Finger Lakes NY: was FF Bermuda

[GREGORY]

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oops.. were we redirecting attention away from FF Bermuda?

NY Lakes / Shores broken out. Sorry, did it aGaiN!!

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On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:11:05 -0400, Beech45Whiskey <pjricc@gmail.com>
brought the following to our attention:

>Gregory <flightsim.maps@bkwds.comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> please provide a link to NYLR, would like to check it out. Can take
>> off from Wilkes Barre crossing Binghamton turning 300 crossing the
>> lakes.. then head out over Lake Erie and land at Cleveland. That's a
>> good short jetliner flight.
>
>http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fs2004scen&DLID=59288
>
>This is the latest version from last January. My incentive to tackle this
>project was the extremely poor job MS (really Jeppesen's data) did in
>recreating the Finger Lakes of NY. I also wanted a more realistic
>representation of the Adirondack lakes and more of the islands of the 1000
>Island region. Thus the project was born. It looks really good with
>FSGenesis' 38-m terrain mesh.

will have to find the 1000 Island area.. where about?? here's the
flight in case y'all want to go ahead with it. 320 statute miles `as
the crow flies' from W.B. to CLE, corresponding further over NY state.

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/NYLR.gif


>Now, at the time I was working with Scott G. to ensure his scenery didn't
>overlap mine and visa-versa, but that was back in January. Since then, I
>fell away from scenery design due to time constraints, whereas he continued
>in full force. It is possible that he included NY state in his FFNE
>project. If so, you would need to make the two compatible so that they
>both do not display their lakes at the same time, or disable one to see the
>other.

now you have be wanting to dig into the BGLs and find their
boundaries. here's the area covered by FFNE (since it's already
on the web server)..

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/FFNE-LWM-07a.gif


and these are the FS8 files to `pull'.. (also on web server)


http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/STL532200-STL532204-STL528200.png


-Gregory


>FYI, I had a registered version of the Slartibartfast tool used to create
>the scenery, so the Adirondacks region, with its hundred of lakes, looks
>pretty impressive. For those authors with a freeware version of Slarti,
>areas with a dense number of lakes came out looking pretty poor, since
>freeware Slarti purposely limited the number of points (shore resolution)
>per grid.
>
>
>> what's a good ALT to fly over the Lake and River details?
>
>Both low and high look pretty good, IMO. The biggest improvement this
>add-on scenery provides is that all lakes now "fit" into the accurate
>terrain mesh, whereas the default lakes were set too far east and north of
>their true locations. This resulted in many incorrect and unnatural steep
>cliffs throughout the scenery.

 

[GREGORY]

Archived from groups: alt.games.microsoft.flight-sim (More info?)

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:56:42 -0400, Beech45Whiskey <pjricc@gmail.com>
brought the following to our attention:

>Gregory <flightsim.maps@bkwds.comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> will have to find the 1000 Island area.. where about??
>
>The 1000 Island region of NY State is where the St. Lawrence Seaway river
>begins, or where the northeast-most point of Lake Ontario ends and the
>river begins.
>
>> here's the flight in case y'all want to go ahead with it. 320 statute miles
>> `as the crow flies' from W.B. to CLE, further if over NY state.
>>
>> http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/NYLR.gif
>
>Thank you. The NY Lakes project covers most of that flight, from the PA/NY
>border, up through the Finger Lakes, over to the Lake Erie coastline.
>

btw.. the `short hoppers' can always land in Rochester! :]


-Gregory