Introduction to Scenery Disk # 11

Scenery Disk Design and Tool Development by Michael Woodley
Scenery Art by Loren Kirkwood

Maps by Michelle Meese & Toni Arcus

Scenery Disk # 11 features two ILS approaches, two ATIS's, and several airports with refueling facilities. New techniques have been used to improve scenery appearance, and we've included several new never-before-seen features. SD# 11 has enough "generic" crosscountry scenery, as well as highly-detailed "sight-seeing" scenery areas, to keep you flying for a long time. The following notes and recommendations will help you to explore these new scenery areas.

When flying through the Detroit area, you may want to make a detour past the Ambassador Bridge. This structure is especially interesting at night. Other Detroit city details include the Renaissance Center ("Ren Cen") and Tiger Stadium.

Pittsburgh includes many buildings and bridges. Fly southeast from Greater Pittsburgh International to view the detailed downtown area.

Niagara Falls is probably the most visually interesting detail on this Scenery Disk. You can fly below the rim of the Niagara River canyon right up to the Falls; just make sure you pull up in time to avoid crashing into it!

Johnstown, Pennsylvania is nestled among several solid 3D mountains in the southeast corner of the Detroit sectional area.

Sailplane models can be found at the following locations:

 18378N, 19031 E - Between Toronto, Ontario and Georgian Bay at 3500'.  18384N, 19840E - Northeast of Toronto, near Lake Ontario at 3500'.

 17722N, 19512E - Southeast of Buffalo, NY at 3100'.
 17482N, 20088E - South of Elmira, NY at 2600'.

The gliders south of Buffalo and Elmira are depicted at actual size in relation to the other scenery and the flight characteristics of Flight Simulator. It is very difficult to get a close-up view of either one in flight mode, and not much easier in slew mode.

The other two gliders are drawn considerably larger than life-size, making them more accessible to close inspection. Try using slew mode near one of the large gliders. Moving yourself to the left or right while turning in the opposite direction creates the illusion that the glider is soaring through the air!

A hot-air balloon can be found hovering at 1400' near Grand Lake in 
Ohio (16648N, 17679E). This balloon is drawn slightly larger than actual size, and can be seen easily in either flight or slew mode. But be careful not to get too close - if you run into it, you will crash.

A transporter feature is available for the very first time! All you have to do is load Flight Simulator and then log-in this Scenery Disk as usual, staying at the default (load-up) airport location. When you return to the default airport location after log-in, simply go into radar mode (Map Mode on 68000 versions of the program). You will automatically be transported to Wayne County/Metro Airport in Detroit.

Above all else, explore! A lot of work went into this project. We hope that you enjoy the results as much as we do!