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    Coverage Area of Misty?

    in Misty Fjords Flying Forum (M3F)

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    The Misty Fjords package provides a Ketchikan sectional with the boundaries marked in red.

    Open the "Misty Fjords extent - on Ketchikan Sectional.jpg" and zoom in for closer scrutiny of the landmarks.

    Find the jpg in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\FSAddon\Misty Fjords\Misty Fjords documentation

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    If you have FSNavigator installed, an .fsn file is available via the Misty Moorings web page that shows the boundaries. Scroll down to Support Files and look for "FSNavigator Misty Boundary".

    http://www.mistymoorings.com/office/index.php

    Hope that helps you out.

    Orca´s

    in Misty Fjords Flying Forum (M3F)

    Posted

    Howdy,

    ... or ask Allen Richards. He made a freeware add-on that places two pods of humpback whales near Port of Ilwaco (Washington State) and Haines (Alaska), respectively. The file is available at http://www.hovercontrol.com/ ; search the download library for "whales". Maybe he can place a few more in the Misty Fjords area? 8)

    Cheers, Holger

    Thanks for the link Holger! I totally missed this one along the way.

    BTW, flew out of Haines in the rain and high winds and spotted the pod. I wasn't expecting animation! Very cool. I had to land and watch for awhile.

    I'd sure like to see more of this type of action in and around Alaskan waters.

    Fantastic Job!

    in Misty Fjords Flying Forum (M3F)

    Posted

    It's great, if, a little bare in its "base package" form. You can't spend forever just looking at rivers, coastlines and textures.

    Actually, 'I' can ! It's what I often do in real life..... I tend to avoid anything people have made when I go hiking in the mountains.

    Couldn't agree more Francois. Spending forever looking at rivers, coastlines, textures, mountains, etc. is the ultimate real-life battery charger for me.

    As far as fictitious airstrips go, why not? The real world opportunity exists in the great expanse of Alaska (and in Canada). Build a cabin, clear some trees, voila!, instant airstrip (not FAA sanctioned, but what is in Alaska). Just what I'd like to do.

    Misty Fjord Air Charter Porter is All Done

    in Misty Fjords Flying Forum (M3F)

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    Thanks for this heads up. I'm an old fart and my brain is getting soft. I'd fogotten completely about the piston engine version of the Porter. They were in use after I completed my second tour in county.

    SOP in the Helio's landing at bush strips was to roll out a ways, stand on left brake, turn and begin take off immediately. sometime after the speed dropped to about 10 mph, you rolled your ruck out the door and followed it out. By the time you had your ruck on and were humping offf the field, the a/c was a little dot in the sky.

    By the middle of my second tour I was of such exalted grade that I was out of the field.

    :lol: Ha! Put as all together and we have one good mind. Now the old body, that's another story. Take three or four of us, a bowl of viagra, and we might give an old girlfriend 15 minutes of thrills! :wink:

    Misty Fjord Air Charter Porter is All Done

    in Misty Fjords Flying Forum (M3F)

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    Bushskimmer, I think you may be confusing the Pilatus Porter w/ the old Helio Courier which got a lot of use by Air America in SE Asia. The Courier was derived from some experiments done by a professor at MIT(?) and had such oddities as leading edge droppers that would auto deploy to keep airflow over the wing top at very low speeds.

    Actually, you are both correct. The Helio's were replaced with Pilatus Porter's. You'll have to trust me on this one cause I don't have any personal pics, but I saw them both with my own eyes while serving "in-country". The DeHavilland Caribou was a very used bird too.

    Here is an excerpt from Air America:

    Communication flights included the regular CASI ‘milk run’ from Bangkok to Udorn and Vientiane using C-47 aircraft. The American mission also had two ‘milk run’ flights each day from Vientiane to Northern and Southern Laos. The aircraft were Air America C-47s or occasionally C-46s. Heading north they landed at Luang Prabang, Sayaboury and Ban Houai Sai. Going south they stopped at Savannakhet, Pakse, and Attopeu. On the return trips they made the same stops. STOL Helio Courier aircraft were used at the smaller landing strips but these were later replaced by Pilatus Porter aircraft, with DHC Caribou STOL transports handling larger loads to the longer strips. C-46 and C-123B transports were used to drop commodities such as food and ammunition. Helicopters used included the piston Sikorsky H-34 and turbine Bell JetRanger.

    http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/airamerica/best/index.htm

    The Aircraft of Air America (very interesting)

    http://www.utdallas.edu/library/specialindex.html

    a couple of Air America's Porter's

    http://www.air-america.org/ImageLibrary/Large4b.htm

    http://www.air-america.org/ImageLibrary/Large7c.htm

    Float/Amphib Wakes???

    in Misty Fjords Flying Forum (M3F)

    Posted

    There are a number of really good ones out there, but one that I've been using lately comes from the freeware M7-260 Maule package.

    If you have the Maule installed and its effects files, then add the following to the aircraft.cfg of whatever amphib/float plane you wish:

    [EFFECTS]

    wake=fx_wake_maule

    water=fx_waterland_maule

    Eddystone Rock_Textures Incomplete

    in Misty Fjords Flying Forum (M3F)

    Posted

    Well, I finally checked and mine looks just fine and I am using the same release as you guys. What you are missing are some trees.

    Make sure that you have Gerrish Trees installed, the BAUM_LIB.bgl should be in the Misty Moorings\Scenery folder, and ag_tree_lib.BGL should be in the Scenery\World\Scenery folder. I would think you all have done this or you would see missing trees elsewhere.

    Check it and let me know. Although this is not a major part of the scenery I want it to look right for you.

    I have all the correct bgl's in the right places and have the Gerrish trees. Must be some missing textures.

    Thanks Phil for looking into this fairly "major" part :wink: of the scenery package.

    Misty Fjord Air Charter Porter_no interior

    in Misty Fjords Flying Forum (M3F)

    Posted

    Dognot,

    Just to emphasize that the adding of the Porter livery is a THREE-stage process.

    1. Add the texture folders to the two Porter folders (Wheel and Float)

    2. Run Porter Loadmanager program to add the extra textures and update the aircraft.cfg files

    3. Manually replace the changed textures for the custom Misty liveries

    Alastair

    Yep, that's what I did. Turns out I didn't give the card enuff time to pull up the textures. Got'em all now and lookin' purty!

    Thanks guys and sorry about the "no textures" post.

    Misty Fjord Air Charter Porter_no interior

    in Misty Fjords Flying Forum (M3F)

    Posted

    Installed per instructions and the wheeled and amphib paint looks great, but after installing the replacement interior files (float tweaks and wheel tweaks)(body-c.bmp), I have no interior. No seats to sit on. LOL!

    The floats and spinner textures work just fine. BTW, default textures work for the interior.

    Went for the camouflage "bush" look on the interior and the pilot's shirt. Get the Aussie Army textures for the Porter (pc6army.zip) and copy the Pilots.bmp and body-c.bmp and paste/overwrite the same in the texture folder of choice. Works in the wheeled version and the amphib.

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