If you like CAVOK – do not read this. Should you prefer fog, rain, short landing strips – Alaska is perfect for you. Set up your FSX for bush flying.
Cessna 185 on it’s way to Stewart, Canada – the fog in unwelcoming – nothing unusual here
- FSX Native Cessna 182 S. The Cessna 182 Skylane is an American four-seat, single-engined light airplane, built by Cessna. The Cessna 182 was introduced in 1956 as a tricycle gear variant of the 180. In 1957, the 182A variant was introduced along with the name Skylane. It has the option of adding two child seats, installed in the baggage area.
- DESCRIPTION: Four place light aircraft with fixed landing gear, powered by a 230 hp (172 kW) Continental O-470-R piston engine, gross weight 2,800 lb (1,270 kg) and certified on 3 August 1966.
Thanks, I've been eyeing the A2A C172. I have no problem with payware, especially detailed payware, but it never hurts to ask for freeware first. I will be starting my real life flight lessons at a small airport (KOLV) and their fleet for students consists of several 152/172/182 if I understand their site correctly.
Add-ons
If you want to fly over Alaska as a bush pilot – there are a few basic add-ons that you need. I will describe some of them – especially the ones that I use most frequently. As there are no reviews for this add-ons on C-Aviation.net – let me assure you that I can honestly recommend them and I think of them highly.
Currently I use following payware add-ons:
There are also several freeware add-ons created by Return to Misty Moorings (a.k.a. RTMM) community.
Sceneries
Two FTX and Tongass Fjords sceneries cover the Pacific coastline from Oregon to Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. This sceneries include the terrain, scenery objects (for example LORAN antennas), improved airports and additional airports and landing strips.
PAKT, CYBD and CZST are the payware airports for Pacific Fjords scenery. This are top quality airport sceneries and I strongly recommend them. There are several Alaskan airports by ORBX that I do not have (but I wish I had them) – you should consider them too.
RTMM brings small sceneries – landing strips, jetties in harbors, mountain huts, hotels and lodges. There is also RTMM AI Shipping Project that brings maritime traffic to Pacific Fjords and Tongass Fjords.
That to start with?
If I had to choose – I would go with one of the area sceneries (Pacific Fjords, Tongass Fjords or Southern Alaska) together with RTMM freeware sceneries. If it is not a problem and you can afford it – buy one of ORBX airports for this sceneries too. Ketchikan is in my top 3 favorite sceneries in FSX.
Return to Misty Moorings
RTMM consist of several parts and you need to configure it properly. Assassins creed rogue pc free. I divided it into three parts:
- AI traffic (planes and ships)
- sceneries
At first you need to install libraries. It is a complicated process and I strongly advise you to read all readme.txt files you will find in RTMM packages. I will not describe the installation process here as the libraries are frequently updated and it could be misleading. You may need FSX Acceleration or FSX:SE to see all objects. If you have SP2 version – some may be missing – it should not cause any serious problems.
After libraries had been installed I moved to the A.I. Shipping Projects. To download it – press RTMM Shipping icon in “Automatic Download for all four areas…” section. I mention this because I struggled to find the download button. A.I. Shipping adds some very nice ships and their routes to coastal areas of Alaska and British Columbia (Canada).
There are more traffic add-ons in Enhencement section. I installed all apart of add-ons replaced by A.I.Shipping.
The last part of my preparations is scenery selection and installation. As you can see – the choice is wide. My first selection:
- Annette Island Fly-In
- George Inlet Cannery
- Herring Bay Cannery and Sea Plane Base
- Hollis Harbor
- Ketchikan Harbor
- Misty’s Place
- Nina’s Landing
- PAKT Ferry
- Prince Rupert Shipping Scenery
I chose sceneries located close to Ketchican (PAKT) that is my main base in Alaska.
Cessna 185 in front of Yes Bay Lodge
Keeping order in your sceneries
Currently I am running the fourth FSX installation which includes RTMM and based on my earlier experience I can share my idea for keeping order among these sceneries. I begin with creating a designated folder structure to keep all RTMM files:
- Addons (folder containing all my add-on sceneries that were installed manually)
- FTX NA Addons (all add-ons for FTX NA and Tongass Fjords X)
- RTMM Libs (RTMM libraries)
- AhZx_LIB SUB LibraryFSXP3D
- CeyX_Sceneries_LibrariesFSXP3D
- …
- RTMM Traffic
- scenery
- bgl files
- scenery
- RTMM Sceneries
- Annette Island Fly-In
- Herring Bay Cannery
- …
- RTMM Sceneries combined north
- scenery
- texture
- scenery_list.txt
- RTMM Sceneries combined south
- scenery
- texture
- scenery_list.txt
- RTMM scenery test
- scenery
- texture
- Other sceneries (sceneries from sources other then RTMM)
- CYPR – Prince Rupert, BC
- …
- RTMM Libs (RTMM libraries)
- FTX NA Addons (all add-ons for FTX NA and Tongass Fjords X)
Both “RTMM Sceneries combined” folders contain scenery files for several RTMM locations. I combine them to avoid having tens of sceneries listed in my Scenery Library – it was a tiresome task to turn them on and off.
Each scenery should be tested! It is very important because with the number of sceneries you may end up – some will cause performance issues. It is better to take 5 minutes and make quick tests. That is why I have this “RTMM scenery test” folder.
Once the scenery is tested I move it’s files to scenery and texture folders of RTMM Sceneries combined north or RTMM Sceneries combined south. Currently I use two folders. Probably after next FSX reinstall I’ll go with three (one for each area scenery).
You might have noticed scenery_list.txt file in each of this folders – that is how I keep track of what is installed. I have a backup copy of this list in a .xls file also – just to be sure and to know where I can fly.
I know that you may have skipped this boring text about testing. So let me say it once more – some of this sceneries will kill event the best PC. You should not use them. It is much better to spend 5 minutes on tests then end a flight because of OOM error after 2 hours in the air.
Planes
If your are a Jumbo Jet pilot… you will hardly find a place to land your plane. If you need to fly airliners – go for 737, 727 or a Mad Dog. Turboprops are much better suited to fly here but they are still too large in most locations (apart from the Twin Otter)
I personally fly the following planes:
- Cessna 208B (for example the Carenado payware, but the default one is also ok; Carenado was recently reviewed)
- Twin Otter (great plane by Aerosoft)
- Quest Kodiak (Lionheart)
- Cessna 172 (I recommend A2A, but there is also a default FSX 172)
- Cessna 185 (Carenado)
- Piper Cub (A2A, the default in my opinion is not worth your time)
- Beaver – DHC-2 was designed for this kind of flying (it is an old payware by Aerosoft)
These are just examples of what you can choose. There is also a good Cessna 182 from A2A and recently I spend a lot of time flying A2A Comanche over Alaska. In terms of realism – think of an airplane that you would take to a place where a stone can hit it on takeoff or landing. It probably will be a high-wing plane (although it is not a rule) with a strong undercarriage.
Should you choose a floatplane – this are my personal recomendations:
- Cessna 185 Carenado
- Cessna 172 Carenado
- Quest Kodiak (Lionheart)
- Twin Otter (Aerosoft)
- Piper Cub (A2A)
There are others – this are the planes I flew here and I can recommend. The order of this list is random (in fact – my favorites are the Twin Otter and Piper Cub).
Piper Cub with AI shipping vessel in background (RTMM AI traffic)
Finding your way in Alaska
I LOVE (!) to fly VFR over the United States because of their sectionals that are available for free on websites like Skyvector that allow me to draw my route directly on a map and calculate magnetic headings and even the leg times. Skyvector also shows weather data (METAR messages and TAF forecasts). There is also a layer showing wind force and direction. It is a great tool for flight planning.
Google Earth is a good tool to keep one more list of your sceneries. You can download FTX scenery information for GE from ORBX website and there is also GE file for Tongass Fjords included in the documents of this scenery. In case of RTMM sceneries – I place pins on GE map to know where this sceneries are located.
Distance measurement tool in Google Earth will show distance and heading – I often use GE to find my way. If you do this – remember to calculate magnetic heading from the true heading that GE gives you.
Have fun – check out my video for inspiration
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To install this aircraft:
As always back up any original files.
1.Unzip downloaded folders to your desktop or temporary directory of your choice.
2.Copy the ' Cessna 182 ' folder and paste it in the main aircraft folder.
By default the main aircraft folder is located at:
'C:Program FilesMicrosoft GamesFSxSIM Objects /Aircraft .
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3. Be sure to completely unzip all files the aircraft file when complete will Cotain 6 files the Following 6 files goes in the aircraft folder CFG Airfile Model Sound Panel Textures
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Make sure all files are unzipped the New Plane folder should contain 6 files unzipped they are CFG Airfile Sound Model Texture Panel the New Plane folder with the 6 files goes in the game aircraft folder found at
C:Program FilesMicrosoft GamesMicrosoft Flight Simulator XSimObjectsAirplanes follow the path ie open the c drive then open program files then open Microsoft Games then open Microsoft Flight Simulator X then open
SimObjects then open Airplanes folder the New Plane goes in that folder
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