways etc.


INSTALLATION


To install unzip to a temporary folder, then move the Merrill Field PAMR folder with its scenery and texture folders to wherever you keep your additional scenery. After that activate in the FS Library in the normal way. Note that it is only for FS9. It should be above (smaller number than) UT, as should all your other airfields. The other folders should be installed in the same way, these being MerrillGRASS, and MerrillDELETE. The AI bgl goes into FS9/Scenery/World/Scenery folder; note that most of the AI I have involving PAMR is from other sceneries I have made in Alaska.


The priority of the activated folders (if these were the only scenery folders you had) should be as below:

1  Merrill Field PAMR
2  MerrillGRASS
3  MerrillDELETE
4  UT Alaska Canada



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! 18th January 2016