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| FSX Scenery Kitimat/Terrace Fly the
magnificent Kitimat valley with it's majestic
coastal mountains, winding rivers, and pristine
lakes. This scenery features cded1 .75 arc-sec
terrain mesh, completely reworked landclass,
coastlines, rivers, lakes, creeks, ponds, and
estuaries. Coverage area is N54 to N55, W128 to
W129. By Doug
Keech. |
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Kitimat/Terrace Scenery for
FSX
by Douglas Keech Kitimat,
B.C.
Thank-you for your interest in
downloading and trying this scenery add-on for
FSX. To install, simply extract all the bgl
files into your addon Scenery folder then
restart fsx. Alternatively, you could create new
folders such as addon scenery/kitimat/scenery
and place the bgl files there. Then, activate
them via the fsx scenery library. Any files with
the suffix FLT or WX should be placed in the
documents/flight simulator X folder. These are
situation files.
The coverage area for
this scenery is about as far south as the sioux
channel south of kitimat, as far north as the
top end of kalum lake, west to 129W and east to
128W.
Most of the more important rivers,
lakes, and creeks are featured in the scenery.
The main rivers are the Kitimat, the Skeena, the
Lakelse (my favorite fishing river in the whole
world), the Copper, the Little Wedeene, the Big
Wedeene, and the Kalum. Besides the salt water
of the Douglas Channel south of Kitimat, the
area also features two large lakes - Kalum Lake,
and Lakelse Lake.
Many of the important
highways and secondary/logging roads are also
featured. There are moving vehicles on the
highways.
I have placed floatplane docks
on lakelse lake, kalum lake, and in the sioux
channel. These are ficticious but add to the fun
of flying floatplanes in the area. There is also
an extremely dangerous mountain landing strip
located just west of the kitimat airpark west of
iron mountain. It is perched on the
mountainside, sloped, and very bumpy. Safe
landings are only possible uphill to the south.
Takeoffs can be done to the north and south,
however due to the strips short length, an
aircraft with adequate power is necessary to
attain enough speed for an uphill takeoff.
Again, this is ficticious but added for the fun
of short flights within the area. There is a
fire lookout tower above this dirt strip on the
top of the mountain.
There are two airports within this
scenery area: 1.) the Terrace/Kitimat regional
airport which receives Air Canada Jazz dash 8,
Hawkair dash 8, and Pacific Coastal Saab 340
aircraft, smaller general aviation aircraft, air
ambulance lear jet, and helicopter
traffic
2.) the Kitimat Airpark which
serves smaller general aviation aircraft, and
ultralight aircraft in the area.
The
important navigation facilities of the area are
the Kitimat NDB (ZKI 203) located in Kitimat,
the Terrace NDB (XT 332) located at lakelse
lake, and the ILS for rwy 33 at the
Terrace/Kitimat airport (XXT 110.1, course 328,
3.5 degree slope)
I have tried to make
the bgl files as modular as possible. This means
that other developers can remove certain files
and add their own if they so wish. (such as
water objects, wildlife etc.)
I have also
utilized high resolution (about 21 meter)
terrain mesh data throughout the area. I have
sampled it in "multi-LOD" to give better frame
rates when flying.
This scenery is in no
way technically perfect. I do think it is a far
cry better than the default scenery for the area
however, and I hope you enjoy using
it.
This scenery is freeware and may only
be distributed as such.
I would like to
gratefully acknowledge the creators of google
earth, russel dirks (ezlc), and mathew (fsxkml)
for your wonderful high level scenery tools, and
holger sandmann for your support.
Best
Regards,
Doug